Academic Program at AILA 2008: Keynotes
The AILA 2008 congress program is complemented by keynotes from renowned researchers from around the globe. The organising committee is proud to announce that Neville Alexander (South Africa), Jim Cummins (Canada), Konrad Ehlich (Germany), Rita Franceschini (Italy), Claire Kramsch (USA), and Shi-xu (China) will hold keynote speeches.
Overview of the keynote presentations
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Speaker |
Title |
Room |
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Sunday 18:00-19:00 |
Neville Alexander |
Evolving African approaches to the management of linguistic diversity |
CCE West, Europa |
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Monday 11:30-12:30 |
Jim Cummins |
The role of multiliteracies pedagogy as a conceptual framework for reversing educational underachievement among minority group students |
CCE West, Europa |
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Tuesday 12:00-13:00 |
Shi-Xu |
Reconstructing Eastern Paradigms of Discourse Studies |
CCE West, Europa |
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Wednesday 12:30-13:30 |
Konrad Ehlich |
Modalitäten der Mehrsprachigkeit |
CCE West, Europa |
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Thursday 12:00-13:00 |
Claire Kramsch |
Third Places in Applied Linguistics |
CCE West, Europa |
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Friday 14:30-15:30 |
Rita Franceschini |
Multilinguismo: prospettive per la ricerca / Mehrsprachigkeit: Forschungsperspektiven / Multilingualism: research opportunities |
CCE West, Europa |
To take a closer look at the content of the Keynote speeches take a look at the abstracts of the single presentations.