WG2 Meeting #4, Lyon
Keynote Speaker
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Christiane Donahue, Dartmouth College, United States, short-bio
Christiane Donahue has been a writing program administrator in one form or another since 1992 in the United States. At the same time, she has pursued scholarship, including her PhD in Linguistics, in France. Her work with French research laboratory THEODILE-Cirel (Théorie-Didactique de la Lecture-Ecriture) at l’Université de Lille and her participation in multiple European research projects, networks, conferences and collaborations informs her understanding of writing instruction, research, and program development in European and US contexts. She is Director of the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA, where she teaches writing and focuses on research about writing, translingualism, cross-cultural comparisons, and research methods.
Harriet Jisa, University of Lyon, France, short-bio
Harriet Jisa is Emeritas Professor of Linguistics at the Université Lumière-Lyon 2 and member of the laboratory "Dynamique du langage" (UMR 5596 - CNRS) and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She received a PhD from the University of Southern California in 1985, a French Doctorat in 1989 and an Habilitation in 1992 from Université Lumière-Lyon 2. Her research interests include language development in monolingual and bilingual children, the development of narrative competence and the impact of literacy on children's grammatical competence.
Kausalai Wijekumar, Texas A&M University, United States, short-bioDr. Kausalai Kay Wijekumar is Professor of Teaching, Learning and Culture at Texas A&M University and Director for the endowed Center for Urban School Partnerships (CUSP). She is a passionate advocate for excellent educational experiences for all children with a focus on those growing in poverty, urban areas, and multi-cultural settings. She has numerous grant funded research projects to improve reading comprehension and writing with monolingual and bilingual learners using technology supported solutions for schools. Her grant portfolios total over 50 million dollars of funding from multiple agencies and have focused on literacy and areas of virtual learning systems. Her recent work to improve content area reading comprehension has achieved great success and been noted by US News and World Report as one evidence based approach in technology innovations. Dr. Wijekumar was elected to serve on the School Board of the Quaker Valley School District in Western Pennsylvania for two terms. Most recently she has developed large scale MOOCs to disseminate evidence based practices to teachers and school leaders worldwide. |
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Agenda Thrusday, November 16
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Friday, November 17
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