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This bilingual report gives highlights of the 1987 International seminar on Literacy in Industrialized Countries, including presentations by speakers, reports from workshops, descriptions of work in eight other countries and a complete resource list of participants.

LITERACY CONFERENCES

Launching the Literacy Decade: Awareness into Action
The Second North American Conference on Adult and Adolescent Literacy March 21-23,1991
Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta As a follow-up to the conference held in Washington D.C. in January 1990, the International Reading Association is hosting a second conference on adult and adolescent literacy to help launch the 1990s as the Literacy Decade. More information regarding calls for proposals and registration will be available soon.

Responsibilities for Literacy: Communities, Schools and Workplaces
Pittsburgh Hilton & Towers (Pittsburgh, Penn.) 13-16 September 1990 $55.00 For more information, or to register, write: Modem Language Association
10 Astor Place New York, NY, USA 10003-6981

Literacy in a World of Change
Stavanger, Norway
24-26 October, 1990 Sponsored by the Centre for Reading Research
The aim of the conference is to narrow the gap between literacy researchers, policy makers and practitioners, and to increase the public awareness of illiteracy as a major cultural problem. For more information write: Stavanger Forum Postboks
410 N-4001 Stavanger, Norway

The Literacy Conference, 1990
Launching the '90s
Edmonton Convention Centre,
Edmonton, Alberta
October 9-12, 1990

If you would like to submit a proposal for a presentation
or if you wish more information, contact:

The Literacy Conference (Grant MacEwan
Community College Seventh Street Plaza Campus)
208,10030-107 Avenue, Edmonton, Alta. TSJ 3E4

EDUCATION EXCHANCE

Linda A. Wright, a lecturer in the Adult Education Service of the London Borough of Corydon seeks a partner to participate in a job exchange sponsored by the League for the Exchange of Commonwealth Teachers. Her current post is primarily concerned with the in-service training of teachers of English as a Second Language, but also includes organizational and developmental work, as well as some regular classroom teaching. If you are interested in participating, please contact Linda at 3 Mellows Road, Wallington, Surrey United Kingdom SM6 8PS

Date of exchange would be
September 1991.

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