(NAME-MCE) International Reading Association July 28-31, 2008 San José, Costa Rica

[Anselmo Villanueva]

22nd World Congress on Reading: Reading in a Diverse World

International Reading Association
  San José, Costa Rica
July 28-31, 2008

Information: http://www.reading.org/association/meetings/world.html

Featured speakers will include:

* President of Costa Rica and a Nobel Prize-winner, Óscar Arias is a widely
respected educator, scholar, and political leader.
* Claude Goldenberg is a professor of education at Stanford University, and
a noted expert on English-language learning.
  * Emilia Ferreiro is well known for her research and theories on literacy
and its importance to a free and democratic society.

More than 170 information-packed sessions, symposia, workshops, and reports
on literacy topics, including:

* Learning Communities
* Research
* Professional Development issues
* Research-to-Practice
* Responding to Diversity
* Teaching Reading