Events

Upcoming ELL events and symposia organised by our membership. (See Archived Events for details of meetings held during the lifetime of the Network.)

Teachers and teacher educators: Education and professional development for early language learning - 12-14 November 2020, Lisbon Portugal -
  • Nova University, Campus de Campolide, Lisbon
  • Sandie Mourão and Carolyn Leslie will host our fourth biennial ELL ReN conference. This conference will mark the end of our two AILA Research Network campaigns, and we will meet in Lisbon to plan the logical évolution of our AILA network: a permanent. international scientific association.
  • The conference will be entirely online : conference website.

19th AILA World Congress - AILA 2021: new date - 15-20 August 2021
  • University of Groningen (Netherlands)
  • The ELL ReN will hold a Symposium on Early Language Learning during the conference: we are hoping to maintain the programme organized in 2020 for the 2021 conference. Stay abreast of the newly-scheduled conference information on the conference website.

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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.
Report from the 2nd International Conference on Child Foreign/Second Language Learning (Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow)
  • 26-28 September 2019: Facing heterogeneity in the young learner classroom - Cracow, Poland
    Venue:     Department of English Language Teaching, Institute of Modern Languages, Pedagogical University of Cracow
    Plenary speakers: Pr. Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović, University of Zagreb (Croatia): Pr. Victoria Murphy, University of Oxford (United Kingdom);
    Pr. Carmen Muñoz, University of Barcelona (Spain); Pr. Mirosław Pawlak, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland), prof. Adriana Biedroń, Pomeranian University (Poland); Dr. Dorota Campfield, Educational Research Institute (Warsaw)
    Our 2019 conference was devoted to the subject of teaching heterogeneous classes of young learners. The conference was attended by 88 people who delivered a total of 64 papers, presenting in various ways the challenges posed by the young learner’s individuality. The majority of conference participants came from abroad, representing four continents. Countries represented were: Spain (13), Croatia (6), Japan (4), Great Britain (4), France (3), Slovenia (3), Slovakia (2), Norway (4), Sweden (1 ), Ireland (2), Russia (2), Austria (2) Serbia (1), Italy (1), the Czech Republic (2), Malta (2), South Africa (2), Greece (2). Thirty-two attendees represented major Polish universities.A detailed program and Book of Abstracts are available on the conference website.