ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#3 | January 21, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036
Instituto Franklin- UAH will host the First International Conference on Bilingual Education in a Globalized World: Comparison between Spain and the United States. This conference aims to be an open forum for debate among specialists and people interested in education, bilingualism and its relationship with other social, cultural, political, economic, linguistic and pedagogical issues.
Proposals are welcome from all graduate students, researchers or other professionals working in academia and academic administrative positions.
The conference is organized around different themes:
- Economic aspects: how are bilingual programs financed in the US and Spain; governmental institutions that participate and how; how will bilingualism be financed in the future?
- Political aspects: the politics of bilingualism in the US and Spain, election campaigns and bilingualism, immigration and bilingualism.
- Social and cultural aspects: changes in the American and Spanish societies due to bilingualism; the challenges that families face and how they are dealing with them.
- Linguistic aspects: teaching American – British English in Spain; teaching Peninsular and Latin American Spanish in the US. Spanglish.
- Psychopedagogical aspects: methods of bilingual education; new technologies; quality seals, learning psychology, methods and models of learning new languages.
Extended deadline for proposals submission: Proposals can be sent until January 30, 2013.
Important deadlines:
- February 15th , 2013: Publication of accepted proposals.
- March 30th, 2013: Deadline for register at the conference (online registration) with paper.
For further information: www.institutofranklin.net/conferences
Or contact Isabel Albella: isabel.albella@institutofranklin.net
Organized by: Instituto Franklin – UAH.