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Title: Call for Papers: 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
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From http://naacl.org/naacl-hlt-2016/
The 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies will be held in San Diego, California, June 12 to June 17, 2016 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina.
The organizers solicit papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not limited to: automated scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses; game-based instruction and assessment; intelligent tutoring; peer review, grammatical error detection; learner cognition; spoken dialog; multimodal applications; tools for teachers and test developers; and use of corpora. Research that incorporates NLP methods for use with mobile and game-based platforms will be of special interest.
Submission Deadline: March 08, 2016
View the full call for papers at http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/naacl-bea11.html
Source: NAACL
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Title: Chinese Language Education Forum
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From https://www.nanhai.com/clef-attendees-overview/
Every year, the Chinese Language Education Forum (CLEF) brings together world-wide PreK-16 educators and administrators to share best practices, research findings and ideas. Regarded as one of the top conferences of this kind, CLEF is dedicated to providing quality professional development opportunities for the Chinese language education community.
The upcoming CLEF 2016 conference theme is “Literacy: The Core of Global Competency”.
Co-hosted by the Chinese Language Education and Research Center (CLERC) and the Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools (CLASS), CLEF 2016 will take place in San Francisco Bay on April 15-16.
Early bird registration ends January 22, 2016, and online registration will close on March 10, 2016.
For full details about this forum go to https://www.nanhai.com/clef-attendees-overview/
Source: NanHai
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Title: 2016 Online Symposium: Project-Based Language Learning: Inspiring Teachers, Transforming Learning
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From http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/events/view/80/
2016 Online Symposium: Project-Based Language Learning: Inspiring Teachers, Transforming Learning
On January 12-15, 2016, the Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Symposium will bring together experts, educational leaders, and world language teachers to foster the conversation on the potential for PBLL to transform and enhance language education. PBLL's intersections with content-based instruction, task-based language learning, and performance assessment make it an ideal conduit to ground language learning on real needs and measurable outcomes.
The National Foreign Language Resource Center invites language educators, policymakers, researchers, and innovators to join the conversation and help further refine the PBLL framework by anchoring it to issues and ideas that are relevant to language education. This unique FREE online event will provide attendees not only invaluable opportunities to access expertise in PBLL and engage in thought-provoking and constructive dialogues, but also a chance to network with professionals who are passionate about this topic.
The symposium format makes it easy to integrate to busy schedules. Eight engaging presentations are followed by moderated participant discussions online. These interactive sessions are distributed across four days (i.e., two sessions per day). The five participants who most actively participate meaningfully in discussions will receive free enrollment in the Online Institute “Fundamentals of Project-Based Language Learning,” to be held the week after the symposium.
For full details and to register, go to http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/events/view/80/
Source: NFLRC
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Title: December 18 Is World Arabic Day
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This December 18 is World Arabic Day. Learn more about this annual day here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Arabic_Language_Day. Watch a nice video featuring a diverse group of people who speak Arabic and find resources for teaching and advocating for Arabic on the I Speak Arabic website: http://www.ispeakarabic.com/
Source: I Speak Arabic
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Title: Apply Now for Teachers of Critical Languages Program 2016-2017
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From http://tclprogram.org/host-school-application
The Teachers of Critical Languages Program is pleased to announce an open competition for U.S. schools to host an exchange teacher from China or Egypt for an academic year. This program seeks to strengthen foreign language instruction at U.S. schools, while also providing the selected exchange teachers the opportunity to learn about U.S. teaching methodologies, culture, and society. The exchange teachers will teach Mandarin Chinese or Modern Standard Arabic and will also serve as a cultural resource in the host school and community.
Host school applications are due January 25, 2016.
For full details go to http://tclprogram.org/host-school-application
Source: Teachers of Critical Languages Program
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Title: Article: What Makes Materials Authentic?
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What Makes Materials Authentic?
PART 1
Using a Broader Definition to Understand the Value of Children’s Stories
by Heidi Steele
We all recognize the value of integrating authentic materials into the classroom. They can and should form the backbone of our curriculum for teaching Chinese language, making the language real by bridging the gap between the sheltered environment of the classroom and language as it's used "in the wild."
One of the most enjoyable parts of teaching for me is searching out these materials and figuring out how to use them effectively in the classroom.
…In addition to working with these types of authentic materials, I have also begun writing children's stories and using them with my students. …
These children's stories don't meet the traditional definition of authentic. They are not written by or for native speakers. Nonetheless, the stories feel authentic to me, and student feedback and my own observations have led me to believe that these stories promote learning for my students in many ways. Thinking about this made me question our collective understanding of the term "authentic" and wonder whether we might extend the meaning of this word as it relates to world language teaching.
Read the full article at http://asiasociety.org/china-learning-initiatives/what-makes-materials-authentic-part-1
Part two will be coming in a month.
Source: Asia Society
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Title: Japanese Christmas Song: Awatenbou no Santakuroosu
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From http://japanese.about.com
[H]ow do the Japanese celebrate Christmas? It is a time for lovers to have a romantic dinner and give presents, much like St Valentine's Day. The media now really push Christmas Eve as being a time for romance. That's why Christmas Eve is more important in Japan than Christmas day itself. Fancy restaurants and hotels are often booked solid at this time.
Most popular Japanese Christmas songs are for lovers. Here is a Japanese Christmas song for children called, "Awatenbou no Santakuroosu (Hasty Santa Clause): http://japanese.about.com/od/japanesemusic/a/Awatenbou-No-Santakuroosu-Japanese-Christmas-Song.htm
Source: About.com
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Title: Irish Speaker: Death Looms for Irish as a Community Language
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Death knell tolling for Irish as community language – expert
Fluent native speaker disturbed by witnessing the ‘death of Gaeltacht that I grew up in’
by Lorna Siggins
December 7, 2015
One of the last fluent native speakers in the Galway city Gaeltacht of Mionlach believes that Irish has just 10 years left as a community language.
Landscape gardener Pádraig Ó Fathaigh (57) is already the subject of linguistic research, as the youngest speaker retaining complete fluency in his home village of Mionlach or Menlo.
He takes no pleasure in witnessing what he describes as the “death of a Gaeltacht that I grew up in” due to lack of State commitment to Irish and the inseparable dominant influences of urbanisation and anglicisation.
Read the full article at http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/death-knell-tolling-for-irish-as-community-language-expert-1.2456472
Source: The Irish Times
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Title: German Town Tuesday
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From http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/04__W__t__G/03/01/GermanTownTuesday.html
Germany.info’s #GermanTownTuesday series introduces a new German town every week. Through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, @GermanyinUSA followers will learn about a small German city that's worth exploring. Follow Germany.info on social media to see the weekly posts, or check this page for highlights: http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/04__W__t__G/03/01/GermanTownTuesday.html
Source: Germany.info
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Title: Zeit für Deutsch: Resources for Young German Learners
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From http://www.zeitfuerdeutsch.com/
Zeit für Deutsch is German teacher Sean Sullivan’s website. The main focus of the site is his series of lessons for young German learners, each of which begins with a song or a chant and is followed by activities related to the topic. The website includes lesson plans and will soon be adding extras that may be of use to teachers at any level.
Zeit für Deutsch is available at http://www.zeitfuerdeutsch.com/
Source: Zeit für Deutsch
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