CALL FOR PROPOSALS
LESLLA (Literacy Education and Second Language Learning for Adults) invites all professional and volunteer adult literacy researchers, practitioners, and applied linguists committed to the advancement of LESLLA research, practice, and policy to submit proposals for LESLLA’s 19th Annual Symposium. LESLLA aims to support adults who are learning to read and write for the first time in their lives in a new language, promoting the sharing of research findings, effective pedagogical practices, and information on policy. The symposium will be hybrid: presentations will be either virtual or in-person and include a mix of theoretical and practice-based themes, as well as panel discussions and poster sessions.
Proposals should link to research on second language and literacy learning and teaching in the LESLLA context, teacher learning, or policies that impact LESLLA learners and teachers. Suggested topics may include but are not limited to:
Second language acquisition for LESLLA learners
Pandemic-related teaching & learning (hybrid, remote, low-tech environments, etc.) LESLLA contexts
Translanguaging and plurilingual approaches and LESLLA learners
Role of volunteers in language and literacy support in LESLLA teaching and learning contexts
L1 literacy and LESLLA learners
Teaching tools including Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for LESLLA learners
LESLLA students’ literacy assessment, levels and placement
Multimodality and multiple literacies with LESLLA learners
Policies impacting LESLLA learners
Health literacy and LESLLA learners
LESLLA refugees and asylum seekers’ inclusion in hosting contexts
Professional development, teacher education, and/or volunteer teacher training to work with LESLLA learners
Minority languages and LESLLA learners
Task-based language teaching and LESLLA learners
Session Type Descriptions
Virtual sessions:
Presenters submit a 15-20-minute video for viewing prior to the symposium.
Presenters participate in a discussion during the symposium.
In-Person sessions:
Paper Presentation (20 minutes): You and co-presenters will speak about a topic as well as invite comments/suggestions from the audience.
Workshop (60 minutes): Presenters introduce a topic followed by hands-on activities for participants.
Poster Session: Brief presentation & informal discussion with session attendees. Posters available for 60 minutes.
Proposals
Literacy Education and Second Language Learning for Adults (LESLLA) supports adults (i.e., learners age 15+) with little or no schooling or literacy in any language, who are now learning to read and write for the first time in a new language. LESLLA promotes, on a worldwide, multidisciplinary, and multilingual basis, the sharing of research findings, effective pedagogical practices, and information on policy.
An effective proposal will:
Be directly relevant to the LESLLA context, as described above
Offer the promise of new knowledge
Stimulate discussion
Be focused, well-written, and clearly organized
Remote sessions only: fit an online, pre-recorded, shortened format
The abstract must have a length of 300 words maximum + 200 words of references. To submit your proposal, fill this form. The abstracts can be written in Catalan, Spanish or English.
Submissions will be evaluated by two reviewers in an anonymous review process.
Deadline:
Deadline for submission: May 31, 2023
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2023
Please email LESLLAbarcelona23@gmail.com with questions about proposals or the submission and review process.