Opening Keynote:
Dr. John Willinsky, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
Title: Another Way of Thinking About the Application of Applied Linguistics: The Case for Open Access to Research
Dr. Willinsky is a major thinker on scholarly publishing practices with a view to understand how this body of knowledge can become more of a public resource for learning and deliberation.
Invited Symposium:
Dr. Keren Rice, OISE, University of Toronto
Title: Revitalizing Aboriginal Languages
Dr. Rice’s work to maintain, revitalize and document Canada’s aboriginal languages has been recognized with the Killam award and the Molson prize.
French Keynote:
Dr. Diane Gérin-Lajoie, OISE, University of Toronto
Title: Identité, langue et pouvoir: Les minorités de langue officielle au Canada
Dr. Gérin-Lajoie’s research focuses primarily on the construction and reconstruction of identity and teaching in language minority settings.