News about Languages

Two new professorships at CIP

As of 1 December 2022 CIP has two new professorships, Professor of multilingualism and language evaluation Slobodanka Dimova and Professor of multilingualism and language policy Janus Mortensen.

After-work meeting organized by Studieskolen

Petra Daryai-Hansen has been invited speaker at an after-work meeting organized by Studieskolen: ”Fyraftensdebat: Motiverer målsproget?”. Her presentation focused on the question ’What are the benefits of teaching…

Plenary talk at Multicultural Schools 2022

Petra Daryai-Hansen has been invited as plenary speaker at the Danish national conference ‘Multicultural Schools’. The plenary talk had the title: ”Flersprogethedsdidaktik – hvordan kan vi tage højde for elevernes…

Succesfully completed CIP symposium 2022

The CIP symposium 2022 focused on various aspects of how university pedagogy is influenced by the international and multilingual context at universities. You can find the presentations from the day at the CIP website.

Plenary talk at CIP symposium 2022

Petra Daryai-Hansen has been invited to give a plenary talk on Content and Language Integrated Learning, transitions and plurilingual education at the CIP symposium 2022 “Internationalisation 2.0: New perspectives on…

Denmark's youngest female professor appointed at the University of Copenhagen

Her research investigates how to combat fake news through automated online fact-checking and the portrayal of women in digital language. 33-year-old Isabelle Augenstein from the Department of Computer Science at UCPH’s…

Dissemination to the Danish and Nordic field of language teaching practice

In autumn 2022, Natascha Drachmann has given and hosted several presentations and workshops on plurilingual education and language awareness in a national and Nordic context.

Launch of project looking at fighting food waste funded by VELUX FONDEN

From September 2022, CIP will head an interdisciplinary research project Fighting food waste – Exploring the interplay between values, choices and habits. The project is funded by VELUX FONDEN’s HUMpraxis programme.

This year’s summer language courses in Danish/German/French were extremely popular!

In August, CIP organised summer language courses in both Danish for international students and German and French for Danish students going on exchange. Both Danish and international students have been highly satisfied…

New book: The Indo-European language family

New book on the Indo-European language family.

Conference workshops at Multicultural Schools 2022

The PE-LAL project is represented at the Danish national conference ‘Multicultural Schools’ with two workshops.

Presentation at IDT 2022

Petra Daryai-Hansen and Natascha Drachmann will be presenting a paper at the German teachers’ conference Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer, held in Vienna on 15-20 August.

Associate professor Slobodanka Dimova is guest editor on special issue of the journal Language Testing

The most recent special issue of the journal Language Testing is guest edited by Slobodanka Dimova, associate professor at CIP, and two colleagues. The special issue extends the discussion on local language testing…

English bias in computing: Images to the rescue

Training sets for Machine Learning are normally created in English. This introduces cultural bias. A new image-grounded benchmark developed by researchers from the University of Copenhagen enables a more diverse…

English bias in computing: Images to the rescue

Training sets for Machine Learning are normally created in English. This introduces cultural bias. A new image-grounded benchmark developed by researchers from the University of Copenhagen enables a more diverse…

Research integration in teaching

In spring semester 2022, students at the University of Copenhagen and University College Absalon have participated in teaching based on research work generated in the PE-LAL project.

Plenary talk at NORDAND 15

Petra Daryai-Hansen has been invited to give a plenary talk on Content and Language Integrated Learning and plurilingual education at the 15th conference on Nordic Languages as a Second Language. Read more about NORDAN…

Talk: A Plurilingual Approach to the General Language Awareness Course

On January 20, Line Krogager Andersen gave a talk on a virtual seminar organized by the Danish Ministry of Education, focusing on a plurilingual and awareness-oriented approach to the General Language Awareness Course.

Podcast on plurilingual education and language awareness

In collaboration with Stemmer fra Skolen, the project has published the podcast ‘Flere sprog i spil – om flersprogethedsdidaktik'.

Our computers are sexist towards male and female politicians

Female politicians are often described as 'beautiful' or 'hysterical' in language models, while descriptors like ‘brave' and 'independent' are elicited for their male counterparts. A new analysis by researchers from th…

Talk on oral participation through plurilingual affordances

Line Krogager Andersen gave a talk at the TAL21 Conference at the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with Altijana Brkan on oral participation through plurilingual affordances, drawing on project theory and…

Workshop on oral participation through plurilingual affordances

Line Krogager Andersen gave a workshop in collaboration with Gro Caspersen and Altijana Brkan on oral participation through plurilingual affordances, at the TAL21 Conference at the University of Copenhagen.

Presentation of the project: Tværsproglighed i Læreruddannelsen

On 18 May 2021, Petra Daryai-Hansen was invited to give a presentation at the kick-off seminar for the project "Tværsproglighed i Læreruddannelsen", University of Southern Denmark

Talk for PhD students at Engerom

On 16 April 2021 Petra Daryai-Hansen gave the talk 'Doing praxis-based research' for PhD students at the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen.