Conference Program To download a PDF of the full conference program (including Language in Education Day) click here. Plenary Speaker Program Provisional   Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 0900- 1030   Chris Jordens Clare Painter See Language in Education Program Geoff Williams John Swales 1030- 1100 tea tea tea tea tea 1100- 1300 Parallel papers & colloquia Parallel papers & colloquia " Parallel papers & colloquia Parallel papers 1300- 1415 lunch ASFLA AGM lunch lunch lunch 1415- 1530 Parallel papers & colloquia Parallel papers & colloquia " Parallel papers & colloquia Plenary speaker workshops 1530- 1600 tea tea tea tea tea 1600- 1730 Register Mary Macken-Horarik J R Martin " Theo van Leeuwen Christian Matthiessen 1730- on Brief opening & Ghassan Hage 1800 Continuum launch Equinox launch Education launches AGM & 1900 Congress dinner UTS Brief close   Language in education day July 20, 2005 • University of Sydney 0900 OPENING PLENARY Professor Frances Christie   0930 KEYNOTE SESSIONS Genre in an outcome-based era: re-locating purpose across K-12 curriculum (K. Love) Language, literature and literacy in early childhood: A functional perspective. (J.Torr) Toward an enriched model of scaffolding: Implications for ESL pedagogy (J.Hammond) Genre knowledge and teaching academic writing (B.Paltridge) A grammatical perspective on teaching and learning (J.Polias & B. Dare) Hybrid approaches to teaching language education (A.Thwaite & J. Rivalland) Image/text relations in children’s literary texts and e-texts: Interfacing social semiotic theory and practical literacy pedagogy. (L. Unsworth) Language development in adolescence (B.Derewianka, H. Lewis, K.Cruickshank) Explicit Systematic Quality Teaching (ESQT) through the Application of SFL (B. Miller)   1100 WORKSHOPS Re-locating purpose in K-12 literacy: Issues for teacher professional development. (K. Love & M. Quinn) A functional approach to fostering emergent literacy in Early Childhood education (J. Torr, D. Gibbs, S. Roberts and A. Markowiak) Putting scaffolding to work in ESL pedagogy (J.Hammond & P.Gibbons) Teaching academic writing: an ethnographic perspective (B.Paltridge & L. Woodrow) A grammatical perspective on teaching and learning: Students exploring grammatical metaphor and ESL scope and scales. (J.Polias & B. Dare) Western ways of scaffolding (A.Thwaite & J. Rivalland) New dimensions of children’s engagement with narrative on-line: Using functional semiotics to explore contexts of narrative composition and response. (L. Unsworth, A.Simpson & A. Thomas) Supporting tertiary students & the postgraduate push (E. Thomson, C.Cloran, G. Rando & E.Purser) The Politics of Modelling and Joint Construction. (B. Miller, S. Robinson)   1415-1530 PARALLEL PAPERS   1600-1730 MATERIALS AND METHODS SHOWCASE
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