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Title: A Strategic Approach to Pragmatics
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The explicit use of strategies can be helpful for learners when focusing on interlanguage pragmatic development.
Objective: To apply a strategic approach to the development of second language pragmatic skills.
Resources: Strategic Approach to Pragmatics resource sheet
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- Work as a class to brainstorm situations in which pragmatic knowledge is important. Some specific examples could include:
- Apologizing for rear-ending a stranger's car
- A greeting in a grocery store or market
- Responding to a compliment
- Use the previous discussion to have learners select a function and complete the Strategic Approach to Pragmatics resource sheet.
- Have learners report their findings to the class to give all a general overview of what each group uncovered.
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Title: UO Flagship Scholar Erik Thorbeck Receives Boren Scholarship by Mandy Gettler, CASLS Associate Director
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The University of Oregon Chinese Flagship Program provides a sequence of language learning instruction designed to help students develop Superior-level proficiency. The Flagship Program emphasizes real-world linguistic and cultural skills so that graduates are prepared to use their Chinese language and culture skills in a professional environment.
This emphasis drew current Flagship student Erik Thorbeck, who will be a junior next academic year, to the program. "I knew that the only way Chinese could truly be advantageous to a professional career was if I was fluent in it," Erik says. In addition to his academic work in Chinese language and culture, Erik is double majoring in Chinese and Planning, Public Policy, and Management.
Erik recently received a Boren Scholarship to support his yearlong study abroad at Nanjing University next year. He will enroll in regular content courses, studying and learning alongside native-speaking peers.
"I'm looking forward to living on my own in a large Chinese metropolitan environment," says Erik. In addition to his academic coursework, Erik will also complete an internship with an organization located in China. "I'll have time to cultivate lasting friendships and really get to know Nanjing."
As a Boren Scholarship recipient, Erik will fulfill the service requirement for the scholarship upon graduating at the UO. He hopes to serve as a Foreign Service Officer for the State Department or work as an analyst for the Department of Defense. "I'm not exactly sure about a dream career, but I'd love to work somewhere where I can help grow the popularity of action sports like skateboarding, mountain biking, and skiing in China."
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: Job Announcement: Hiroshima Jogakuin University
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The Faculty of Liberal Arts, Hiroshima Jogakuin University, invites applications for a full-time contract-basis associate professor, or instructor, starting on September 20, 2014. Applicants, native English speakers with academic background, should have a Master's or Doctor's degree in designated research areas. Please see the attached document or refer to the following websites for more details:
http://www.hju.ac.jp/guide/inc/pdf/20140523-gse.pdf
For inquiries, please contact Professor Izumi Hatano, Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, via email at: hatano@gaines.hju.ac.jp, with the subject: Application for GSE teaching position.
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Title: Job Announcement: Spanish - Stayton High School
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Stayton High School (North Santiam School District 29J) is seeking a Spanish teacher with experience teaching various levels of Spanish 1-4 to high school students. View the full job posting at https://northsantiam.cloud.talentedk12.com/hire/ViewJob.aspx?JobID=55
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Title: Vermont Foreign Language Association Newsletter
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The Vermont Foreign Language Association spring 2014 newsletter is available online at http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a88ba3c75fa2c9d2bb335c20f&id=88c411c5b7&e=27909d11df
In addition to recaps of the 2014 essay contest and convention, find out about professional development opportunities this summer and access an article about teaching methods.
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Title: June 2014 Issue of Language Learning & Technology
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From http://llt.msu.edu
Volume 18, Number 2, of Language Learning & Technology is now available at http://llt.msu.edu/issues/june2014/index.html. It is a special issue on “Game-Informed L2 Teaching and Learning” with guest editors Jonathon Reinhardt and Julie Sykes, CASLS Director.
In this issue:
Digital Gaming and Language Learning: Autonomy and Community by Alice Chik
Can I Say Something? The Effects of Digital Gameplay on Willingness to Communicate by Hayo Reinders and Sorada Wattana
L2 Writing Practice: Game Enjoyment as a Key to Engagement by Laura K. Allen, Scott A. Crossley, Erica L. Snow, and Danielle S. McNamara
Microblogging Activities: Language Play and Tool Transformation by David Hattem
----- COLUMNS AND COMMENTARIES -----
Emerging Technologies
Games in Language Learning: Opportunities and Challenges by Robert Godwin-Jones
Action Research edited by Greg Kessler
Developing Autonomous Learning for Oral Proficiency Using Digital Storytelling by SoHee Kim
Does Second Life Improve Mandarin Learning by Overseas Chinese Students by Yu-Ju Lan
----- REVIEWS -----
Online Teaching and Learning: Sociocultural Perspectives Meskill, C. Reviewed by Emily Hellmich
Handbook Of Automated Essay Evaluation: Current Applications And New Directions Shermis, M. D. & Burstein, J. Reviewed by Li Zhang
Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis Schmidt, T. & Wörner, K. Reviewed by Nina Vyatkina
Open English Reviewed by Paula Winke
----- ANNOUNCEMENTS & CALL FOR PAPERS -----
Announcements News From Sponsoring Organizations
Call for Papers: Special Issue 20(2): LLT 20th Anniversary Special Issue of Special Issues
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Title: Book: Curriculum Development for Legal English Programs
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From http://www.cambridgescholars.com/curriculum-development-for-legal-english-programs-10
Curriculum Development for Legal English Programs
By Halina Sierocka
Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing
This book provides a systematic introduction to the issues involved in designing and implementing courses of English for Legal Purposes. Each chapter highlights a different aspect of the curriculum development process, including syllabus design, taking into account the special role of needs analysis, materials development, and the question of assessing and testing languages for special purposes. In addition, the book provides a brief outline of key concepts in the methodology of English for Specific Purposes, in the context of Legal English in particular. Factors such as the specificity of legal discourse, the roles of ESP teachers, subject-knowledge dilemma, cooperative teaching or language issues are taken into account. The book concludes with a model syllabus for a course of English for Legal Purposes developed by the author as the outcome of a three-year action research program conducted at the Faculty of Law at the University of Bialystok, Poland. The book is informative and reader-friendly, and will serve as a resource and reference book for anybody involved and interested in teaching or researching into English for Legal Purposes.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.cambridgescholars.com/curriculum-development-for-legal-english-programs-10
Source: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Title: Book: Current Research in Applied Linguistics
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From http://www.cambridgescholars.com/current-research-in-applied-linguistics-6
Current Research in Applied Linguistics: Issues on Language and Cognition
Edited by Paula Rodríguez-Puente, Teresa Fanego, Evelyn Gandón-Chapela, Sara María Riveiro-Outeiral, and María Luisa Roca-Varela
Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing
This volume offers a representative selection of the papers presented at the Third ELC International Postgraduate Conference on Language and Cognition (ELC3), held in Santiago de Compostela, 21–22 September 2012. The book is structured into four parts. Part I comprises syntactic studies on the auxiliary verb get in Indian English, the grammar of verbs capable of occurring with or without an object in Contemporary English, and isolated if-clauses. Part II includes two papers dealing with word formation patterns and with crosslinguistic influences on motion expression in English and Spanish. The studies in Part III discuss topics related to second language acquisition, such as the difficulties encountered by Spanish speakers in learning English pronunciation, verbal morphology production by Japanese learners of English, and the effects of elicitation on students’ production of English past tense forms. The papers in Part IV revolve around discourse analysis and psycholinguistics, addressing topics such as automatic sentiment detection, perspectival construal patterns in language and cognition, and the effect of emotional valence on disambiguation processes.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.cambridgescholars.com/current-research-in-applied-linguistics-6
Source: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Title: Call for Papers: International Conference on Didactics of Arabic: Assessment and Horizons
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From http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-2386.html
International Conference on Didactics of Arabic: Assessment and Horizons
30-Oct-2014 - 31-Oct-2014
Montreal/Quebec, Canada
Call for Papers:
Thematic axes to deal with: These are the main focal areas we give on an indicative basis.
1. Didactic Axis:
- Teaching of Arabic in professional contexts: how to meet the new requirements in business, media and public administration areas
- Review of audio-visual media in learning Arabic: difficulties of their use in class
- Evaluation of the six-level learning division proposed by the CEFR (and its adjustment to Canadian universities)
- Review of the existing methods and textbooks available in French and English ''markets''
2. Linguistic Axis:
- Teaching of Arabic language and linguistic transformations (morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic) facing the modern Arabic
- The place of grammar between the evolution of syntactical structures in the media and the rigidity of rules and standards that are taught
- The place of vocabulary, the choice of words, viewing angle, etymology, recurrence, morphology...
- Description of the non-Arabic-speaking public: children, adults, dialect-speaking, of Arabic origin or not, professionals, students...
3. Socio-political and Cultural Axis:
- The political issues that underlie the choice of language registers, diglossia, themes, sociocultural elements...
- The place of performative and communicative acts in the spheres of modern life
- The content of sociocultural skills, worldview, historical aspects, features of civilization and ''interculturality''
Communications can be in French, English or Arabic. They will last for 20 minutes each, followed by 10 minutes of questions.
Deadline of the propositions reception: Sunday, July 6, 2014
View the full call for papers at http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-2386.html
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Title: Call for Papers: Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference
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From http://www.asian-studies.org/Conference/Call-for-Papers.htm
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2015 Conference will be held at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers in Chicago, Illinois March 26-29, 2015. Colleagues in Asian studies are invited to submit proposals for Organized Panels, Roundtables, Workshops, and Individual Papers for sessions to be created by the Program Committee.
The Committee seeks sessions that will engage panelists and audiences in the consideration of ideas, information, and interpretations that will advance knowledge about Asian regions and, by extension, will enrich teaching about Asia at all levels.
The deadline for submission of proposals is THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014 at 5pm EST.
View the full call for papers at http://www.asian-studies.org/Conference/Call-for-Papers.htm
Source: AAS
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