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Title: Reading a Newspaper Article about Current Events
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This activity is designed to aid learners in learning to read news articles using relevant strategies.
Outcome: Learners will be able to use anticipation, annotation, and reflection strategies to synthesize important information from a news article.
Resources: Reading a News Paper Article handout
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- Begin by selecting a news article relevant to the course content. The ideal text would contain images, a clear title, and current information.
- Pre-reading: Have learners anticipate the content based on the look of the article. Begin by asking about characteristics that most newspapers have in common. Then ask learners to guess the content of the specific article based on the images and title.
- During Reading: As learners read, ask them to annotate the article for specific information using the annotation key provided in Step 2.
- After Reading: Have learners go back and check the accuracy of their predictions and then create five 'tweets' (short statements around 140 characters) that summarize what they read and give an opinion.
Source: CASLS Activity of the Week
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Title: Using Mobile Technology for Independent Reading by Mandy Gettler, CASLS Associate Director
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Many students need additional time outside of the classroom to develop their reading proficiency, particularly in languages that have few, if any, English cognates or don't use the Roman alphabet.
"The problem with reading is regularity and frequency," says Co-Director of the Chinese Flagship Program Professor Zhuo Jing-Schmidt.
To give students independent reading practice and increase their exposure to a variety of Chinese characters, the Chinese Flagship Program at the University of Oregon turned to mobile technology. The program introduced a mobile reading component for students who need additional practice. Students download a Chinese new app called Tencent News, read ten news reports per week, and then write a weekly summary with critical comments.
"With the mobile reading component, students can do it on the go and develop a good habit," Professor Jing-Schmidt says of the project.
To download the Tencent News app free of charge, search the iTunes or Google Play store. The Oregon Chinese Flagship Program is funded by The Language Flagship through the National Security Education Program.
Source: CASLS Spotlight
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Title: Book: Interlanguage: Forty years later
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From https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/lllt.39/main
Interlanguage: Forty years later
Edited by ZhaoHong Han and Elaine Tarone
Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company
Few works in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) can endure multiple reads, but Selinker's (1972) "Interlanguage" is a clear exception. Written at the inception of the field, this paper delineates a disciplinary scope; asks penetrating questions; advances daring hypotheses; and proposes a first-ever conceptual and empirical framework that continues to stimulate SLA research. Sparked by a heightened interest in this founding text on its 40th anniversary, 10 leaders in their respective fields of SLA research collectively examine extrapolations of the seminal text for the past, the present, and the future of SLA research. This book offers a rare resource for novices and experts alike in and beyond the field of SLA.
Visit the publisher’s website at https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/lllt.39/main
Source: John Benjamins
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Title: Book: Processing Perspectives on Task Performance
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From https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/tblt.5/main
Processing Perspectives on Task Performance
Edited by Peter Skehan
Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company
Understanding how second language task-based performance can be raised is vital for progress with task-based approaches to instruction. The chapters in this volume all attempt to advance this understanding, and do so within a viewpoint which assumes limited attentional capacities and accounts for second language speaking based on Levelt's model of first language speaking. Six empirical chapters present original studies. They explore the topics of task planning, familiarity of information in a task, task repetition, task characteristics, and the effects of using post-task transcription. The studies interweave with and build upon each other, reflecting their conjoint focus on how second language learning memory and attention limitations shape their performance in using the target language. In the concluding chapter the accumulated findings across these studies are discussed in terms of the nature of preparation for a task, the role of task structure, the respective claims of the Tradeoff and Cognition Hypotheses, the role of selective attention, and the implications of the studies for pedagogy. The book is a central reference for students in psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, and task-based language teaching.
Visit the publisher’s website at https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/tblt.5/main
Source: John Benjamins
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Title: Book: Assessing Intercultural Language Learning
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Assessing Intercultural Language Learning: The Dependence of Receptive Sociopragmatic Competence and Discourse Competence on Learning Opportunities and Input
By Veronika Tempe
Published by Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Although Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) has become a key objective in foreign language (FL) education, curricula offer little in how language teachers can promote ICC through language instruction. This book responds to the challenge of how intercultural language learning can be accounted for more profoundly in FL teaching. By means of innovative intercultural assessments, the author investigates the development of three language competences central to ICC in relation to learning opportunities as experienced by German learners of English. Audiovisual media were found to be a major input factor in the development of intercultural language abilities. The book ends with a discussion of how audiovisual media can be implemented in secondary and tertiary FL and teacher education.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=78444&concordeid=265008
Source: Peter Lang
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Title: New Issue of Heritage Language Journal
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From http://www.heritagelanguages.org
Volume 11, Issue 1 of the journal is on line at http://www.heritagelanguages.org. This general issue has four papers:
- The Discourses of Heritage Language Development: Engaging Ideologies in Canadian Hispanic Communities, by Martin Guardado, University of Alberta
- Adult Spanish Language Learners: A Comparison of Heritage Language Learners and Second Language Learners, by Janet S. Oh, California State University, Northridge, and Bertha A. Nash, University of Central Florida
- College Chinese Heritage Language Learners’ Implicit Knowledge of Compound Sentences, by Lihua Zhang, University of California, Berkeley
- Expressing Causation in Spanish: A Functional Analysis of Heritage Speakers’ Written Production, by Eve Zyzik, University of California, Santa Cruz
Source: Heritage Language Journal
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Title: Call for Papers: Language Documentation and Conservation; Pedagogy in Language Documentation
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From http://icldc4.icldc-hawaii.org
The 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), “Enriching Theory, Practice, & Application,” will be held February 26-March 1, 2015, at the Ala Moana Hotel in Honolulu. The 4th ICLDC is hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
General papers, posters, and electronic posters; NSF-supported Special Sessions on Pedagogy in Language Documentation
1) CALL FOR PROPOSALS: GENERAL CONFERENCE PAPERS, POSTERS, AND ELECTRONIC POSTERS
Proposal deadline: August 31, 2014
Topics
The organizers especially welcome abstracts that address the conference theme, “Enriching Theory, Practice, & Application.” Discipline-wide reflection on the relationship between the documentation linguistic structure and language pedagogy is crucial if the proper documentation and conservation of endangered languages is to be effective. The aim here is two-fold: to create citizen scientists who can reflect on their language for the purpose of teaching and documenting without being hindered by metalanguage, and to enrich the contributions of linguists to linguistic theory and description via documentation.
2) CALL FOR PROPOSALS: NSF-SUPPORTED SPECIAL SESSIONS ON PEDAGOGY IN LANGUAGE CONSERVATION
Proposal deadline: May 31, 2014
Special Session topics and format
This year, the organizers are inviting proposals for a series of four Special Sessions on Pedagogy in Language Conservation. Each session will contain four talks and will be focused on a theme relating to the notion of pedagogy for endangered language teaching.
For full details about both calls for proposals, go to http://icldc4.weebly.com/call-for-proposals.html
Source: NFLRC
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Title: Call for Submissions: Studies in Chinese Learning and Teaching
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From http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-2051.html
The online journal Studies in Chinese Learning and Teaching is now calling for manuscript submission. Here is the web link: http://mlrc.hss.cmu.edu/sclt/Manu.html
Studies in Chinese Learning and Teaching (SCLT) is a free open-access journal that publishes pedagogical reports and research papers in the field of Chinese learning and teaching. SCLT also publishes critical reviews of books and software that contribute to Chinese pedagogy, and student work in their Chinese classes (e.g., essays and calligraphy). In addition, SCLT serves as a forum for Chinese learners, educators and program administrators to exchange thoughts on all aspects of Chinese education.
All articles published in SCLT will be peer-reviewed. The first issue will be released in October, 2014.
View the full call for submissions at http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-2051.html
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Conference and Workshop: SUNY Language PACT: The World and the Classroom
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On June 4-5, 2014, SUNY Global and the Office of the Provost, with the support of the University Faculty Senate, will hold a conference and workshop entitled SUNY Language PACT: The World and the Classroom. This will mark the 3rd annual event held by the SUNY Language PACT, whose mission is to foster collaboration among and across language programs. The SUNY Language PACT aims to increase student access to language study by making the most effective use of SUNY’s vast language offerings, faculty expertise, and technology.
This year’s program will include topical presentations and workshops in addition to two keynotes, one by Sabine Levet of MIT representing institutions of higher education and Candace Black of Eastridge High School, First Vice President of the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers.
For full event details go to http://www.cvent.com/events/suny-language-pact-the-world-and-the-classroom/event-summary-0a53a51db9fa4392b2397ab5cb8ed3da.aspx
Source: SUNY
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Title: Langcamp: Participant-driven Professional Development
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From http://aventurasnuevas.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/langcamp-live-and-in-person
Here is a professional development opportunity that has spun off from the #LangChat Twitter hashtag. Langcamp started as a new Twitter hashtag that teachers could use in the summer of 2013 to share resources with each other. This coming summer a face-to-face Langcamp will take place in Asheville, NC, on July 9-10. According to the organizers, “[A]ll language teachers (including pre-service teachers) are invited to join us. You won’t want to miss two days of high quality participant-driven collaboration in a beautiful family friendly environment. We have a great retreat planned, and we encourage you to bring your families too.”
Learn more about Langcamp at http://aventurasnuevas.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/langcamp-live-and-in-person and at http://sraspanglish.blogspot.com/2014/05/why-langcamp.html
Source: Aventuras Nuevas
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