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The Art of English – AATE & ALEA Conference, Perth  2018

Dominic Wyse will be keynoting at this year’s Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) and The Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA) conference in Perth on 8 – 11 July 2018. The conference theme is The Art of English: Language, Literature, Literacy, and the emphasis will be on how to harness and build students’ creativity as part of language, literacy and literary learning. The conference theme has three components:

• English as an Art – explore the power of our written and spoken language and consider the way we incorporate literary and cultural texts in our classrooms.
• English and the Arts – explore the relationships between English and literacy and the dramatic, performance, media and visual arts.
• English through the Arts – explore pedagogical approaches to teaching the English and literacy across the curriculum.