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Title: New Black Box Episode: The Inescapable Case for Extensive Reading
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From http://musicuentos.com/2015/08/blackbox6/
Justin Slocum Bailey has just contributed another Black Box episode: a discussion of Rob Waring’s article “The Inescapable Case for Extensive Reading.” Find out why massive exposure to reading and/or listening materials is important for language acquisition, and how extensive reading differs from more difficult intensive reading: http://indwellinglanguage.com/the-inescapable-case-for-extensive-reading/
Access past Black Box episodes at http://musicuentos.com/blackbox/
Source: Indwelling Language
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Title: New Issue of Scenario Journal for Drama and Theatre in Foreign and Second Language Education
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From http://www.ucc.ie/en/scenario/
Scenario is a bilingual (English–German), fully peer-reviewed on-line journal. The journal's main focus is on the role of drama and theatre in the teaching and learning of foreign / second languages, including the literatures and cultures associated with these languages.
In the latest issue:
Creative Writing and Performance in EFL Teacher Training: A Preliminary Case Study
Improving Learners’ Oral Skills through Two Types of Role-play
Die „Anderen“ im Klassenzimmer: Othering im Kontext von DaZ in der Lehrer/innenbildung
Sounds in the Foreign Language Lesson
Es war 4 mal – Érase 4 veces: Ein Theaterprojekt im DaF-Unterricht der Deutschen Schule Valdivia
The Bullying Prevention Pack: Fostering Vocabulary and Knowledge on the Topic of Bullying and Prevention using Role-Play and Discussion to Reduce Primary School Bullying
Producing Knowledge in Self-Organized Artistic Settings through Performative Research and Artistic Intervention
Theatre as a Place of Self-Empowerment
Access the latest issue at http://research.ucc.ie/scenario/current
Source: Scenario
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Title: Book: Becoming Fluent
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From https://mitpress.mit.edu/becoming-fluent
Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
By Richard M. Roberts and Roger J. Kreuz
Published by the MIT Press
Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don’t seem to work for them. What is an adult language learner to do? In this book, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights from psychology and cognitive science to show that adults can master a foreign language if they bring to bear the skills and knowledge they have honed over a lifetime. Adults shouldn’t try to learn as children do; they should learn like adults.
Roberts and Kreuz report evidence that adults can learn new languages even more easily than children. Children appear to have only two advantages over adults in learning a language: they acquire a native accent more easily, and they do not suffer from self-defeating anxiety about learning a language. Adults, on the other hand, have the greater advantages—gained from experience—of an understanding of their own mental processes and knowing how to use language to do things. Adults have an especially advantageous grasp of pragmatics, the social use of language, and Roberts and Kreuz show how to leverage this metalinguistic ability in learning a new language.
Visit the publisher’s website at https://mitpress.mit.edu/becoming-fluent
Source: The MIT Press
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Title: Book: The Acquisition of Italian
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From https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/lald.57/main
The Acquisition of Italian: Morphosyntax and its interfaces in different modes of acquisition
By Adriana Belletti and Maria Teresa Guasti
Published by the John Benjamins Publishing Company
A major contribution to the study of language acquisition and language development inspired by theoretical linguistics has been made by research on the acquisition of Italian syntax. This book offers an updated overview of results from theory-driven experimental and corpus-based research on the acquisition of Italian in different modes (monolingual, early and late L2, SLI, etc.), as well as exploring possible developments for future research. The book focuses on experimental studies which address research questions generated by linguistic theory, providing a detailed illustration of the fruitful interaction between linguistic theorizing and developmental studies. The authors are leading figures in theoretical linguistics and language acquisition; their own work is featured in the research presented here. Students and advanced researchers will benefit from the systematic review offered by this book and the critical assessment of the field that it provides.
Visit the publisher’s website at https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/lald.57/main
Source: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Title: Call for Chapter Proposals: Educating Refugee-Background Students
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From http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-3142.html
Call for Chapter Proposals: Educating Refugee-Background Students: Critical Issues and Dynamic Contexts
Editors: Shawna Shapiro, Raichle Farrelly, and Mary Jane Curry
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
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This collection will offer an in-depth exploration of key issues in the education of adolescents and adults with refugee backgrounds who have been resettled in the main refugee receiving areas of North America, Australia, and Europe. Until recently, educational researchers have devoted little attention to refugee-background students, despite the high numbers of refugees living in these areas. Although research on other immigrant groups sometimes references refugees and/or asylum-seekers, much of that literature fails to take into account the particular educational backgrounds, migration experiences, and identity preferences of this population (McBrien, 2005). Hence, this volume will address geographic and thematic gaps in existing educational research.
Proposals of 750-1000 words that detail the proposed chapter’s data sources, main argument, theoretical framework and research methodology and follow APA guidelines will be accepted until October 15, 2015.
View the full call for chapter proposals at http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-3142.html
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Call for Papers: 3rd National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language
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From http://3symposiumshl.weebly.com/call-for-papers--convocatoria.html
The Department of ROMANCE LANGUAGES at the University of Oregon cordially invites abstract submissions to the third Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language to be held on February 18-20, 2016. Abstracts will be selected for 20-minute presentations (with 10 minutes for discussion) as well as for poster presentations.
The organizers hope to receive abstracts (in Spanish or English) from researchers, teachers, and students representing all viewpoints and subfields of study to share, discuss, and explore both theoretical and practical knowledge in any area of Spanish Heritage Bilingual Development.
Concurrent with the conference on Saturday, there will be two workshop sessions that aim to provide participants with ideas, resources, strategies, and practical advice for (i) teaching Spanish language courses where both heritage learners and foreign language learners are enrolled, as well as for (ii) the creation and/or improvement of quality language programs that deliver the most optimal learning environment for Spanish heritage learners. There will be separate sessions focusing on K-12, and higher education.
Call deadline: December 2nd, 2015
View the full call for papers at http://3symposiumshl.weebly.com/call-for-papers--convocatoria.html
Source: National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language
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Title: Michigan Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages 2015 Conference
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MITESOL 2015 Conference
Assessing Our Students, Our Programs, Ourselves: How Do We Measure Up?
October 9-10
Michigan State University
Learn more about the conference at http://www.mitesol.org/page-1856121
Source: MITESOL
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Title: Workshop: Language in the Present
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From https://sites.google.com/site/languageinthepresent/home
The University of Victoria invites you to join us in learning and sharing at the Language in the Present (LiP) workshop on September 26th and 27th, 2015, at the University of Victoria.
The LiP seeks to highlight the diversity and vitality of Indigenous languages. It focuses on contemporary expressions of Indigenous languages in conversation, personal stories, and song.
Many knowledgeable and passionate language activists and scholars have been invited to share and explore with us what they know about documenting conversation, personal stories, and song.
For full details go to https://sites.google.com/site/languageinthepresent/home
Source: University of Victoria
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Title: CSCTFL 2016 Scholarship Opportunities
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From http://www.csctfl.org/committees/awards/scholarships.html
The Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages offers several scholarships for professional development:
Cemanahuac Educational Community in Mexico Scholarship
This scholarship is intended to provide an immersion experience for a teacher in a public or private K-12 Spanish program who has shown professional commitment to, and sustained involvement in, the teaching of Spanish language and culture. The award includes registration, tuition for two weeks, housing (double occupancy) with all meals. Other expenses, in addition to airfare, that the recipient would have to cover on his/her own would be transfer to Cuernavaca, a textbook, cultural field study trips and personal expenses. The recipient can attend at any convenient time in 2016.
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Maximizing Language and Cultural Competency through Educational Travel to Peru Academia Latinoamericana de Español
A two-week Spanish language immersion experience and Indigenous Andean Culture or Regional Literature course including a home stay and four (4) hours of instruction per day.
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Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Programme Enseignant
The Enseignant program is a three-week French immersion program designed for teachers and professionals. French courses are given every morning of the week. In the afternoon, participants attend various specialized workshops and/or conferences. Lively and diversified socio-cultural activities are also scheduled over the three week period. Discover Trois-Rivières and its surroundings, Quebec City, Montreal and much more!
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Goethe-Institut Scholarship
This scholarship, available to teachers of German in levels K-16, provides a one- or two-week professional development course at one of the 12 Goethe-Institutes in Germany in 2016; full information about available courses and dates can be found here: http://www.goethe.de/lhr/prj/fid/enindex.htm. The scholarship includes tuition, course materials, housing (varies depending on course location), breakfast every day and one main meal on Monday-Friday, cultural program, public transportation at seminar location, medical, accident and liability insurance for the duration of the seminar, coverage for transport home in case of illness. Not included: transportation to Germany and additional meals. Applicants must be members of AATG.
The application deadline for all scholarships is November 30, 2015.
For full details go to http://www.csctfl.org/committees/awards/scholarships.html
Source: CSCTFL
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Title: CSCTFL Leadership Program
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Strong leadership is a quality that every organization needs in order to thrive. The Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (CSCTFL) has developed a program that will broaden leadership potential in the 16 state region. Participants apply in advance to attend this daylong workshop. This workshop is offered at no additional charge but participants must register for the conference.
During the first half of the workshop, an experienced trainer will introduce the participants to best practices in leadership, including coaching strategies, and mentoring, among others. During the second half, participants will develop their personal strategic vision statement as well as a professional leadership goal for their anticipated leadership role in their school, district, or state organization and a plan to achieve that vision.
Applications should be sent to Martha Pero Halemba by January 10, 2016.
For full details go to http://www.csctfl.org/committees/professional-development/leadership.html
Source: CSCTFL
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