28.917, Calls: Language Acquisition, Language Documentation/South Africa

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-917. Fri Feb 17 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.917, Calls: Language Acquisition, Language Documentation/South Africa

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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 10:13:40
From: Laylah Moagi [Matlakala.Moagi at wits.ac.za]
Subject: International Conference on Language and Literacy Education

 
Full Title: International Conference on Language and Literacy Education 
Short Title: ICLLE 

Date: 18-Aug-2017 - 20-Aug-2017
Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa 
Contact Person: Leketi Makalela
Meeting Email: Leketi.Makalela at wits.ac.za

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Language Documentation 

Call Deadline: 30-Mar-2017 

Meeting Description:

4th International Conference on Language and Literacy Education

Host:

Hub for Multilingual Education and Literacie
Wits School of Education
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Dates: 18-20 August 2017

Theme: Imagining a thriving multilingual world: language, education and
society in the 21st centuries.

Keynote Speakers: 

1. Professor Martin C. Njoroge (Pan African Christian University, Kenya)
2. Professor Terrence G. Wiley (Centre for Applied Linguistics, USA)
3. Dr Maria Coady (University of Florida)
4. Dr Pascal Nadal (Mauritius Institute of Education and University of
Seychelles)

Conference fees: R2500 (including conference dinner; Early bird registration:
R2000 on or before 30 May. 
Students: R1500 (early bird: R1000 on or before 30May)
Teachers: R500


Call for Papers:

4th International Conference on Language and Literacy Education 
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg - South Africa

Dates: 18-20 August 2017

Theme: Imagining a thriving multilingual world: language, education and
society in the 21st century

While it is well-established that multilingualism is a norm for the 21st
century, little has been thought on how it will change the education and
social landscapes if and when given space to thrive. Many curricular
programmes, classrooms and assessment practices are still being designed to
favour the ideological orientations of an ideal monolingual speaker. This bias
has correspondingly put multilingual learners/students at a risk of failure
under the guises such as technological innovations, assessment standards, and
globalisation without due recognition for local agency and situated identity
formation. In this conference we invite researchers, teachers, policy makers
and social activists to engage in evidence-based dialogues where they imagine
a new world order of multilingualism and associated dynamics of
multilanguaging and translanguaging taking a centre stage. Presenters should
submit abstracts in any of the following areas:

1) Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
2) Translanguaging/multilanguaging 
3) Reading and writing literacies
4) Multilingual assessments
5) Multilingual materials
6) Alternative and critical pedagogies for multilingual education 
7) Language policy, planning and management in education
8) Multiliteracies  

Notes for presenters:

Please send a 200-250 words abstract on or before 31 March 2017 to the
following address: matlakala.moagi at wits.ac.za

Publication: Proceedings from the conference will be edited into a book
volume, ''Imagining a thriving multilingual world: Language and Literacy
education in our times'' and a special issue through the Journal of
Multilingual Education and Literacies (JMEL)




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