Join Listiac on a trip around Europe!
To celebrate the Erasmus Days, the Listiac project is hosting a blog relay race: one partner at a time will share their experiences of working towards linguistically sensitive teacher education in Europe. The journey starts in Vaasa, Finland and moves south all the way to Algarve, Portugal before it ends in Jyväskylä, Finland.
Published Blog Posts

The developing story of a linguistically sensitive pathway in teacher education
The recent curriculum for Finnish basic education highlights linguistically sensitive teaching (LST) as a critical part of education, yet to-date LST has only been part of teacher education for selected groups. As part of Listiac at the University of Jyväskylä, we have worked to integrate and extend LST across the class teacher education curriculum to create a pathway from the 1st year of studies to the final teaching practice.

Advocating multilingual education policies: the complex dynamics of a local Flemish context
How can we work towards a local language-and-education policy aimed at making teachers more linguistically sensitive? Researchers from Ghent University share their experiences and insights of what this means in the context of the city of Ghent.

Linguistically sensitive teaching during a global pandemic: data collection and promoting Listiac
What is it like to collect data during a global pandemic? Researchers and students of the Basque Country show insights of the online data collection process through digital platforms and discuss the relevance of technology and social media.

Outside languages for classroom learning
Linguistic diversity is a reality in almost all our contexts and hierarchy and power relations between languages is a fact. Inside schools, this hierarchy is officially assumed as there is a language (or a variety) of schooling and languages and varieties often ignored or avoided.

Collaborative understanding of LST for ITE: Notes from the fieldwork
LISTIAC BLOG RELAY RACE #5: AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Read more about the Blog Relay Race Catalonia has a long tradition of managing school plurilingualism

Plurilingual classes at a museum: a pilot multidimensional experience
Throughout this educational project piloted by two primary and secondary school teachers, a group of plurilingual pupils carried out learning activities that culminated in a guided tour at the Paul Valéry Museum in the city of Sète, France, where the pupils played the role of plurilingual museum guides for their classmates, parents, teachers, artists and media.

The Linguistically Sensitive Teacher of the Future
What does it take to be a linguistically sensitive teacher? Master students of the Primary Teacher Education program from the Faculty of Education of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, shared their views in regard to this question.

Towards the Tower of Power
In 2018 some channels of informal communication from the Lithuanian Ministry of Education, Science and Sports suggested that plurilingualism will never be a priority in Lithuanian general education. Thus, it came as no surprise to the Lithuanian Listiac team to see how little linguistically sensitive teaching has been known, considered or discussed by any of the parties in education, from teachers to policy makers, let alone attempted to be implemented in practice. In contrast, the reality of the past few years has proved the growing need of LST in facing the emerging changes in linguistic diversity in the Lithuanian schools.

Towards linguistically sensitive teacher education: one student reflection at a time
Listiac Blog Relay Race #1: Åbo Akademi University Read more about the Blog Relay Race Åbo Akademi University takes pride in its values diversity, openness,