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Title: CALL4All Ning Connects Any Language Learners and Teachers Worldwide
Body: Share language learning links, activities, questions, materials to help each other overcome any language or cultural barrier! Uses www.CALL4ALL.us World CALL Clearinghouse to improve learning/teaching of 120 major world languages. This ning is available at http://call4alllanguages.ning.com
Source: CALL4All
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Title: Drama in the Language Classroom
Body: From http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/sharingpractice/d/drama.asp?strReferringChannel=mfle Drama and languages have much in common. As curricular areas, both need their learners to be active, expressive and communicative participants. Using our strategies to teach the four skills of language helps learners to learn the mechanics, but using drama helps them to experience the language. Learn more about using drama in the foreign language classroom and download short plays in French, Italian, and German at http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/sharingpractice/d/drama.asp?strReferringChannel=mfle
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Title: Book: The Discursive Construction of Second Language Learners' Motivation
Body: From http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vLang=D&vSiteID=4&vSiteName=BookDetail.cfm&VID=430063 The Discursive Construction of Second Language Learners' Motivation: A Multi-level Perspective by Minyue Gu Publisher: Peter Lang Verlagsgruppe Summary: This longitudinal qualitative study explores the motivation and identity development of students in a comprehensive university who are learning English as a second language (L2). It is set in the contemporary People's Republic of China. Multiple research methods, including interviews, diary studies and recorded interactions, are employed. The author considers in her study both the impact of broader issues such as globalization and more local social development on language learners at tertiary-level in China, and the effects of discourse and community in constructing motivation. This study combines detailed linguistic analysis with sociocultural theory, together with the concept of communities of practice. In so doing, the author investigates the social, historical, linguistic and individualistic factors that combine dynamically over time to co-construct learners' motivation. A critical discourse analysis approach to exploring language learner motivation presents an enhanced understanding of the relationship between motivation and interaction, providing a line of enquiry and manifold new insights. Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vLang=D&vSiteID=4&vSiteName=BookDetail.cfm&VID=430063
Source: Peter Lang Publishing Group
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Title: Book: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms
Body: From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847692160 Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms: New Dilemmas for Teachers Edited by Jennifer Miller, Alex Kostogriz, and Margaret Gearon Publisher: Multilingual Matters Summary: A critical reality of contemporary education in a globalised world is the growing cultural, racial and linguistic diversity in schools and the issues involved in educating increasing numbers of students who are still learning the dominant language. This poses extraordinary challenges for second and foreign language teachers in many countries, where such students must engage with the mainstream curriculum in a new language. What do these increasingly plurilingual and multicultural classrooms look like? And how do language teachers address the challenges of such diverse classrooms? This book brings together a group of well-recognised language education scholars who present their research in a range of international settings. They focus on the key areas of pedagogy, language policy and curriculum and exemplify new research directions in the field. Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847692160
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Call for Papers: LSP and Professional Communication
Body: From http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-3646.html LSP and Professional Communication Date: 15-Jul-2010 - 17-Jul-2010 Location: Petaling Jaya Hilton Hotel , Selangor, Malaysia The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in Languages for Specific Purposes(LSP) and Professional Communication in the Asia-Pacific Rim and beyond to take part in a dialogue on research and collaboration in academic, professional and workplace contexts. To build a clearer understanding of communication in the workplace it is crucial to have effective collaboration between language experts and trainers and institutions specializing in communication skills. Such collaboration in turn is fundamental to the design and implementation of effective pedagogy, assessment and curricula. View the full call for papers at http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-3646.html
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Call for Papers: European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies 2010
Body: Scholars and students from any field of research related to the South Asian region are invited to participate in the 21. European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (ECMSAS) in Bonn (Germany), July 26-29, 2010. Anyone interested to present her or his research to an academic public should contact one of the panel conveners as soon as possible. Read the full call for proposals at http://www.ecmsas.org
Source: University of Bonn
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Title: Call for Papers: Educating the Future Foreign Language Professoriate for the 21st Century
Body: From http://www.aausc.org/Default.aspx?pageId=237289 Papers are sought for the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators’ 2011 volume. Entitled Educating the Future Foreign Language Professoriate for the 21st Century, this collection takes the 2007 MLA Report and its proposed changes as a point of departure and explores pedagogical and structural means and models for graduate student education in light of the significant changes the FL profession is and has been undergoing. Submission deadline for one-page abstracts is April 1, 2010, and for full manuscripts is September 1, 2010. View the full call for papers at http://www.aausc.org/Default.aspx?pageId=237289
Source: AAUSC
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Title: Call for Papers: SLA Graduate Student Symposium 2010
Body: From http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-3630.html The UW-Madison SLA Graduate Student Organization, in collaboration with the University of Iowa SLA student organization (FLARES), is organizing a graduate student symposium entitled 'Who are we?: SLA in a Global Society' for April 16-17, 2010 at the UW-Madison. Proposals are sought from graduate students of their research that reflects the interdisciplinary and globally expanding nature of the field of SLA. Call Deadline: 30-Dec-2009 View the full call for proposals at http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-3630.html
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Webinar: Head Start 101: Getting Started with Dual Language Learners
Body: *The Office of Head Start National Webinar: Head Start 101/:/ Getting Started with Dual Language Learners in Head Start & Early Head Start*. *From*: Gretchen Gunning – 703-908-8860 or (GGunning@pal-tech.com) *Date*: November 18, 2009 *Time*: 2:00PM – 3:00PM EST *Description*: This webinar is the second professional development opportunity in the year-long series, *Ready for Success: Supporting DLLs in Head Start*. This multi-media series will help programs support the development and learning of dual language learners (DLLs), who are children speaking a language other than English at home. One-third of the enrolled children in Head Start and Early Head Start are DLLs. This Webinar will be divided into four 15-minute segments, each segment focusing on one topic related to DLLs. Topics include: * Program Design and Management – ongoing professional development; using interpreters and translators; and involving parents who speak languages other than English in governance activities. * Learning Environments and Responsive Curriculum – promoting children’s cultural and linguistic identity; supporting the home language and the acquisition of English; and social and emotional development. * Supporting Families – learning from families and building on their strengths; and collaborating with community partners in serving diverse families. * Q and A Later in the year-long series, other topics will be covered including Assessment; Language and Literacy; and Multiculturalism and Diversity. Save the Dates will be distributed in advance of their launch. Click here to register for Head Start 10. To view the webinar after November 18, 2009, please visit the Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center . The Program Preparedness Checklist can also be downloaded during the Webinar and is currently available at the ECLKC website You can start sending questions now to DLLquestions@pal-tech.com. Deadline for submitting questions is *November 6*. Your questions will be answered during the Webinar or on the ECLKC.
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Title: NEH Summer Seminar: Brazilian Literature: Contemporary Urban Fiction
Body: BRAZILIAN LITERATURE: CONTEMPORARY URBAN FICTION An NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, to be held in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, July 5-July 30, 2010, under the direction of David William Foster The seminar will focus on five major works of Brazilian urban fiction, basically from the twentieth century. Through a detailed examination of these works as literary texts that interpret the urban experience in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Curitiba, and Porto Alegre, the seminar will provide 15 participants with an important grounding in Brazilian literature. Participants will be college and university professors of Latin American studies, some of whom may have some familiarity with Brazil. The latter will have the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of Brazilian literature, while other participants will receive a solid introduction to Brazilian culture through major literary texts. Portuguese remains a critical language in the U.S., and both the seminar proper and the language workshop that will be an auxiliary part of the program will contribute toward addressing the critical lack of trained scholars in the field. Contact david.foster@asu.edu for more information. St. George, C. [FLTEACH] Brazilian Literature: Contemporary Urban Fiction. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 31 Oct 2009).
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