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Title: Navigating in InterCom
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We hope that you are continuing to enjoy our new format and original content. Some of our subscribers have said that they liked the ability to quickly scan through titles in the old format so that they could jump to articles that most interested them. We’ve added that functionality back in with our Quick Links section. Following general announcements such as this one and our original Topic of the Week, you’ll see this section. Clicking on a title will take you to that article. Once you’ve read that article, you can click on “Back to Quick Links” to return to the listing of all article titles. Don’t forget to also take a look at our Activity of the Week and CASLS Spotlight, which complement the Topic of the Week article.
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Title: COFLT's New Website
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The Confederation in Oregon for Language Teaching has a newly re-designed website. See what’s happening in your state’s professional organization for language teachers, get the latest details on the upcoming spring conference, check out the language specific fora and affiliated organizations, and join if you’re not already a member. Visit the new website at http://publish.pacificu.edu/coflt
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Title: Book: Language in Education
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From http://bloomsbury.com/uk/language-in-education-9781441151940
Language in Education: Social Implications
By Rita Elaine Silver and Soe Marlar Lwin
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing
Teachers in any subject area must have a basic understanding of how language is learned and used in educational contexts because language impacts teaching and learning across all subjects. This book is written specifically for those teachers and teacher trainees learning to teach who want to know more about language learning and use in educational contexts and, especially, those who care about the social implications of language in education.
Chapters address crucial questions that teachers must address:
How is language structured?
How is language learned at home and in school, by first, second and bilingual language learners?
How is language used in classrooms to shape learning?
How does language vary in different regions and due to social characteristics of users?
How can language be used to make meaning in different modes (oral/written) and contexts?
How do language policies intersect with education policies, and how do these impact teachers?
The chapters are full of examples of language use in educational contexts to help readers understand language in action. The examples not only highlight key points, they also provide opportunities for readers to deepen their understanding by experiencing analysis of language. Each chapter closes with a discussion of relevance to educational settings and questions which can be used for in-class discussion or personal reflection. Suggestions for further readings and online viewing are included, and a comprehensive companion website is available.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://bloomsbury.com/uk/language-in-education-9781441151940
Source: Bloomsbury Publishing
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Title: Book: Keeping Languages Alive
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Keeping Languages Alive: Documentation, Pedagogy and Revitalization
By Mari C. Jones and Sarah Ogilvie
Published by Cambridge University Press
Many of the world's languages have diminishing numbers of speakers and are in danger of falling silent. Around the globe, a large body of linguists are collaborating with members of indigenous communities to keep these languages alive. Mindful that their work will be used by future speech communities to learn, teach and revitalize their languages, scholars face new challenges in the way they gather materials and in the way they present their findings. This volume discusses current efforts to record, collect and archive endangered languages in traditional and new media that will support future language learners and speakers. Chapters are written by academics working in the field of language endangerment and also by indigenous people working 'at the coalface' of language support and maintenance. Keeping Languages Alive is a must-read for researchers in language documentation, language typology and linguistic anthropology.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/keeping-languages-alive-documentation-pedagogy-and-revitalization?format=HB
Source: Cambridge University Press
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Title: Book: Automatic Treatment and Analysis of Learner Corpus Data
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From https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/scl.59/main
Automatic Treatment and Analysis of Learner Corpus Data
Edited by Ana Díaz-Negrillo, Nicolas Ballier and Paul Thompson
Published by the John Benjamins Publishing Company
This book is a critical appraisal of recent developments in corpus linguistics for the analysis of written and spoken learner data. The twelve papers cover an introductory critical appraisal of learner corpus data compilation and development (section 1); issues in data compilation, annotation and exchangeability (section 2); automatic approaches to data identification and analysis (section 3); and analysis of learner corpus data in the light of recent models of data analysis and interpretation, especially recent automatic approaches for the identification of learner language features (section 4). This collection is aimed at students and researchers of corpus linguistics, second language acquisition studies and quantitative linguistics. It will significantly advance learner corpus research in terms of methodological innovation and will fill in an important gap in the development of multidisciplinary approaches (for learner corpus studies).
Visit the publisher’s website at https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/scl.59/main
Source: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Title: January/February 2014 Issue of the NCLRC Language Resource Newsletter
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The January/February 2014 issue of the National Capital Language Resource Center’s Language Resource newsletter is available online at http://www.nclrc.org/newsletter.html
In this issue:
“Proficiency is our theme and each of our contributors talks about different ways to get there and why we need to get there. From using the target language regularly, always, daily in class, through the content and resources we choose, to the way we assess progress towards proficiency, it is a certainty that you will find useful ideas and stimulating thoughts in this issue. We've added a few events to our calendar as well.”
Source: NCLRC
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Title: New Journal: Journal of Second Language Pronunciation
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From http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-356.html
The Journal of Second Language Pronunciation is a scholarly journal devoted to research into the acquisition, perception, production, teaching, assessment, and description of prosodic and segmental pronunciation of second languages in all contexts of learning. The journal encourages research that connects theory and practice, enhances our understanding of L2 phonological learning processes, and provides connections between L2 pronunciation and other areas of applied linguistics such as pragmatics, CALL, and speech perception. Contributions focusing on empirical research will represent all portions of the methodological spectrum including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods studies. The journal invites papers on topics such as intelligibility and comprehensibility, accent, phonological acquisition, the use of technology (such as automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech, and CAPT), spoken language assessment, the social impact of L2 pronunciation, the ethics of pronunciation teaching, pronunciation acquisition in less commonly taught languages, speech perception and its relationship to speech production, and other topics.
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: New Journal: International Journal of Learner Corpus Research
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From http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-355.html
John Benjamins Publishing is pleased to announce the publication of a new journal:
International Journal of Learner Corpus Research
The International Journal of Learner Corpus Research (IJLCR) is a forum for researchers who collect, annotate, and analyze computer learner corpora and/or use them to investigate topics in Second Language Acquisition and linguistic theory in general, inform foreign language teaching, develop learner-corpus-informed tools (e.g. courseware, proficiency tests, dictionaries and grammars) or conduct natural language processing tasks (e.g. annotation, automatic spell- and grammar-checking, L1 identification).
IJLCR aims to highlight the multidisciplinary and broad scope of practice that characterizes the field and publishes original research covering methodological, theoretical and applied work in any area of learner corpus research.
IJLCR features research papers, shorter research notes and reviews of books, corpora and software tools. The language of the journal is English. The journal will occasionally publish special issues (for details please contact the general editors). All contributions are peer-reviewed.
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Call for Papers: Northeast Association for Language Learning Technology
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From http://www.neallt.org/neallt2014
The Northeast Association for Language Learning Technology (NEALLT) will hold its annual conference at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA from Friday, March 14 to Sunday, March 16, 2014. The conference will be hosted by the Swarthmore Language Resource Center.
This year’s theme will be “Technology and Language Learning: In the classroom and beyond...” The organizers welcome proposals for presentations and panel discussions on topics including:
- Flipped Classrooms
- Social Networks
- Student Agency - tasks for student expression
- Scaffolding Student Learning
- Emerging technologies
- Resource Center management and design
- Mobile technology
- Online courses
- MOOCS
- Open Educational Resources
Proposal deadline: no later than February 17th
View the full call for papers at http://www.neallt.org/neallt2014
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Title: Call for Papers: 34th Annual Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference
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From http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-456.html
The organizers of the 34th Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference invite submissions for papers to be presented at the conference, to be held Friday-Sunday, May 23-25 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The conference is devoted to presentations and discussions related to the Siouan and Caddoan language families. While all submissions related to the Siouan and Caddoan languages are welcome, submissions that relate to the teaching and revitalization of Siouan and Caddoan languages are especially encouraged.
The deadline for submission is 12 am CST on Sunday, March 23.
View the full call for papers at http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-456.html
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