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Title: Book: Culture and Foreign Language Education
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From http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/460415?format=G
Culture and Foreign Language Education: Insights from Research and Implications for the Practice
Edited by Wai Meng Chan, Sunil Kumar Bhatt, Masanori Nagami, and Izumi Walker
Published by de Gruyter
The teaching of culture and interculturality is today viewed as an integral part of foreign language education. This book presents insights from recent research on the role of culture in second/foreign and heritage language education. It contains 14 chapters including an introductory chapter that discusses diachronically the evolving notion of culture and how the sociocultural view of culture as a complex and dynamic concept informs language teaching and language learning research. The chapters following the introduction are organized in four parts focusing on: 1) the teacher's role in integrated language and culture learning; 2) the interrelationship between culture, identity, and language learning and use; 3) the effect of culture on learner characteristics which impact language learning processes and outcomes; and 4) curriculum development aimed at fostering language and culture learning. The chapters in Parts 1 to 3 present contributions from current research - either in the form of the authors' original studies or comprehensive reviews of relevant essential research - which bears important implications for curricular practice in foreign language and language teacher education. This close link between research, theory and practice is also maintained in the two chapters in Part 4, which present developmental projects based on well-grounded theoretical frameworks.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/460415?format=G
Source: de Gruyter
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Title: Call for Papers: Multiliteracies Pedagogy and the Teaching of Spanish to Heritage Speakers
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From http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-3431.html
Dr. Gabriela C. Zapata and Dr. Manel Lacorte are seeking abstracts (300 words) for research papers (7,000-7,500 words) for an edited volume on the application of the Multiliteracies pedagogical framework (Cope & Kalantzis, 2009; Kalantzis & Cope 2010, 2012) to the teaching of Spanish to heritage speakers in the United States at all levels of instruction.
This book will be the first one that is solely devoted to empirical studies on the application of an established pedagogical approach to the teaching of Spanish to heritage speakers in the United States. More specifically, the main aims of this edited volume are to:
- address the existing research needs in heritage pedagogy
- compile quality research on the application of the Multiliteracies approach to the teaching of Spanish to heritage speakers in the United States
- provide solid guidelines and recommendations for future research in the field.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Studies focusing on:
- The teaching of:
- grammar and vocabulary
- writing
- oral language use
- reading and listening/video-mediated listening
- digital literacies
- teacher education
- community service learning
- Spanish for the professions
- curriculum design
- materials development
Please direct any questions to Gabriela C. Zapata at gzapatacsumb.edu.
Submission deadline for abstracts: October 15, 2015
View the full call for papers at http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-3431.html
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Call for Papers: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics
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From https://sites.google.com/site/gurt2016/home
The 2016 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics will take place March 11-13, 2016, at Georgetown University. GURT 2016 is seeking proposals for papers, posters, colloquia, or works-in-progress that address the theme, “Useful assessment and evaluation in language education” and relate to any of the following topics:
- Language program evaluation at work: Uses, frameworks, methods, examples
- Learning-oriented assessment: Design and evaluation for use in language classrooms
- Student learning outcomes assessment: Accreditation, accountability, and improvement
- Assessment consequences: Investigating the impact of assessments on language learners, teachers, schools, communities, and societies
- Validity evaluation: Determining and improving the quality of assessments in use
- Social dimensions of language assessment
- Assessment innovations for testing new constructs and meeting new demands
The deadline for proposal submissions is October 15, 2015.
View the full call for papers at https://sites.google.com/site/gurt2016/submission
Source: Georgetown University
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Title: American Academy of Arts and Sciences Announces Commission on Languages
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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) has officially announced the much anticipated Commission on Language Learning. This Commission, which was formally requested by Congress last November, will examine the current state of language education in the U.S.
This Commission will gather leading research on language learning from scholarly and professional organizations, meet several times over the course of the next year, and report back to Congress in the summer of 2016 with its findings.
Read more about the commission at http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/american-academy-of-arts--sciences-to-conduct-first-national-study-on-foreign-language-learning-in-more-than-30-years-300120921.html, at http://www.languagepolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/AAAS-Commission-PR.pdf, and at http://languagemagazine.com/?p=124208
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Title: "Hello from Japan!" Exhibit and Programming
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"Hello from Japan!" Exhibit and Programming
June 1 - September 7
The Children's Museum Upstate (Greenville, SC)
The Children's Museum of the Upstate (TCMU) will be hosting the "Hello from Japan!" exhibit, under the support of CGP. The exhibit offers a family-friendly window Japan into Japanese culture. To complement the exhibit, TCMU will be holding public programs that include kamishibai storytelling, manga workshops and a Japanese tea ceremony. For more information about the exhibit and public programs, please go to http://www.tcmupstate.org/portfolio-view/hello-from-japan-coming-may-30/
Source: Japan Foundation
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Title: Call for Applications: Performing Arts Japan 2016-2017
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The Japan Foundation is now accepting project proposals for Performing Arts Japan (PAJ) touring and collaboration grants for the 2016-2017 Japanese fiscal year. Applications are due October 20th. For further details, including guidelines and application, please visit http://www.jfny.org/arts_and_culture/paj.html
Source: Japan Foundation
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Title: 7 Compelling German Drama Series to Practice Your Deutsch
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Veronica Pamoukaghlian writes about why drama series are good for improving your German fluency, and she describes seven series that she recommends: http://www.fluentu.com/german/blog/german-drama-series/
Source: FluentU
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Title: LOGEION: Dictionary Tool for Latin and Greek
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From http://caneweb.org/new/?p=2414
LOGEION (ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ) is a dictionary tool from the University of Chicago that works for Latin and Greek, is indexed to several dictionaries American and European, and gives frequency stats, collocations (other words often found in proximity), and multiple exemplaria in context.
Access ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ at http://logeion.uchicago.edu/. Learn more about it at http://logeion.uchicago.edu/about.html
Source: CANE
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Title: Project Idea: Classics in the News
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From http://bcpublishers.blogspot.com/
Here is a project idea: students make presentations about the classics in current events. Read Part 1 of the project description here: http://bcpublishers.blogspot.com/2015/05/classics-in-news-part-i.html. Part 2, with more specific ideas, is available here: http://bcpublishers.blogspot.com/2015/07/classics-in-news-part-2.html
Source: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
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Title: Digital Latin Library
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The Digital Latin Library (DLL) is a joint project of the Society for Classical Studies, the Medieval Academy of America, and the Renaissance Society of America. The project includes a library of texts and resources, a place where individuals and groups can study and collaborate on projects, a series of volumes published according to a uniform standard, and resources for digital applications.
Visit the Digital Latin Library at http://digitallatin.org/
Source: Digital Latin Library
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