AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER - UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  

Call for Papers: Multilingualism and Education: Global Practices, Challenges and the Way Forward, 03/10



CO-HOSTED BY KENYATTA UNIVERSITY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

DESCRIPTION OF CONFERENCE
The conference is intended to bring together researchers, professionals, classroom practitioners, policy makers and language specialists interested in issues that relate to multilingualism, education and linguistic diversity as global phenomena. Papers at the conference are expected to range from presentation of research findings to analysis of practice.

Date
 22ND - 23RD JULY 2010
Venue KENYATTA UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE CENTRE (KUCC)
NAIROBI, KENYA

Deadline for submission of abstracts : 15th December 2009

Notification of acceptance of abstracts : 30th January 2010

Deadline for submission of full paper : 30th March 2010

THEMES AND SUB-THEMES

  1. Language policies and language choice in a multilingual education context.
  2. Linguistic challenges in a multilingual set-up.
  3. Benefits of mother-tongue education in early childhood.
  4. Teaching methodologies in multilingual education.
  5. Multilingualism in education in Africa: Reality on the ground.
  6. Multilingual education and IT/computing.
  7. Models for multi-literacy, multilingual, multimodal practices.
  8. Benefits of multilingualism in education
  9. Socio-cultural issues, multilingualism and special language needs/ disorders.

Principal Speakers:
Prof. Nancy H. Hornberger, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania Prof. Okoth Okombo, Department of Linguistics, University of Nairobi Prof. Susan Malone, SIL International, Bangkok, Thailand


Registration Fee:
Participants from Africa: Kshs. 4,000
Rest of the World 150 USD

Abstracts

Abstracts not exceeding 300 words (excluding references) should be sent via e-mail as a Word attachment to: multilingualismconference@gmail.com by December 15, 2009.

The document should contain presentation title, the abstract, and preference for poster or paper presentation. Please DO NOT include information identifying the author(s) in the email attachment. Author(s) information including name, affiliation and e-mail address(es) should be detailed in the body of the email.


Contact person at Kenyatta University:
Martin C. Njoroge, PhD
Department of English & Linguistics
Kenyatta University
P.O. Box 43844-00100
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel. 254208710901 ext 57338
Email: marttoh68@yahoo.com



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