LINGUIST List 14.2696

Mon Oct 6 2003

Calls: Applied Ling/ON, Canada

Editor for this issue: Steve Moran <stevelinguistlist.org>

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1. taylor, RAISING OUR VOICES

RAISING OUR VOICES 

Date: 17-Oct-2003 - 19-Oct-2003
Location: London, ON, Canada, Canada
Contact: Shelley Taylor
Contact Email: tayloruwo.ca 
Meeting URL: http://www.woodland-centre.on.ca

Linguistic Sub-field: Applied Linguistics 

Meeting Description:

RAISING OUR VOICES 

Conference presented by the Sweetgrass First Nations Language Council
in partnership with Woodland Cultural Centre and the University of
Western Ontario

The conference deals with First Nations language teaching and
revitalization efforts, including a focus on literacy development.

Plenary Speakers:

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Roskilde University (Denmark) 
Robert Munsch (childrens author & story teller, Canada)
RAISING OUR VOICES

Conference presented by the Sweetgrass First Nations Language Council
in partnership with Woodland Cultural Centre and the University of
Western Ontario

The conference deals with First Nations language teaching and
revitalization efforts, including a focus on literacy development.

Plenary Speakers:

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Roskilde University (Denmark) ''Revitalising
indigenous and minority languages: any role for linguistic human
rights in counteracting linguistic genocide?''

Robert Munsch (childrens author & story teller, Canada)
''How to make reading fun for kids!''

Papers will be presented by Doris Boissoneau, Dorothy Lazore, Mary Joy
Elijah, Alfred Keye, David Maracle, Margaret Peters, Jim Etherington,
Ian Martin, Carrie Dyck, Philomene Chegahno, Regna Darnell, Bobby
Jacobs, Carolyn Hepburn, Theodore Peters, Bill Mattice, Ernestine
Proulx, Norma Robson, Jim Hollander, Berdina Johnston, John Beck,
Barbara Burnaby & Bruce Beardy

For more details, e-mail Angie Monture (woodlandcentreexeculink.com)
or Shelley K. Taylor (tayloruwo.ca). For related information, visit
the Woodland Cultural Centre website at http://www.woodland-centre.on.