Languages of the Wider World : Sustaining a Global Society

School of Oriental and African Studies, London SOAS

29-30 March 2012

PROGRAMME : THURSDAY, 29 MARCH 2012
10.00 -10.15 / Registration and refreshments
10.15 -10.30 / Welcome and introduction from the organisers
10.30 -11.15 / Children's bilingual learning in complementary schools: the implications
for mainstream education, Charmian Kenner, Goldsmiths University
Room: G2
11.15 -12.45 / Pedagogic views on teaching LWW
Room:G2 / Teaching and learning Arabic I
Room: G3
Exploring inductive and deductive methods in teaching readings skills in Finnish and Hungarian
Eszter Tarsoly, Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi,
SSEES, University College London / An assessment of the Arabic language programme for human sciences students at International Islamic University Malaysia
Maskanah Mohammad Lotfie, Badri Najib Zubir, Mohd Feham Mohd Ghalib
International Islamic University Malaysia
Creating resources for the development of reading skills in Polish at ab initio level
Marta Becquet, PhD Candidate,
University of Glasgow / Supporting non-Arabic dyslexic learners to overcome Arabic orthographic challenges
Muntasir al-Hamad and Owen Barden,
Manchester Metropolitan University
The Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS) and research-focused language training
Marta Jenkala
University College London / ISLAMIC STUDIES STRAND
Do we know who learns Arabic in the higher education sector, or even how and why?
Alison Scott-Baumann, University of Lancaster
Sariya Contractor, University of Derby
12.45 -13.00 / Poster session: Room G2/Foyer
Development of Culture Reading Material for Language Learners in Korean High School
A Young Park, University of Bristol
13.00 -14.00 / LUNCH
14.00 -15.00 / Teaching and Learning Arabic II
Room: G2 / LWW in the classroom
Room: G3
Using a lexical spreadsheet to consolidate and extend Arabic vocabulary
John Morley
University of Manchester / Chinese Poetry Competition: a project with community schools
Eileen Punn, Routes into Languages, North West
Manchester Metropolitan University
Learn to teach-teach to learn: a modern application with classical Arabic
Mohammed Amejee, University of Cambridge International Examinations / Promoting language competence and cultural awareness through class blogging (Chinese)
Hongfen Zhou
University of Manchester
15.00 - 15.15 / Tea and coffee
15.15 - 16.15 / ISLAMIC STUDIES STRAND:
Indonesian and Malay for accessing Islamic Communities in Southeast Asia
Teresa Birks, SOAS / The activity of the Ukrainian St Mary's School in London
Olga Volosova, University of Birmingham, CEELBAS
ISLAMIC STUDIES STRAND:
The Arabic and Islamic Studies Programme at SOAS: Structure and Issues
Dr Stefan Sperl and Dr Sarah bin Tyeer
School of Oriental and African Studies
16.15 – 16.30 / Close

Languages of the Wider World : Sustaining a Global Society

School of Oriental and African Studies, London SOAS

29-30 March 2012

PROGRAMME : FRIDAY, 30 MARCH 2012
09.30 -10.15 / Tea and coffee
10.15 -11.00 / Languages of the Wider World and Global Citizenship in Schools
Sharon Handley, Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Chair of LWW Special Interest Group, Manchester Metropolitan University
Room: G2
11.00 -12.00 / Growing up multilingual
Room: G2 / Multilingual education: lessons from abroad
Room: G3
Growing up with Languages: Reflections on Multilingual Childhoods
Claire Thomas, Minority Right and Waltham Forest Bilingual Group / Mother tongue based multilingual education as a means to quality for minority language communities: lessons from India and Bangladesh
Pamela McKenzie, International Network for Development
Script choice for sustainable development: how to help language communities to get an alphabet for their language. A case study from Ethiopia
Tafera Endalew Yayeh, SIL Ethiopia / The African Language in the classroom: what happens when children’s home languages are used in education?
Agatha Van Ginkel, SIL International
12.00 -12.15 / Tea and coffee
12.15 -13.00 / Bilingualism in pre-school provision (Gaelic medium teaching)
Joanna McPake, Strathclyde University
Room: G2
13.00 -14.00 / LUNCH
14.00 -15.30 / Teacher training and tutor support
Room: G2
A pilot programme for LWW teacher training using KCL modern language centre as a paradigm
Eleni Markou, Coordinator of Less Taught Languages, KCL
Finding a Voice through Open Resources (FAVOR project): project progress
Marta Jenkala, SEES, UCL
Jo Eastlake, SOAS
Tutoring in Swahili (FAVOR project)
Wambũi M Wa-Ngatho, SOAS
15.30 -16.00 / Close