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Title: Call for Papers: Northwest Conference on Japanese Pedagogy
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From the JTIT-L listserv:
The 2nd Northwest Conference on Japanese Pedagogy will be held at the University of Washington on May 21-22, 2016.
Conference Theme:
“How Can We Motivate Students? : The Present and Future of Japanese Language Education in North America”（学生のモチベーションを維持するには～北米日本語教育の現状と今後）
Keynote speakers:
Professor Michio Tsutsui (University of Washington)
Professor Junko Mori (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The organizers invite submissions for presentations on any area of Japanese pedagogy, and those related to the conference theme are especially welcome. Presentations should be a maximum of 30-minutes long with an additional 10 minutes allotted for discussion, in English or Japanese.
Please e-mail abstracts in MS Word format with the following information to inishi@uw.edu by March 15, 2016. Please also specify the subject line as “NWCJP Abstract.”
1. Name, affiliation, position, and contact information of the presenter
2. Title of the presentation both in English and Japanese
3. Abstract in the language that will be used for presentation (approximately 300 words in English or 700 characters in Japanese)
4. Necessary equipment other than a data projector
Notification of acceptance will be sent by April 1, 2016.
Best Regards,
Japanese Program
University of Washington
Matsuda, I. Call for Papers: Northwest Conference on Japanese Pedagogy. JTIT-L listserv (JTIT-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU, 21 Jan 2016).
Source: JTIT-L
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Title: ESL Symposium
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From https://www.ncsu.edu/mckimmon/cpe/opd/ESL/index.html
The ESL Symposium will take place May 13-14, 2016, at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. This symposium will bring together as many as 1,000 ESL teachers, specialists, and publishers for an enriching two days of professional development and community-building.
Plenary speakers will address current topics in ESL ranging from curriculum to culture, and participants will engage in discussions sharing knowledge, ideas, and resources with a variety of other ESL professionals.
For full details go to https://www.ncsu.edu/mckimmon/cpe/opd/ESL/index.html
Source: North Carolina State University
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Title: Symposium about Language and Society - Austin
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From http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/salsa/
SALSA XXIV: Raising Voices
April 15-16, 2016
University of Texas at Austin
SALSA is an annual symposium promoting linguistic and sociolinguistic research at the University of Texas at Austin. Originally created through the joint efforts of students from the Linguistic and Anthropology Departments, SALSA has developed into an interdisciplinary conference with contributions from various fields, including communication studies, foreign language education, educational psychology, media studies, speech communication, numerous language departments, and various area, critical race, and gender and identities studies.
Visit the conference website at http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/salsa/
Source: University of Texas at Austin
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Title: Webinar from the American Council of Teachers of Russian
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From http://www.actr.org
ACTR is happy to introduce its first webinar. The webinar, free for ACTR members, will be recorded and made available for all current members.
Proficiency-oriented and Standards-based Assessment
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
In this webinar, Dr. Benjamin Rifkin will present strategies for proficiency-oriented and standards-based assessment. He will demonstrate how assessment data can inform curricular revision, demonstrate the value of language learning to skeptical administrators, and increase enrollments in Slavic language classes.
For full details go to http://www.actr.org/actr-webinars.html
Source: ACTR
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Title: New Jersey Adopts Biliteracy Seal
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‘Biliteracy’ Seal on Student Diplomas Will Recognize and Reward Bilingualism
by John Mooney
January 27, 2016
New Jersey has joined more than a dozen other states that endorse an official seal on high school graduates’ diplomas and other records that signifies they are proficient in a second language.
Known as the State Seal of Biliteracy and signed into law by Gov. Chris Christie last week, the mark is aimed as a way to highlight the language abilities of thousands of New Jersey’s graduates as they enter the workforce and college.
The program started in California in 2012, and now has been adopted by 13 states and is under consideration in a half-dozen more.
Read the full article at http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/16/01/26/biliteracy-seal-on-student-diplomas-recognizes-rewards-bilingualism/
Source: NJ Spotlight
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Title: Experts Call for Action to Preserve, Revitalize Indigenous Languages under Threat of Extinction
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From http://www.un.org/press/en/2016/hr5288.doc.htm
A three-day meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York brought together experts from around the world to identify best practices and recommend ways to preserve and revitalize indigenous languages.
It is estimated that there are between 6,000 to 7,000 oral languages in the world today, but that one dies every two weeks. “Maintaining and revitalizing indigenous languages is essential to keep our shared cultural heritage,” emphasized Lenni Montiel, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The Department organized the three-day meeting, which ran from 19 to 21 January.
During the meeting, indigenous peoples demonstrated various initiatives for keeping their languages alive and made recommendations. They called upon Member States to proclaim an international day and a United Nations decade for indigenous languages in order to raise awareness of the urgent need to keep those languages vibrant and alive. Also recommended was a global fund to support indigenous language initiatives with a focus on community-driven language revitalization projects. The meeting called upon States to implement the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in particular the right to revitalize, use, develop and transmit to future generations the languages, histories, philosophies, cultures and oral traditions of indigenous peoples.
As a matter of urgency, the meeting also called upon the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to prioritize the preservation and revitalization of indigenous languages and initiate practical programs to that end. To frame those efforts, UNESCO should adopt a global policy on engagement with indigenous peoples and include the revitalization and promotion of indigenous languages as an agenda item at UNESCO’s General Conference.
Read the full press release at http://www.un.org/press/en/2016/hr5288.doc.htm
Source: United Nations
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Title: Using Social Media to Reclaim Language
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#SpeakGwichinToMe: Using social media to reclaim language
January 24, 2016
A Gwich'in woman is using social media to get people speaking one of the most endangered languages in Canada.
…"We don't have time to wait for another generation or so to really work on bringing the Gwich'in language back to being spoken more," said 23-year-old Jacey Firth-Hagen.
…She was inspired by the efforts of the Sami — an indigenous people from northern Europe who started a language campaign using hashtag #SpeakSamiToMe. They use Instagram and other social media apps to share photos captioned in the Sami language and translated into Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish languages.
…Scroll through Instagram, Youtube, Facebook and Twitter, and you'll also find other languages being shared as well — like #SpeakTlichoToMe and #SpeakCree, to name just two.
Read the full article here: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/lost-found-and-shared-indigenous-language-speakers-on-the-rise-1.3410203/speakgwichintome-using-social-media-to-reclaim-language-1.3413960
Source: CBC
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Title: American Football Vocabulary in Hebrew
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Just in time for the Super Bowl, here is specialized vocabulary in Hebrew for talking about American football: http://www.english-hebrew-dictionary.com/football-1.htm
Source: Learn Hebrew
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Title: Online Concordance to the Homeric Poems
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Here is Bruce A. McMenomy’s online concordance to the Homeric Poems. Read a fuller explanation of this resource and access it at http://www.scholarsonline.org/~drmcm/homconc/
Source: Scholars Online Educational Resources
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Title: Digital Latin Library at Forum Romanum
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From http://www.forumromanum.org/index2.html
Among the resources on David Camden’s Forum Romanum website is a digital library of Latin literature. The Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum (CSL) is a collaborative project among scholars from a variety of disciplines with the main purpose of creating a digital library of Latin literature, spanning from the earliest epigraphic remains to the Neo-Latinists of the eighteenth century.
Browse the collection at http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/authors_a.html
Source: Forum Romanum
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