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Date: 26 Jul 2009
From:Fatima Badry Zalami <badry at aus.edu>
Subject:Multiliteracies Conference CFP

The American University of Sharjah (AUS)
MATESOL Program
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
and
Zayed University’s  Research Excellence Center “UAE Center for  
Bilingualism and Bilingual Education”
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Announce their International Conference on Bilingualism and Bilingual  
Education
December 17-19, 2009. To be held at the American University of  
Sharjah, UAE

Fostering Multiliteracies Through Education: Middle Eastern Perspectives
Keynote Speakers

Suresh Canagarajah, PhD

Director, Migration Studies Project
Departments of Applied Linguistics and English
Pennsylvania State University

Nancy Hornberger, PhD
Director, Educational Linguistics Program

Language and Literacy in Education Division

Graduate School of Education

University of Pennsylvania

Arabic Specialists to be announced

We invite you to submit proposals related to the following subthemes:
·         Bilingualism, multilingualism and multiculturalism,
·         Bilingual acquisition,
·         Language planning and policies in K-12 and higher education,
·         Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) approaches,
·         Uses of languages in multilingual contexts,
·         Applied language research,
·         Bilingual identities,
·         Language and politics,
·         Teaching  Arabic in a global context,
·         Teacher training in bilingual settings,
·         Language attrition,
·         Realities and challenges to bilingual education.

Although the focus of the conference is on the Middle East, proposals  
dealing with bilingual issues in different geographical and cultural  
contexts are welcome.
Abstracts in either Arabic or English are welcome. During the  
conference, English translations will be provided.

	• Deadline for submitting your proposal: August 30, 2009
	• Notification of acceptance: September 25, 2009
	• Information about housing and local transportation will be  
available shortly on the conference website.
	• Selected papers will be published in conference proceedings.
	• For  full details, please click on the following conference link:
http://www.aus.edu/conferences/tesol09/


Conference co- chairs
Fatima Badry badry at aus.edu
Ingrid Piller Ingrid.Piller at zu.ac.ae


Fatima Badry, PhD
Professor
Head, Department of English
American University of Sharjah
POB 26666
Sharjah
Tel:971 6 515 2701
www.aus.edu



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