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IAIMTE CONFERENCES

 <http://www.ilo.uva.nl/Projecten/Gert/iaimte/default.html> 7th IAIMTE International Conference
Learning and Teaching Language and Literature

Conference Venue
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto (Canada)

Chair

Mary Kooy

THEME
Re/Thinking Literacies:
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

DATES

Tuesday, 23 June, 2009 (9:00 AM) - Friday, 26 June, 2009 (18:00 PM)

Proposal Deadline

February 15th 2009

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Kelleen Toohey

Multi-Literacies for Multi-Competent Children: Experiences in Canadian English-medium Classrooms

The keynote talk will present examples of the multimodal (including video, computer podcasting, CD recordings) and multilingual (L1 and English) activities of groups of English language learners in Canadian classrooms. Kelleen will discuss the potential of these activities to contribute to children's increasing proficiency in print literacy as well as the intrinsic worth of these activities as 21st century meaning-making representations.

Kelleen Toohey is Professor in the Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC. Her current research with teachers and children learning English in diverse settings, focuses on the children's development of literacies in a variety of modes. Researchers and teachers have involved children in video and podcast planning, production, editing and presenting; children have also produced bilingual storybooks for younger students. The effects of these activities on children's literacy development is a central interest of the work. Long interested in language education for minority students, she has published in Language and Education, TESOL Quarterly, and other top journals of applied linguistics. With Bonny Norton in 2004, she edited Critical pedagogies and language learning (Cambridge University Press).

Call for Proposals and Conference Information: English <http://www.ilo.uva.nl/Projecten/Gert/iaimte/Conferences/Conference2009/Brochure2009.pdf>

REGISTRATION: The Conference Fee will be €300 (€250 for Ph.D students) including the programme and abstract book, lunches, coffee and tea, excursion and receptions. Accommodation and other meals are not included. A €25 discount applies for early registrations (payments by 15 March, 2009).

Electronic submission & registration open from September 22nd, 2008

Registration <https://iloserver1.ilo.uva.nl/conference/next?dURcFF5QSVcVR0Vd%7C848> form , (NB: if you are not an IAIMTE member, you first need to register your details in the member <https://iloserver1.ilo.uva.nl/conference/next?dURcFF5QSVcVS0dS%7C854> form (for free: membership is totally free); Abstract <https://iloserver1.ilo.uva.nl/conference/next?dURcFF5QSVcVSkNQ%7C866> cover sheet

             <http://www.ilo.uva.nl/Projecten/Gert/iaimte/default.html> IAIMTE

International Association for the Improvement of

Mother Tongue Education

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 <blocked::http://www.ilo.uva.nl/> Graduate School of Teaching and Learning (GSTL), University of Amsterdam

Spinozastraat 55, 1018 HJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Chair Gert Rijlaarsdam <blocked::mailto:G.C.W.Rijlaarsdam@uva.nl> G.C.W.Rijlaarsdam@uva.nl

W Research group <http://www.rtle.nl/> Language & Literature Education Research

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Received on Mon Sep 22 03:14 PDT 2008