UNIC Lightning Bites: Language awareness and multilingualism in a university community.

Liisa Väisänen from the University of Oulu hosted the second session of the UNIC Lightning Bites dedicated to topic of "Cultivating inclusive societies".

Virtual Place

Online via Zoom

Date

Start: 19.02.2024
End: 19.02.2024

Partners

In a series of online lightning talks organized by UNIC during International Mother Language Day, participants delve into the theme "Cultivating Inclusive Societies: How to navigate linguistic diversity effectively.

The speaker of the second Lightning Bites session was Liisa Väisänen, a Finnish teacher at the Centre for Languages and Communication Lingua, University of Oulu. During her Lightning Bites, Liisa shared some practical case examples of how international members of the community have been helped to learn the local language at the university.

If you are interested in the recording of this session, please check the gallery section!

Total number of participants: 37

Tags

UNIC CityLabs

Themes

Diversity and Inclusion | Social inclusion | diversity and inclusion | social inclusion

Type of Case

seminar | Seminar

Languages

English

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