22.275, Confs: Sociolinguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: 14-Jan-2011
From: Marilyn Martin-Jones [m.martinjones at bham.ac.uk]
Subject: Researching Multilingualism
 

	
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:02:43
From: Marilyn Martin-Jones [m.martinjones at bham.ac.uk]
Subject: Researching Multilingualism

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Researching Multilingualism 

Date: 04-Apr-2011 - 08-Apr-2011 
Location: University of Birmingham, United Kingdom 
Contact: Marilyn Martin-Jones 
Contact Email: m.martinjones at bham.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: 
http://www.education.bham.ac.uk/research/mosaic/index.shtml 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

This is a 5-day residential course on Researching multilingualism: key  
concepts, issues and methods which will be held at the MOSAIC Centre for  
Research on Multilingualism, School of Education, University of Birmingham,  
UK.It is being organised as part of a 3 year project of research training for 
Ph.D. students and post-doctoral researchers in the field of multilingualism. 
The project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council as part 
of its Researcher Development Initiative. The organisers of this 5 day 
course are: Professor Marilyn Martin-Jones and Dr Deirdre Martin, MOSAIC 
Centre for Research on Multilingualism. See the MOSAIC website for details 
of other activities organised as part of the 3 year project: May 2010-2013. 

The 5-day course will be organised into sessions, with different themes and 
orienting theories. The sessions will be led by different members of the 
MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism and by guest lecturers.

Session 1: Researching multilingualism: why, what and how?
Session 2: Discourses about multilingualism
Session 3: From policy to communicative practice in multilingual schools and 
classrooms
Session 4: Bilingual practitioners in monolingual institutional contexts
Session 5: Creating multilingual spaces: complementary schools and local 
life worlds
Session 6: From language policy to bilingual education practice
Session 7: Literacy practices in bilingual and multilingual educational 
contexts
Session 8: Multilingual literacy practices in local life worlds (including the 
internet)
Session 9: Multilingualism in research practice





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