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CLESOL

Context & Communication: Mediating Language Learning

Te Horopaki me te Tuku: He Rongoā i te Ako Reo

Friday 1 October – Monday 4 October 2010

King’s High School, Dunedin, New Zealand

The 12^th National Conference for Community Languages and ESOL, brought to you by TESOLANZ (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages New Zealand) Inc. and CLANZ (Community Languages Association New Zealand), will be held in Dunedin, New Zealand from Friday 1 October to Monday 4 October 2010. Mark these dates in your diary now.

Conference Theme

Context & Communication: Mediating Language Learning

What languages are in use in our communities?

When and where are they being learned?

How are they being learned?

What are they being used for?

These questions suggest some of the ways in which context and communication mediate language learning. We invite you to explore these and other questions relevant to language teaching and learning at the 2010 CLESOL conference in Dunedin.

Keynote Speakers

The following keynote speakers have been confirmed:

Rosemary Erlam: Senior lecturer, University of Auckland
Pauline Gibbons: Associate professor, University of Technology, Sydney
David Nunan: Vice-president for Academic Affairs at Anaheim University, California and emeritus professor at the University of Hong Kong
Merrill Swain: Professor emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada

Key Dates

Call for papers opens in September 2009
Conference programme will be available in April 2010
Registration opens in May 2010

Special Early Bird Registration Rate

The Special Early Bird rate for Full Conference Registrations will be available until 31 December 2009. Invoices must be paid in full by this date, otherwise your registration will be adjusted to the Early Bird rate.

Early Bird registrations will open early March 2010.

Information will be posted to the CLESOL website as it becomes available:

http://www.clesol.org.nz/2010/home.html

For registrations of interest, sponsorship and other enquiries please contact the conference organisers:

Paardekooper and Associates
PO Box 41 002
Eastbourne
Lower Hutt 5013
New Zealand
Phone: + 64 4 562 8259
Email: clesol@paardekooper.co.nz
Website: www.clesol.org.nz