SYMPOSIUM

This year the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hosting a symposium on language teaching that will precede the 25th meeting of the South Asian Language Analysis (SALA) roundtable, September 16-18, 2005.

PRE-CONFERENCE SYMPOSIUM:

September 15, 2005, 9 am to 4 pm, Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.

SYMPOSIUM THEME:

Heritage Learners: Overcoming Curricular Challenges (Organizer, Dr. Steven Poulos, Director, SALRC)

Schedule

INVITED SPEAKER:

Silvina Montrul, Helen Corley Petit Associate professor (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Dept/University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Abstracts are invited for 30 minute paper presentations addressing issues of instructional methodologies in language programs with substantial numbers of heritage students, focusing on, among other issues:

*Differences between heritage and non-heritage learner outcomes;
*Transmission and maintenance of heritage languages;
*Bilingualism and biculturalism;
*Curricular policy development;
*Teaching culture, learning language.

Deadline: April 30, 2005. Email submissions (sala-25@uiuc.edu) are encouraged.

Note: Faculty and graduate students at South Asia (or International Studies) National Resource Center campuses should look to their Centers for conference support. SALRC has funds available to support some travel and lodging costs for presenters from non-NRC institutions.