26.1434, Calls: Applied Linguistics/Peru

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Subject: 26.1434, Calls: Applied Linguistics/Peru

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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 21:23:20
From: María Blume [mblume at pucp.pe]
Subject: 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education in Latin America

 
Full Title: 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education in Latin America 
Short Title: BilingLatAm VI 

Date: 12-Aug-2015 - 15-Aug-2015
Location: Lima, Lima, Peru 
Contact Person: Maria Blume
Meeting Email: simposio-bilinguismo at pucp.pe

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 16-Apr-2015 

Meeting Description:

The 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education in Latin America seeks to promote the exchange of knowledge about bilingualism and bilingual education among researchers that work on majority and minority languages in Latin America. The event will focus on showing the complexity of bilingualism and multilingualism, from sociocultural, cognitive, and pedagogical perspectives. We also wish to highlight the theoretical, methodological, and educational challenges that arise in new contexts in which bilingual practices develop.

Keynote Speakers:

- Ellen Bialystok, York University
- José Ribamar Bessa Freire, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
- Inge Sichra, Programa de Formación en EIB para los Países Andinos, Cochabamba
- Guadalupe Valdés, Stanford University
- Virginia Zavala, Pontificia Universidad Católica

Dates:

Thursday, August 13-Saturday August 15, 2015.
Pre-symposium workshops: Wednesday, August 12, 2015.

Where: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru

2nd Call for Papers:

6th International Symposium on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education in Latin America-Bilinglatam VI

Please read carefully since some information has changed.

Topics:

1. Different developments in bilingualism
2. Bilingualism, language contact and identities
3. Educational challenges of bilingualism
4. Language policies and ideologies about bilingualism
5. Benefits and challenges of bilingualism

Reviewers:

1. Cristina Banfi, Ministerio de Educación del Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
2. Luis Enrique López, Indiana University 
3. Mario López, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca
4. Anne Marie Truscott de Mejía, Centro de Investigación y Formación en Educación, Universidad de los Andes
5. Amparo Clavijo, Universidad Distrital, Bogotá
6. Miguel Farías, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
7. Fernanda Liberali, Universidad Católica de São Paulo
8. Iliana Reyes, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México
9. Dina Castro, University of North Texas
10. Liliana Sánchez, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
11. Luis Andrade, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)
12. Roger Gonzalo, PUCP
13. Félix Julca, PUCP
14. Susana Rodríguez, PUCP
15. Virginia Zavala, PUCP
16. María Blume, PUCP

Individual Presentations:

20 minutes for individual presentations in three-speaker tables. 15 minutes for questions for all speakers in a session. 

Colloquia:

The same format as for individual presentations but with a moderator that guides the final discussion. The members of the panel should send an individual abstract and indicate under the title of the abstract the name of the panel in which their presentation should be included.

Official languages
Spanish, English, and Portuguese. Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish will be provided for keynote sessions.

Deadline for the reception of abstracts Monday April 13, 2015.
Notification of acceptance Monday, May 11, 2015.

Abstracts should be anonymous, no more than 500 words long, and include enough detail to allow reviewers to judge their academic merits. Abstracts should be uploaded on our website.

[We have been having technical/administrative problems to set our website. We expect these issues to be resolved really soon, and we will send another announcement as soon as we solve our technical glitches.]

Contact: simposio-bilinguismo at pucp.pe




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