[eal-bilingual] Multilingual Europe seminar on bilingual learning

Dear colleagues,
You are warmly invited to a seminar on:
Integration and Achievement in a Multilingual Europe: Languages for 
Learning and Life

Weds 18 - Thurs 19 June 2008
University of Leeds, UK
This seminar will bring together researchers, practitioners and 
policymakers from the UK, France, Ireland and Luxembourg to consider 
bilingual learning, intercultural curricula, and how teacher training can 
enhance understanding of multilingual identities and language development

More details of the programme below.
£50 for 2 days (£35 concessions) or £35 for 1 day (£25 concessions) 
including lunch and refreshments.
To book contact:
c.m.haworth at leeds.ac.uk

Wednesday June 18 (11.15 am - 5 pm)
Christine Helot, University of Strasbourg
Teacher education for plurilingualism: the TESSLA project
Tina Hickey, University of Dublin
Learning to read in a minority language: letters and literature
Kathy Wicksteed, Association for Language Learning
New opportunities for language learning across the curriculum?

Thursday June 19 (9.30 am - 3.15 pm)
Eve Gregory, Goldsmiths, University of London
Linking home, school and community in multilingual contexts
Dominique Portante and Carola Mick, University of Luxembourg
Multilingual classroom practices: learning from the children
Claudine Kirsch, Goldsmiths, University of London
Bilateral exchanges in teacher training: developing multilingualism and 
intercultural competence

Best wishes,
Charmian Kenner

Dr Charmian Kenner
Lecturer, Educational Studies
Goldsmiths College
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
0207 919 7085