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Title: Call for Papers: International Burma Studies Conference 2016
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From http://www.burmaconference2016.com/call-for-papers.html
This year marks the 30th Anniversary of the Center for Burma Studies at Northern Illinois University. To commemorate, this year the Center will host the biennial International Burma Studies Conference, with the theme, “Traditions and Challenges,” at NIU in DeKalb, Illinois from October 7 to 9, 2016.
The Board of Trustees of the Burma Studies Foundation, the Burma Studies Group and the Center for Burma Studies cordially invite you to participate in this exciting conference! We invite papers on all aspects of Burma/Myanmar Studies, broadly defined, including (but not limited to) anthropology, art history, environment, health, history, literature, linguistics, music, political science, popular culture, religions, sociology and area studies.
Submissions are due by April 15.
View the full call for papers at http://www.burmaconference2016.com/call-for-papers.html
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Title: CALICO 2016
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From https://calico.org
The Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium will hold its 2016 conference May 10-14 at Michigan State University. The conference theme is “Evolving Interactions in Digital Language Learning.” Visit the conference website for more details and to register: https://calico.org/page.php?id=456
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Title: Conference: Digital Humanities and Foreign Language Learning
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From https://larc.sdsu.edu/swallt/our-conferences/
Digital Humanities and Foreign Language Learning
April 1 – 2, 2016
Language Acquisition Resource Center, San Diego State University
Language Resource Centers have been a gathering point for the advent of digital technology in the learning and teaching of foreign languages. We have experienced the transformation from analog recording systems and computer based worksheets to the use of locally-based and virtual digital tools. And among these tools are Language Resources, monolingual, bilingual and parallel corpora, translation memories, sites that channel news sources – the list is almost endless. Along with this has come the opportunity for learners to co-create and share content. The language classroom and the language resource center are thus the innovation centers if you will for the foreign language learning curriculum. Above all, language teachers cannot ignore the work being done in creating usable content and applicable tools. And this makes language learning truly cross-disciplinary.
Learn more about this conference at https://larc.sdsu.edu/swallt/our-conferences/
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Title: CI: Comprehensible Iowa Conference 2016
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From https://sites.google.com/site/comprehensibleiowa/home
CI: Comprehensible Iowa Conference 2016
June 18
Nevada, Iowa
The conference theme for 2016 is Growing a Comprehensible Classroom and will be held at Nevada High School in Nevada, Iowa on Saturday, June 18th. The conference will offer three session types: Beginner, Experienced, and EdCamp CI. Beginner sessions are for those world language teachers who have not been to a CI/TPRS training, who have only dabbled in CI/TPRS practices, and those who are not completely comfortable with the basics of CI/TPRS. Experienced sessions are for world language teachers who have been to a CI/TPRS training, who have used CI/TPRS at least a full year in all their classes, and those who feel comfortable with basic strategies. EdCamp CI sessions are designed to be more open-ended and responsive to what attendees want to discuss.
Visit the conference website at https://sites.google.com/site/comprehensibleiowa/home
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Title: NEH Summer Seminar on the Ottoman Empire, Europe and the Mediterranean
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Transcending Boundaries: The Ottoman Empire, Europe and the Mediterranean World, 1500-1800, a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, will take place in Washington, D.C., June 20 – July 15, 2016.
The four-week seminar offers an opportunity to college and university professors (and two advanced graduate students) to integrate stimulating approaches toward Ottoman, Mediterranean and European history. Seminar participants who have broad research and teaching interests in comparative history will develop skills and knowledge that will enable them to integrate the Ottoman Empire into their projects and courses. Outcomes can include an extended analysis of a particular topic geared toward a scholarly or general audience, a bibliographical essay on relevant and new sources, a new or revised syllabus, or any research project that draws from the methods and perspectives of comparative world history. Participants will have sufficient time to work on independent projects using rich archives and library collections in Washington DC (including the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and Georgetown University Library).
Application deadline: March 1, 2016.
For full details go to http://grants.smcm.edu/neh-summer-seminar-2016/
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Title: CALPER 2016 Summer Workshops
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From http://calper.la.psu.edu/Summer_Workshops
The Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research will offer three workshops for foreign language teachers this summer.
Discourse Analysis and the Teaching of L2 Writing
June 13-14, 2016
How to Integrate Explicit Knowledge in the Second Language Classroom: Concept-based Language Instruction (CBLI)
June 15-16, 2016
Teaching Chinese with Authentic Cultural Texts and Materials
June 18, 2016
Registration is open now for all three workshops.
For more details go to http://calper.la.psu.edu/Summer_Workshops
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Title: Online Course for Arabic Teachers: Vocabulary
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From http://files.ctctcdn.com/066b9a0d301/71a96b3c-e0d5-4469-bb4a-fc1f782b07a6.pdf
The spring session of the Aldeen Foundation’s online professional development for Arabic teachers will focus on vocabulary development. It will take place March 7 through April 18th, 2016. The registration deadline is next Monday, February 22. Learn more at http://files.ctctcdn.com/066b9a0d301/71a96b3c-e0d5-4469-bb4a-fc1f782b07a6.pdf
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Title: ACTFL Proficiency Training Summer Institutes
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From http://www.actfl.org/professional-development/professional-development-workshops
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages will be holding summer workshops on its Oral Proficiency Interviews at three locations this summer.
The first will be June 7-10 at Brigham Young University. Languages available are Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Russian.
The second will be July 25-28 at the Ohio State University. Language available are Arabic, English/Mixed languages, French, and Spanish.
Both of the above are 4-day workshops for the full OPI: a four-day professional development workshop designed to introduce language educators to the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI), the ACTFL rating scale, and the techniques for conducting and rating oral proficiency interviews.
The third workshop is for the Modified OPI, which is an intensive two-day introduction to the techniques of administering and rating the Oral Proficiency Interview at the Novice and Intermediate levels. It will take place July 18-19 in Glastonbury, Connecticut.
For details about all three workshops go to http://www.actfl.org/professional-development/professional-development-workshops/actfl-sponsored-workshops
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Title: Teaching Inquiry Through the Study of Endangered Cultures
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What can students learn by studying cultures that are disappearing? In this post, Cleary Vaughan-Lee, Education Director for Global Oneness Project, argues that it affords an opportunity to teach inquiry and global competence.
Read the article at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2016/02/teaching_inquiry_through_the_study_of_endangered_cultures.html
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Title: Portland Somali Program to Offer Maxaa and Maay-Maay
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From http://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-somali-language-program-somalia-education-maxaa-maay/
Portland Somali Program: 1 Teacher, 2 Languages
by Rob Manning
February 2, 2016
Portland’s Somali students have a 58 percent graduation rate, well below the state average. A recent report found 17 percent of Somali students pass state reading exams, and just 7 percent are passing the math exams.
Numbers like that led Portland administrators to answer the Somali community’s call for a language program.
…Last May, educators visited Minneapolis to see their Somali program.
It was a good sign to Musse Olol, with the Somali American Council of Oregon. He was disappointed that Portland didn’t just implement the Minneapolis model and have classes going already.
…But not everyone thought Portland Public Schools could mirror the Minneapolis program.
“If PPS chooses that route, then they’re not addressing the real need here,” said Abdiasis Mohammed, a Portland’s Somali.
What Mohammed calls the “real need” refers to a cultural divide. It’s a split seen in Olol and Mohammed.
Olol, who favored modeling a program after Minneapolis’s, speaks Somali Maxaa, the language of Somalia’s historic elite. Mohammed is part of the marginalized Somali Bantu community. They speak Maay-Maay, a language Minneapolis wasn’t teaching.
Read the full article or listen to the broadcast at http://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-somali-language-program-somalia-education-maxaa-maay/
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