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Sym: 9804.19

Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 16:28:59 +0200
From: Gert Rijlaarsdam <Rijlaars@ilo.uva.nl>
Subject: Sym: 9804.19: Call for Contributions: the Second Conference Improvement of Learning & Teaching of & Literature, July 14th - 16th 1999,

IAIMTE

First CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Second Conference

Improvement of Learning & Teaching of Language & Literature

July 14th - 16th 1999
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Divided as we are by our distinct languages and cultures, we do share a common concern: the quality of the teaching and learning of language and literature, mostly in mother tongues or mainstream languages. Throughout the world, education systems are confronted with major challenges. Societal demands for literacy and communicative competence are growing. At the same time there is an increase of the cultural and linguistic heterogeneity of school populations. In response to these trends, promising research and development in the learning and teaching of mother tongues is done in many countries .... in splendid isolation. A pity, for national work in the improvement of language education can profit enormously from international exchange. This, in a nutshell, is the mission of the IAIMTE: the International Association for the Improvement of Mother Tongue Education.

The first conference in 1997 was quite a success, because of the small scale, the high level of interaction, and the large range of different languages and educational cultures. Afterwards, the members agreed upon the format being for the conference the same, with some slight differences. This implies that again we strive for a small but varied group of participants, from different countries, with different mother tongues.

Hereby we invite you to participate in a small scale conference for specialists in the teaching & learning of language and literature. The main aim of the conference is to exchange theory, research, curricular developments and best practice in education, teacher education and in-service training. We would like to gather specialists in the field of 'mother tongue education', in elementary, secondary and higher education. The conference aims at an international exchange and interaction and is meant to be an international platform for language and education researchers and practitioners, including Ph.D. students, to present their research and reflections for an international audience.

The nature of the conference will be interactive: each participant will be involved in presenting, demonstrating, discussing.
For the 1999 conference, we especially invite you to contribute to Group Sessions of Round Tables on curricular movements in different countries (i.e. new text book structures, the role of centrally stated key qualifications, trends of nationalisation and/or internationalisation in Literature Teaching). We would like to organise thematic sessions from different countries, in order to shed light on differences and similarities in different educational contexts.

Conference domains

  1. Theory of good practice
  2. Research of/for good practice
  3. Descriptions of best practice programmes/curricula
    1. in schools
    2. in teacher training
    3. in in-service training

Conference Themes

  1. Reading
  2. Writing
  3. Speaking & Listening
  4. Literature, Fiction, Film and other media
  5. Language Awareness and Language Teaching
  6. Educational policy: relationship between first, second and mainstream languages in learning and teaching
  7. Quality of text books in mother tongue teaching

If you would like to receive the IAIMTE brochure: more information will be provided by Gert Rijlaarsdam, rijlaars@ilo.uva.nl.
Or visit the IAIMTE-site for more in information, registration forms etc.: http://www.ilo.uva.nl/html/conferenties.html

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