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Title: Join Us at ACTFL 2018
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Each year, CASLS and its sister Language Resource Centers attend the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention. This year’s convention will be held November 16-18 in New Orleans.
The ACTFL Annual Convention provides a unique opportunity for language educators to meet colleagues from across the country, build their professional learning network, and learn from each other as well as national experts.
All of the Language Resource Centers will be sharing one large pavilion in booth 1807. We hope you’ll stop by to find free or low-cost teaching materials, professional development opportunities, assessment and evaluation services, and more from the LRCs!
We look forward to connecting with many of you at ACTFL and hearing about your experiences, which we often use to shape new products and resources.
Source: CASLS
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Title: October 2018 Issue of Humanising Language Teaching
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The October 2018 issue of the online magazine Humanising Language Teaching is available at https://www.hltmag.co.uk/oct18/
Among the articles in this issue:
Adapting Activities for Large Classes: Many Hands Make the Bonfire Brighter, 贾华 Jia Hua, 黄捷 Huang Jie, 邓玉兰 Deng Yulan, 田美娟Tian Meijuan, 彭碧芬Peng Bifen, 邹欣Zou Xin, China
Mobile Phone-ology: Exploring Two Different Apps which Provide Extra Speaking Practice, Nicola Turman, Australia
Pedagogical Puppetry: Playful Tools to Engage Adult Learners of English, Aurora Murphy, Australia
Literature to Expand Possibilities of Developing Abstraction, Eugenia Carrión Cantón, Argentina
Source: Humanising Language Teaching
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Title: Report: Diversifying the Teacher Pipeline: Precollegiate Recruitment
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From http://www.cal.org/resource-center/publications-products/cc-diversifying-teacher-pipeline
Diversifying the Teacher Pipeline: Precollegiate Recruitment - A CAL Commentary
By M. Beatriz Arias
October 2018
School administrators strive to fill their teaching ranks with well-qualified teachers, including those qualified to work with diverse students, students of color, and students who are English learners. This commentary examines how teacher career pathways are extending to high school settings to engage bilingual students and students of color to consider teaching as a career option.
Download the report at http://www.cal.org/resource-center/publications-products/cc-diversifying-teacher-pipeline
Source: CAL
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Title: Book: Modern Arabic Short Stories: An Arabic-English Reader
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From http://lincom-shop.eu/LBR-04-Modern-Arabic-Short-Stories-An-Arabic-English-Reader/fr
Modern Arabic Short Stories: An Arabic-English Reader
Translated by Ali Almanna
Published by Lincom Academic Publishers
Modern Arabic Short Stories: An Arabic-English Reader features a number of short stories written by prominent writers from various countries. Zakariyya Tamir (Syria), Ibrahim Darghuthy (Tunisia), Yousef Idrees (Egypt), Ahmed Al-Faqih (Libya), Ghasan Kanafani(Palestine), Zaid M. Damaj (Yemen), Layla Al-Uthman (Kuwait), Abdulhamid Al-Gharbawi (Morocco), Hasan Dabal (Saudi Arabia), and Jamal Al-Khayyat (Bahrain) are well-known in the Arab World as well as in the West. Some of their works have been translated into many languages.
The potential readership for this bilingual volume is varied. However, the primary target readers are students of Arabic-English translation. The accompanying English translation of the stories makes the volume accessible to all those interested in contemporary Arabic literature, but who are not able to read the stories in the original.
Visit the publisher's website at http://lincom-shop.eu/LBR-04-Modern-Arabic-Short-Stories-An-Arabic-English-Reader/fr
Source: Lincom
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Title: Book: Mixed Methods: Interviews, Surveys, and Cross-Cultural Comparisons
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Mixed Methods: Interviews, Surveys, and Cross-Cultural Comparisons
By Robert W. Schrauf
Published by Cambridge University Press
Attention to cultural variation has become an important source of insight in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Mixed methods research provides an especially sensitive and powerful way to make systematic cross-cultural comparisons, in which qualitative approaches give a window onto cultural meaning and the phenomenological 'feel' of social life, and quantitative methods facilitate hypothesis testing and sophisticated modelling of social and behavioral phenomena. For researchers engaged in cross-cultural projects, this book offers a theory-based approach to integrating 'numbers' and 'text' based on discourse as the originary form of data collection, the method and framework of analysis, and the medium of publication. The book provides concise explanations, targeted examples, step-by-step instructions, and actual analyses of cross-cultural, quantitative survey data and qualitative interview data, with special attention to language(s) and translation as clues to the study of cultural variation.
Visit the publisher's website at https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/research-methods-linguistics/mixed-methods-interviews-surveys-and-cross-cultural-comparisons?format=HB
Source: Cambridge University Press
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Title: Book: Task-Based Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Pragmatics
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From https://benjamins.com/catalog/tblt.10
Task-Based Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Pragmatics
Edited by Naoko Taguchi and YouJin Kim
Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company
This volume is the first book-length attempt to bring together the fields of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and second language pragmatics by exploring how the teaching and assessment of pragmatics can be integrated into TBLT. The TBLT-pragmatics connection is illustrated in a variety of constructs (e.g., speech acts, honorifics, genres, interactional features), methods (e.g., quantitative, quasi-experimental, conversation analysis), and topics (e.g., instructed SLA, heritage language learning, technology-enhanced teaching, assessment, and discursive pragmatics). Chapters in this volume collectively demonstrate how the two fields can together advance the current practice of teaching language for socially-situated, real-world communicative needs.
Visit the publisher's website at https://benjamins.com/catalog/tblt.10
Source: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Title: Call for Papers: KFLC: The Languages, Literatures and Cultures Conference
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KFLC: The Languages, Literatures and Cultures Conference
April 11-13, 2019
University of Kentucky, Lexington
The 71st annual KFLC: The Languages, Literatures and Cultures Conference will be held at the University of Kentucky in Lexington in April. The main feature of the year 2019 conference will be Poetry in Public. Other areas include: innovations in teaching language and culture; literature, folklore or digital culture; virtual arts, cinema studies or performance studies; historical, social and political contexts. Dr. Martha Kelly from the University of Missouri will be the 2019 Russian/Slavic keynote speaker. She will deliver a talk entitled "Opus incertum: Olga Sedakova's Emergent Postcolonial Poetics."
The deadline for sending your abstracts is November 12, 2018. There are also a number of travel grants available for graduate students and contingent faculty.
For more information visit https://kflc.as.uky.edu
Source: University of Kentucky, Lexington
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Title: Call for Papers: Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference
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From http://www.aclacaal.org/francais-appel-de-communications/
Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference
June 3 – 5, 2019
University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC
The Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (CAAL) Annual Conference will be held at the University of British Columbia in June, 2019. CAAL is an officially bilingual association with approximately 200 members from across Canada and elsewhere. CAAL’s objective is the promotion of research and teaching in all areas of applied linguistics across Canada. The 2019 annual conference will be held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver from Monday, June 3 to Wednesday, June 5.
Submission Deadline for Proposals: November 17, 2018
For more information visit http://www.aclacaal.org/francais-appel-de-communications/
Source: University of British Columbia
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Title: Call for Papers: The 4th Purdue Linguistics, Literature, and Second Language Studies Conference
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From http://purduelangconf.wixsite.com/plls/submission-guidelines
The Purdue Linguistics, Literature, and Second Language Studies Conference
March 1-3, 2019
Purdue University
The Purdue Linguistics Association, the School of Languages and Cultures, and the Second Languages Studies Program at Purdue University are going to have the Fourth Purdue Linguistics, Literature, and Second Language Studies Conference (PLLS) in March, 2019 at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. This interdisciplinary conference seeks presentations of original research from graduate students, early career scholars, and established scholars in the theme of “Inform, Perform, Transform.” This theme was chosen because it highlights the informative, performative, and transformative nature of language: language, enabled by its inherent structure and creative and generative power, informs us of cultures, peoples, desires, emotions, material conditions, and power structures, performs identities and subjectivities, and transforms the status quo, be it imbalance, marginalization, tension, or conflict. Other topics in the areas of linguistics, literature, and second language studies will also be considered.
Deadline for Proposal Submission: December 1, 2018
For more information visit http://purduelangconf.wixsite.com/plls/submission-guidelines
Source: Purdue University
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Title: Global Education Conference
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From http://www.globaleducationconference.org/page/2018conference
The eighth annual Global Education Conference, a free online event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, be held Monday, November 12 through Wednesday, November 15, 2018 (November 16th in some time zones). The entire virtual conference will be held online using the Blackboard Collaborate platform.
The Global Education Conference is a collaborative, inclusive, world-wide community initiative involving students, educators, and organizations at all levels. It is designed to significantly increase opportunities for building education-related connections around the globe while supporting cultural awareness and recognition of diversity.
Visit the conference website at http://www.globaleducationconference.org/page/2018conference
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