Welcome

The symposium on "Bilingualism, Bilingual Education and Citizenship in Latin America" will take place in São Paulo, Brazil on July 8,9,10, 2009 at PUC–SP (Catholic University of São Paulo). This third edition of the event brings out a remarkable new feature, which is a pre-conference winter course. The first Bilinglatam Pre-Conference winter school will take place on July 8th  2009 and will offer courses for graduate and undergraduate students and masters and doctors in the various fields of Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teacher Education and Citizenship Education. Students all over the world are encouraged to participate and contribute to the high quality interdisciplinary teaching of the School.

Book of Abstracts  

Programação Geral     

General Information

In similar fashion to BILINGLATAM I and II, which took place respectively in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2004 and in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2006, this symposium aims at promoting the exchange of knowledge in the fields of research and teaching on bilingualism and bilingual education among those who work in majority and minority language contexts in Latin America.
The Organising Committee invites proposals for presentations on any aspect of the central themes, which are: 

• Bilingualism

• Bilingual Education

• Bilingual Teacher Education

• Citizenship Education

There will be three modalities of presentation:

• Keynote sessions (with invited keynote speakers)
• Oral papers (Maximum time, 30 minutes)
• Poster presentation sessions (30 minutes)

English, Portuguese, LIBRAS (Brazilian Sign Language) and Spanish are the official languages of the Symposium.