Apologies for cross-posting

The TEFL team at the University of Münster is organising an international
TEFL conference on reading as a deeply mindful activity and powerful
mechanism for learning, central to a wide span of EFL/ESL education ­ from
the youngest learners to advanced secondary students. The area covered
includes the pleasure of language play and language creativity, the
multi-literacy challenge of multimodal literature, the danger of the
stereotyped single story and the cognitive challenge of exploring
alternative worlds. The conference will address issues of literary canons
in English language education (young readers ­ old books?) and the complex
challenge of visual and virtual texts. Recent research on language
education and sociocultural theory will combine with intercultural
learning, emotional engagement, the potential for changing perspective and
empathy building, critical literacy and cognitive criticism in the field
of children¹s, young adult and adult literature.

Strands:
1. The challenge of language play and language creativity
2. The multi-literacy challenge of multimodal literature
3. The critical challenge of avoiding the single story
4. The cognitive challenge of exploring alternative worlds

The call is here 
http://www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/content/englischesseminar/tefl/challe
nging_reading_call_for_papers_1_.pdf


Best wishes
Janice
-- 
Dr Janice Bland, Deputy Chair of TEFL
English Department, University of Muenster
Co-editor CLELEjournal - May 2015 issue online!
http://www.clelejournal.org/
Out in paperback: 
Bland, J. (2013) Children's Literature and Learner Empowerment. Bloomsbury



Sandie Mourão (PhD)
http://sandiemourao.eu - http://picturebooksinelt.blogspot.com/

Out now!
*Vol 3.1 May, 2015 
Children's Literature in English Language Education
http://clelejournal.org/

*Mourão, S. & Lourenço, M. (Eds.) 2015
Early Years Second Language Education:
International Perspectives on Theories and Practice
Abingdon: Routledge.