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Researching Multilingualism: Key Concepts, Methods and Issues: A Five-Day Residential Course

Date

05-07-2010 - 09-07-2010

Institution

The MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism

Location

School of Education, University of Birmingham

Country

UK

website

http://www.education.bham.ac.uk/research/MOSAIC/News_and_Events.shtml

Type of event

Residential up to 1 week

Organiser/Chair

Dr Deirdre Martin d.m.martin@bham.ac.uk (on sabbatical Jan-April 2010)
and Prof Marilyn Martin-Jones m.martinjones@bham.ac.uk

Level

Intermediate (some prior knowledge)

Extra Information

The programme for the 5 –day residential will include:

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.
The deadline for submission of applications is April 30, 2010. Applications for accommodation bursaries can also be submitted. The number of participants on the July 2010 course is limited to 30, so early application is recommended.

Contact

Jacqui Wootton
j.wootton@bham.ac.uk

Submitted by

Paula Mullins on Wednesday, 24th February 2010

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