LPREN News and Events

News and Events

Selected news and information of interest to LPREN members will be posted in this section, including updates about conferences. If you have information you would like to be included, please email lpren@cal.org.

Does the United States Need a Language Policy?
by Bernard Spolsky, Professor Emeritus, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Read the report.

3rd International Conference on Language, Education and Diversity (LED 2011)
November 22 - 25, 2011
University of Auckland, New Zealand
This international conference focuses specifically on the impact of increased cultural linguistic diversity, at both the national and supranational levels, and its consequences for the theory, policy, and practice of language education.

For details of the conference, visit the conference website.

Featured presentations

Wednesday, November 23, 2011
LPREN Colloquium: Gaps Between Research Evidence and Language Education Policy
Bernard Spolsky and Terrence Wiley
1:40 – 4:55 pm

Thursday, November 24, 2011
Assessing Educational Language Rights in the United States: Two Steps Back – One Forward
Terrence Wiley
11:20 – 11:50 am

Read the full conference program.