Call for Papers

Languages of Education: the Chinese Context

 

‘The Languages of Education: the Chinese Context’ conference will be hosted by the Research Centre into Language Education and Acquisition in Multilingual Societies (RCLEAMS) (www.ied.edu.hk/rcleams/) at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, on October 22 – 23 2010.

 

Papers which address the following themes are invited:

 

The teaching and learning of minority languages in China

The teaching and learning of Chinese dialects/languages

The teaching and learning of Putonghua

The teaching and learning of English in the Chinese context

The role of the L1 and TL in language pedagogy

CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) in the Chinese context

Learning languages as subjects and/or as media of instruction

The native and/or non-native teacher

The future of minority languages and dialects in the Chinese context

Language education policy in the Chinese context

 

The conference languages will be English and Putonghua. Abstracts should be 200-250 words long and can be submitted in either Chinese or English. Please indicate which of the above themes it addresses.

 

The deadline for submission of abstracts is March 31^st, 2010. Prospective presenters will be informed whether their abstracts have been selected by May 1st.

 

At this stage, abstracts can be sent to rcleams@ied.edu.hk. The conference website will be ready by Dec 1^st 2009.