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Title: Call for Proposals: Southwest Conference on Language Teaching 2016 Conference
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Please join SWCOLT at the Hilton Waikiki Beach Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii, on March 4-5, 2016. Preconference workshops will be March 3.
SWCOLT
in collaboration with
Hawai’i Association of Language Teachers (HALT)
Confucius Institute, University of Hawai'i at Manoa (CI)
National Foreign Language Resource Center, The University of Hawai'i at Manoa (NFLRC)
The Southwest Conference on Language Teaching is a regional foreign language teachers' organization that hosts an annual conference in partnership with state foreign language teacher associations. The participating states in SWCOLT are Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.
Submit a Session Proposal by September 1, 2015.
The proposal form is available at https://swcolt.wufoo.com/forms/swcolt-proposal-form-2016/
Source: SWCOLT
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Title: Call for Workshops and Proposals: NECTFL Conference 2016
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From http://www.nectfl.org/conference
The Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages 2016 Conference will take place in New York City on February 11-13, 2016.
The 2016 conference theme is Developing Intercultural Competence through World Languages and the program will include invited sessions, special presentations by distinguished speakers, and a series of related strand sessions. Strands will be based on small group presentations and discussions around a range of topics that will help participants focus on the development of intercultural competence and intercultural understanding, classroom practice, and curriculum development. There will also be opportunities for those with common interests and languages in PK-16 language education and research to dialogue and share experiences and views around the overall conference theme.
Submit a proposal at https://nectfl.wufoo.com/forms/zm94yve1rbveng/
Source: NECTFL
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Title: Call for Proposals: Language of Business 2016
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From http://www.gala-global.org/conference/
GALA 2016
New York
March 20-23, 2016
GALA's annual Language of Business conferences are advanced educational and networking events where localization leaders discuss best practices and emerging trends in translation, interpreting, localization, and language technologies. The conferences offer an open environment for localization professionals to learn, share, and network.
Conference Theme: Next-Gen Language Services: Changing Needs, Changing Models
The language services industry is experiencing a classic market disruption. The business models of yesterday simply do not fit with the demands of today. Corporations are dealing with challenges like tight budgets, short timelines, and the need for real business intelligence to develop globalization and go-to-market strategies. Vendors are coping with shrinking deadlines, new pricing models, and keeping up with technology. Both are contending with changes in consumer behaviors. And freelance linguists feel the impact of these challenges, and more. How can all stakeholders thrive amidst this change? What will next generation language services look like? Is there a way to create synergy and shared success? The organizers welcome proposals from vendor and client professionals who are willing to share new relationship models, strategies for unifying and simplifying systems, and any expert advice related to harmonizing and optimizing translation, interpreting, and localization business models.
The deadline for proposals is 30 September 2015.
View the full call for proposals at http://www.gala-global.org/gala-2016-call-proposals
Source: GALA
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Title: Call for Proposals: American Association for Applied Linguistics
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From http://www.aaal.org/?page=2016CFP
The 2016 conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) will be held April 9-12 at the Hilton Orlando Hotel in Orlando, Florida.
Proposals are welcome in the following topic strands:
Analysis of Discourse and Interaction
Assessment and Evaluation
Bilingual, Immersion, Heritage, and Minority Education
Corpus Linguistics
Educational Linguistics
Language and Cognition
Language and Ideology
Language and Technology
Language Planning and Policy
Language, Culture and Socialization
Pragmatics
Reading, Writing, and Literacy
Research Methods
Second and Foreign Language Pedagogy
Second Language Acquisition, Language Acquisition, and Attrition
Sociolinguistics
Text Analysis (Written Discourse)
Translation and Interpretation
The submission deadline is August 19, 2015.
View the full call for proposals at http://www.aaal.org/?page=2016CFP
Source: AAAL
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Title: AATSP-Georgia Fall Conference 2015
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From http://www.aatsp-ga.org/id7.html
AATSP-GA
Fall Conference 2015
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Bay Creek Middle School
Strand A: Karen Rowan and TPRS for Teaching and Reaching All Learners
Strand B: Sessions in English, Spanish or Portuguese on literacy, language, literature & culture
Visit the conference website for more information: http://www.aatsp-ga.org/id7.html
Source: AATSP-GA
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Title: ACTFL 2015 Annual Convention and World Languages Expo
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The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages will have its 2015 Annual Convention and World Languages Expo November 20-22 in San Diego, California. Choose among over 700 sessions, visit with vendors of language learning materials and supports, and network with other language professionals. New at this year’s convention:
Career Café: Hosted discussions about the career search process and issues common to young teachers, such as classroom management.
ACTFL Co-lab Zone: Hands-on demonstrations of ACTFL assessment tools.
Social Media Lounge: Hosted tweet-ups on various technology topics.
TOY Talks: Similar to TED Talks, these are talks by past ACTFL Teachers of the Year.
Visit the convention website to learn more and to register at http://www.actfl.org/convention-expo. You will be hearing more about CASLS at the convention as we approach November.
Source: ACTFL
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Title: Book: The Sign Language Interpreting Studies Reader
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From https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/btl.117/main
The Sign Language Interpreting Studies Reader
Edited by Cynthia B. Roy and Jemina Napier
Published by the John Benjamins Publishing Company
In Sign Language Interpreting (SLI) there is a great need for a volume devoted to classic and seminal articles and essays dedicated to this specific domain of language interpreting. Students, educators, and practitioners will benefit from having access to a collection of historical and influential articles that contributed to the progress of the global SLI profession. In SLI there is a long history of outstanding research and scholarship, much of which is now out of print, or was published in obscure journals, or featured in publications that are no longer in print. These readings are significant to the progression of SLI as an academic discipline and a profession. As the years have gone by, many of these readings have been lost to students, educators, and practitioners because they are difficult to locate or unavailable, or because this audience simply does not know they exist. This volume brings together the seminal texts in our field that document the philosophical, evidence-based and analytical progression of SLI work.
Visit the publisher’s website at https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/btl.117/main
Source: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Title: Sign Language Approved as a Foreign Language in New Jersey High Schools
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From http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/08/sign_language_approved_as_a_foreign_language_in_nj.html
Sign language approved as a foreign language in N.J. high schools
by Christopher Baxter
August 11, 2015
Taking sign language in high school will now count toward students' foreign language requirements for graduation, under a new law signed Monday by Gov. Chris Christie.
The bill (S1760) requires high schools to let students fulfill their foreign language graduation requirement by taking sign language courses instead of spoken languages like Spanish or French.
Read the full article at http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/08/sign_language_approved_as_a_foreign_language_in_nj.html
Read here about efforts for similar legislation in Pennsylvania: http://www.centredaily.com/2015/08/09/4869295_park-forest-middle-school-student.html?rh=1
Source: nj.com
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Title: Beginner Thai Video Series
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From http://blogs.transparent.com
Here is a series of videos by Transparent Language introducing new learners to Thai: http://blogs.transparent.com/thai/beginner-thai-video-series/
Source: Transparent Language
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Title: Book: The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader
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From https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415593786
The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader: A Genre-Based Approach to Reading as a Social Practice
By Noriko Iwasaki and Yuri Kumagai
Published by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader: A Genre-Based Approach to Reading as a Social Practice is designed for intermediate to advanced learners of Japanese and presents twenty-five authentic texts taken from a wide range of media and literary sources, which promote a deeper understanding of Japan among readers. The book is divided into ten genre-based chapters, allowing the learner to focus on the textual features relevant to that genre.
The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader emphasizes reading as a purposeful social act, which requires readers to make meaning of the text by considering the authors’ choices in language (scripts, vocabulary, styles) in the text. The learners are guided to situate each text in society (for example, the author, target audience, social-cultural background related to the subject) in order to understand the social significance of reading and writing. This book aims to help learners develop the ability to critically read and write in Japanese for their own social purposes. It is suitable for both class use and independent study.
Visit the publisher’s website at https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415593786
Source: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
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