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The 37th Conference of Applied Language Studies, Education for Social Justice Conference will take place completely online on June 1-3, 2021 in Jyväskylä, Finland. Join the conference and register on the Conference website.
What does social justice have to do with language education? Why do we need to talk about social justice as language teachers, teacher educators, and researchers?

At this conference, ELINET organizes a two-hour interactive colloquium in which we will introduce a framework digital literacy means for children ages 0-10, the ways digital tools and activities can contribute to the development of children’s literacy skills, attitudes and compile the best practices that can be used at homes and schools and request feedback and good practice examples from the audience members.… Read the rest

The 22^nd  European Conference on Literacy and the 46th Annual Conference, which is jointly organised by the Federation of European Literacy Associations and The Literacy Association of Ireland, has been postponed due to COVID-19 until 2022. The Conference will now take place in Dublin, Ireland from July 4^th to July 6^th, 2022, alongside the 46^th Annual Conference of the Literacy Association of Ireland.… Read the rest

The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture has organised a conference building on the publication of the new PISA results in Helsinki on December 9th, 2019. See the report from Sari Sulkunen, board member Elinet. 

The conference is called PISA and Beyond, and it aims to present the new PISA results and analyze what can be learnt from them. In the one-day conference OECD representatives as well as researchers working with PISA will present PISA results, with the special focus on literacy, inclusion and quality of teacher education.… Read the rest

The 4th Baltic Sea Conference on Literacy will take place 16-21 January, 2020 in Tallinn, Estonia. During the Baltic Sea Conference Elinet will held a General Assembly on Saturday. Please join us. 

The conference “Searching for a Common Language” is focused on actual themes of literacy and multilingual education:

• early literacy and intervention
• literacy teachers and instruction
• digital competences and literacy
• literacy environments and libraries
• equal access to literacy and support to students with special needs
• lifelong development of literacy skills

Important dates: Late registration until 7 January, 2020

For more information, go to the events website at https://4bscl2020.ee

Update: due to Covid-19 this conference took place only online. The report of the Elinet contribution will be published soon.

‘Reading changes life’–  this is the title of the  World Literacy Summit, one of the largest world gatherings of  international literacy and education specialists,  held at Oxford University (UK) from April 5-8, 2020.

The Oxford Summit 2020 brings together 600 delegates among them NGO leaders, researchers, teachers, faculty members, librarians and the learners themselves from 85 countries (more than two thirds of the world) and 40.000 webinar users.… Read the rest