Conference on Language Development, Language Revitalization and Multilingual Education in Ethnolinguistic Communities
1-3 July 2008
Twin Towers Hotel, Bangkok Thailand
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PROGRAMME
tuesday, 1 july 2008
Emcee: Susan Malone, SIL International
07.30-08.30 Registration
08.30-08.45 Opening ceremony
Welcome speech
Professor Napatawn Banchuin
Vice Pesident of Mahidol University
Report
Dato’ Dr. Ahamad bin Sipon,
Director of SEAMEO Secretariat
Opening Remarks
Dr. Chinapat Bhumirat,
Deputy Permanent Secretary, Minister of Education, Thailand
08.45-09.15 Keynote “Languages in and for education: The importance of language development and use”
Dr. Sheldon Shaeffer, Director of UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education
09.15-10.30 Plenary Panel “Preserving intangible cultural heritage”
Ik Pahon Joyik, Bidayuh Language Community, Sarawak Malaysia
Liezeil Zabanal, Agutaynen Language Community, Philippines
Richard Littlebear, Northern Cheyenne Language Community, USA
Muhammad Shafiq Khalil, Punjabi Language Community, Pakistan
10.30-11.00 Tea Break
11.00-12.00 Session I1
Room A: Language and Education Policies
Moderator: Tariq Rahman
11.00-11.30 Ricardo Ma. Nolasco (Philippines). The prospects of multilingual education and literacy in the Philippines
11.30-12.00 Anna Smeby (General). Local languages and national policies in early childhood education in Asia
Room B: Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage
Moderator: Dorji Thinley
11.00-11.30 Lynne Harata Te Aika (Aotearoa New Zealand). Sustaining language and culture through indigenous perspectives on environmental education and working in partnership with Māori tribal communities in teacher education
11.30-12.00 Savi Munjal (India). Afghanistan’s endless war: A post 9/11 perspective
Room C: Research and Evaluation
Moderator: Katy Anis
11.00-11.30 Doerthe Schilken (China). The impact of language switch in early schooling on the cognitive development of children aged 5-7
11.30-12.00 Te Hurinui Clark (Aotearoa New Zealand). Issues of retention in mainstream secondary school Māori language programmes: A pilot research project
Room D: Multilingual Education
Moderator: Noro Andriamiseza
11.00-11.30 Pamela Mackenzie (India). Mother tongue-based multilingual education among tribal minorities in India
11.30-12.00 Joseph Khakha (Bangladesh). Training mother tongue teachers: Strategies and challenges in Bangladesh
Room E: Language Development and Language Revitalization
Moderator: Sue Hasselbring
11.00-11.30 David Bradley (China). Language policy for China’s minorities: Orthography development for the Yi
11.30-12.00 Isara Choosri (Thailand). The use of Northern Khmer in community radio programs in Thailand
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.00 Session II
Room A: Language and Education Policies
Moderator: Jenny Jones
13.00-13.30 Cidalio Leite (Timor-Leste). Commitment to helping children learn in Timor-Leste
13.30-14.00 Noriah Mohamed & Nor Hashimah Hashim. “Language policy, language planning and the use of non-dominant languages in Malaysia: Sihan versus Standard Malay
Room B: Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage
Moderator: Diane Gordon-Burns
13.00-13.30 Todd Saurman & Mary Beth Saurman (Asia, general). Incorporating relevant cultural art forms and oral traditions into community-based education programs
13.30-14.00 Ernesto Toquero and Elena Toquero (Philippines). The Yogad and Gaddang rituals of Isabela: Meaning and significance
Room C: Research and Evaluation
Moderator: Te Hurinui Clarke
13.00-13.30 Graham Cameron (Myanmar). Demonstrable developmental gains
13.30-14.00 Katy Anis (Timor-Leste). Assessment of the effectiveness of USAID Small Grants literacy and numeracy programs in Timor-Leste—2005-2007
Room D: Multilingual Education
Moderator: Katy Webley
13.00-13.30 Jan Noorlander & Wain Churk (Cambodia). Cambodia’s Highland Community Education Program
13.30-14.00 Patricia Kelly ( USA ). Multilingual literacy education: A help or a hindrance to national unity?
Room E: Language Development and Language Revitalization
Moderator: Mershen Pillay
13.00-13.30 Fredrick Boswell (Solomons). Cheke Holo orthography: Ethnic language community decision-making and the role of trained linguists
13.30-14.00 Umberto Ansaldo & Lisa Lim (Sri Lanka). Preserving and revitalizing creole languages: The experience of Sri Lanka Malay
14.00-15.00 Session III
Room A: Language and Education Policies
Moderator: Ricardo Ma. Nolasco
14.00-14.30 Harsha Kathard, Daisy Pillay & Mershen Pillay (Republic of South Africa). Language-in-education policy and practice: Learning from South African classrooms
14.30-15.00 Ayaz Muhammad Rana (Pakistan). Punjabi language: Government policies and traditional multilingual classrooms in Pakistan
Room B: Language and Education Policies
Moderator: Kirk Person
14.00-14.30 Nikhat Shameem (Fiji). The role of technology in data gathering for post-colonial language-in-education policy and planning: A case study
14.30-15.00 Greg Dekker and Rose Dumatog Camacam (Philippines). A multilingual education policy pathway: Working from pilot project toward national policy
Room C: Research and Evaluation
Moderator: Sangsok Son
14.00-14.30 Nor Hashimah Hashim (Malaysia). Testing reading comprehension in students’ mother tongue
14.30-15.00 Ng Bee Chin (Singapore). Linguistic pragmatism, globalisation and the impact on the patterns of input in Singaporean Chinese homes
Room D: Multilingual Education
Moderator: Mere Kepa
14.00-14.30 Barbara Trudell (Africa general). Local-language adult literacy programs and sustainable development in Africa
14.30-15.00 Goihan (China). The quest to improve the trilingual education system in ethnic minority schools in Inner Mongolia: Energizing the mother tongue
Room E: Language Development and Language Revitalization
Moderator: Gratien G. Atindogbé
14.00-14.30 OPEN
14.30-15.00 Paulette Hopple (China-Burma border). Linguistic variation among a highly endangered speech community: Angkuic people of the Palaungic sub-branch of Mon-Khmer
15.30-17.00 Session IV
15.30-17.00 Room A: Work Session: Language and Education Policies
Kimmo Kosonen, Facilitator
Room B: Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage
Moderator: Lynne Harata Te Aika
15.30-16.00 Samantha Ross Hepworth (Tanzania). Absorption or displacement: Kiswahili and minority languages in Tanzania
16.00-16.30 Manuel Noronha & Ian Chaplin (Macau). Preserving and interpreting intangible cultural heritage in an ethnolinguistic community: The case of the Portuguese language, patois and creole in Macau
16.30-17.00 Diane Gordon-Burns (Aotearoa New Zealand). Notable descendant ancestresses of Tainui—their stories and how these have been maintained
Room C: Work Session: Research and Evaluation
15.30-17.00 Dennis Malone, Facilitator
Room D: Multilingual Education
Moderator: Patricia Kelley
15.30-16.00 Helen Pinnock (General). Mother tongue-based multilingual education: How can we move ahead?
16.00-16.30 Muhammat (China). The challenges of bilingual education in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China
16.30-17.00 Muhammed Zaman Sagar (Pakistan). A multilingual education project for Gawri-speaking children in northern Pakistan
Room E: Language Development and Language Revitalization
Moderator: Mark Karan
15.30-16.00 Willem Burung (Indonesia). Melayu Papua: A hidden treasure
16.00-16.30 Richard Littlebear.(Cheyenne). Language as an instrument for cultural preservation
16.30-17.00 OPEN
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Reception
WEDNESDAY, 2 JULY 2008
Emcee: Katy Webley, Save the Children UK
08.30-09.45 Plenary Panel “Language and language-in-education policies”
Andrew Ikupu, Department of Education, Papua New Guinea
Bernard Spolsky, Professor Emeritus, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Dhir Jhingran, Asia Regional Director, Room to Read, India
Edilberto C. de Jesus, Former Director of Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Secretariat, Philippines
09.45-10.30 Plenary Presentation. “Language development and language revitalization: Rationale, purposes, challenges and successes”
Tariq Rahman, Distinguished National Professor, Quaid-I-Azam University . Pakistan
Susan Malone, Multilingual Education Consultant, SIL International
10.30-11.00 Tea Break
11.00-12.00 Session V
Room A: Language and Education Policies
Moderator: Harsha Kathard
11.00-11.30 Vu Thi Thanh Huong (Vietnam). Ethnic minority languages in Vietnam: Policy and implementation issues
11.30-12.00 Pushparani Subramaniam (Malaysia). Implementing vernacular languages through ICT in national schools to fulfill the Education Development Master Plan (EDMP) in Malaysia
Room B: Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage
Moderator: Samantha Ross Hepworth
11.00-11.30 Dorji Thinley (Bhutan). Secondary students’ response to oral literature in their mother tongue: Insights and observations from an action research project in a Bhutanese school
11.30-12.00 V. Jayarajan (India). Teyyam and oral tradition
Room C: Work Session: Research and Evaluation
11.00-12.00 Dennis Malone, Facilitator
Room D: Multilingual Education
Moderator: Muhammed Zaman
11.00-11.30 Noro Andriamiseza (General). Mother tongue matters: UNESCO’s actions in mother tongue instruction to promote inclusion and enhance quality learning for children in linguistically diverse societies
11.30-12.00 Colleen Koolaard & Poh Suan Soh (China). Four mother tongue-based bilingual education projects in China: Introducing the Bai, Dai, Dong (Kam) and Dongxiang pilot MLE projects in the P.R. China
Room E: Language Development and Language Revitalization
Moderator: Mayuree Thawornpat
11.00-11.30 Martin Hosken (Mainland South East Asia). Minority languages in the digital age: Unicode update
11.30-12.00 Yogendra Yadava. (Nepal). Linguistic survey of Napal.
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.00 Exhibition of language and education materials
Participants are invited to view and learn about materials that have been produced for language development, language revitalization and multilingual education programs around the world
14.00-15.00 Session VI
Room A: Language and Education Policies
Moderator: Greg Dekker
14.00-14.30 Quentin Williams (Republic of South Africa). Debating multilingualism in a transformative South Africa
14.30-15.00 Yogendra Yadava (Nepal). Linguistic diversity in Nepal: Perspectives on existing language policy
Room B: Multilingual Education
Moderator: Pamela Mackenzie
14.00-14.30 Anna Smeby (Asia, General). The use of early childhood standards to support mother tongue-based multilingual education in Asia
14.30-15.00 Mere Kepa & Linita Manu’atu (Aotearoa New Zealand). Talanoa Mālie: An innovative ‘space’ in early childhood education for revitalizing and maintaining Tongan language and culture in the University
Room C: Research and Evaluation
Moderator: Diane Dekker
14.00-14.30 Quynh Thi Ngoc Nguyen (Vietnam). Towards a workable theoretical framework for the teaching of Vietnamese as a second language for ethnolinguistic minority learners
14.30-15.00 Daisy Pillay, Harsha Kathard & Mershen Pillay. (Republic of South Africa). “Troubling Communication”: Exploring spaces for socially just dialogue
Room D: Multilingual Education
Moderator: Mathura Bikash Tripura
14.00-14.30 Lynne HarataTe Aika (Aotearoa New Zealand). Reo Kura: Developing teachers' Maori language proficiency and tribal dialect proficiency in an in-school professional development programme
14.30-15.00 Suwilai Premsrirat (Thailand). Language for national reconciliation: A role for Pattani Malay in formal education in Thailand’s Deep South
Room E: Language Development and Language Revitalization
Moderator: Lucy Bulan
14.00-14.30 David Blundell (Taiwan, Philippines). Endangered languages in revitalization, development and mapping with local indigenous communities of Taiwan, Orchid Island, and the Batanes
14.30-15.00 Mayuree Thawornpat (Thailand). Orthographies for “endangered languages” in Thailand: A case study of Lavua at Pa Pae Village, Mae Hong Son Province
15.00-15.30 Tea Break
15.30-17.00 Session VII
Room A: Work Session: Language and Education Policies
15.30-17.00 Kimmo Kosonen, Facilitator
Room B: Work Session: Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage
15.30-17.00 Catherine Young and Susan Malone, Facilitators
Room C: Language Development and Language Revitalization
Moderator: David Bradley
15.30-16.00 Karsten Legère (Tanzania). Language endangerment in Tanzania: The case of the Vidunda language
16.00-16.30 Mershen Pillay, Harsha Kathard & Daisy Pillay (Republic of South Africa). Loss across language colonies: A Tamil past, A Xhosa present, An Arabic present-perfect
16.30-17.00 Sue Hasselbring (General). Fostering acceptance of written standards by speakers of all dialects
Room D: Multilingual Education
Moderator: Barbara Trudell
15.30-16.00 Erona Paschal, Poonam Paschal & Lalchand Paul (Pakistan). Mother tongue-based multilingual education in southern Pakistan: The Parkari program
16.00-16.30 Anne Thomas & Tim Sangvat (Cambodia). Community ownership strengthens multilingual non-formal education in the Cambodian Highlands
16.30-17.00 Lou Chunfang (China). Bilingual education in Qinghai Province, China
Room E: Multilingual Education
Moderator: Dinh Phuong Thao
15.30-16.00 Dat Bao (Thailand & Australia). A proposed framework for enhancing teachers’ preparation for classrooms with language minority students
16.00-16.30 Eliott Prasse-Freeman (Thailand). Building community-based support systems that facilitate sustainable multi-ethnic education opportunities: Experiences of EDC and partners in Phang Nga, Thailand 2007-2008
16.30-17.00 Katy Anis (General). Layers of access; layers of learning: Literacy and second language acquisition.
19.30-21.00 Session VIII
Room E: Work Session
Work Session: Multilingual Education
19.30-21.00 Susan Malone and Carol Benson, Facilitators
Work Session: Language Development and Language Revitalization-focus on ICT
19.30-21.00 Martin Hosken, Facilitator
Thursday, 3 July 2008
Emcee: Jan Noorlander, CARE International, Cambodia
08.30-09.15 Plenary Presentation “Designing effective schooling in multilingual contexts: An alternative to bilingual models”
Dr. Carol Benson, International Consultant in Multilingual
Education, Sweden
09.15-10.00 Plenary Presentation “Research and evaluation of mother tongue-based multilingual education programs: Issues and innovations in ethnolinguistic settings”
Dr. Dennis Malone, International Consultant in Multilingual Education, SIL International
10.00-10.30 Tea Break
10.30-12.00 Session IX
Room A: Language and Education Policies
Moderator: SEAMEO
10.30-12.00 SEAMEO Secretariat: Ahamad bin Sipon, Kimmo Kosonen, Catherine Young, Yolanda Quijano, Suchin Petcharugsa (Southeast Asia). Using the mother tongue as bridge language of instruction in Southeast Asia: Policy, strategies and advocacy
Room B: Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage
Moderator: Mary Beth Saurman
10.30-11.00 Charmaine Kaimikaua (Hawai’i, USA). The politics of preserving cultural heritage: Communicating identity through public performance of the Hula for Diaspora Hawaiians
11.00-11.30 Bagly Arsenio and Glenn Stallsmith (Philippines). Performing living traditions: A music and dance troupe of the Kalanguya, Northern Philippines
11.30-12.00 OPEN
Room C: Multilingual Education
Moderator: Joseph Khakha
10.30-11.00 Luz Jimenez Quispe (Bolivia). Indigenous knowledge and wisdom to improve quality of education in rural communities of Bolivia
11.00-11.30 Mahendra Mishra (India). Mother tongue-based multilingual education in Orissa: From theory to practice
11.30-12.00 Nguyen Thi Bich & Dinh Phuong Thao (Vietnam). National networking and advocacy strategy on mother tongue-based multilingual education
Room D: Multilingual Education
Moderator: -
10.30-11.00 Kay Ringenberg (Indonesia). Planning and implementing MT-Based MLE programs for children and adults in Indonesia
11.00-11.30 Mathura Bikash Tripura (Bangladesh). Shishur Khamatayan: children’s right to quality education in their mother tongue
11.30-12.00 OPEN
Room E: Language Development and Language Revitalization
Moderator: David Blundell
10.30-11.00 Katy Anis. (General). Layers of access; layers of learning: Literacy and second language acquisition
11.00-11.30 Bhim Narayan Regmi (Nepal). Developing a Devanagari-based multi-language orthography for Nepalese languages
11.30-12.00 Kees Jan Bos, Mirjam Bos and Christina Page (Cambodia). Community based orthography development: Experiences from the Kuy in Cambodia
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.30 Session X
Room A: Work Session: Language and Education Policies
13.00-14.30 Kimmo Kosonen, Facilitator
Room B: Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage
Moderator: Ernesto C. Toquero
13.00-13.30 Schedar Jockson (Philippines). Further steps towards preserving oral literature
13.30-14.00 Marc Wetz (Southeast Asia). The need to go beyond language: Including local/indigenous culture in the school curriculum
14.00-14.30 Hemanga Dutta (India). A sociolinguistic appraisal of vocabulary items used in Assamese folk songs and proverbs
Room C: Research and Evaluation
Moderator: Alice Eastwood
13.00-13.30 Sangsok Son (India). Learning through first language and linguistic and scholastic Achievement: The case of children in Pattani Language Community, India
13.30-14.00 Daisy Pillay, Harsha Kathard & Mershen Pillay (Republic of South Africa). “Troubling Communication”: Exploring spaces for socially just dialogue
14.00-14.30 OPEN
Room D: Multilingual Education
Moderator: Helen Pinnock
13.00-13.30 Arjen Lock (Papua New Guinea). Building a responsive life-embracing infrastructure for MLE: The Abau program of Papua New Guinea
13.30-14.00 Nthatisi Bulane (Republic of South Africa). Code-switching in South Africa’s township schools
14.00-14.30 Sara Elena Mendoza (Mexico). Indigenous literacy in Mexico: Critical aspects from planning to educational practice
Room E: Language Development and Language Revitalization
Moderator: Linita Manu'atu
13.00-13.30 Lucy Bulan & David Lian Labang (Malaysia). Community efforts in developing and financing an MLE Project: The Kelabit language of Sarawak, Malaysia
13.30-14.00 Gratien G. Atindogbé (Cameroon). First look at a Barombi orthographic system
14.00-14.30 Mark Karan (General). The importance of motivations in language revitalization efforts
14.30-15.30 Session XI
Room A: Language and Education Policies
Moderator: Nikhat Shameem
14.30-15.00 Jenny Jones (Kenya). Teachers’ response to the implementation of the Kenyan language-in-education policy in a multilingual context
15.00-15.30 Lienjang Zette (India). Language policy and northeast India as a melting pot of languages
Room B: Multilingual Education
Moderator: Carl Grove
14.30-15.00 Diane Dekker, Stephen Walter & Norma Duguiang (Philippines). The “bridge” to Filipino and English: Initial results of the First Language Component MLE program in the Philippines
15.00-15.30 Leela Pradham (Nepal). A study of the educational situation for ethnic minority children in selected primary schools of Nepal
Room C: Research and Evaluation
Moderator: Daisy Pillay
14.30-15.00 Sriwilai Ponmanee (Thailand). Coaching a teacher in a multilingual school setting: A case study from a school in Pai District, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand
15.00-15.30 Gardiye Hewage Asoka (Sri Lanka). Needs survey on promoting Mother Tongue-Based Bilingual Education (BE) in Sri Lanka
Room D: Multilingual Education
Moderator: Doerthe Schilken
14.30-15.00 J. Aleta R. Villanueva & Ani Rosa Almario (Philippines). Dual language education program models in Philippine progressive schools
15.00-15.30 Marilyn Gregerson (Cambodia). A multilingual non-formal program for language minority students in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia: 10 years and going forward
Room E: Language Development and Language Revitalization
Moderator: Dennis Malone
14.30-15.00 Duk Geun Cha (Cambodia). Orthography development challenges in Western Cham
15.00-15.30 Talib Jan (Pakistan). Present and future of Indus Kohistani
15.30-16.00 Tea Break
16.00-17.00 Summary of the Conference
Jan Noorlander, Provincial Coordinator, CARE International, Cambodia
Closing
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