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The call for Expressions of Interest to participate in the 2015 English Australia Action research in ELICOS Program was launched last week. There will be a free information webinar with Anne Burns about the 2015 Program on 11 Dec at the following times:
ACT, NSW, TAS, VIC: 4-5pm
NT: 2.30-3.30pm
QLD: 3-4pm
SA: 3.30-4.30pm
WA: 1-2pm
Please click here for details on how to register for the webinar.
For those of you who attended the hugely successful VIC branch event ‘Putting the P (party) in EAP,’ the photos are now available on the English Australia website: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.747425878673145.1073741834.143838162365256&type=1
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Professor Catherine McBride from the Chinese University of Hong Kong will be talking about ‘Reading Difficulties and their Correlates across Cultures’ at 11am on Friday 12 December at the University of Sydney (Norman Gregg Lecture Theatre, Edward Ford Building).
The talk will focus on how reading difficulties are defined and diagnosed differently around the world, as well as the different forms of such difficulties. The speaker will address how these differences affect the identification and diagnosis of reading difficulties and highlight a) common cognitive correlates of dyslexia, b) uniqueness and overlap in word reading difficulties in a second language, and c) common cognitive correlates of reading comprehension difficulties.
The call for Expressions of Interest for the CAES (Centre for Applied English Studies) International Conference in Hong Kong has been extended until January 8 2015. This conference will be held on 11-13 June 2015 and has some high profile keynote speakers on the programme.
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As it’s the end of the year, I thought it might be timely for those who haven’t read about it yet, to take a look at the Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year: Word of the Year and runners up. You might be surprised.
#AusELT Twitter chats are on holiday during December and January and will resume in February. This might be a good time to catch up on some of these stimulating chats from 2014: http://auselt.com/ Click on the months in the sidebar to find the chats.
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2015
February
28- 1 March CamTESOL Conference , ‘English: Building Skills for Regional Cooperation and Mobility’, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Remember you can sponsor a Cambodian teacher to attend this too)
March
18-20 Language Testing Research Colloquium , ‘From Language Testing to Language Assessment: Connecting Teaching, Learning, and Assessment’, Toronto, Canada
May
7-8 NEAS Management Conference , Sydney, Call for Expressions of Interest
June
11-13 CAES (Centre for Applied English Studies) Faces of English International Conference in Hong Kong , call for EOIs extended to 8 January 2015
September
23-25 English Australia Conference , ‘Looking ahead: change, challenge and opportunity’, Brisbane Hilton, QLD
November
23-26 4th Language Education and Diversity Conference , Auckland, New Zealand
19-21 The 14th Symposium on Second Language Writing, at AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand, 'Learning to Write for Academic Purposes,'call for EOIs
Enjoy your Christmas season and the English Australia PD updates will be back in the new year.
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