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Title: CASLS Staff Reconnect with Mission and Plan for Future by Mandy Gettler, CASLS Associate Director
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CASLS staff gather each year to reconnect with the center's mission – improving world language teaching and learning – and to set goals and strategic priorities for the upcoming year. The retreat used a hot air balloon theme as a metaphor for the importance of connecting ideas and vision with action and results.
During the first portion of this year's annual meeting, staff articulated their vision for the center's direction and shared their hopes for the future. The second half of the retreat included discussions on how to define results for each project and put concrete action plans in place.
The strategic directions for CASLS include work focused around four cornerstone areas.
- Place-based Learning: The place-based learning cornerstone provides a research-based model for the use of place-based experiences in language teaching and learning contexts. Projects within this cornerstone area increase students' access to language interaction outside of the classroom.
- Articulation and Collaboration: The articulation and collaboration cornerstone seeks to enhance collaboration between two- and four-year higher education institutions and articulate language program outcomes between Lane Community College and the University of Oregon, both located in Eugene, Oregon.
- Innovative Assessment: The innovative assessment cornerstone expands available assessment instruments and provides resources their effective integration into the classroom.
- Professional Development: The professional development cornerstone provides educators with practical, research-based information and resources about language instruction.
Source: CASLS Spotlight
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Title: September Theme: Writing
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We hope that your school year is getting off to a great start! Our InterCom theme for September is writing. We start off this month with a reminder from Greg Kessler that writing happens in many contexts, including with social media. In coming weeks we'll learn more about the writing process, peer review, a tool for improving writing in certain genres, and correction and feedback.
Source: CASLS
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Title: Writing a Review
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Learning to write an online review can be helpful and meaningful for learners utilizing resources in the target country.
Objective: To analyze and produce an appropriate review for a restaurant, movie, or product.
Resources: Writing a Review resource sheet
Procedure:
- Pre-writing: Work with learners to highlight key features of an online review. They should investigate models online and compare features of different types of reviews.
- Writing: Have learners select one restaurant, movie, or product to review and write a review with the characteristics they identified in the pre-writing phase.
- Peer Review: Have learners work in pairs to give feedback on their partner's review. Emphasis should be placed on content and organization and not micro-level grammar points.
- Revise: Learners revise review based on peer and expert feedback.
- Post-writing: Have learners share their reviews and select the best restaurant, movie, and product from the reviews.
Source: CASLS Activity of the Week
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Title: CASLS Says Farewell to Instructional Designer Deborah Cooke by Mandy Gettler, CASLS Associate Director
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Deborah Cooke joined CASLS team in March 2011 as an instructional designer. She was responsible for the web design and deployment of a Chinese online language learning program for high school students called Hermes. Deborah also served as project manager for the development of face-to-face Chinese Flagship Program courses offered at the University of Oregon and putting them into an online format.
Deborah will be leaving CASLS at the end of September. "I will miss the collegial atmosphere and Director Julie Sykes' vision and management style," Deborah says about her departure. "The interaction with faculty and students has enriched my experience with the planning, design, and deployment of courses."
Staff appreciate Deborah's positive attitude and consistent willingness to help on any project.
Interim Chinese Flagship Coordinator and former Japanese Global Scholars Coordinator Patrick Deegan recalls a time when the two attended an event in Portland, Oregon, to recruit high school students for a summer program at the University of Oregon. "We came away with a handful of names, which was a good step forward," Patrick recalls. "Much of that was due to Deborah's endless positivity and her willingness to press forward despite the odds."
As a local artist, Deborah enjoys creative ventures and painting. She also enjoys spending time with her sixteen-year-old son. She would love to one day visit Paris and spend time at a small rural school in Nepal, where she has developed a STEM course.
Source: CASLS Spotlight
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Title: September 2014 Issue of Language Magazine
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The September 2014 issue of Language Magazine is available online at http://languagemagazine.com/?p=104311
In this issue:
Testing Reformed
Lance Knowles explains how advances in technology and cognitive neuroscience allow us to assess and modify the quality of learning and practice
Animating All Kids
Gregory van Zuyen reports on the way Terry Thoren and Rudy Verbeeck are using cartoons to help teach language skills and learning habits in class
Arabic for America
Carine Allaf outlines the benefits and challenges of learning Arabic at K–12
Arabic at Large
They may be at opposite ends of the Arab world, but both Morocco and Oman offer international students the cultural experience of a lifetime within safe environments
Grading in a Perfect World
Myron Dueck, Paul Thomas, and Melissa Tomlinson offer their ideas of testing utopia
Testing Form and Function
Tests come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, so here’s a reference guide to help supervisors, administrators, and teachers choose Common Core–aligned assessments
Last Writes Richard Lederer and Caroline McCullagh on a star-spangled bicentennial
Source: Language Magazine
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Title: New Issue of TESL-EJ Available Online
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From http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume18/ej70/ej70fromed/
A new issue of TESL-EJ, an electronic journal for English as a second language, is available at http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/
Feature Articles:
Teachers’ Views on Digital Educational Tools in English Language Learning: Benefits and Challenges in the Turkish Context
Yi-Ching Pan, Learner Washback Variability in Standardized Exit Tests
The Effect of Teachers’ Beliefs and Sense of Self-Efficacy on Iranian EFL Learners’ Satisfaction and Academic Achievement
Self-Regulated Learning, Goal-Oriented Learning, and Academic Writing Performance of Undergraduate Iranian EFL Learners
Metaphor and Second Language Learning: The State of the Field
Source: TESL-EJ
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Title: Book: The Routledge Handbook of Educational Linguistics
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From http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415531306/
The Routledge Handbook of Educational Linguistics
Edited by Martha Bigelow, Johanna Ennser-Kananen
Published by Routledge
The Routledge Handbook of Educational Linguistics provides a comprehensive survey of the core and current language-related issues in educational contexts. Bringing together the expertise and voices of well-established as well as emerging scholars from around the world, the handbook offers over thirty authoritative and critical explorations of methodologies and contexts of educational linguistics, issues of instruction and assessment, and teacher education, as well as coverage of key topics such as advocacy, critical pedagogy, and ethics and politics of research in educational linguistics. Each chapter relates to key issues raised in the respective topic, providing additional historical background, critical discussion, reviews of pertinent research methods, and an assessment of what the future might hold.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415531306/
Source: Routledge
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Title: Book: The Impact of Self-Concept on Language Learning
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From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783092369
The Impact of Self-Concept on Language Learning
Edited by Kata Csizér, Michael Magid
Published by Multilingual Matters
This volume highlights the effects of self-concept on L2 learning and teaching by considering a wide range of theories as well as their practical application. The book includes chapters discussing various approaches related to self-concept; empirical studies related to the selves of the learners; research from the teachers' perspective on students' self-concept and L2 motivational intervention studies associated with the development of self-concept of language learners.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783092369
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Call for Session Proposals: National Chinese Language Conference
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From http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a9f6c180278a62e01d817ae4b&id=564135453f&e=99bce3790b
2015 National Chinese Language Conference
April 16–18, 2015 in Atlanta, GA
The success of the National Chinese Language Conference is built upon the innovation, best practices, and shared experiences of educators and administrators in the field. Share your ideas and successes by leading a session at the 2015 NCLC.
The organizers are seeking proposals in the following areas:
Assessment
China across the Curriculum
Curriculum and Instruction
Partnerships and Community Engagement
Program Models and K–16 Articulation
Research
Teacher Development and Sustainability
In addition to the conference-style breakout sessions, a few special sessions will be offered at the 2015 NCLC. These events will offer a platform for speakers to highlight their work in a less formal, highly interactive setting:
Teacher Swap Shop
Technology Forum
Deadline for Submission: October 24, 2014
For full details go to http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a9f6c180278a62e01d817ae4b&id=564135453f&e=99bce3790b
Source: Asia Society
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Title: Call for Papers: Special Issue of Language Learning & Technology
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From http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-3434.html
In 2016 Language Learning & Technology will be celebrating its 20th year of publication. In honor of that event, we are planning an anniversary ''special issue of special issues,'' revisiting the most popular special issue themes from the past two decades. We triangulated data from a public poll in April, a poll of the editorial board, & the log of downloads from 2013 to arrive at the following themes:
- The Role of Computer Technology in Second Language Acquisition Research
- Computer-Assisted Language Testing
- Learner Autonomy & New Learning Environments
- Technology & the Four Skills
- Technology & Oral Language Development
- Technology & Listening Comprehension
- Technology & Learning to Read
- Technology & Learning to Write
The issue will include two types of contributions for each of the four themes: a review article by an invited expert and a research article selected through the normal peer review process for a total of eight articles.
Submission deadline for abstracts: October 1, 2014
View the full call for papers at http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-3434.html
Source: LINGUIST List
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