<div dir="ltr"><h1>The beauty of language diversity</h1>
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<div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><h2>Fernand de Varennes discusses language diversity, rights and policies at the LPP 2014 Conference.</h2>
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<p class=""><strong>Listen to Fernand de Varennes talk about <i>'Language diversity, language rights, and the contribution of language policies.'</i></strong> | <a href="http://wcm.ucalgary.ca/educfiles/files/educfiles/devarennes-ppt.pptx" target="_blank">PowerPoint Presentation</a></p>
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<p>Each September, as the school year begins, a group of international
students, academics, researchers and stakeholders get together to
discuss the state of language and language policy around the world.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.werklund.ucalgary.ca/lpp/">Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning Conference</a>, organized by the <a href="http://www.werklund.ucalgary.ca/home">Werklund School of Education’s</a> professor <a href="http://werklund.ucalgary.ca/educ_info/profiles/thomas-ricento">Tom Ricento</a>
and his team, regularly draws people from all over the world to
present their ideas, to discuss challenges related to the topics
surrounding language and language policy, and share their ideas on a
range of issues</p>
<p>This year’s conference, the third annual event, saw close to 100
submissions presented from more than two dozen countries, spread out
over the three days of the conference, which was held at the University
of Calgary’s Rozsa Centre .</p>
<p>The first plenary speaker at the conference, Fernand de Varennes, is
affiliated with the Universities of Hong Kong, Pretoria, and Vytautas
Magnus University of Lithuania, and he gave his talk on “Language
diversity, language rights, and the contribution of language policies.”</p><p><a href="http://werklund.ucalgary.ca/media-room/news-events/beauty-language-diversity">http://werklund.ucalgary.ca/media-room/news-events/beauty-language-diversity</a><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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