9.00 – 9.15

Registration 

9.15 – 9.45

Welcome and introductions

Mario Melchionda, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Germaniche e Slave, Padua University

9.45 - 10.30

Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, Embodying the Other: Language Learning, Intercultural Understanding, and Self-discovery through Theater

Chair: Fiona Dalziel

10.30 – 10.45

Pierantonio Rizzato – Dramatic Interlude

10.45 – 11.30

Coffee break and poster session

María del Carmen Arau Ribeiro, Guarda Polytechnic Institute, Reader’s Theater for Business English

Aurora Floridia, Villa Gelmi, Malcesine, Psychodramaturgy for Language Acquisition

Elżbieta Szczawińska, Adriana Wojcieszyn University of Technology, Wroclaw, Drama techniques for Foreign Language Teaching

11.30 - 13.00

Donatella Mazza, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Playing with Structures

Andreas Häcker, University of Strasbourg, Learning German Language and Quarrel Culture by Improvisation Theatre Workshops

Michaela Reinhardt, Università Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, The “TiLLiT” Project

Chair: Sara Pearcey

14.15 – 15.00

Andrea Pennacchi, Actor and playwright, Padua, "Looking for Henry": artistic and didactic innovation in an English theatre workshop

Chair: Monica Santini

15.00 - 16.00

Christopher Mitchell, Université Stendhal Grenoble III, Playing with Sound – Bringing Emotion to Language Learning

Ivan Lombardi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, From the curtain to the Façade. Enhancing ESL/EFL learners' communicative competence through an interactive drama

Chair: Maria Grazia Busà

16.00 – 16.30

Coffee break and poster session

16.30 – 18.00

Giampaolo Spedo, Università degli Studi di Padova, ‘Full Metal Rafe’: Adapting Beaumont for (and by) 21st-Century ESL Students

Maryann Henck, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Of Drunken Gods and Unpredictable Odds: Project with a Purpose

Teresa Zonno, Laboratorio Teatro Tra Le Righe, Berlin, From text via language to theatre: new approaches towards European languages and literature

Chair: Ralph Church

9.15 – 10.00

Lorna Carson, Trinity College Dublin, The Role of Drama in Task-based Learning: Process and Product

Chair: Katherine Ackerley

10.00 – 10.15

Pierantonio Rizzato – Dramatic Interlude

10.15 – 10.45

Coffee break

10.45 – 12.15

Filippo Fonio, Geneviève Genicot, Université Stendhal Grenoble III, Stuffed pants! Staging full-scale comic dramas in Italian Foreign Language learning

Erika C. Piazzoli, Griffith University, Brisbane, Process drama: an experiential flavour

Ariel Schindewolf, UCSB, Mixing it up with theater: A mixed-methods approach to measurement

Chair: Giampaolo Spedo

12.15 – 12.45

Round table – future directions and collaboration

12.45 – 13.00

Closing remarks