FOHLC Café - Journey Around the World 2025 - A decade of Czech for preschoolers in Ireland
Join us for the next edition of the FOHLC Café, where we continue our journey around the world!
Date
Thursday, November 20, 2025 (This date has been changed from October.)
Time
20:00 Central European Time (find your time here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html)
Location
Online (via Zoom)
Language
English
Cost
Free (registration required)
Registration
Organizers
Jana Nahodilova, Czech and Slovak School Okénko in London, England
Renata Emilsson Peskova, Móðurmál – the Association on Bilingualism & University of Iceland
Gisi Cannizzaro, Heritage Language Education (HLE) Network, the Netherlands
Agnieszka Pedrak, Trinity College Dublin, Polish School by the Embassy of Poland in Dublin, Ireland
Isabelle Barth, Association pour la Promotion et l'Avancement du Multilinguisme (A.P.A.M.), France
Sabine Little, University of Sheffield, England
Jessika Rabello, Educator of Portuguese as Heritage Language in the UK, founder of the Brazilian Library- Casa do Livro
Tereza Krymláková, Charles University, Czech Republic
Event description
Join us for the next edition of the FOHLC Café, where we continue our journey around the world! This interactive session will give you a chance to learn from a practitioner in Ireland who is finding fun ways to help Czech-speaking preschoolers maintain their heritage language -- successfully for more than ten years!
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and come chat about your experiences with other people involved in heritage language education. Everyone is welcome: teachers, community organizers, and anyone interested in multilingualism.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Program
This time, we are honored to welcome Ivana Rocca Kovářová, Co-founder and director of the Czech School Dublin. In addition to managing the school, she is responsible for coordinating preschool education and internships in the Erasmus+ program and managing the school library. Ivana studied English and pedagogy at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. During her studies, she began working with bilingual children, when she worked in the first two English kindergartens in Brno.
At the Czech School of Dublin, Ivana is the head of preschool education and also teaches in the preschool groups. She will tell us a bit about the "Total Immersion Method" used in the Czech preschool that has been so successful!
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