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Call for Papers

Deadline for submission of proposals: October 31st, 2003

The First International Symposium on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education in Latin America aims at promoting an exchange of knowledge in the fields of research and teaching on bilingualism and bilingual education among those who work in majority and minority language contexts in Latin America.

The Organising Committee invites proposals for presentations on any aspect of bilingualism in a Latin American context, or in other contexts which have a direct relationship with Latin America. We welcome papers regarding sociolinguistic studies of bilingual communities and migration, language policy and ideology, language shift, language attrition, developments in bilingual education, bilingual children, sociolinguistic and grammatical studies of codeswitching, bilingual speech processing, etc. We would also welcome experiential, case study accounts of bilingual teaching and learning in classroom contexts.

Please submit a summary of your paper or poster in approximately 50 words and an abstract of no more than 500 words. The abstract should include enough detail to allow reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the proposal. Abstracts will be reviewed by members of the Academic Committee. Oral papers will be allotted 30 minutes, allowing 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. The official languages of the symposium are Spanish and English.

Please complete and submit the enclosed Presenter's Form and abstract to bilinglatam@essarp.org.ar

You will receive notification of acceptance no later than December 15th, 2003. If your proposal is accepted, you should send the full version of your paper before March 12th, 2004.

Registration Fee:
Early registration (before February 29th)
Teachers from ESSARP Schools	$ 100	(Argentine pesos)
Argentine Residents	$ 150	(Argentine pesos)
Non Argentine Residents	US$ 100	(US dollars)
Late registration
Teachers from ESSARP Schools	$ 115	(Argentine pesos)
Argentine Residents	$ 175	(Argentine pesos)
Non Argentine Residents	US$ 125	(US dollars)

Presenter' s Form (Documento Word)