Didaktik der romanischen Sprachen - Universität Hamburg

30/09/2026

The Erasmus Plus AGILE project "Higher education resilience in refugee crises forging social inclusion through capacity building, civic engagement and skills recognition" wins the "European Innovative Teaching Award" under the European Language Label!
Please find more information about the award here:

AGILE - Higher education resilience in refugee crises forging social inclusion through capacity building, civic engagement and skills recognition

17/09/2026

Call for papers: Special issue "Políticas linguísticas para estudantes migrantes e refugiados em escolas do Brasil e de outros países"
Editors: Leandro Rodrigues Alves Diniz (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / Universidade de Hamburgo – programa CAPES/Humboldt), Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer (Universidade de Hamburgo), Anthippi Potolia (Université Paris 8).
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16.09.2026 Submissão de artigos para dossiês temáticos Prezadas/os, Informamos a todas/os/es que a Revista da Abralin está com submissões abertas para cinco dossiês: Dossiê: Retomada e Fortalecimento Linguístico: conceitos, abordagens e experiências Dossiê: Linguagens entre Humanos e Máqu...

16/09/2026

🎂CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN NOW: EDILIC conference anniversary (21st-23rd June 2027): https://edilic.cat/.../xiith-edilic-conference-barcelona.../
Conference theme: Languages in Relation: Rethinking Education through Pluralistic Approaches Weniger anzeigen

14/09/2026

Acaba de ser lançada, pela LIDEL, a obra "Vozes dum português pluricêntrico", coeditada por Susete Albino e João Paulo Pereira. A obra inclui o capítulo "A escrita de poesia plurilingue como tarefa reflexiva para estudantes universitários de Português como Língua Não Materna", de S. Melo-Pfeifer. URL https://issuu.com/lidel/docs/9789895930036_vozes_dum_portugues_pluricentrico_is

07/09/2026

🎂Save the date for the EDILIC conference anniversary (21st-23rd June 2027): https://edilic.cat/barcelona-2027/xiith-edilic-conference-barcelona-2027/

Conference theme: Languages in Relation: Rethinking Education through Pluralistic Approaches

05/09/2026

Out now: Professional identity calibration through self-authored practices: Pre-service language teachers’ racialization and ethnicization work towards legitimacy, by Vander Tavares and Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer. Open acces and available from here: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2590-2911(26)01101-0

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