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Title: CASLS Says Farewell to Long-time Staff Member, Krystal Sundstrom by Mandy Gettler, CASLS Associate Director
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CASLS Online Learning Specialist Krystal Sundstrom began working for CASLS in 2007, writing items for many of CASLS' assessments. Since then, Krystal has become the primary expert on LinguaFolio Online. She has demonstrated a strong commitment to improving language education. In that capacity, Krystal has conducted numerous conference presentations and webinars to help educators reap the benefits of formative assessment. After seven years, CASLS staff wish her a reluctant farewell.
"I will miss the people," Krystal says of her departure. "CASLS has such a wonderful crew of interesting, intelligent people with a wide range of interests. I've enjoyed getting to know everyone, and we have a great team doing great work!"
As a result of continued cuts to federal and state funding for foreign languages and timing of grants, CASLS has been unable to renew some staff contracts, including Krystal's. The unreliable nature of public funding is one of the things Krystal will miss the least about CASLS – along with the standard office fluorescent lighting.
Even without her physical presence, Krystal's legacy will live on at CASLS for many years to come. "I have often been impressed with her easygoing demeanor, no matter what the situation," remarks CASLS Instructional Designer Deborah Cooke. "Her ability to network and make connections and alliances is truly amazing!"
Krystal plans to enjoy time with her two children and growing a garden this summer before diving into her doctoral degree. "I'm a teacher at heart. My specific roles may vary, but I always envision myself teaching others."
We have all certainly learned a lot from Krystal these past years, and we wish her the best of luck completing her doctoral degree and finding her dream position that will allow her to continue her role helping others learn.
Source: CASLS Spotlight
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Title: New Practice Guide: Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School
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Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School is a new practice guide available for free download from the What Works Clearinghouse. This practice guide provides four recommendations that address what works for English learners during reading and content area instruction. Each recommendation includes extensive examples of activities that can be used to support students as they build the language and literacy skills needed to be successful in school. The recommendations also summarize and rate supporting evidence. This guide is geared toward teachers, administrators, and other educators who want to improve instruction in academic content and literacy for English learners in elementary and middle school.
Download the new guide at http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/PracticeGuide.aspx?sid=19
A webinar focusing on the new practice guide will be held on May 1, 2014, 3:00–4:15 p.m. ET. The presenters will cover key recommendations in the areas of academic vocabulary, content-area material, written language, and small-group instructional intervention.
You can register for the webinar at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/64282103478010931
Source: What Works Clearinghouse
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Title: Book: Automated Grammatical Error Detection for Language Learners
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From http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00562ED1V01Y201401HLT025
Automated Grammatical Error Detection for Language Learners, Second Edition
Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies
By Claudia Leacock, Martin Chodorow, Michael Gamon, and Joel Tetreault
Published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers
This volume describes the types of constructions English language learners find most difficult: constructions containing prepositions, articles, and collocations. It provides an overview of the automated approaches that have been developed to identify and correct these and other classes of learner errors in a number of languages.
Error annotation and system evaluation are particularly important topics in grammatical error detection because there are no commonly accepted standards. Chapters in the book describe the options available to researchers, recommend best practices for reporting results, and present annotation and evaluation schemes.
The final chapters explore recent innovative work that opens new directions for research. It is the authors' hope that this volume will continue to contribute to the growing interest in grammatical error detection by encouraging researchers to take a closer look at the field and its many challenging problems.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00562ED1V01Y201401HLT025
Source: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
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Title: New Journal: Researching and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
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From https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/RTCFL/index
In recent years there has been a global upsurge of interest in all aspects of Chinese culture, economy and society and along with this, an increasing demand for instruction in the Chinese language. This new, fully refereed, journal is intended for an international audience of scholars, applied linguists, educators and policy makers engaged with Chinese as a foreign language. It offers a forum for presenting work from a range of linguistic sub-fields related to Chinese linguistics, language pedagogy, second-language acquisition, assessment, teacher training and curriculum design. Teaching and Researching Chinese as a Foreign Language seeks empirical contributions as well as papers that address theoretical and methodological concerns. In additional to articles, the journal publishes book reviews and conference reports. Each issue of this bi-lingual journal will normally include material in both Chinese and English.
This journal will be published in June and December of each year, beginning in 2015.
Source: Equinox
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Title: Spring 2014 Issue of Discourse, the Language Flagship Newsletter
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From http://www.thelanguageflagship.org/content/discourse
The spring 2014 issue of Discourse, the newsletter of the Language Flagship, is available online at http://www.thelanguageflagship.org/sites/default/files/Discourse_Spring%202014.pdf
Learn about languages and STEM, the use of a Language Utilization Report, the 2014 Language Flagship National Student Meeting, and more.
The Language Flagship offers language programs at schools across the United States for undergraduate students in critical languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu. In an effort to build language proficiency for all U.S. students, the program also supports K–12 language programs and curriculum development to improve opportunities for U.S. students to pursue language education. You can learn more about the Language Flagship at http://www.thelanguageflagship.org
Source: Language Flagship
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Title: Call for Presenters: 2014 Miami University Conference on the Teaching of Languages
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From https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tgaut-YHWVjGDE2soUFI5HBPYo5XQF_pCFYr8umSgtE/viewform
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Teacher Education Department at Miami University invite teachers of all foreign languages to present at its 2014 Miami University Conference on the Teaching of Languages (MUCTL): Rejuvenating Language Teaching, Learning and Assessment.
The conference will take place on Friday, October 10, 2014 at The Miami University Voice of America Learning Center located in a suburb of Cincinnati, West Chester, Ohio.
The organizers are seeking presentations that offer direction and practical ideas for experienced or new language educators to use in their classrooms, sharing strategies to rejuvenate, modernize or renew language teaching, learning and assessment. Lead presenters may submit one proposal, but can serve as additional presenters in other sessions.
Your proposal must be submitted by May 1, 2014.
Submit your proposal at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tgaut-YHWVjGDE2soUFI5HBPYo5XQF_pCFYr8umSgtE/viewform
Source: Miami University
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Title: Call for Papers: 22nd Annual COTSEAL-SEASSI Conference on Southeast Asian Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics
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From http://cotseal.net/conference.html
The Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages (COTSEAL) and the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison sponsor the 22nd Annual Conference on Southeast Asian Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics on Friday, July 18th, and Saturday, July 19th, 2014 in 206 Ingraham Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The theme for the conference is "New Challenges in Southeast Asian Language Teaching."
Papers and presentations could address (but are not limited to) the following topics: distance learning, funding issues, classroom management, oral and written discourse issues in language teaching. Each presentation should take no more than thirty minutes (20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for questions and discussion).
Abstract Deadline: May 15th, 2014
View the full call for papers at http://cotseal.net/COTSEAL_conference_call-for-papers_2014.pdf
Source: COTSEAL
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Title: Global Learning Conference
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From http://sites.asiasociety.org/pgl2014
Global Learning Conference
June 27 – 28, 2014
Brooklyn, New York
Asia Society's Global Learning annual conference is dedicated to preparing students to be ready for college and the interconnected world. Hear from experts and access dozens of workshops featuring best practices, partnerships, and ways to advance policies to ensure the next generation is globally competent.
Visit the conference website at http://sites.asiasociety.org/pgl2014
Source: Asia Society
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Title: Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium 2014 Conference
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From https://www.calico.org/page.php?id=492
CALICO Conference 2014
May 6-10
Ohio University, Athens
Open, Online, Massive: The Future of Language Learning?
Visit the conference website at https://www.calico.org/page.php?id=492 for full conference details and to register.
Source: CALICO
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Title: 2014 American Classical League Institute
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From http://www.aclclassics.org/events/2014-acl-institute#
2014 ACL Institute
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia
June 26-28, 2014
Pre-Institute Workshops
June 25, 2014 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm & June 26, 2014 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Acta non Verba: Innovative Techniques and AP Success
AP Latin: Exam Question Types and Latin Reading Skills
Official Minimus Training in the US
Teaching Students to Read Latin in the Digital Age: Embracing the Whole Experience
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June 25, 2014 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Utilitas Scripti: Incorporting Writing into Our Latin Classes...at Any Level!
June 26, 2014 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Create Your Own App!
Catching Them in the Middle 2014: Considering What Textbooks to Use in the Middle
For full details about the entire institute go to http://www.aclclassics.org/events/2014-acl-institute#
Source: ACL
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