LESLLA 2025 - Travailler ensemble / Working Together

Welcome to LESLLA 2025

We are delighted to welcome you to the LESLLA 2025 Symposium, co-organized by Université Laval and Université du Québec à Montréal. This event brings together experts and practitioners from around the world to share their knowledge and experience in the field. Embracing LESLLA's values in promoting plurilingualism and pluriculturalism, both French and English will cohabit during the event.

Come join the conversation and discover the latest research, practices and policies for LESLLA learners' education. We hope this conference will be a source of inspiration and new ideas for all participants. See you soon!

Call for proposals

LESLLA (Literacy Education and Second Language Learning for Adults) invites all adult L2 literacy researchers, practitioners, professionals and volunteers committed to the advancement of LESLLA research, practice, and policy to submit proposals for LESLLA 20^th Annual Symposium, which will be held in Québec City (Canada) on June 4-5-6, 2025.

LESLLA’s mission is to support adults (i.e., learners age 15+) who are developing literacy skills while learning a new language. With its annual symposium and vibrant online community, LESLLA promotes the sharing of research findings, effective pedagogical practices, and information on policy. The 2025 symposium will be hybrid: virtual and in-person events and presentations will showcase theoretical and practice-based themes, as well as panel discussions and poster sessions.

Proposals should mobilize themes impacting LESLLA learners, teachers and policymakers. The general theme for the 20^th symposium is Travailler ensemble - Working Together encouraging conversations and collaborations between different stakeholders and the learners themselves. We welcome contributions related, but not limited to:

• L2 acquisition for LESLLA learners
• Translanguaging and plurilingual approaches and LESLLA learners
• Minority/heritage languages and LESLLA learners
• Literacy development of LESLLA learners in L1 or L2
• Multimodality and multiple literacies with LESLLA learners
• Health literacy and LESLLA learners
• Teaching approaches including Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for LESLLA learners
• Role of volunteers in language and literacy support in LESLLA teaching and learning contexts
• Professional development, teacher education, and/or volunteer teacher training to work with LESLLA learners
• Assessment and placement of LESLLA students
• LESLLA learners’ inclusion in hosting communities (workplaces, schools, etc.)
• Policies impacting LESLLA learners
• Refugees and asylum seekers in LESLLA contexts
• LESLLA learners agency/autonomy/empowerment/identity

Session Type Descriptions

• Virtual sessions (June 4, 2025):
  • Oral Presentation (30 minutes): A 20-minute Zoom synchronous presentation followed by a 10-minute period for questions and discussion.

• In-Person sessions (June 5-6, 2025):
  • Oral Presentation (30 minutes): A 20-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute period for questions and discussion.
  • Workshop (60 minutes): Presenters will introduce a topic followed by hands-on activities for participants. Questions or discussions must be planned during the 60 minutes time frame, if presenters wish to hold them.
  • Poster Session: Interaction with session attendees. Posters will be available for 60 minutes.
  • Panel Session (60 minutes): A moderator will introduce a topic and ask prepared questions to a group of up to 4 presenters. The moderator will manage response times and facilitate turn-taking. The panel will then discuss questions coming from the audience, and the moderator will end the session with closing remarks based on the discussion.
  • Works-in-Progress (30 minutes): A 10-minute presentation followed by a 20-minute period for feedback and discussion. This format provides a space for researchers, practitioners, policymakers and teacher trainers to share ongoing or planned projects and get feedback from the LESLLA community.

Evaluation criteria

The proposal should:

• Be directly relevant to the LESLLA context, as described above
• Offer the promise of new knowledge or point of view
• Stimulate discussion
• Be focused, well-written, and clearly organized
• (Panel Discussion only) Include a moderator and at least two (2) confirmed panelists

The abstract must be a maximum of 300 words (do not include your reference list). To submit your proposal, please fill out this form. The abstracts can be written in either French or English.

Submissions will be evaluated by two reviewers in an anonymous review process.

Deadline:

Deadline for submission: December 1^st, 2024.

Notification of acceptance: December 20^th, 2024.

Please email leslla2025@gmail.com with questions about proposals or the submission and review process.