Working Group 2

WG2 focused on disciplinary literacies, broadening the scope from the narrow CLIL context to all aspects of multilingual education. First, we aimed to map the different contexts across Europe in which multilingual education takes place and disciplinary literacy is relevant. To this end, WG2 documented around 55 settings across Europe, revealing the substantial variability of contexts in which multilingual disciplinary literacy plays a key role. The resulting analysis also highlighted the need for clearer curricular guidelines, more comprehensive assessment practices, and other tools to ensure that disciplinary literacies are fully integrated into bilingual programmes. As a contribution to the provision of efficient tools, WG2 created a set of research-based CEFR descriptors at B1 and B2 levels for multilingual Mathematics, History, and Science. These descriptors are both theoretically sound and practically applicable, supporting assessment, learning material development, and other educational purposes.

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WG Leader: Francisco Lorenzo is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain). His areas of interest are L2 acquisition, bilingualism, sociology of language and European language policy. He is the author of several monographs on Spanish applied linguistics: Motivation and Second Languages (2004), Bilingual Education: content and language integration (2011) and L2 Spanish Academic Language (2020) (co-author). His latest book is Bilingual Academic Language: Concepts and Case Studies (Lorenzo and Granados, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Francisco Lorenzo received the Best Research Article Award from the American Association of Applied Linguistics for a paper on bilingualism and social justice (Lorenzo, Granados & Rico, 2020) in the journal Applied Linguistics.

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WG Vice-Leader:  Dr. Lidija Cvikić is a full professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Teacher Education, where she teaches courses in the BA, MA, and PhD programs. She has also gained international teaching experience as a lecturer of the Croatian language at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA (2005-2007), the University of Klagenfurt Summer School (2017-2023). Since 2023 she has been involved in the establishment of Croaticum - Centar for Croatian language and Culture at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Her research interests encompass Croatian as a second and heritage language, language policy in education, and textbook discourse analysis. She has contributed to five national research projects and collaborated on several international projects (e.g., Matra Kap, Tempus, Erasmus+) centered on language learning and teaching, multilingualism, and teacher education. Additionally, she is an active member of multiple Croatian and international professional associations. She serves on the editorial boards of five international journals and holds the position of Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the journal Strani jezici. Dr. Cvikić was the Vice-Dean for Science, Arts, and International Cooperation at the Faculty of Teacher Education in Zagreb from 2015 to 2018. Since 2019, she has chaired the Department of Croatian Language, Literature, Drama, and Media Culture at the same institution. Her list of publications is available here.

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