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FINAL CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Deadline: February 1st 1999


CONFERENCE on the
IMPROVEMENT OF LEARNING & TEACHING OF LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
JULY 14TH -16TH 1999
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

Organized by the IAIMTE (The International Association for
the Improvement of Mother Tongue Education).

If you would like to receive the IAIMTE brochure: more
information will be provided by Gert Rijlaarsdam,
<rijlaars@ilo.uva.nl>.
Or visit the IAIMTE-site for more in information,
registration forms etc.:
<http://www.ilo.uva.nl/html/conferenties.html>

Divided as we are by our distinct languages and cultures, we
do share a common concern: the quality of the teaching and
learning of language and literature, mostly in mother tongues
or mainstream languages. Throughout the world, education
systems are confronted with major challenges. Societal
demands for literacy and communicative competence are
growing. At the same time there is an increase of the
cultural and linguistic heterogeneity of school populations.
In response to these trends, promising research and
development in the learning and teaching of mother tongues is
done in many countries .... in splendid isolation. A pity,
for national work in the improvement of language education
can profit enormously from international exchange. This, in a
nutshell, is the mission of the IAIMTE.

Hereby we invite you to participate in a small scale
conference for specialists in the teaching & learning of
language and literature. The main aim of the conference is to
exchange theory, research, curricular developments and best
practice in education, teacher education and in-service
training. We
would like to gather specialists in the field of 'mother
tongue education', in elementary, secondary and higher
education. The conference aims at an international exchange
and interaction and is meant to be an international platform
for language and education researchers and practitioners,
including Ph.D. students, to present their research and
reflections for an international audience.
For the 1999 conference, we especially invite you to
contribute to Group Sessions of Round Tables on curricular
movements in different countries (i.e. new text book
structures, the role of centrally stated key qualifications,
trends of nationalisation and/or internationalisation in
Literature Teaching).
We would like to organise thematic sessions from different
countries, in order to shed light on differences and
similarities in different educational contexts.

CONFERENCE DOMAINS
1. Theory of good practice
2. Research of/for good practice
3. Descriptions of best practice programmes/curricula a. in schools
b. in teacher training
c. in in-service training

CONFERENCE THEMES
1. Reading
2. Writing
3. Speaking & Listening
4. Literature, Fiction, Film and other media
5. Language Awareness and Language Teaching
6. Educational policy: relationship between first, second and
mainstream languages in learning and teaching.
7.      Quality of text books in mother tongue teaching

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