When: |
12 Aug through 14 Aug 2016 | |
CFP Deadline: |
15 |
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Where: |
Johannesburg, South Africa | |
Website URL: |
www.wits.ac.za | |
Categories: |
Education / Legal / Other - Education |
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Theme:
Diverse Pathways for Language and Literacy Education in multilingual contexts
The validity of boundaries between languages and literacies has been intensely debated in the field of language and literacy education questions since the turn of the 21st Century. Competing concepts such as translanguaging, codemeshing, metrolanguaging and polylanguaging have taken a centre stage in current discourses around multilingual and multicultural education. However, there are very few literacy programmes that have provided blue prints on how these multilingual spaces can be harnessed as resources to offset monolingual bias and its attendant rigidity that is pervasive in our classrooms. This conference will showcase local and international responses to the changing language and literacy spaces and to provide pathways for future imperatives through dialogues and forge networks among researchers and practitioners worldwide. We are inviting teachers, researchers and postgraduate students to ...
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