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Upcoming Languages' events
ALPA 2012 Conference Measuring Success: Opportunities and Challenges
- Dates: 29 June – 1 July 2012
- Co-hosted by AUT University at the AUT city campus
This is the first time that the conference has been held outside Wellington and we hope to welcome a number of practitioners and researchers in the field.
The conference covers all aspects of adult literacy and numeracy, including:
- Foundation skills in both vocational and academic bridging contexts
- Workplace literacy, numeracy and language
- Adult basic education, including adult ESOL Literacy
- Community based literacy programmes including whanau literacy
- Literacy, numeracy and language in Corrections-based contexts
- E-learning initiatives and digital literacies
- Financial literacy education
- Health literacy
Call for abstracts (due March 5, 2012)
Submissions are invited in any of the fields listed above. Submissions that address both theoretical and practical issues in the field are welcome.
Delegates may choose to offer a 30 minute paper (30 minute presentation and 10 minutes for questions) or a 60/90 minute interactive workshop.
The conference theme should be broadly interpreted and it is envisaged that the following strands will be incorporated:
- Assessment and accountability
- Assessment and learning
- Alternative measures of success
- Situated literacy and numeracy
All abstracts will be double blind peer reviewed and applicants will be notified as to whether their presentations have been accepted by the first week in April. Closing date for acceptance of abstracts is 5pm Monday 5 March 2012.
- Download the conference abstract form - 2012
(1 page/40KB)
After the conference presenters will be offered an opportunity to submit full papers for publication in refereed conference proceedings.
Email abstract and form to helen.xue@aut.ac.nz