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14 September 2015 to 17 September 2015Belfast

Tuesday 15th September 2015
11.30 – 13.00

1.14

Literacy and Language
Session Type: Individual Papers

Identity And Learning In And Out Of School
Chair: O’Boyle, Aisling – Queen’s University Belfast

0604 – Teenage talk: speaking, stance-taking, and young people’s views of themselves within the education system
O’Boyle, Aisling – Queen’s University Belfast

 

Tuesday 15th September 2015
15.45 – 17.15

2.14

Literacy and Language
Session Type: Symposia

Convenor: Farrell, Lesley – Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Discussant: Goodwyn, Andy – University of Reading

0363 – Reading policy as ensemble: understanding ‘local’ language and literacy policy across transnational spaces and scales
Farrell, Lesley – Melbourne Graduate School of Education; Cross, Russell – Melbourne Graduate School of Education; Davies, Larissa Mclean – Melbourne Graduate School of Education

Wednesday 16th September 2015
09.00 – 10.30

3.14

Literacy and Language
Session Type: Individual Papers

Mediating Language Boundaries
Chair: Owen, John – Bangor University

0623 – A meta-analysis of research into the social worlds of Irish, Scottish-Gaelic and Welsh language medium schools
Smala, Simone – Frances Greene The University of Queensland

0573 – Language brokering: Bilingual children mediating the worlds of monolingual adults
Perumal, Ratha – University of East London; Martin, Estelle – University of East London

*0009 – Language, Identity and Opportunities to Learn: Have we forgotten about the diversity of English Language Learners?
Dabrowski, Anna – The University of Melbourne

*0268 – ‘Welsh out of School’ Factors influencing pupils’ use of Welsh in social contexts and implications for minority language revitalisation
Owen, John – Bangor University

Wednesday 16th September 2015
13.30 – 15.00

4.15

Literacy and Language
Session Type: Individual Papers

Discourses Of Data In Literacy Policy & Practice
Chair: Ellis, Sue – University of Strathclyde;

0339 – Discourses and place: Examining literacy education in a small remote school
Henderson, Robyn – University of Southern Queensland

0566 – Exploring Teachers’ Capacity to Implement Effective Differentiated Reading in Irish Primary Schools and in Texan Elementary Schools – Two Case Studies
Heneghan, Helen – Trinity College Dublin University

Wednesday 16th September 2015
15.45 – 17.15

5.15

Literacy and Language
Session Type: Individual Papers

Learning Languages And Literacies
Chair: Zhang, Haiwei – University Of York

*0186 – English Globalization in China: Performance of Chinese English learners in IELTS
Wang, Jixian – Queen’s University of Belfast

0450 – Learning a Modern Foreign Language: effort, gender and motivation
Georgeson, Jan – Plymouth University; Velle, Linda la – Plymouth University; Blandon, Claudia – Plymouth University

0605 – The influences of first acquired script on the process of hanzi handwriting among English and Arabic speakers
Zhang, Haiwei – University Of York

Wednesday 16th September 2015
15.45 – 17.15

5.16

Literacy and Language
Session Type: Individual Papers

Academic Literacies
Chair: Jawing, Esther – University of Warwick

0358 – A play of conflicting voices: combining creative and academic genres to facilitate critical distance on a first year sociolinguistics course
Mendelowitz, Belinda – University of the Witwatersrand; Dixon, Kerryn – University of the Witwatersrand

0478 – Text complexity and linguistic interdependence in academic reading: A case study of Malaysian undergraduates in a British university
Jawing, Esther – University of Warwick

Thursday 17th September 2015
09.00 – 10.30

6.15

Literacy and Language
Session Type: Individual Papers

Contexts, Tasks And Attainment
Chair: Arrow, Alison – Massey University

0174 – Can the use of differentiated instruction from school entry reduce New Zealand’s persistently large inequities in literacy achievement outcomes?
Arrow, Alison – Massey University; Chapman, James – Massey University

*0562 – Can greater autonomy of choice enable children to be critically reflective when reading poetry?
Bradley, Anne – University of St Mark and St John

0024 – Rhyme, Rhythm and Repetition make the wheels of the language bus go round and round!!!!
Gilliland, Catherine – St Mary’s University College

Thursday 17th September 2015
12.15 – 13.15

7.11

Literacy and Language
Session Type: Individual Papers

Perspectives On Teacher Knowledge
Chair: Goodwyn, Andy – University of Reading

0406 – A critique of the National Curriculum for English, specifically its statements related to the value of teaching literature: a proposed new paradigm for teaching literature to adolescents in secondary schools and examining literary reading from a Darwinian perspective
Goodwyn, Andy – University of Reading

0346 – Investigating literary knowledge in the education of English teachers
Davies, Larissa McLean – University of Melbourne; Doecke, Brenton – Deakin University; Mead, Philip – University of Western Australia; Sawyer, Wayne – University of Western Sydney

Thursday 17th September 2015
14.30 – 16.00

8.11

Literacy and Language
Session Type: Individual Papers

Digital Literacies
Chair: Florack, Franziska – University of Bradford

*0378 – The Importance of Word and World Knowledge for Successful Strategic Processing of Multiple Online Texts
Riddell, Judith – The Queen’s University of Belfast

*0584 – Can the use of film in primary school literacy lessons raise attainment in writing?
Florack, Franziska – University of Bradford