Keynote/ Invited  Speakers:

　

　

  Professor Diane BARONE
  Department of Educational Specialties

  University of Nevada, Reno

  U.S.A.

　

  Presentation:

 "Learning to write and writing to learn in preschool and the 

  primary grades"

　

Diane Barone is a professor of literacy at the University of Nevada, Reno. In 2008, she was named as a University of Nevada Foundation Professor. She teaches courses in literacy, especially literacy instruction and learning of young children and qualitative research methods. Her research has always focused on young children’s literacy development, particularly in high poverty schools. She has conducted two longitudinal studies of literacy development: one, a four-year study of children exposed prenatally to crack/cocaine and two, a seven-year study of children in a high-poverty school. She has had articles published in the Journal of Literacy Research, Elementary School Journal, The Reading Teacher, Gifted Childhood Quarterly, and Research in the Teaching of English. She has written numerous chapters, some of which have appeared in Educational Resiliency, Literacy and Young Children, and Literacy Research Methods. She has also written several books, some of which include: Developing Literacy with Dr. Donald Bear, Resilient Children, The National Board Handbook with National Board Teachers, Early Literacy with Dr. Marla Mallette and Dr. Shelley Xu, and Reading First in the Classroom with Darrin Hardman and Joan Taylor. She served for eight years as the Editor of Reading Research Quarterly.

Currently, she is a board member of the International Reading Association and the National Reading Conference. She serves as Chair of Publications for the National Reading Conference. She is the principal investigator of the Reading First grant, a 26 million dollar grant, in Nevada. This grant is focused on improving students’ literacy learning in the primary grades.

　

　

 

  Professor Patricia DUFF
  Department of Language and Literacy Education

  University of British Columbia

  Canada

　

  Presentation:

  "Learning English in the Asia-Pacific Region: A   

  language socialization perspective"

　

　

Patricia (Patsy) Duff is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia and Director of the Centre for Research in Chinese Language and Literacy Education. She teaches in the graduate programs in Teaching English as a Second Language and Modern Language Education primarily. Patsy’s main scholarly interests are related to language socialization across bilingual and multilingual settings; qualitative research methods in applied linguistics (especially case study and ethnography and complementary approaches to classroom research); issues in the teaching and learning of English, Mandarin, and other international languages in Canada and elsewhere; the integration of second-language learners in high schools, universities, and society; multilingualism and work; and sociocultural, sociolinguistic, and sociopolitical aspects of language(s) in education. Patsy's books include Case Study Research in Applied Linguistics (Routledge) and the co-edited volumes Inference and Generalizability in Applied Linguistics (John Benjamins), and Language Socialization (Vol. 8, Encyclopedia of Language and Education (Springer). She has also co-edited two special issues for the Canadian Modern Language Review, on “Language and Work” and, most recently, on “Indigenous, Heritage and Minority Language Education in Canada.” Her articles and chapters have also appeared in many of the top journals in applied linguistics and second language education nationally and internationally and in more than two dozen books. She is a frequent lecturer in many parts of the world and especially in the Asia-Pacific region. Her current research focuses on: (1) the changing languages, literacies and identities of learners of Chinese; and (2) changing ideologies and practices connected with English and English language education and socialization in China.

　

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