Soutien à la formation des enseignants de langues pour favoriser l'inclusion des étudiants réfugiés dans l'enseignement supérieur

<< Objectives >>The SERAFIN project is aimed at supporting language teachers in the guidance and development of academic literacy skills of refugee students in higher education. The main objective of this project is the professional development of languages teachers, in order to facilitate the inclusion and language training of refugee students in the higher education institutions and to foster intercultural dialogue.<< Implementation >>The work of the consortium of partners from universities and language centres from Belgium (Liège), Germany (Sarrebruck), Luxembourg, France (Grenoble), Morocco (Rabat) and Canada (Sherbrooke) will consist of a qualitative inventory of the language teachers and refugee students’ needs; the creation and the assessment of learning material to train the teachers, thanks to a hybrid training tool, both online and onsite.<< Results >>The training tool will provide trainers with scientific data, educational resources and exercises of reflective practice to improve the welcome and the linguistic and academic support of refugees who wish to pursue higher education. It will help refugee students in their academic career and institutional actors to better understand the linguistic and cultural issues of migration.