Fw: CONF.- Int'l Conference on Language & Development, Tashkent, Oct. 2003

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From: "Martin Seviour" <[email protected]>
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Subject: CONF.- Int'l Conference on Language & Development, Tashkent, Oct.
2003


> A distribution of: CentralAsia-L - Announcement List for Central Asian
Studies
>
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> CONF.- Int'l Conference on Language and Development, Tashkent, October
2003
>
> [Please note correction: The conference is scheduled to take place in
> October 2003, not in 2002 as indicated in the previous announcement]
>
> Sixth International Conference on Language and Development
> 15-17 October 2003
> Tashkent, Uzbekistan
>
> The Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialised Education of Uzbekistan
and
> the British Council, Tashkent are pleased to announce the Sixth
> International Conference on Language and Development.
>
> The broad themes of the conference will be:
>
>  * Language policy and its relationship to broad issue of national
>    development, language planning, educational provision and
multilingualism
>
>  * The effective design, implementation and evaluation of language and
>    literacy curricula in development contexts.
>
> These issues will be approached from the perspective of policy makers,
> language and literacy educators and that of multi-lateral and bilateral
> donors.
>
> The 2003 conference is the sixth in the series, which commenced in Bangkok
> in 1993 and was followed by Bali in 1995, Langawi in 1997, Hanoi in 1999
and
> Phnom Penh in 2001.
>
> In addition to a full conference programme the organisers will be
arranging
> a variety of package options for participants who would like to visit
> historic cities of Uzbekistan -- Bukhara, Samarkand, Khiva and Urgench
> -- before or immediately after the conference.
>
> For further information please contact:
> Martin Seviour, Deputy Director
> British Council, Tashkent
> E-mail: <[email protected]>
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