Emcee:  Susan Malone, SIL International

Opening ceremony

Welcome speech
Professor Napatawn Banchuin
Vice President of Mahidol University
Report
Dato’ Dr. Ahamad bin Sipon,
Director of SEAMEO Secretariat
Opening Remarks
Dr. Chinapat Bhumirat,
Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Thailand

Keynote “Languages in and for education: The importance of language development and use”

Dr. Sheldon Shaeffer,
Director of UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education

1. Mr. Ik Pahon Joyik,
   Bidayuh Language Community, Sarawak Malaysia
2. Attorney Liezeil Zabanal,
   Agutaynen Language Community, Philippines
3. Dr. Richard Littlebear,
   Northern Cheyenne Language Community, USA
4. Mr. Muhammad Shafiq Khalil,
   Punjabi Language Community, Pakistan

Session I

Room A. Language and Education Policies
Moderator:  Tariq Rahman

• 11.00-11.30 : Ricardo Ma Nolasco (Philippines).  The prospects of multilingual education and literacy in the Philippines
• 11.30-12.00 : Anna Smeby (General).  Local languages and national policies in early childhood education in Asia

• 11.00-11.30 : Lynn Harata Te Aika (Aotearoa New Zealand).  Sustaining language and culture through indigenous perspectives on environmental education and working in partnership with Māori tribal communities in teacher education
• 11.30-12.00 : Savi Munjal (India). Afganistan’s endless war: A post 9/11 perspective

• 11.00-11.30 : Doerthe Schilken (China).  The impact of language switch in early schooling on the cognitive development of children aged 5-7
• 11.30-12.00 : Te Hurinui,Clark (Aotearoa New Zealand). Issues of retention in mainstream secondary school Māori language programmes: A pilot research project

• 11.00-11.30 : Pamela Mackenzie (India). Mother tongue-based multilingual education among tribal minorities in India
• 11.30-12.00 : Joseph Khakha (Bangladesh).  Training mother tongue teachers: Strategies and challenges in Bangladesh

• 11.00-11.30 : David Bradley (China) Language policy for China’s minorities: Orthography development for the Yi
• 11.30-12.00 : Isara Choosri (Thailand).  The use of Northern Khmer in community radio programs in Thailand

Session II

Room A. Language and Education Policies
Moderator: Jenny Jones

• 13.00-13.30 : Cidalio Leite (Timor-Leste).  Commitment to helping children learn in Timor-Leste
• 13.30-14.00 : Noriah Mohamed & Nor Hashimah Hashim. "Language policy, language planning and the use of non-dominant languages in Malaysia: Sihan versus Standard Malay

• 13.00-13.30 : Todd Saurman & Mary Beth Saurman (Asia, general). Incorporating relevant cultural art forms and oral traditions into community-based education programs
• 13.30-14.00 : Ernest Toquero and Elena Toquero (Philippines). The Yogad and Gaddang rituals of Isabela: Meaning and significance

• 13.00-13.30 : Graham Cameron (Myanmar).  Demonstrable developmental gains
• 13.30-14.00 : Katy Anis (Timor-Leste).  Assessment of the effectiveness of USAID Small Grants literacy and numeracy programs in Timor-Leste—2005-2007

• 13.00-13.30 : Jan Noorlander & Wain Churk (Cambodia).  Cambodia’s Highland Community Education Program
• 13.30-14.00 : Patricia Kelly ( USA ). Multilingual literacy education: A help or a hindrance to national unity?

• 13.00-13.30 : Fredrick Boswell (Solomons).  Cheke Holo orthography: Ethnic language community decision-making and the role of trained linguists
• 13.30-14.00 : Umberto Ansaldo & Lisa Lim (Sri Lanka). Preserving and revitalizing creole languages: The experience of Sri Lanka Malay

Session III

Room A. Language and Education Policies
Moderator: Ricardo Ma. Nolasco

• 14.00-14.30 : Harsha Kathard, Daisy Pillay & Mershen Pillay (Republic of South Africa).  Language-in-education policy and practice: Learning from South African classrooms
• 14.30-15.00 : Ayaz Muhammad Rana (Pakistan).  Punjabi language: Government policies and traditional multilingual classrooms in Pakistan

• 14.00-14.30 : Nikhat Shameem (Fiji).  The role of technology in data gathering for post-colonial language-in-education policy and planning, a case study
• 14.30-15.00 : Greg Dekker and Rose Dumatog Camacam (Philippines).  A multilingual education policy pathway: Working from pilot project toward national policy

• 14.00-14.30 : Nor Hashimah Hashim (Malaysia). Testing reading comprehension in students' mother tongue
• 14.30-15.00 : Ng Bee Chin (Singapore).  Linguistic pragmatism, globalisation and the impact on the patterns of input in Singaporean Chinese homes

• 14.00-14.30 : Barbara Trudell (Africa general).  Local-language adult literacy programs and sustainable development in Africa
• 14.30-15.00 : Goihan. (China).  The quest to improve the trilingual education system in ethnic minority schools in Inner Mongolia: Energizing the mother tongue

• 14.00-14.30 : OPEN
• 14.30-15.00 : Paulette Hopple. (China-Burma border). Linguistic variation among a highly endangered speech community: Angkuic people of the Palaungic sub-branch of Mon-Khmer

Session IV

Room A. Working Session: Language and Education Policies

• 15.30-17.00 : Kimmo Kosonen, Facilitator

• 15.30-16.00 : Samantha Ross Hepworth. (Tanzania).  Absorption or displacement: Kiswahili and minority languages in Tanzania
• 16.00-16.30 : Manuel Noronha & Ian Chaplin (Macau).  Preserving and interpreting intangible cultural heritage in an ethnolinguistic community:  The case of the Portuguese language, patois and creole in Macau
• 16.30-17.00 : Diane Gordon-Burns (Aotearoa New Zealand).  Notable  descendant ancestresses of Tainui—their stories and how these have been maintained

• 15.30-17.00 : Dennis Malone, Facilitator

• 15.30-16.00 : Helen Pinnock (General).  Mother tongue-based multilingual education: how can we move ahead?
• 16.00-16.30 : Muhammat. (China).  The challenges of bilingual education in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China
• 16.30-17.00 : Muhammed Zaman Sagar (Pakistan). A multilingual education project for Gawri-speaking children in northern Pakistan

• 15.30-16.00 : Willem Buring (Indonesia).  Melayu Papua: A hidden treasure
• 16.00-16.30 : Richard Littlebear.(Cheyenne). Language as an instrument for cultural preservation
• 16.30-17.00 : OPEN

Emcee: Katy Webley, Save the Children UK

Plenary Panel “Language and Language-in-Education Policies”

1. Dr. Andrew Ikupu,
   Department of Education, Papua New GuineaDr.
2. Dr. Bernard Spolsky,
   Professor Emeritus, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
3. Mr. Dhir Jhingran,
   Asia Regional Director, Room to Read, India
4. Edilberto C de Jesus,
   Former Director of Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Secretariat, Philippines

1. Tariq Rahman,
   Distinguished National Professor, Quaid-I-Azam University . Pakistan
2. Susan Malone,
   Multilingual Education Consultant, SIL International

Session V

Room A.  Language and Education Policies
Moderator: Harsha Kathard

• 11.00-11.30 : Vu Thi Thanh Huong (Vietnam).  Ethnic minority languages in Vietnam: Policy and implementation issues
• 11.30-12.00 : Pushparani Subramaniam  (Malaysia).  Implementing vernacular languages through ICT in national schools to fulfill the Education Development Master Plan (EDMP) in Malaysia

• 11.00-11.30 : Dorji Thinley (Bhutan).  Secondary students’ response to oral literature in their mother tongue: Insights and observations from an action research project in a Bhutanese school 
• 11.30-12.00 : V. Jayarajan (India.  Teyyam and oral tradition

Room C. Work Session: Research and Evaluation

• 11.00-12.00 : Dennis Malone, Facilitator

Room D.  Multilingual Education
Moderator: Muhammed Zaman

• 11.00-11.30 : Noro Andriamiseza (General).  Mother tongue matters: UNESCO’s actions in mother tongue instruction to promote inclusion and enhance quality learning for children in linguistically diverse societies
• 11.30-12.00 : Colleen Koolaard &  Poh Suan Soh (China).  Four mother tongue-based bilingual education projects in China: Introducing the Bai, Dai, Dong (Kam) and Dongxiang pilot MLE projects in the P.R. China

• 11.00-11.30 : Martin Hosken  (Mainland South East Asia).  Minority languages in the digital age:  Unicode update
• 11.30-12.00 : Yogendra Yadava. (Nepal). Linguistic survey of Napal

Exhibition of language and education materials
Participants are invited to view and learn about materials that have been produced for language development, language revitalization and multilingual education programs around the world

Session VI

Room A. Language and Education Policies
Moderator: Greg Dekker

• 14.00-14.30 : Quentin Williams (Republic of  South Africa).  Debating multilingualism in a transformative South Africa
• 14.30-15.00 : Yogenda Yadava (Nepal).  Linguistic diversity in Nepal: Perspectives on existing language policy

• 14.00-14.30 : Anna Smeby (Asia, General).  The use of early childhood standards to support mother tongue-based multilingual education in Asia
• 14.30-15.00 : Mere Kepa & Linita Manu’atu. (Aotearoa New Zealand). Talanoa Mālie: An innovative ‘space’ in early childhood education for revitalising and maintaining Tongan language and culture in the University

• 14.00-14.30 : Quynh Thi Ngoc Nguyen. (Vietnam).  Towards a workable theoretical framework for the teaching of Vietnamese as a second language for ethnolinguistic minority learners
• 14.30-15.00 : Daisy Pillay, Harsha Kathard & Mershen Pillay (Republic of South Africa).  “Troubling Communication”: Exploring spaces for socially just dialogue

• 14.00-14.30 : Lynn HarataTe Aika (Aotearoa New Zealand).  Reo Kura: Developing teachers' Maori language proficiency and tribal dialect proficiency in an in-school professional development programme
• 14.30-15.00 : Suwilai Premsrirat (Thailand). Language for national reconciliation: A role for Pattani Malay in formal education in Thailand's Deep South

• 14.00-14.30 : David Blundell (Taiwan, Philippines).  Endangered languages in revitalization, development and mapping with local indigenous communities of Taiwan, Orchid Island, and the Batanes
• 14.30-15.00 : Mayuree Thawornpat (Thailand). Orthographies for "endangered languages" in Thailand: A case study of Lavua at Pa Pae Village, Mae Hong Son Province

Session VII

Room A. Work Session: Language and Education Policies

• 15.30-17.00 : Kimmo Kosonen, Facilitator

Room B: Work Session: Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage

• 15.30-17.00 : Catherine Young and Susan Malone, Facilitators

Room C: Language development and Language revitalization
Moderator: David Bradley

• 15.30-16.00 : Karsten Legère (Tanzania).  Language endangerment in Tanzania: The case of the Vidunda language
• 16.00-16.30 : Mershen Pillay, Harsha Kathard & Daisy Pillay (Republic of South Africa). Loss across language colonies: A Tamil past, A Xhosa present,  An Arabic present-perfect
• 16.30-17.00 : Sue Hasselbring (General).  Fostering acceptance of written standards by speakers of all dialects

• 15.30-16.00 : Erona Paschal, Poonam Paschal & Lalchand Paul (Pakistan).  Mother tongue-based multilingual education in southern Pakistan:  The Parkari program
• 16.00-16.30 : Anne Thomas (Cambodia).  Community ownership strengthens multilingual non-formal education in the Cambodian Highlands
• 16.30-17.00 : Lou Chunfang (China).  Bilingual education in Qinghai Province, China

Room E. Multilingual Education
Moderator: Dinh Phuong Thao

• 15.30-16.00 : Dat Bao (Thailand, Australia).  A proposed framework for enhancing teachers’ preparation for classrooms with language minority students
• 16.00-16.30 : Eliott Prasse-Freeman (Thailand).  Building community-based support systems that facilitate sustainable multi-ethnic education opportunities: Experiences of EDC and partners in Phang Nga, Thailand 2007-2008
• 16.30-17.00 : Katy Anis (General). Layers of access; layers of learning: Literacy and second language acquisition.

Work Session:  Multilingual Education (Room E)
Susan Malone and Carol Benson, Facilitators

Work Session:  Language Development and Language Revitalization-focus on  ICT (Room E)
Martin Hosken, Facilitator

Emcee:  Jan Noorlander, CARE International, Cambodia

Plenary Presentation “Designing effective schooling in multilingual contexts: An alternative to bilingual models”

1. Dr. Carol Benson,
   International Consultant in Multilingual Education, Sweden

1. Dr. Dennis Malone,
   International Consultant in Multilingual Education, SIL International

Session IX

Room A. Language and Education Policies
Moderator: SEAMEO

• 10.30-12.00 : SEAMEO Secretariat: Ahamad bin Sipon, Kimmo Kosonen, Catherine Young, Yolanda Quijano, Suchin Petcharugsa (Southeast Asia). Using the mother tongue as bridge language of instruction in Southeast Asia: Policy, strategies and advocacy

Room B. Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage
Moderator: Mary Beth Saurman

• 10.30-11.00 : Charmaine Kaimikaua (Hawai’I, USA).  The politics of preserving cultural heritage:  Communicating identity through public performance of the Hula for Diaspora Hawaiians
• 11.00-11.30 : Bagly Arsenio and Glenn Stallsmith (Philippines). Performing living traditions: A music and dance troupe of the Kalanguya,  Northern Philippines
• 11.30-12.00 : OPEN

Room C. Multilingual Education
Moderator: Joseph Khakha

• 10.30-11.00 : Luz Jimenez Quispe (Bolivia).  Indigenous knowledge and wisdom to improve quality of education in rural communities of Bolivia
• 11.00-11.30 : Mahendra Mishra (India).  Mother tongue-based multilingual education in Orissa:  From theory to practice
• 11.30-12.00 : Nguyen Thi Bich & Dinh Phuong Thao (Vietnam).   National networking and advocacy strategy on mother tongue-based multilingual education 

Room D. Multilingual Education
Moderator: -

• 10.30-11.00 : Kay Ringenberg (Indonesia). Planning and implementing MT-Based MLE programs for children and adults in Indonesia
• 11.00-11.30 : Mathura Bikash Tripura (Bangaldesh).  Shishur Khamatayan: children’s right to quality education in their mother tongue
  
• 11.30-12.00 : Open

Room E. Language Development and Language Revitalization
Moderator: David Blundell

• 10.30-11.00 : Katy Anis. (General). Layers of access; layers of learning: Literacy and second language acquisition
• 11.00-11.30 : Bhim Narayan Regmi (Nepal). Developing a Devanagari-based multi-language orthography for Nepalese languages 
• 11.30-12.00 : Kees Jan Bos, Mirjam Bos and Christina Page (Cambodia). Community based orthography development: Experiences from the Kuy in Cambodia

Session X

Room A. Working Session:  Language and Education Policies

• 13.00-14.30 : Kimmo Kosonen, Facilitator

Room B. Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage
Moderator: Ernesto C. Toquero

• 13.00-13.30 : Schedar Jockson (Philippines).  Further steps towards preserving oral literature
• 13.30-14.00 : Marc Wetz (Southeast Asia).  The need to go beyond language: including local/indigenous culture in the school curriculum
• 14.00-14.30 : Hemanga Dutta (India). A sociolinguistic appraisal of vocabulary items used in Assamese folk songs and proverbs

Room C. Research and Evaluation
Moderator: Alice Eastwood

• 13.00-13.30 : Sangsok Son (India).  Learning through first language and linguistic and scholastic Achievement:  The case of children in Pattani Language Community, India
• 13.30-14.00 : Daisy Pillay, Harsha Kathard & Mershen Pillay (Republic of South Africa). "Troubling Communication": Exploring spaces for socially just dialogue
• 14.00-14.30 : OPEN

Room D. Multilingual Education
Moderator: Helen Pinnock

• 13.00-13.30 : Arjen Lock (Papua New Guinea).  Building a responsive life-embracing infrastructure for MLE:  The Abau program of Papua New Guinea
• 13.30-14.00 : Nthatisi Bulane (Republic of South Africa).  Code-switching in South Africa’s township schools
• 14.00-14.30 : Sara Elene Mendoza (Mexico). Indigenous literacy in Mexico: Critical aspects from planning to educational practice

• 13.00-13.30 : Lucy Bulang & David Lian Labang (Malaysia).  Community efforts in developing and financing an MLE Project: the Kelabit language of Sarawak, Malaysia
• 13.30-14.00 : Gratien G. Atindogbé (Cameroon). First look at a Barombi orthographic system
• 14.00-14.30 : Mark Karan (General).  The importance of motivations in language revitalization efforts

Session XI

Room A. Language and Education Policies
Moderator: Nikhat Shameem

• 14.30-15.00 : Jenny Jones (Kenya).  Teachers’ response to the implementation of the Kenyan language-in-education policy in a multilingual context
• 15.00-15.30 : Lienjang Zette (India). Language policy and northeast India as a melting pot of languages

Room B. Multilingual Education
Moderator: Carl Grove

• 14.30-15.00 : Diane Dekker, Stephen Walter & Norma Duguiang (Philippines).  The “bridge” to Filipino and English: Initial results of the First Language Component MLE program in the Philippines
• 15.00-15.30 : Leela Pradham (Nepal). A study of the educational situation for ethnic minority children in selected primary schools of Nepal

Room C. Research and Evaluation
Moderator: Daisy Pillay

• 14.30-15.00 : Sriwilai Ponmanee (Thailand).  Coaching a teacher in a multilingual school setting: A case study from a school in Pai District, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand
• 15.00-15.30 : Gardiye Hewage  Asoka  (Sri Lanka).  Needs survey on promoting Mother Tongue-Based Bilingual Education (BE) in Sri Lanka

Room D. Multilingual Education
Moderator: Doerthe Schilken

• 14.30-15.00 : J. Aleta R. Villanueva & Ani Rosa Almario (Philippines). Dual language education program models in Philippine progressive schools
• 15.00-15.30 : Marilyn Gregerson (Cambodia).  A multilingual non-formal program for language minority students in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia: 10 years and going forward

• 14.30-15.00 : Duk Geun Cha. (Cambodia). Orthography development challenges in Western Cham
• 15.00-15.30 : Talib Jan (Pakistan). Present and future of Indus Kohistani

Summary of the Conference

Jan Noorlander, Provincial Coordinator, CARE International, Cambodia

Closing