|  Congratulations
Warm
congratulations
to Jean Kim for
successfully defending her
dissertation on |
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Generation
1.5 Korean-Canadian students on Oct. 20! Thanks to all who attended the
event (and the trial runs) and to the supervisory and examining committee
members for their helpful insights and feedback.
In
Focus
Introducing our
Graduate Students
Wei
Huang is the first student from China participating in
a co-op program between UBC and ECNU (East China Normal University)
in Shanghai.
She is pursuing a double Masters Degree: MA in English Language
and Linguistics at ECNU, and MEd in Teaching English as a Second
Language at UBC. Dr. Ling Shi is the supervisor of the program at UBC
and Professor Weicheng Zou is her counterpart in Shanghai. More
graduate students from ECNU will join the program in the following sessions.
Wei had been
teaching English in Shanghai since 1998, first at a secondary school,
and later at Shanghai Normal University Tianhua College. The
imbalance between English teaching experience and shortage
of theoretical framework drove her back into the university to lay a
solid foundation for future academic and professional development.
Workshops
Computing & Media
Services offers
a series of free, drop-in computer workshops during the month of November.
These sessions are open to anyone in the Faculty of Education. Pre-registration
is not required. Each drop-in session will
include both prepared material and time allotted to answer questions
about specific topics of interest to the attendees.
Drop-In Schedule for November:
Time: 12:00noon - 12:50pm
Mondays iMovie Scarfe 1006
Tuesdays PowerPoint Scarfe 1011
Wednesdays MovieMaker Scarfe 1007
Thursdays PowerPoint Scarfe 1011
Workshop
flyer 
The
LLED Used Book Sale on Wednesday, October 29, in Ponderosa F103
was well attended and raised over $350. Proceeds of the sale
will
go towards the purchase of new books for the collection.
Presentation
The
UBC Creative Writing Program presents:
The Masters Series
Children's
Writers Tell All:
Making a Career Writing Children's Books
Featuring:
• Sarah Ellis • Dennis
Foon • Susin Nielsen-Fernlund
Wednesday, November 5 at 12 noon, Grad Student Centre,
Penthouse
Guest
speakers will talk about the benefits, challenges, and the nuts
and bolts of writing for children. Admission
is free and everyone is welcome.
The Masters Series is funded in part by the UBC Presidents Advisory Committee
on Lectures
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Welcome
Notes
The Centre
for Research in Chinese Language and Literacy Education was
officially and very happily launched on Thursday evening (30th
October) by the Provost, Dr David Farrar, and the Consul-General
for the People's Republic of China, the Honourable Shugen Liang.
A research symposium on Chinese language education hosted by
the Centre the next day was attended by about 70 people, from
government, industry, parent groups, other universities and colleges,
as well as many sectors of the UBC community.
We
welcome your contributions to our Newsletter. Please send your
items--text and photos--to
anne.white@ubc.ca.
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Seminar Series |
The LLED
Research Seminars have gotten off to a very positive start this
term. In October, we had four excellent
presentations: Dr. Theresa Rogers spoke about
the research she is conducting with a group of LLED students on
the YouthCLAIM project.
Dr. Juan Silvio Cabrera Albert of the University
of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, provided a thought-provoking discussion
about English language
teaching in Cuba. Dr. Margaret Early gave an engaging
presentation on multilingual pedagogies; it was, appropriately
enough, held
in the renovated Ponderosa F 103. Finally, Liz Chilton,
from University of Birmingham, gave a very interesting research/apprenticeship
seminar on her current thesis research. Thanks to the presenters
and to LLED graduate students, staff, and faculty for their support!
Next
Research Seminar:
Thursday, November 13, 2008 (12.30-2PM – Ponderosa
F 103)
Art and Literacy in Baroque Societies
Juan-Daniel Ramirez, Visiting Scholar LLED, University of Pablo
de Olavide,
The
LLED Research Seminars are an opportunity for faculty, graduate
students, and visiting scholars to introduce/showcase their recent
scholarly work to the LLED community. These seminars will be
held approximately once a month. Those interested in presenting
their work for the Research Seminars should contact Steven
Talmy. The
LLED Apprenticeship Seminars are intended to provide support
to graduate students as they engage with LLED and UBC scholarly
communities, and respective disciplines in language and literacy
education. Topics for these seminars will be determined by graduate
students in consultation with the Peer Advisor, Meike Wernicke,
and Graduate Academic Advisor, George Belliveau.
All
members of LLED are invited to attend both the Research and Apprenticeship
Seminars.
Call
for Submissions
Investigating
Our Practices 2009
IOP's 12th Annual Conference
Co-sponsored by the UBC Faculty of Education and the BC Teachers' Federation
Saturday,
May 2, 2009,
8:30 am - 2:00 pm
Neville Scarfe Building, 2125 Main Mall, UBC
Call
for
Proposals – Share Your Classroom Inquiries
Submission Deadline: March
6, 2009
Practicing
teachers, university educators, graduate students and
student teachers from different educational contexts
will convene at UBC to share their investigations, understandings
and questions.
Registration
fee for presenters and participants: $25 (students $15).
Refreshments and lunch included.
For
more information visit the website or
contact: Tony Clarke (604-822-2003, anthony.clarke@ubc.ca)
or Judy Paley (604-822-2733, judy.paley@ubc.ca)
Canadian
Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference
May 27-29, 2009 -
Carleton University,
Ottawa
In association with the Congress of the Canadian Federation for
the Humanities and Social
Sciences
Submission deadline for proposals: November
15, 2008
Website.
Canadian Disaility Studies Association 6th Annual
Conference
May 25-26, 2009 - Carleton University,
Ottawa
In association with the Congress of the Canadian Federation for
the Humanities and Social Sciences
Submission deadline for proposals: December 1, 2008
Website
Request
for Teaching Resources
Letter
from Meike Wernicke, LLED Graduate Peer Advisor
meike@mwernicke.ca
| Dear LLED Community:
Last
Thursday (October 23) Dr. Juan Silvio Cabrera Albert presented
us with a very engaging and thought-provoking overview of
English
language teaching in Cuba.
Dr. Juan Cabrera Albert is a professor at the Study Centre
of Educational Sciences of Higher Education at the University
of Pinar del Rio, Cuba. He is also director of the Research
Group on Learning and Understanding (GICA) and president
of the Association of Pedagogues of Cuba at the same university,
and was part of the team that wrote the Cuban national English
Language Curriculum.
One
of the issues which came to light during his presentation was
the need for teaching resources in his country. Since
internet connectivity is limited in Cuba, teachers still
rely very much on print materials. Hilary Spicer, who is
working with Dr. Cabrera Albert, will be travelling to
Cuba on November 15 with a group of students who will be
able to take some resources with them. If you happen to
have any
materials you are not using and which you think might be
useful in a language classroom, please drop them off by
noon Friday, November 7 in Ponderosa E, 2nd Floor
- at the top of the stairs in the box labelled “Cuban
Donations” (near George Belliveau’s office
in the northwest corner of the building).
Any
types of books (teaching manuals, textbooks, workbooks,
children’s literature, novels, etc.) and magazines
in any language are welcome, and any laptops you are
no longer using would also be helpful. Your contributions
will make
a great difference to our fellow language educators in
Cuba and will be very much appreciated.
Thank you.
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Deadlines
The UBC
Hampton Fund Research Grant program is running again this Fall. The
guidelines and criteria are posted on the ORS
website.
The departmental deadline has been extended to Friday, November
21, to allow time for the Head to review the applications before they
are
forwarded
to
OGPR. |
