1st Philippine Conference-Workshop on Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education

1st Philippine Conference-Workshop on
Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education
February 18, 19, and 20, 2010
Capitol University, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines

CONFERENCE THEME
Reclaiming the right to learn in one’s own language

ORGANIZERS: Department of Education, Region XI; 170+ Talaytayan MLE; SIL International; Save the Children; Translators Association of the Philippines; DILA, Nakem, CLLL-PNU; Capitol University.

TOPICS FOR PARALLEL SESSIONS
1. Reading, writing and comprehension in the L1 across disciplines
2. Teaching science, math and social studies in a multicultural/multilingual framework
3. Storytelling and other learning strategies in the L1 and in the L2
4. Developing quality and culturally sensitive MLE materials
5. Language-in-education policy and practice in a multicultural society
6. What makes a Philippine language (and what makes English)?
7. Language documentation and data preservation
8. No vocabulary?-the intellectualization issue about Philippine languages
9. Case studies in mother tongue instruction in the Philippines and in other countries
10. Sign languages in the Philippines the education of the differently-abled
11. Community-based school management and MLE
12. Endangered languages and their revitalization
13. MLE and peace education

CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: November 30, 2009

Guidelines for the submission of abstracts 1. An author is limited to one individual abstract and one joint abstract; 2. The first page of the submission should contain the name of the author or authors, affiliations, e-mail address; postal address and the designated topic of the parallel sessions; 3. The second page should contain the abstract not exceeding 250 words, including the bibliography, but should not contain any marks identifiable to the author or authors. 4. The submission should be written in any of the Philippine languages, in Filipino or in English. If written in Filipino or in a Philippine language, we will require an English version of the abstract for the evaluators. 5. The abstract should be submitted to mlephilippines@gmail.com and shall be duly acknowledged.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: December 16, 2009
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE/NON-ACCEPTANCE: January 11, 2010
SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPER: January 26, 2010

All paper readers shall be entitled to 30 minutes presentation. The presentation can be rendered in any Philippine language, in Filipino or in English, or in a bilingual fashion, provided the author shall be responsible for providing the translation(s). NO FULL PAPER, NO PRESENTATION.




CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Plenary Session Presentations
• A brief history on L1 use in Philippine education
• Doing MLE in Mindanao (Department of Education and Apo Palamguwan Cultural Education Center)
• The Lubuagan experiment and the Luzon Experience in L1 Instruction (Lubuagan teachers, NAKEM and NVSU, UPIS)
• Cultural Markers that Divide and Unite
• Language-in-education policy in the Philippines
• Teacher, Unsa man ni? Mother tongue education in the Visayas
• Our Tasks Ahead until 2015

Parallel Workshop Topics
• Reading, writing and comprehension in the L1
• Teaching science and math in the early grades
• Sounds, words and sentence patterns in Philippine Languages
• Building oral fluency in the L1 and L2
• Teaching strategies and methodologies for MLE
• Reimagining social science instruction in basic education
• MLE materials development and production
• Storytelling: from orality to literacy
• Language documentation and data preservation
• Designing an alphabet for a Philippine language
• MLE program planning, evaluation and assessment
• Bridging from the L1 to Filipino and English

Conference registration fee: P3,500 (10% discount for those who register on or before January 8, 2010)

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