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The conference will have four key strands:
• Literacies and Literatures: Creative possibilities
• Diversity and voice: Inclusion and representation
• English Teachers @ Work: Tensions, pressures, opportunities
• New Technologies, New Practices
Literacies and Literatures: Creative possibilities
This strand invites contributors to focus on, but not be limited by, one or more of the following sub-themes:
• YA literature and the canon
• Indigenous writing
• Graphic novels and visual texts
• Subject English and Literacy
• The language of literatures
• The place of literature in the NZC
• New frames for English
• Global Englishes in the local classroom
• Poetry on and off the page
• Literacies in a post web 2.0 world
Diversity and voice: Inclusion and representation
This strand invites contributors to focus on, but not be limited by, one or more of the following sub-themes:
• Addressing the needs of minority groups in mainstream English/Literacy classrooms
• Voice in the writing classroom
• Rewriting the canon
• Critical multiculturalism and subject English
• Empowering voices on the margins
• English and Gender
• English and bilingual education
• Family literacies
• Accommodating varieties of English
• Bringing the critical into the English/Literacy classroom
• The politics of representation
• Acknowledging the home literacy practices of students
• Pedagogy for the diverse classroom
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English Teachers @ Work: Tensions, pressures, opportunities.
This strand invites contributors to focus on, but not be limited by, one or more of
the following sub-themes:
• The impact of assessment on teaching and learning
• The impact of outcomes based education on teaching practices
• The relationship between teacher, media and society
• “Best practices” in the teaching of English
• Theories of practice: conceptions of English teaching
• The tension between ‘literacy’ and ‘English’
• Conceptions of English as a subject [secondary and tertiary]
• Teaching English as a subversive activity
• Does subject English have a future?
• Pre-service teacher education
• Induction into the teaching of English
• Teaching English at tertiary level New Technologies, New Practices
This strand invites contributors to focus on, but not be limited by, one or more of
the following sub-themes:
• Impact of digital technologies on teaching and learning
• Challenges and tensions for teachers
• Changing parameters of the classroom
• Transformative possibilities for teaching
• Online learning
• Digitization of literature
• New conceptions of text
• Pedagogy of e-learning
• Co-construction and the digital classroom
• Assessment practices in new times
• Plagiarism, intertextuality and creativity
• The social networking classroom |
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