LINGUIST List 22.275 Sun Jan 16 2011 Confs: Sociolinguistics/United Kingdom Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Marilyn Martin-Jones , Researching Multilingualism Message 1: Researching Multilingualism Date: 14-Jan-2011 From: Marilyn Martin-Jones <m.martinjonesbham.ac.uk> Subject: Researching Multilingualism E-mail this message to a friend Researching Multilingualism Date: 04-Apr-2011 - 08-Apr-2011 Location: University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Contact: Marilyn Martin-Jones Contact Email: m.martinjonesbham.ac.uk Meeting URL: http://www.education.bham.ac.uk/research/mosaic/index.shtml Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Meeting Description: This is a 5-day residential course on Researching multilingualism: key concepts, issues and methods which will be held at the MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism, School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK.It is being organised as part of a 3 year project of research training for Ph.D. students and post-doctoral researchers in the field of multilingualism. The project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council as part of its Researcher Development Initiative. The organisers of this 5 day course are: Professor Marilyn Martin-Jones and Dr Deirdre Martin, MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism. See the MOSAIC website for details of other activities organised as part of the 3 year project: May 2010-2013. The 5-day course will be organised into sessions, with different themes and orienting theories. The sessions will be led by different members of the MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism and by guest lecturers. Session 1: Researching multilingualism: why, what and how? Session 2: Discourses about multilingualism Session 3: From policy to communicative practice in multilingual schools and classrooms Session 4: Bilingual practitioners in monolingual institutional contexts Session 5: Creating multilingual spaces: complementary schools and local life worlds Session 6: From language policy to bilingual education practice Session 7: Literacy practices in bilingual and multilingual educational contexts Session 8: Multilingual literacy practices in local life worlds (including the internet) Session 9: Multilingualism in research practice Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 16-Jan-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.