Closing seminar: ELLA – Em­bo­died Lan­gua­ge Lear­ning th­rough the Arts

About ELLA project

The ELLA research project (2021–2024), funded by the Kone Foundation, aims to expand the understanding of language, language learning, learning more broadly, and the intertwining of art with all of these. The project’s goal is to renew pedagogical practices in various learning environments and to stimulate critical discussion on how educational structures can better respond to societal changes. Read more about the project.

The project’s closing event will present research findings, practices, and policy recommendations.

Registration

Programme

All day: Installations and posters in Theatre hall  

9.30–10.00 Morning coffee (Lobby)   

Part I:   ELLA research, insights and results (Auditorium 1 and zoom, in English) 

10.00–10.15 Welcoming words: Vice rector for research Teemu Leinonen and ELLA PI Eeva Anttila     

10:15–10:30 Musical warmup with Learn-Finnish-by-Singing choir participants  

10:30–11:30 ELLA researchers’ presentations 

• What’s art got to do with it? Aims and insights of the ELLA research project, Eeva Anttila   

• Dance in early language and literacy education, Kaisa Korpinen  

• Arts-based language learning in multilingual preparatory classes: ethical aspects, Riina Hannuksela 

• Entanglements of languaging and dancing in upper secondary education, Sofia Jusslin 

• Discussion, moderator Niina Lilja   

11:30–11:45 Break

11:45–12:30 ELLA research, insights and results – researchers’ presentations  

• Embodied and arts-integrated languages and literacies education in class teacher education, Sofia Jusslin  

• Teachers’ expanding professionalism: Promoting cultural and linguistic diversity in schools, Mariana Siljamäki 

• A language-aware choir as a context providing various affordances for L2 use and learning, Johanna Lehtinen-Schnabel   

• Discussion, moderator Charlotte Svendler Nielsen 

12:30–13:30 Lunch (Lobby) 

Part II: Embodied language learning through the arts in practice; Theatre hall (onsite only; multilingual and interactive; participation in activities is voluntary) 

13:30-15:15 ELLA researchers’ practical presentations:  

• Greetings and verbs: Communicative movement activities, Kaisa Korpinen 

• Sensing the place, Riina Hannuksela and Angela Aldebs 

• Poems and spoken word choreographies presented by MA dance pedagogy students, Eeva Anttila and Lotta Kaarla    

• Moving numbers, dancing prepositions, Mariana Siljamäki 

• Singing language workshop, Johanna Lehtinen-Schnabel 

• Experience analysis in practice, Charlotte Svendler Nielsen 

• Discussion, moderator Sofia Jusslin  

15:15–15:45 Coffee break  (Lobby) 

Part III: Closing panel (Auditorium 1) 

15:45–16:45 Art and language, intertwined but how? Panel: professor Maryam Nesami Bagheri (Uniarts Helsinki), professor Sari Pöyhönen (University of Jyväskylä), university lecturer Marina Bendtsen (Åbo Akademi) and dance artist Elias Girod with Rose Martin as moderator.

16:45 –18:00 Reception  (Lobby)  

ELLA researchers

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Accessibility and inclusion

Both the auditorium and the theatre hall are accessible by, e.g., a wheelchair. However, the floor is uneven in the lobby. There is no induction loop in either of the spaces. Read more about the accessibility of the venue on the Uniarts Helsinki website.

The main language of the event is English, but questions and comments in Finnish are welcome.

Please read the safer space guidelines for our academic events.