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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #2d2d2d; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Department of Language Studies, Umeå university</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #2d2d2d; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><br>
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Are happy to announce the first international conference at Umeå on the theme of young children learning second and foreign languages<br>
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<b><i>Early Language Learning: Theory and Practice in 2014</i></b><br>
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<b>Umeå</b>: 12th -14th June, 2014</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'; COLOR: #2d2d2d; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.sprak.umu.se/samverkan/early-language-learning/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.sprak.umu.se/samverkan/early-language-learning/</span></a><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #2d2d2d; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US">The conference focuses on early second and foreign language learning in school contexts, reviewing contemporary
challenges for young children, aged 3-12 years, learning languages in many different school contexts worldwide. This specialist conference offers opportunities for researchers, language teachers, language advisers and policy makers to develop links and establish
networks, helping to expand the pool of research expertise in this field. </span>
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<p style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #2d2d2d; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Confirmed plenary speakers:</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #2d2d2d; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><br>
Dr Annie Hughes, York University, UK<br>
Prof. Marianne Nikolov, Pecs University, Hungary<br>
Prof Jelena Mihaljevic Djigunovic, Zagreb University, Croatia<br>
Assoc Prof Goto Yuko Butler, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #2d2d2d; FONT-SIZE: 9pt" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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