Networking at academic associations and conferences

Personal and institutional membership in academic associations help keep you current in relevant fields. Such associations will be in the areas of literacy, education, and development, or subdisciplines of these.

Here are some objectives of networking at academic associations and conferences:

• To inform professional colleagues of the objectives, methods, problems, and implications of local language literacy
• To have input into their academic debate
• To enable them to adopt a perspective which takes more account of minority language needs

• Attend conferences.
• Present papers.
• Give assessments of funding proposals and contribute to policy making when called upon.

• Task module: Networking at academic associations and conference...
• In task module: Networking at the international level
• In task module: Establishing a broad networking base
• In task module: Networking in a language program, by Clinton D. W. Robinson (contributor), Stephen L. Walter (contributor), Kenneth A. Boothe (contributor), and Trudy K. Stewart (general editor)
• In task module: Assembling a local literacy team
• In task module: Preparing for a literacy program
• In modular book: Prepare for a literacy program, by Stephen L. Walter, Mary Morgan, and Leah B. Walter
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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