This year, the Department of Language and Literacy Education is hosting our Graduate Student Conference, Pushing the Frontiers of Language and Literacy, on May 25, 2013.
Plenary Sessions:
Dr. Kathleen Gallagher, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Title:
Performing Literacy in Multi-Sited International Ethnographic Research
Professor Gallagher is Canada Research Chair in Theatre, Youth, and Research in Urban Schools, 2009 Winner of the Canadian Association of Women in Education (CASWE) and winner of the Outstanding Books in Curriculum Studies Award.
Dr. Diane Dagenais, Simon Fraser University
Professor Dagenais works in the Faculty of Education with scholarship situated in the field of applied linguistics. Her research interests include language and learning in contexts of linguistic and cultural diversity as they relate to immigration, bilingualism, multilingualism, multiliteracies, second language and bilingual (immersion) education.
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Date:
Sat, 05/25/2013 – 09:00 – 18:00