<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Forwarded From: <b class="gmail_sendername">CARLA</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carla@umn.edu">carla@umn.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:36 AM<br><br>Immersion Conference 2012: Extended Call for Proposals Deadline<br>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:18px;float:left;margin-top:4px"><i>Conference Announcement</i></span></b><span style="font-size:14px;float:right;margin-top:4px"><b>Please Post/Distribute</b></span></p>
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<p style="color:#933;margin-top:20px"><i><b>Call for Proposals - Deadline extended!</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0px"><i>Fourth International Immersion Conference</i></p>
<h2 style="margin-top:0px">Immersion 2012: <br>
Bridging Contexts for a Multilingual World</h2>
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<p style="color:#933"><b>October 18-20, 2012</b><br>
<b>Crowne Plaza St. Paul-Riverfront</b><br>
<b>St. Paul, Minnesota, USA</b></p>
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<h3>Featured Plenary Speakers </h3>
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<p><b>Donna Christian</b>, <i>Senior Fellow, Center for Applied Linguistics, USA </i><br>
<b>Ester de Jong</b>, <i>Associate Professor, University of Florida, USA</i><br>
<b>Tīmoti Kāretu</b>, <i>Executive Director, Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, New Zealand <br>
</i><b>Roy Lyster</b>,<i> Professor, McGill University, Canada </i><br>
<b>Merrill Swain</b>, <i>Professor Emerita, University of Toronto, Canada</i></p>
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<h3>Conference Description </h3>
<p>Language immersion education continues to evolve as a highly effective program model for launching students on the road to bi- and multilingualism and intercultural competence. School-based immersion programs commit to a minimum of 50% subject-matter schooling through a second, world, heritage, or indigenous language at the preschool and elementary levels with varying amounts of subject-based language learning support throughout secondary and post-secondary education. Program models include one-way world language immersion, two-way bilingual immersion, and indigenous/heritage immersion for language and culture revitalization. While each model targets distinct sociocultural contexts and educational needs, all embrace language, literacy and culture development through subject matter learning.</p>
<p>Under the leadership of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota (CARLA), the fourth international conference on immersion education brings these models together to engage in research-informed dialogue and professional exchange across languages, levels, learner audiences, and sociopolitical contexts. </p>
<p>CARLA is currently seeking proposals for papers, discussion sessions, and symposia on aspects of language immersion education related to four conference themes: </p>
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<p><i>Theme 1: <span style="color:#933">Immersion Pedagogy and Assessment</span></i><br>
<i>Theme 2: <span style="color:#933">Culture, Identity, and Community</span></i><br>
<i>Theme 3: <span style="color:#933">Program Design, Leadership, and Evaluation</span></i><br>
<i>Theme 4: <span style="color:#933">Policy, Advocacy, and Communications</span></i> </p>
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<p>In addition to basic, applied, and evaluation research, conference organizers welcome a range of practitioner perspectives including immersion teachers, administrators, curriculum coordinators, parents, and specialists who work in immersion programs. Papers, presentations, discussion sessions, and symposia may report on data-based research, theoretical and conceptual analyses, or best practices in language immersion classrooms.</p>
<h3>Proposal Submission</h3>
<p><b style="color:#933">The deadline for submissions has been extended to March 26, 2012. </b></p>
<p>For submission details see: <a style="color:#933" href="http://ecommunication.umn.edu/t/289270/2584096/96997/0/" target="_blank">http://www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/immersion2012/call.html</a><br>
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