Events
Recent and upcoming ELL events and symposia organised by our membership. (See Archived Events for details of meetings held during the lifetime of the Network.)
Multilingual Childhoods - Education, policy and practice: 15-16 May 2019, Hamar Norway
Foreign Language Education for Young Learners: 20-22 September 2019, Shanghai
19th AILA World Congress - AILA 2020:
Report from our third Biennial ELL Conference (J. Enever):
Multilingual Childhoods - Education, policy and practice: 15-16 May 2019, Hamar Norway
- Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (HINN) and Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet) are pleased to announce the third EECERA Multilingual Childhoods SIG and REYLL Network international research conference
- Plenary speakers: Annick De Houwer (University of Erfurt, Germany), Åsa Palviainen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), Lars Anders Kulbrandstad (HINN)
- Proposals to be submitted by 30 October 2018: conference website
Foreign Language Education for Young Learners: 20-22 September 2019, Shanghai
- Shanghai Center for Research in English Language Education (SCRELE), first Biennial conference in Foreign Language Education for Young Learners
- The conference will be held at Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China.
- details to be published soon: conference website
19th AILA World Congress - AILA 2020:
- University of Groningen (Netherlands), 9-4 August 2020
- The ELL ReN will propose a one-day Symposium during the conference.
Report from our third Biennial ELL Conference (J. Enever):
- 13-15 June, 2018: Early Language Learning: Multiple perspectives – Diverse voices
Venue: Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages and the School of Education, University of Iceland
Plenary speakers: Roma Chumak-Horbatsch, Ryerson University, Toronto (Canada); Francis Hult, Lund University (Sweden), Gunhild Alstad, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. Over 100 papers presented.
Hosted by the School of Education, our third biennial conference was once again the forum for many excellent research presentations and excellent scientific networking. A theme emerging throughout the conference was the need to find ways of addressing challenges of increasingly multilingual classroom contexts. For Iceland, the recent experience of new migrant arrivals has focused attention, with teachers urgently seeking out ways to draw on this rich multilingual resource for all pupils to benefit. Responding to this central theme, plenaries from Gunhild Alstad (Norway) and Roma Chumak-Horbatsch (Canada) offered both research and practical classroom solutions, while Francis Hult’s (Sweden) final plenary left us in no doubt that language policy and planning is the responsibility of all of us, teachers, parents, school principals as well as policy makers. Our thanks to Samuel Lefever and his dynamic team for organizing this quality event.