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8th International Language and Development Conference
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Dhaka, Bangladesh from 23 to 25 June 2009. The conference has a strong focus on providing a forum for examining important issues related to language policy, language learning and language teaching in the context of the developing world and, in particular, from the perspective of policy makers, language and literacy educators, development professionals and donors. Read more
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CAELA Digests and Q&As
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CAELA's publications provide information about literacy education for adults learning English as a second language (ESL). Digests and Q&As address such topics as assessment and evaluation, professional development, improving language skills, ESL methods and approaches, program design, and workplace and vocational ESL.
You can find the 72 digests and Q & As listed alphabetically. Read more
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Training-the-Trainers in Information Literacy
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UNESCO is strongly advocating the building of knowledge societies where the power of information and communication help people access the knowledge they need to improve their daily lives and achieve their full potential. In this context, information literacy has become crucially important, as a mean to empower people in all walks of life
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Tackle youth violence by ending illiteracy
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This focus on exam results can leave a significant number of "hopeless"
cases left behind. As the recent SATs result show, almost a fifth of
students leave primary school without basic literacy. Allowing this
number of children to slip through the net can have a detrimental
effect on their behaviour in adolescence and through into adulthood... Read more >>
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Borders Literacy
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This site aims to help teachers by drawing together and categorising many of the free Literacy teaching and learning resources on the web... Read more>>
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