FYI, this is an interesting article on how many people in parts of West Africa are literate in their own languages as written in Ajami - a form of Arabic...
FYI, the 6th Pan African Reading For All Conference http://6thpanafricanrfa.blogspot.com/ will take place on 10-14 August 2009 in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. The...
FYI (From edling via lgpolicy-list) http://www.ils.uw.edu.pl/LTIME.html Language Teaching in Increasingly Multilingual Environments: From Research to Practice ...
FYI, another case where multilingual realities are overlooked in monolingual approaches to education and literacy. (Fwd from ILAT)... ... Call to save...
American Institutes for Research is hiring for a Literacy & numeracy advisor in Malawi, but this apparently is *not* geared to multilingual literacy, even...
Hello all, I am a doctoral student in Bilingual Education at New York University, and the mother of two multilingual children. Like every parent raising...
This is not a new publication (as a number of you certainly know) but I'm just coming across it and thought it merited mention: Multicultural and Multilingual...
FYI, from LinguistList via lgpolicy-list Barcelona Summer School on Bi- and Multilingualism Date: 07-Sep-2009 - 10-Sep-2009 Location: Barcelona, Spain Contact:...
FYI, from MultiEd-L (where it was forwarded from a list at University of Oregon): Subject: UO Biliteracy Conference Registration and Preliminary Program (Sorry...
Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira of New Zealand won the 2009 Linguapax prize. See article below (in Spanish from http://www.hispanidad.com/noticia.aspx?ID=122866 -...
I've added a few links to this group's links page at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Multilingual_Literacy/links . If you didn't kow we had a links page, check...
JOB OPENING: PRINCIPAL, INTER-AMERICAN DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL (Chicago, IL) Deadline: Application must be received by January 30, 2009 Annual Salary: MIN:...
FYI, from: edling via lgpolicy-list "Re-thinking bilingualism - Challenges of multilingualism and communication in classroom settings" Örebro University,...
Six years of the UN Literacy Decade are behind us. During that time, this group emerged as a space for considering what literacy meant or might (could?...
Fwd from LinguistList via lgpolicy-list Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism Full Title: Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism Date:...
FYI, from LinguistList via LgPolicy-list... Interfaces of Bilingualism and SLI Workshop Date: 01-Feb-2009 - 05-Feb-2009 Location: Jerusalem, Israel Contact...
FYI (fwd from lgpolicy-list)... *International Symposium on Bilingualism 7* Event type *Conference* Date from *08/07/2009* Date to *12/07/2009* Venue name...
FYI, a job announcement from the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, DC ... Research Associate Division/Program: Language Education and Academic...
FYI, from the UNESCO site at http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=57672&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html ... Just published: Why Languages...
This is a long article in two parts that was featured in the Namibian paper, New Era. It is written as a short research piece with references. It is available...
The current issue of CAL News has some material on ESL, literacy, and bilingual learning. See http://www.cal.org/about/calnews/061808.html From: CALnews...
Dear Colleagues, This is to let you know about our new training course to take place in Braila Romania, 27-31October 2008. It is a training opportunity for...
This CFP was seen on H-Africa. It does not explicitly mention multilingual literacy, but presumably that would fall under "multiple literacies"? Don Osborn ......
FYI (fwd from lgpolicy-list)… CALL FOR PAPERS 2ND INTERNATIONAL MIDP SYMPOSIUM 'MULTILINGUALISM FROM BELOW' 14-16 September 2009 University of Antwerp,...
FYI, passing on this information on the "Global Understanding in Multilingual, Multimodal & Multimedia Contexts" (GUM3C) conference. The ... The World Language...
The UNESCO <http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N08/265/11/PDF/N0826511.pdf?OpenElem ent> Report to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues next week ...
FYI, this item from IRIN News was seen on Malilink MALI: Still a long way to go to meet adult literacy targets BAMAKO,17 April 2008 (IRIN) - In 2000 the Malian...
This introduction of the economics of multilingualism for non-economists may be of interest: "The Economics of Multilingualism: Overview of the Literature and ...
