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.)
Foreign Language Education for Young Learners: 20-22 September 2019, Shanghai
2nd International Conference on Child Foreign and Second Language Learning: 26-28 September 2019, Cracow Poland
19th AILA World Congress - AILA 2020: 9-14 August 2020
Teachers and teacher educators: Education and professional development for early language learning - 12-14 November 2020, Lisbon Portugal
Report from our third Biennial ELL Conference (J. Enever):
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.
- EXTENSION! Proposals to be submitted by 18 May 2019: conference website
2nd International Conference on Child Foreign and Second Language Learning: 26-28 September 2019, Cracow Poland
- Cracow Pedagogical University Institute of Modern Languages - Department of English Studies
- Conference theme: Facing Heterogeneity in the young learner classroom
- Proposals to be submitted by 20 April 2019: conference website
19th AILA World Congress - AILA 2020: 9-14 August 2020
- University of Groningen (Netherlands)
- The ELL ReN is organizing a Symposium on Early Language Learning during the conference: ELL researchers can submit a proposal (poster or 20-minute paper) through the AILA 2020 website, starting 15 July 2019 and closing 16 September 2019.
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 Mouraõ and Caolyn 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.
- Proposals to be submitted by 28 Fébruary 2020: conference website (under construction).
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.