|  Congratulations
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Jan
Hare has just received news of a research grant
for $283,625 from the Ministry of Human Resources and |
Skills Development
Canada (HRSDC): Building Skills and Knowledge to Support Family Literacy
in Aboriginal Head Start Programming through an Aboriginal Family and
Community Literacy Curriculum (AFCLC) and Mixed-Mode Training.
This
grant comes just as Jan is completing work, with a team she has been
leading, on a new certificate program to support early childhood
education strategies for language revitalization in First Nations
contexts.
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Notices &
Events
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For
more events, please see the LLED
Calendar and the UBC
Calendar
LLED
Theatre Evening
Thursday, November 26
PON F 103
All welcome.
Click
image for full information.
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Jenny
Gallant will defend her MA thesis on December 7, 2:00-4:00 pm, in the
Boardroom, Ponderosa E. The title of her MA thesis is Dilemmas
In An Online Academic Discussion. Supervisor is Stephen
Carey. All
welcome.
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Poinsettia
Sale
Sponsored by Supply Management, UBC, to support United Way. Place your order
on
their website |
by November
25, for pickup on December 2. Pink,
red, white, $12.00.
LLED End-of-Term Celebration
November
27,
5:00-9:00 pm
PonE 103
All LLED faculty and students are invited.
Full
details here. |
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| Soprano
(and professor) Marilyn
Chapman is a member of the choir Sing City & Fat
Chants. |
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The choir
and band will be presenting
their Winter Concert--a variety of pop, jazz,
blues and gospel conducted and arranged by Laura Lang--on Saturday,
December 5 at 7:30 pm at St. Paul's Anglican Church, 1130 Jervis
St.
Tickets $20.00. Please contact Marilyn for tickets.
All
are welcome to attend the
final doctoral oral examination for Kari-Lynn Winters on
Friday, November 27, 2009, 12:30 pm, room 200, Graduate Student Centre
(6371 Crescent Road). Her thesis
title is Authorship as Assemblage: Multimodal Literacies of
Play, Literature and Drama. Supervisor
is Theresa Rogers.
Grants
and Funding Proposals
LLED Appenticeship Seminar
December 3, 12:30-2:00 pm
DLC - F103
Website email lled.gpa@gmail.com
Informal roundtable
or panel-like discussions that allow grads to exchange knowledge and experience
with faculty, instructors, and peers about topics that are relevant to their
membership in academic and professional communities - both within and beyond
LLED.
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Recent
Publications & Presentations
Kubota,
R., & Lin,
A. (Eds.) (2009). Race, culture, and identity in second language
education: Exploring critically engaged practice. New
York: Routledge.
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George
Belliveau and Graham Lea (LITR MA student) presented Exploring
three approaches to research-based theatre for the
International Conference in Advances Qualitative Methods
in October 2009.
George's
article "Elementary students and Shakespeare:
Inspiring community and learning" was recently published
in the International Journal of the Arts in Society, 4(2),
1-8 (2009).
George
and S. Cox (UBC) are co-investigators on two recently funded
projects: CIHR project Exploring the Transformational Potential
of Arts-Based Research: Theory, Method and Practice (with
K. Boydell, U. Toronto), and the Peter Wall Institute project Arts-Based
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Stephen
Carey presented The Next Step for Global
English Academic Literacy and the Credentialing of Open
Course Ware at the English as an International Language
Conference in Izmir, Turkey, on October 16. In press in
the conference proceedings.
Stephen also presented Technologies for Tertiary Education Preparation
for Global Sustainability, Pandemics and International Financial Global Recessions at
the E-LEARNING Conference in Vancouver on October 27. Published in the conference
proceedings, pp. 1553-1560.
And
at the UBC 9th Learning Conference on October 29, he presented An
Interactive Discussion of the Need for Accreditation for Open
Course Ware (OCW) through Pan-university Courses.
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The
most recent issue of the Canadian
Modern Language Review (Fall 2009) is a themed special
issue on "Indigenous, Minority, and Heritage Language Education
in Canada" co-edited by Duanduan Li (UBC) and Patsy
Duff, with book reviews by LLED grad students Laura
Cranmer (LITR PhD) and Ella Lester (MLED MA), and a full-length
article by former PhD student, Dr. Martin Guardado.
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| In
October, Bonny
Norton gave a keynote address on "Identity
and the Symbolic Power of English" at the Colombia Association
of Teachers of English, in Medellin, Colombia. She also gave
a keynote address on "Language, Identity, and Culture" at
the TESL Canada Conference in Banff, Alberta. |
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Carr,
W. (2009). Intensive French in British Columbia: Student and
parent perspectives and English as additional language (EAL) student
performance. The Canadian Modern Language Review, 65(5), 787-815. |
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Digital
Literacy Centre Lecture
Series
Please
join us on Thursday, November 26 at 1:00 pm for the
first lecture in the series, by Dr. Susan Liepert,
and at upcoming lectures
as well. All lectures will be held in the Digital Literacy Centre,
Ponderosa F103.
Click
on image for description of all the upcoming presentations.
Click
here for Susan Liepert presentation information.
This lecture series is sponsored by the Digital Literacy Centre and
the Department of Language and Literacy Education. |
Digital
Literacy Centre Reading
Group
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group of doctoral students from LLED and CCFI with a common interest
in digital culture has initiated a reading group, sponsored by
the DLC, that meets twice per month on Fridays at 3:30 in
the Digital Literacy Centre, Ponderosa F. All faculty, lecturers,
and students are welcome to attend. |
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Upcoming
dates and topics:
November 27, Gaming
and Culture, Natasha Boscik
December 11, Social
Media and Networked Publics, Chelsey Hauge
Suggestions for subsequent topics and readings will be invited from
members of the group. Readings are available on the Digital Culture
Reading Group Blog, which can be found here.
Please email chauge@interchange.ubc.ca for further information.
Digital
Literacy Centre
The
following events are scheduled for the DLC. Please check the
DLC Blog for
up-to-date information.
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Second
Life as a Collaborative Learning Space
November 25, 10:30 am
Presenter: Chelsey Hauge
Public
Workshop sponsored by the DLC Workshop Series.
Please sign up for workshop by Monday, November 23 to chauge@interchange.ubc.ca.
Please bring your own laptop if possible, or indicate you will borrow one.
Digital Photography and Photo Sharing: Flickr, Picasa
December 2, 12:30 pm
Presenter: Chelsey Hauge
Public Workshop
sponsored by the DLC Workshop Series.
Please sign up for workshop by Monday, November 30 to chauge@interchange.ubc.ca.
Please bring your own laptop if possible, or indicate you will borrow one.
Ruff Cuts
December
4, 6:00 pm
Graduate students and faculty working in film, video, and multimedia formats
invited to share and discuss works in progress on the first Friday of every
month.
Public Event sponsored
by the Digital Literacy Centre.
Please email confirmation
of attendance as well as title and length of piece to chauge@interchange.ubc.ca
by December 2.
PhotoShop
December
9, 12:30 pm
Presenter: Chelsey Hauge
Public Workshop
sponsored by the DLC Workshop Series.
Please sign up
for workshop by Monday, December 2, to chauge@interchange.ubc.ca. Please
bring your own laptop if Photoshop is installed, or indicate you will borrow
one.
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Call
for Papers
16th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction,
and Culture
May 6-8, 2010
University of California, Los Angeles
Website
Deadline: January 15, 2010
Presented by: The Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture Graduate Student
Association (CLIC-GSA) at the University of California, Los Angeles and The Language,
Interaction, and Social Organization Graduate Student Association (LISO-GSA)
at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Plenary Speakers: Charles Briggs, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley;
Claire Kramsch, German, University of California, Berkeley; Paul Kroskrity, Anthropology,
University of California, Los Angeles; Tanya Stivers, Psycholinguistics, Max
Planck Institute, Nijmegen. Submissions should address topics at the intersection
of language, interaction, and culture. Approaches include, but are not limited
to, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, ethnography of communication,
ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, language ideologies, and language
socialization.
International Gender And Language Association conference (IGALA 6) Conference
September 18-20, 2010
Tsuda College (Kodaira Campus), Tokyo, Japan
Website
Deadline: December 31, 2009
Keynote/Special Lecture Speakers: Professor Deborah Cameron (University
of Oxford), Professor Momoko Nakamura (Kanto Gakuin University), Professor Ingrid
Piller (Zayed University). Abstracts for paper presentations (individual and
panel), posters and workshop sessions are invited on any aspects of gender and
language analysis from a variety of fields, including bilingualism, communication
studies, conversation analysis, cultural studies, discourse analysis, language
acquisition, linguistic anthropology, media studies, multicultural studies, multilingualism,
queer studies, second language teaching, sociolinguistics, and other related
fields and disciplines.
TARC International Conference on Learning & Teaching
2010
Organiser: Tunku Abdul Rahman College, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
October 18-19, 2010
Website
Theme: “Emerging Trends in Higher Education Learning and Teaching.”
Deadline for full paper submission, poster and workshop proposals: February
1, 2010
Deadline for final papers: June 15, 2010
The conference will comprise keynote addresses, plenary sessions, parallel
sessions, posters and workshops
Classroom
Discourse
Publisher: Routledge
Editor, Steve Walsh, Newcastle University, UK
Associate editor, Tom Morton, Leeds University, UK
Patricia Duff is
a member of the Editorial Board.
Please send any expressions of interest or mansuscripts to steve.walsh@ncl.ac.uk
Classroom Discourse is a twice yearly journal that provides an international
forum for the critical discussion of classroom-discourse focused research and
practice, and for the building and development of relevant theory. The journal’s
overall perspective is that of educational linguistics. Papers which focus
on languages other than English, or where the prime interest is the subject
(e.g., science or maths) and not the language of instruction are welcome.
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Please send your items--text
and
photos--to
anne.white@ubc.ca, 822-5788.
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