Abstracts not exceeding 300 words (excluding references) should be sent via e- mail as a Word attachment to:
by December 15, 2009.
1. Language policies and language choice in a multilingual education context.
2. Linguistic challenges in a multilingual set-up.
3. Benefits of mother-tongue education in early childhood.
4. Teaching methodologies in multilingual education.
5. Multilingualism in education in Africa: Reality on the ground.
6. Multilingual education and IT/computing.
7. Models for multi-literacy, multilingual, multimodal practices.
8. Benefits of multilingualism in education
9. Socio-cultural issues, multilingualism and special language needs/disorders
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15th December 2009
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 30th January 2010
Deadline for submission of full paper: 30th March 2010
Principal Speakers:
Prof. Nancy H. Hornberger, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
Prof. Okoth Okombo, Department of Linguistics, University of Nairobi
Prof. Susan Malone, SIL International, Bangkok, Thailand
Registration Fee:
Participants from Africa: Kshs. 4,000
Rest of the World 150 USD