ARLE SIG Literacy Symposium, 11-13 October 2023

The special interest group on Literacies: Reading, Writing & Oracies of the International Association for Research in L1 Education (ARLE) is pleased to announce a research seminar with the theme Emergent and Developing Literacy planned to be held in Patras, Greece 11-13 October, 2023. Please see the Call for Proposals for more information. Deadlines are as follows:

Proposal deadline: 15 April, 2023

Announcement of review decision: 1 June, 2023

Final registration date: 1 August, 2023

Research seminar: 11 - 13 October, 2023

ARLE SIG Literacy 2022-2023 Brown Bag Meetings

ARLE SIG Literacy extends a warm invitation to their 2022-2023 Brown Bag Meetings, which will begin on Sept. 30th. Please click for dates and more information.

SIG Literacies: Reading, Writing & Oracies

Focus of SIG Literacies: Reading, Writing and Oracy

SIG Literacies: Reading, Writing and Oracy focuses on written-based skills (reading and writing) and on oral-based skills (listening and speaking), the latter less intensively researched, and on their relationship in mother tongue. All these skills have to be acquired up to a certain ability to manage and solve real communication problems in the complex modern society in the 21th century.
That is the reason why the SIG will discuss the following main issues from various perspectives:

• research on competencies
• methodological approaches to measurements and
• examples of best practice for improvement.

The members of the sig will cooperate in organizing conferences, and in advocating issues.

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Actions in the past

• SIG conference in Hong Kong in June 2014.
• SIG symposia at 10th IAIMTE conference in Denmark in June 2015.
• Special issue of L1 on challenges of students from low SES and/or with multicultural experiences in understanding and speaking, reading and writing.
• Seminar on Oracy held in Leiden, Spring 2018
• Special Issue on Oracy in Educational Studies on Language and Literature 2019
• SIG symposia on writing at 12th ARLE conference in Lisbon, Portugal 2019
• SIG symposia on writing in early childhood education and in the first years of school at the 13th ARLE Conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, 2022.

Future Actions

• Online Brown Bag meetings for PhD-students in literacy field (presentations, feedback, discussions, networking). 3 meeting per year, first meeting 30 Sept. 2022. More info in this flyer.


• Midway seminar on Emergent and Developing Literacy in Patras, Greece, October 2023. (First call will be announced Autumn 2022.)

Coordinators

Jesper Bremholm, Denmark
Senior Researcher, the National Centre for Reading
Information: http://ucviden.dk/portal/da/jesperbremholm
Contact: jbre@kp.dk

Winnie-Karen Giera, Germany
Professor, Department of Inclusive German Didactics, Potsdam University
Information: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Winnie-Karen-Giera
Contact: winnie-karen.giera@uni-potsdam.de

Byeonggon Min, South Korea
Professor, Departement of Korean Language Education, College of Education, Seoul National University
Information: www.edu.snu.ac.kr/node/275
Contact: minbg@snu.ac.kr

Anneke Wurth, Netherlands
Teacher educator, PhD-candidate, Graduate School of Teaching, Leiden University
Information: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/anneke-wurth#tab-1
Contact: j.g.r.wurth@iclon.leidenuniv.nl

Minutes from SIG meetings at ARLE conferences

13th ARLE Conference 2022, Nicosia: Minutes from SIG meeting.

12th ARLE Conference 2019, Lisbon, Minutes from SIG meeting