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 Methods in Health Research.

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.

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.

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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

The following events are scheduled for the DLC. Please check the DLC Blog for up-to-date information.

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.