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Teacher Training Workshop

THIRD EDITION

19-22 May 2026

Co-operation, collaboration and integration: the role of LSP instructors in higher education

ProgrammE

information

Teacher Training Week UNamur Language Center Namur 2026

Teacher Training Workshop

Day 1

Tuesday 19 May

Day 2

Wednesday 20 May

Day 3

Thursday 21 May

Day 4

Friday 22 May

Teacher Training Week UNamur Language Center Namur 2026

Day 1

Tue 19 MAY

10:30 - 11:00 Faculty of Science (hall)
Welcome
11:00 - 12:30 S07

Introduction

Natassia Schutz

12:30 - 14:00 > LUNCH
14:00 - 15:00 L01

Reframing LSP-Content Partnerships in Higher education

Karen Fleischhauer

15:00 - 15:30 >
BREAK
15:45 - 18:00

Goûter and boat trip

18:30

Dinner

(Not included in the fee)

Teacher Training Week UNamur Language Center Namur 2026

Day 2

wed 20 MAY

8:30 - 8:45 >
COFFEE
8:45 - 9:00 L01

Recap of Day 1

9:00 - 10:00 L01

My Territory, Your Territory: A Reflexive Look at Working Together in ICLHE

Julie Walaszczyk

Chaïma Seddiki

10:00 - 10:30 >
COFFEE
11:00 - 12:30 / 13:30 - 15:00 S07

Workshop #1 Designing an Action Plan for Interdisciplinary Engagement in Your LSP Context

Aude Labetoulle

11:00 - 12:30 / 13:30 - 15:00 S05

Workshop #2 Unpacking the Glocal Teaching Toolbox: A Roadmap for LSP–Content Lecturer Partnerships

Julie Walaszczyk

12:00 - 13:30 >
LUNCH
15:00 - 15:30 >
BREAK
15:30-16:30 S07

Serial sharing session

19:00

Gala Dinner

Teacher Training Week UNamur Language Center Namur 2026

Day 3

thu 21 MAY

8:30 - 8:45 >
COFFEE
8:45 - 9:00 L01

Recap of Day 2

9:00 - 10:00 L01

From stand-alone skills to integrated learning paths: collaborating on academic skills

Eric Van Luijt

11:00 - 12:30 / 13:30 - 15:00 S07

Workshop #3 Learning by Doing: Integrating Languages across Disciplines through Project-Based Collaboration

Christelle Hoorelbeke

Patrick Foissac

11:00 - 12:30 / 13:30 - 15:00 S05

Workshop #4 ESD-Safaris: Identifying Sustainable Teaching Moments with AR and Card-Game Reflection

Julia Edeleva

12:00 - 13:30 >
LUNCH
15:00 - 15:30 >
BREAK
16:00 - 18:00

Visit of Namur's Citadelle

19:00

Dinner

(Not included in the fee)

Teacher Training Week UNamur Language Center Namur 2026

fri 22 MAY

8:30 - 8:45 >
COFFEE
8:45 - 9:00 S07

Recap of Day 3

9:00 - 10:30 / 11:00 - 12:30 S07

Workshop #5 Evolve or perish? Navigating collaborations with content specialists in the age of GenAI

Sara Reymenams

Rachel Rubin

9:00 - 10:30/ 11:00- 12:30 S05

Workshop #6 Language, Culture and Emotion in LSP Courses: An Interinstitutional Approach

Sophie Naveau

Aurélie Marsily

12:30-13:00 TBA

Closing roundtable

All Participants

Teacher Training Week UNamur Language Center Namur 2026

Accommodation

Campus map

Organizing team

Our partners

Teacher Training Week UNamur Language Center Namur 2026

Accomodation

B&B HOTEL

40 Bd Ernest Mélot 5000 Namur

Campus

Teacher Training Week UNamur Language Center Namur 2026

University of Namur, Faculty of Science, Rue Grafé, 2 5000 Namur (Belgium) #09 on the campus map

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Teacher Training Week UNamur Language Center Namur 2026

Organizing Team

UNamur

Natassia SCHUTZAude HANSELChristelle HOORELBEKESophie NAVEAUJérémie DUPALAmélie BULONPatrick FOISSACCindy TREFOISAurélie MARSILY

RANACLES

Tom GRAINGER

Souhila GRIFI

Gérard ROUZIES

Marc SCHIRES

Teacher Training Week UNamur Language Center Namur 2026

Our partners

Our partners

Profile

Julie Walaszczyk

ICLHE Advisor and e‑Learning Developer at the University of Mons. Since 2015, she has supported EMI teaching across disciplines, contributed to programme (re)design, and focused on team-teaching, CPD, curriculum internationalisation, inclusion, multilingualism, and innovative pedagogy. She also serves on the ICLHE Association board.

The EMCP (Economy, Management, Communication and Political Science) faculty at UNamur proposes in its programs the « learning by doing » approach through integrated Teaching Units (UEIs). A UEI is a set of courses organised around a common goal that aims at the completion of a cooperative project by students. Students are encouraged to mobilize their knowledge and skills acquired across the disciplines involved, fostering a transversal, multidisciplinary learning process. This approach comes with several challenges for teaching teams. In this workshop, participants will explore three of them: assessment practices, strategies for managing groups and limiting free riding, and effective collaboration between LSP instructors and disciplinary lecturers.

As universities adopt content-based language instruction for internationalization and multilingual competence development, effective LSP-content collaboration becomes critical. However, misconceptions persist: language teachers feel pressured to be content experts, while content specialists may underestimate language's role in disciplinary learning. This presentation examines how role perceptions shape collaboration across two settings—co-teaching partnerships in CLIL mathematics and math tutorial interactions. Drawing on classroom observations and stimulated recall interviews, the research reveals both explicit and implicit language mediation practices. Findings challenge assumptions about expertise distribution and offer evidence-based strategies for productive LSP-content partnerships that enhance both language and disciplinary learning outcomes.

This workshop explores how the Centre de Langues collaborates with other institutions to strengthen the cultural dimension in language teaching. Our projects stem from a shared observation: the need for authentic experiences to enhance students’ motivation, sense of choice, and emotional engagement. We will present several interdisciplinary initiatives, illustrated with concrete examples and accompanied by an outline of the challenges encountered. In the interactive second part, participants will work in small groups to reflect on the role of culture from both student and teacher perspectives, and to exchange strategies and ideas for enriching their own practice.

This presentation examines an institution-wide collaboration between the Tilburg University Language Center and the Tilburg School of Economics and Management to integrate academic and professional skills into disciplinary curricula. Moving beyond stand-alone skills courses, the program aligns writing and presentation training with authentic content assignments across all undergraduate programs. In year 1, students receive foundational support; in year 2, skills instruction is embedded in content courses, with shared but domain-specific assessment by language and content lecturers. The talk discusses design choices, first-hand experiences, and institutional challenges, offering a transferable roadmap for integrating skills training into disciplinary programs.

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Christelle Hoorelbeke

Lecturer in English and Dutch at the UNamur Language Center, where she also serves as a pedagogical counsellor.

Chaima Seddiki

Lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Mons. Her work thoughtfully explores colonial-era heritage in the Global South. Deeply committed to socially responsible education, she strives to connect architecture with human experience, foster dialogue across borders, and contribute with care to more inclusive academic spaces.

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Karen Fleischhauer

LSP instructor for German and English at Technical University of Darmstadt, where she also directs the Centre for Digital Language Teaching and Learning (ZediS). Her research examines forms of collaboration in CLIL mathematics instruction, particularly co-teaching partnerships.

Abstract will soon be available

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Patrick Foissac

English lecturer a the UNamur language center who is involved in several projects based on the "learning by doing" approach.

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Closing roundtable

12:30-13:00 TBA

The final debrief covering the whole event. The last opportunity for participants and contributors to share their feelings about the past few days.

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EricVan Luijt

English lecturer at the Tilburg University Language Center, where he teaches academic communication skills and coordinates the academic skills integration projects presented in this talk. He also leads the university’s writing center, works on responsible AI applications for student writing, and serves on one of the university's examination boards.

Sustainability is a core societal challenge, yet a gap often persists between teachers' beliefs about Education for Sustainable Development and their classroom practice. Language-for-specific-purposes teachers are uniquely positioned to bridge this gap: their content-rich classrooms naturally connect to learners' professional and real-world contexts, making them ideal facilitators for sustainability-oriented discourse and reflection. This workshop sharpens LSP teachers' professional vision — their ability to recognise teachable moments where sustainability concepts can be introduced. Using interactive AR-extended card-game scenarios from the Vision4Sustainability project, participants will identify these moments, reflect on pedagogical strategies, and co-create approaches linking sustainability theory to classroom practice.

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Julia Edeleva

She earned her PhD in psycholinguistics. Her areas of interest are multilingualism and language education with a particular focus on sustainability. She has extensive experience designing participatory research formats. Her work bridges research and classroom practice across international collaborations, with several externally-funded projects in language education, over 40 publications and an award-winning innovation from the Global Design Thinking Challenge.

Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will have developed an actionable plan to initiate an interdisciplinary activity with content specialists.Content: LSP instructors often lack time to build sustained collaboration with content specialists. This workshop offers a structured space to reflect on how to embed disciplinary knowledge into participants’ teaching contexts. Drawing on key LSP research (Hyland, 2000; Belcher, 2009; Yu et al., 2020) and studies of work-study environments (Haramboure, 2013; Labetoulle et al., 2024), the session guides participants through a step-by-step planning process addressing context, learning outcomes, resources, activity design, logistics, and follow-up.

English‑medium and multilingual higher education increasingly bring language specialists and subject lecturers into close collaboration, often revealing overlapping roles, shifting identities, and subtle power dynamics. While reflexivity in EMI typically focuses on individual awareness, this study explores what happens when reflection is shared. Seven educators from different disciplines used a tool for interdisciplinary integration to examine how they positioned themselves and one another within an ICLHE team. Their reflections uncovered moments of tension, reframing, and boundary‑blurring that illuminated how authority and roles are negotiated. The findings show that collaboration improves when educators reflect not only on teaching, but on how they work together.

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Aude Labetoulle

Associate professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Paris). Her research focuses on the design and evaluation of ESP training programmes, particularly for engineers, and apprenticeship-based/work-study education. She is currently a member of the GERAS executive board.

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Julie Walaszczyk

ICLHE Advisor and e‑Learning Developer at the University of Mons. Since 2015, she has supported EMI teaching across disciplines, contributed to programme (re)design, and focused on team-teaching, CPD, curriculum internationalisation, inclusion, multilingualism, and innovative pedagogy. She also serves on the ICLHE Association board.

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Sophie Naveau

Lecturer in Dutch and English at the UNamur Language Center and is responsible for immersive and cultural activities in Dutch.

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RachelRubin

English lecturer at ILT, KU Leuven. She received her PhD in Linguistics from the VUB and UCLouvain in 2025 with a project focusing on complexity in Dutch as a second language. She teaches various English for Specific Purposes courses with an emphasis on Academic Writing.

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SaraRymenams

Lecturer at the KU Leuven Language Institute (ILT) with extensive experience in respectively French and German for specific purposes. They develop, teach and evaluate customised courses in several faculties of the university and have combined this function over the years with various projects at other institutions.

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Natassia Schutz

Director of the UNamur Language Center. She holds a Phd in English corpus linguistics and specializes in English for Academic Purposes and popular science.

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Aurélie Marsily

Lecturer in Spanish and English the UNamur Language Center.