Opening Address ⋅ Jean Louis Chiss
Professeur en sciences du langage et didactique du français à l'Université Paris III
Ancien élève de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud, agrégé de lettres modernes, docteur en sciences du langage, habilité à diriger des recherches (HDR), actuellement professeur des universités en sciences du langage et didactique du français à l'université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle. Directeur de l'UFR (Faculté) "Littérature, Linguistique, Didactique", a dirigé le laboratoire DILTEC (Didactique, des langues, des textes et des cultures). Spécialiste de l'histoire des théories du langage et de l'enseignement/apprentissage du français langue maternelle, seconde et étrangère.
Closing Address ⋅ Dr. Shelley Wong
Associate Professor, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Shelley is an active member of the Mason DREAMers Advisory Board at George Mason University and is co-editor of Teachers as Allies: Transformative Practices for Teaching Dreamers and Undocumented Students. New York: Teachers College Press (forthcoming). Dr. Wong taught previously at the Ohio State University and the University of Maryland, College Park. She served as president of TESOL International Association, the largest professional association of ESOL professionals with a network of over one hundred affiliates in the US and around the world. Shelley has conducted collaborative research with teachers in US school districts in the states of Maryland, Ohio and Virginia. She has also conducted collaborative research with teachers in Haiti and Palestine. Her research interests are dialogic inquiry, socio-cultural approaches to literacy and critical multiculturalism and critical discourse analysis.