8:30 a.m. Registration and breakfast

9:00 a.m. Introduction (VIDEO)

Elaine Weitzman (Gary – Network researcher)

The Hanen Centre

9:15 a.m. Jessica Ball (VIDEO)

University of Victoria

The Challenge of Creating an Optimal Learning

Environment in Childcare

9:30 a.m. Hillel Goelman (VIDEO)

University of British Columbia

Adult-child interaction in child care: Micro-analyses

and emotional envelopes

10:00 a.m. Monique Sénéchal ( Network researcher) (VIDEO)

Carleton University

Read it again, Pam. On the importance of repeated book

reading for the development of language

10:30 a.m. Kathleen McCartney (video presentation)

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Working title

10:45 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. David Dickinson (VIDEO)

Education Development Centre

Why We Have to Improve Teacher-Child
Conversation in Preschool Classrooms

11:30 a.m. M. Jeanne Wilcox (VIDEO)

Arizona State University

Promoting the Use of Evidence-Based Language

Teaching Practices in Preschool Classrooms

12:00 Lunch

1:00 p.m. Luigi Girolametto (Network Researcher) (VIDEO)

University of Toronto

Language facilitation in childcare settings: A social-interactionist perspective (Luigi Girolametto & Elaine Weitzman)

1:30 p.m. Genese Warr-Leeper (Network Researcher) Part 2 (VIDEO)

University of Western Ontario

Working Title

2:00 p.m. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss the implications of

research findings in small groups with one or more of the research presenters

2:30 Break (on flexible schedule)

3:15 p.m. Sharing – Group Recorders

4:15 p.m. Closing Remarks

Elaine Weitzman

4:30 p.m. Adjournment

This symposium has been made possible through funding by the Canadian Language & Literacy Research Network. For further information on this Network, please visit www.cllrnet.ca.

Enhancing Caregiver Language Facilitation in Childcare Settings

October 18, 2002 - Metropolitan Hotel - Toronto, Ontario