PANEL DISCUSSION April 29, 16.45-18.15
Chair: Laimdota Ločmele
Current Problems in the Acquisition and Research of Language for Specific (Academic) Purposes
Dr Kevin B J Haines, Centre for Academic Language and Development at the University of Bristol, UK. Sociocultural approaches to language acquisition, situated language learning
Dr Eva Braidwood, Languages and Communication Unit at the University of Oulu, Finland Intra-linguistic and cross-linguistic mediation
Dr Libor Štěpánek, Language Centre at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. Practical issues of English Mediated Instruction
Prof. Maria Kuteeva, Department of English, Stockholm University, Sweden. LSP and translingual practices