Didaktik der romanischen Sprachen - Universität Hamburg

19/08/2026

🏆Die Mitglieder des europäischen Projekts PEP (Erasmus+, kofinanziert von der Europäischen Union; https://sites.google.com/view/pepproject/accueil) freuen sich, die Veröffentlichung der Encyclopédie de l’éducation plurilingue bei Peter Lang (herausgegeben von Christian Ollivier und Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer) bekanntzugeben, eines zweisprachigen Referenzwerks (Englisch und Französisch) im Open-Access-Format für alle, die sich über mehrsprachige Bildung informieren möchten.
Mehr als hundert Autor*innen, international anerkannte Expert*innen der jeweiligen Fachgebiete, haben zu diesem Werk beigetragen. In kompakten Artikeln von zwei bis drei Seiten werden rund hundert Konzepte und Ansätze aus dem Bereich mehrsprachige Bildung vorgestellt. Die englischen und französischen Texte sind Originalbeiträge verschiedener Autor*innen und spiegeln dadurch unterschiedliche, einander ergänzende, mitunter auch divergierende Auffassungen wider.

Ollivier, C. & Melo-Pfeifer, S. (Hrsg.). (2026). Encyclopédie de l’éducation plurilingue / Encyclopaedia of plurilingual education. Peter Lang.
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1587992
Viel Spaß bei der Lektüre!

23/07/2026

What does it mean to be perceived as an "authentic" university teacher? Patchareerat Yanaprasart and Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer answer this question through their lived experiences as expat teachers using the language of instruction (French and German, respectively) as a foreign language. Read the full article here:

This month we published Learning and Teaching Multilingually in Higher Education by Patchareerat Yanaprasart and Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer. In this post the authors explain what motivated them to write t…

23/07/2026

👍👍👍A volume to be aware of: The Routledge Handbook of Language Education and Social Change, edited by Vander Tavares. This handbook "provides a comprehensive, global examination of the role language education plays in fostering positive societal transformation". See more at https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Language-Education-and-Social-Change/Tavares/p/book/9781041036104

🤓With a chapter by S. Melo-Pfeifer, S. Pinto and R. Torres, called "Fostering linguistic and cultural responsiveness: Service-learning in (language) teacher education", based on the results of the Erasmus Plus BOLD Project.

☝️ Expected publication date: December 2026!

08/07/2026

🎉🎉🎉Brace for impact :)
"Rethinking Established Approaches in the Language Classroom and Beyond. Noncolonial Perspectives" is an upcoming volume co-edited by Lisa Marie Brinkmann, Franziska Gerwers, Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, and Claudio Millacura Salas.
📒📒📒This volume addresses language education through the lens of noncoloniality. Its three parts comprise a discussion of non-colonial perspectives on the language classroom, an examination of noncolonial pedagogical proposals, and a critical analysis of teaching materials and normative documents regulating teaching practice. The volume underscores the need to move beyond critique and embrace creation and a pedagogy of hope in education, in the Freirean sense.
🔍🔍About the book: https://www.routledge.com/Rethinking-Established-Approaches-in-The-Language-Classroom-and-Beyond-Noncolonial-Perspectives/Brinkmann-Gerwers-Melo-Pfeifer-Salas/p/book/9781041014959

01/07/2026

An incredible week, all around plurilingualism in education :)

27/06/2026

👍Out now: "The Oxford Handbook of the Portuguese Language", co-edited by Ana M Carvalho and Livia Oushiro, with a chapter by Bruna Ruano and Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer on "Portuguese as a host language". More information: https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/63048

26/06/2026

22/06/2026

Project PEP - Promotion of Multilingual Education
Face-to-Face Training Course for Teachers
Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Viseu
29th and 30th of June, 1st and 2nd of July 2026

The final product of the Project PEP is a 50 hours training course addressed to language teachers from the partner countries (AT, DE, IT, FR, GR and PT). This course has two components – an online training part (25 hours) and a face-to-face constituent (25 hours)
The face-to-face component brings participants together at a single training venue, in Viseu – Portugal. The sessions are divided between presentations on the basic theoretical aspects of each topic and collaborative workshops aimed at developing professional skills, so that participants can incorporate activities that promote multilingualism into their lessons.
From the 29th of June to the 2nd of July, 28 teachers will be gathered at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Viseu, together with 16 trainers from the partner institutions.

19/06/2026

Que perd la science lorsqu’elle se réduit à une langue unique? Signé Anne-Claude Berthoud (Section des sciences du langage et de l’information) et Laurent Gajo (Université de Genève), cet ouvrage interroge l’apparente évidence du monolinguisme dans le travail scientifique et en dévoile les limites épistémologiques. À rebours d’une norme largement admise – celle d’une science s’exprimant prioritairement en anglais –, il montre que les langues participent à la construction même des savoirs, en offrant des ressources interprétatives, contextuelles et créatives.

À partir d’enquêtes, d’études de cas et de témoignages issus de plusieurs disciplines, les autrices et les auteurs analysent des situations où le non-recours au plurilinguisme conduit à des raccourcis, à des angles morts, à des réductions, voire à des aberrations. Ils avancent également que ce qu’ils appellent des cas de monolinguisme «aveugle» doivent interpeller aussi bien les scientifiques que la gouvernance des universités qui, très souvent, diluent les enjeux de la langue dans un mouvement d’internationalisation insuffisamment remis en question.

Avec un chapitre de Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer et Islam Sadequle!!!

Plus sur: https://wp.unil.ch/labelettres/dun-monolinguisme-aveugle-a-un-plurilinguisme-eclaire/
Open access link: https://www.editionsepisteme.org/produit/57/9782889156979