Low Educated Second Language and Literacy (LESLLA) For Adults
Workshops: Agendas
Linguistics, Language Acquisition and Literacy
Inaugural Workshop on Low-Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition
Tilburg University – August 25-27, 2005
The Netherlands
Programme
Thursday August 25 - Tilburg University – building QZ 206
9:00
Welcome
9:30
Opening by Roeland van Hout
Dutch National Research Council
Dutch National Research Council
9:45-10:45
The low-educated second language learner
Martha Young Scholten, University of Durham and Newcastle
Ineke van de Craats, Radboud University Nijmegen
Martha Young Scholten, University of Durham and Newcastle
Ineke van de Craats, Radboud University Nijmegen
10.45-11.15
Coffee break
11.15-12.30
12.30-13.30
Group unch
13.30-14.45
Cognitive factors : working memory and lexical development
- Alan Juffs (PowerPoint), University of Pittsburgh
14.45-15.15
Tea break
15.15-17.15
Panel: First time L2 readers
Is there a critical period for learning to read?
Martha Young Scholten, University of Durham and Newcastle
Knowledge on language of illiterate adults
Jeanne Kurvers, Tilburg University
Is there a critical period for learning to read?
Martha Young Scholten, University of Durham and Newcastle
Knowledge on language of illiterate adults
Jeanne Kurvers, Tilburg University
19:00
Conference dinner
Friday August 26 - Tilburg University – building QZ 206
9.00–10.30
Classroom practices: Effect of literacy on L2 proficiency
- Larry Condelli (PowerPoint), Director Adult Education & Literacy,
American Institutes for Research
10.30-11.00
Coffee Break
11.00-13.00
Getting Research into the Classroom: Preparing Teachers to Help Low-literacy Adult ESOL Learners
- Nancy Faux (PowerPoint), Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center, Virginia Commonwealth University
11.30-13.00
Panel: Adult literacy learners
Adult migrant literacy i Sweden. An overview
Qarin Franker and Ingrid Skeppstedt
"There are many flowers in flowery cloth". Collaborative form focused discourse and language awareness.
Qarin Franker, Gothenburg University
Adult migrant literacy i Sweden. An overview
Qarin Franker and Ingrid Skeppstedt
"There are many flowers in flowery cloth". Collaborative form focused discourse and language awareness.
- Ingrid Skeppstedt (PowerPoint), Stockholm, National Centre for Swedish as L2
Qarin Franker, Gothenburg University
13.00-14.00
Group Lunch
14.00-17.00
Theory meets practice: Visiting a Center for Adult Basic Education
- Remy Kalalo (PowerPoint), Council of Tilburg, Department of Education and Youth:
National and Municipal Immigration Policy
Bert van Leeuwen, Director College for Adult Education ROC Midden-Brabant (department 3):
Implementing The National Policy in an Education Center
- Willemijn Stockmann (PowerPoint), innovator ROC Midden Brabant:
Curriculum development and portfolio methodology for low-educated L2 learners
18:00
Dinner buffet at the Center for Adult Education
Saturday August 27
9:00
Next Conference?
10:00
Setting the research agenda
Joint Projects
Taking the next step
Joint Projects
Taking the next step
12:00
Lunch and depart
