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Title: 5 Ways the Internet Has Transformed Language Education
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How can you enhance your students’ language learning experience using the Internet? Get some new ideas in this blog post: http://www.thefrenchcorner.net/2014/09/5-ways-internet-has-transformed.html
Source: The French Corner
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Title: Using Peer Review Effectively
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by Julie Sykes, CASLS Director
Peer review has great potential to improve student writing, when used effectively as a reflection and analysis tool. This week we present five basic tips for implementing peer review effectively in your second or heritage language classroom.
1. Avoid an isolated focus on structure.
A common pitfall of the peer review process is an explicit focus on structure and vocabulary. With learners at similar levels, this can lead to the correction of sentences that are already correct or a misuse of words. To avoid this scenario, ask learners to avoid ignore grammar or vocabulary errors they see and, instead, place their reflective attention on organization, style, and audience, all elements they are ready to critique.
2. Provide a template for learners to use when reflecting on their peer's writing.
Utilizing a template to guide the review process does two things – (1) it places emphasis on the areas that are most important to a high-quality final product and (2) moves learners away from the common tendency to focus only on grammar. The template can then be used to reflect on learners' own writing as well.
3. Give weight to the peer review process by evaluating learners on how well they review their peer's work.
Teachers often comment they have removed the peer review process because learners do not take it seriously. Grades, points, or other evaluative mechanisms can be used to place emphasis on peer review as a critical component of the writing process.
4. Have learners apply what they learned in the peer review process to their own writing.
After learners have used the template to reflect on their peer's writing, have them also apply the template to their own product. This evaluation helps learners see additional places they can improve their own writing.
5. Pair learners in an intentional way to ensure the most effective review process possible.
Grouping learners with similar skill sets as well as distributed knowledge can be an effective way of using peer review. Similar skills allow reflection at learners' own level. Distributed skills are most useful in groups of three, where the combination of skills results in a comprehensive review.
Source: CASLS Topic of the Week
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Title: Peer Review Template – A Brochure
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A sample peer review template for a brochure.
Objective: To reflect on a peer's brochure using a guided template.
Resources: Peer Review Template
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- Have learners reflect on one or two peer's final brochures using the template.
- Reflect: Ask learners return to their own writing and revise based on their peer's comments as well as self-reflection on their own writing based on the template.
Source: CASLS Activity of the Week
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Title: Meet Chinese Flagship Student Edan Qian by Deborah Cooke, Instructional Designer
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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.
The emphasis on professional-level Chinese attracted Edan Qian to the program. He graduated in summer 2014 as a Chinese Flagship Scholar with a double major in Chinese and human physiology. Edan found the Flagship Program to be challenging, but in time, his language proficiency grew and he found learning neurobiology in Chinese was no problem.
Edan's most fulfilling time in the program was going abroad to Nanjing University for a term and then interning in a Chinese skateboarding company for a term. "This was another offer from the Chinese Flagship program I could not pass up, for it turned out to be one of the most fulfilling years of my college experience," he says.
Edan urges other students to take advantage of the experience abroad by immersing themselves with Chinese locals in the community. "Find a hobby and then locate someone in the city who you can share the same interest with so that you can both perfect language skills and develop lifelong friendships," he recommends.
Upon graduation, Edan will be traveling to Tibet and East Turkistan with three friends he met while studying abroad. After his travels, he hopes to work in Shanghai with the skateboard company that he interned with during his time abroad in the Flagship Program. Eventually, Edan would love to open a sports rehabilitiation clinic that incorporates traditional Chinese medicine with Western medicine, helping athletes in the action sports industry.
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: Discontinuity in Second Language Acquisition
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From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783092468
Discontinuity in Second Language Acquisition: The Switch between Statistical and Grammatical Learning
By Stefano Rastelli
Published by Multilingual Matters
With a particular focus on the morphosyntactic features of second language, this book discusses the idea that language acquisition is a discontinuous and 'quantized' process and thus that some items might be learned twice, statistically and grammatically. It argues that the switch from one way of learning to another is statistically-driven and grammatically motivated. The volume brings together and discusses insights and evidence from learner corpora analysis and electrophysiological data in an attempt to provide the reader with a unified outlook and it suggests a new, developmentally-oriented interpretation of findings. The topics discussed will be of interest to researchers working in the field of psycho- and neurolinguistics and SLA.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783092468
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Call for Papers: Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society
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From http://apaclassics.org/apa-blog/cfp-2015-aps-university-of-kentucky-and-transylvania-university
The fifteenth annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society will be held April 9-12, 2015 at the University of Kentucky and Transylvania University in Lexington, KY.
Papers in English on any topic in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy are welcome.
The deadline for submissions is Monday, December 1, 2014.
View the full call for papers at http://apaclassics.org/apa-blog/cfp-2015-aps-university-of-kentucky-and-transylvania-university
Source: Society for Classical Studies
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Title: Call for Papers: TESOL /Applied Linguistics Graduate Students Conference
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From http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/engl/talgs/papers.cfm
Call for Papers
12th Annual TESOL /Applied Linguistics Graduate Students Conference
East Carolina University
Saturday February 21, 2015
Research Meets Practice & Practice Meets Research. The organizers encourage submissions from graduate students and professionals whose research and practice fall broadly under the umbrella of applied linguistics and TESL/TEFL. The mission of the conference binds us to prioritize proposals from graduate students and professionals not holding a doctoral degree.
View the call for papers at http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/engl/talgs/papers.cfm
Source: East Carolina University
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Title: Call for Papers: Northeast Modern Language Association 46th Annual Convention
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From https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html
Northeast Modern Language Association
46th Annual Convention
Toronto, Ontario
April 30-May 3, 2015
The 46th Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.
Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2014
View the full call for papers at https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html
Source: NeMLA
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Title: Call for Session Proposals: 2015 American Association for Italian Studies Conference
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This is the first “Call for Sessions” for the 2015 AAIS Conference. The conference will be held in Boulder, CO, March 26-29, and will be sponsored by the Department of French and Italian at the University of Colorado.
At this time, colleagues who want to submit proposals for sessions and roundtables are welcome to write directly to the conference organizer, Valerio Ferme, at his email address: valerio.ferme@colorado.edu. In addition, session and roundtable organizers are invited to publicize their sessions on the AAIS list serve.
Proposals for sessions and roundtables will be accepted until December 1, 2014. Completed sessions and roundtables must be submitted to the conference organizer by January 10, 2015.
In submitting your proposal for a session or roundtable, please include:
- Title of Session or Roundtable
- Organizer: name, affiliation, email address
- Chair (if different from Organizer): name, affiliation
- If completed, name, affiliation, and title of presentation in parenthesis for each participant in the session
- If completed, name and affiliation for each participant in a roundtable
- Any audio-visual equipment needed
By the end of September, the organizers will open the Conference website, where a list of open and completed sessions will be available for perusal.
Please remember: According to AAIS by-laws, you must be members in good standing to propose or participate in a session or roundtable. If you are not a member or you need to renew your membership, please go to: http://www.aais.info/membership/ . The deadline to renew your membership this year will be February 1, 2015.
[AAIS] Call for Sessions and Roundtables: AAIS 2015, University of Colorado, Boulder (March 26-9). AAIS listserv (aais-list-serve@aais.info, 8 Sep 2014).
Source: AAIS
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Title: Texas Classical Association 2014 Annual Meeting
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From http://www.txclassics.org/
The annual meeting of the Texas Classical Association will be held on the Campus of the University of Texas at San Antonio the weekend of November 7-8, 2014. The keynote speaker for the conference will be Dr. Hans-Friedrich Mueller, Thomas B. Lamont Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature at Union College. His textbook Caesar: Selections from his Commentarii De Bello Gallico is now a standard resource for AP Latin instructors across the country.
For more details go to http://www.txclassics.org/
Source: TCA
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