Dear all,
As I promised yesterday I am getting back to you all with the minutes of
the Multilingual Childhoods SIG meeting. If you do open the document you'll see
we had just over 31 participants with us, representing 13 countries and a wide
variety of interests in researching small children and languages.
Wonderful!
Several SIG members are already on this list and will have been at the
meeting, but if you would like to join us and are willing to become an EECERA
member / or are already, please do let Gunhild Alstad or I know and we can add
you to the official list.
http://www.eecera.org/
You
will also see from the minutes that the Multilingual Childhoods SIG
are hoping to organise a one-day pre-conference Event at the next EECERA
conference, which will be held in Dublin, Ireland. Watch this space for further
details.
Our next encounter however, will
be in Rome, at the Issues of Multilingualism in Early Childhood Education
in November. If you've missed information about this, here's the
website: http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/REYLL/
- early bird registration ends today. So if you want to attend at a
slightly cheaper rate, get your skates on :-)
The prgramme will be ready
at the end of September, there are around
40 papers from 23 countries, including Europe, Australia, Israel and the
United Arab Emirates. The conference opens at 09.00 on Thursday 26 November and
closes at 18.00 on Friday 27 November. Two full days of presentations.
It
will be lovely see familiar faces and meet new ones. I hope to see many of you
on this list there.
Meanwhile
do spread the word to colleagues about this list, the EECERA Multilingual
Childhoods SIG and the conference in Rome, if you haven't already!
My very best wishes,
Sandie
Mourão, S. & Lourenço, M. (Eds.) 2015 Early
Years Second Language Education: International
Perspectives on Theories and Practice. Abingdon: Routledge. Vol 3.1 May 2015 http://clelejournal.org/
Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELEjournal)