International Communication and Interaction: Play with Languages

24 – 28 July 2023
MU Language Centre, Komenského nám. 2, Brno, Czech Republic

The Summer School International Communication and Interaction: Play with Languages is designed for students, teachers, and lecturers at universities and Higher Education institutions who want to

make effective use of their linguistic repertoire;
develop their plurilingual competence at A2-B1 level of CEFR
adopt intercomprehension strategies

The summer school aims to acquaint participants with a variety of tools and approaches that will help them:

to call upon the knowledge of familiar languages to understand new languages
to work with partial competence in several languages to achieve particular communicative goals
to express themselves in one language and understand the other
to look for cognates and internationalisms in order to make sense of texts in unknown languages
to respond by incorporating elements of other languages and/or variations of languages in his/her own discourse for communication purposes
to exploit paralinguistics (mime, gesture, facial expression, etc.)

The Summer School offers you a truly plurilingual experience: plurilingualism is there as a tool, a learning goal, and content to learn at the same time. You will be exposed to French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech and German. The workshops will help you gain a practical insight into how plurilingual competence works and will foster your abilities to solve the situations dealing with languages you are not very familiar with.

The Summer School include workshops such as:

Explore your plurilingual self
Cultural Patterns
Survival Czech
C’est là que gît le lièvre: Idioms and Metaphors
Creative Microactivities
Plurilingual and Pluricultural Mediation
Migrating Words

Programme & Timetable

The programme provides
- 20 hours of tuition comprising presentations, group work and discussions
- 6 hours of optional activities

(Monday to Friday)
09:00-10:40 Workshops
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-12:50 Workshops
Tuesday to Thursday optional activities in the afternoon.

Language of instruction: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German
Participants can apply for ERASMUS+ funding.

Read the feedback and report from the summer school 2022 here.

Please fill in the language questionnaire below by 19 May 2023 as the first step of our application procedure.

The summer school is cancelled.

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Language of instruction	Other languages
When	24 July – 28 July 2023
Duration	26 hours
Time	20 hours of presentations, group work, and discussions 6 hours of optional activities
Participants	foreign students, MU students, public
Lecturer	MU Language Centre lecturers
	360 EUR (early bird until 30.4.) 400 EUR (standard until 20. 6.)

First step - language questionnaire

Have questions? Contact us.

e‑mail:	koordinator@cjv.muni.cz