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Title: Book: Assessing Foreign Language Students’ Spoken Proficiency
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From http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811003011
Assessing Foreign Language Students’ Spoken Proficiency: Stakeholder Perspectives on Assessment Innovation
By Martin East
Published by Springer
This book presents an in‐depth study of assessment innovation and its impact on teaching and learning. The context is New Zealand, and the focus is additional languages other than English and the recent introduction of a radical new assessment of students’ spoken proficiency, called interact. The book crosses the traditional theoretical and methodological boundaries associated with language testing research, which focuses on assessment performance, and presents an alternative approach where stakeholders become the center of interest. It advances our understanding of how assessment innovation impacts on two key groups - teachers and students in schools - based on data collected from a substantial two‐year research project. It presents an account of these stakeholders’ perceptions of the validity and usefulness of the new assessment in comparison with the more traditional test that it has replaced. Assessing Foreign Language Students' Spoken Proficiency makes an outstanding and original contribution to the field of second and foreign language teaching, providing a theory and research-based account of the development of a learner-centered approach to oral proficiency assessment.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811003011
Source: Springer
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Title: Book: Written Corrective Feedback for L2 Development
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From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783095032
Written Corrective Feedback for L2 Development
By John Bitchener and Neomy Storch
Published by Multilingual Matters
Written corrective feedback (CF) is a written response to a linguistic error that has been made in the writing of a text by a second language (L2) learner. This book aims to further our understanding of whether or not written CF has the potential to facilitate L2 development over time. Chapters draw on cognitive and sociocultural theoretical perspectives and review empirical research to determine whether or not, and the extent to which, written CF has been found to assist L2 development. Cognitive processing conditions are considered in the examination of its effectiveness, as well as context-related and individual learner factors or variables that have been hypothesized and shown to facilitate or impede the effectiveness of written CF for L2 development.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783095032
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Book: The Acquisition of L2 Mandarin Prosody
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From https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/bpa.1/main
This book examines the acquisition of L2 Mandarin prosody, a less explored area in SLA. While acknowledging that tone acquisition is one of the most important aspects in acquiring L2 Mandarin phonology, the book demonstrates that phrase- and utterance-level prosody is equally important. Specifically, this book discusses the acquisition of Mandarin lexical tones and utterance-level prosody, the interaction of tones and intonation, the acquisition of Tone 3 sandhis, the temporal differences between L1 and L2 Mandarin discourse, and the relationship between intelligibility, comprehensibility and foreign accent perception in L2 Chinese. In addition, a whole chapter is exclusively devoted to the pedagogy of L2 Mandarin prosody. Studies in this book further our understanding of speech prosody in L1 and L2 and showcase the interesting interaction of phonetics, phonology, and pedagogy in SLA. This book will be of interest to SLA researchers and graduate students, applied linguists, Chinese linguists, and Chinese practitioners.
Visit the publisher’s website at https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/bpa.1/main
Source: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Title: Call for Proposals: Oregon Association of Bilingual Education Summer Conference
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From http://www.oabe.org/
The Oregon Association of Bilingual Education summer conference dates this year are June 24-25, 2016. The theme is "Connecting Communities through Biliteracy and Bilingualism.” It will be held at the Marshall Campus in Portland.
To submit a proposal go to https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UFgnx1WrC3K02lKMu3ggn2GekaqYC7Tsnse4pnPO2A0/viewform
Source: OABE
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Title: Call for Papers: Conference on Thai Studies
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From http://www.cseas.niu.edu/cseas/conferences/COTS%202016/COTS%202016_Call%20for%20Papers.pdf
The Council on Thai Studies invites students, community advocates, and scholars to submit presentation abstracts for the 2016 annual meeting, to take place October 28-29, 2016, at Northern Illinois University. All topics and perspectives from any discipline on Thais, Thai language, Thainess, and Thailand are welcome.
Abstracts are due by May 1. View the full call for papers at http://www.cseas.niu.edu/cseas/conferences/COTS%202016/COTS%202016_Call%20for%20Papers.pdf
Source: Northern Illinois University
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Title: Call for Papers: 51st International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages
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From http://icsnl.org/
The 51st International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages will be held in Powell River, British Columbia, Canada, on August 13-14, 2016, hosted by the Tla’amin (Sliammon) First Nation.
All papers relevant to the documentation, analysis, preservation, and teaching of Salish and neighboring languages are welcome. In addition, the organizers propose a special focus around the theme of partnership between communities and linguists. In consideration of this, submissions that present the outcome of community-linguist collaborations, and discuss the role of partnership in language documentation, analysis and revitalization are encouraged.
Deadline for receipt of papers: April 15, 2016.
View the full call for paper at http://lingserver.arts.ubc.ca/icsnl/node/57
Source: 51st International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages
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Title: Call for Proposals: 2016 COFLT/WAFLT Fall Conference
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From https://coflt.wildapricot.org/conferences/2016-coflt-waflt-fall-conference
The 2016 joint Confederation in Oregon for Language Teaching and Washington Association for Language Teaching conference will take place at Sheraton Portland Airport on October 13-15, 2016.
Proposals for presentations are being solicited. Focus Areas for submitting proposals are
- Pedagogy & Practice: Practical language pedagogy, classroom practices, tips, tricks & tools, cultural practices.
- Advocacy & Service: promotion of language & culture education, service learning, community engagement.
- Scholarship & Research: in language acquisition, linguistics, pedagogy, intercultural topics, cultural practice or related subjects.
Priority Submission Deadline: Friday, July 1, 2016. Additional proposals will be reviewed and accepted as space in the schedule allows.
View the full call for proposals at https://coflt.wildapricot.org/event-2065010
Source: COFLT
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Title: Institute for Curriculum and Campus Internationalization
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From https://icci.indiana.edu/
Institute for Curriculum and Campus Internationalization
May 22-May 25, 2016
Indiana University Bloomington
The responsibility of curriculum and campus internationalization does not rest solely on the faculty nor on the administration; rather internationalization should be defined, reinforced, and supported through a dialogue among faculty, administrators, and staff who are responsible for fostering, encouraging, and implementing global learning, research, and teaching on campuses.
If you are faculty, staff, or an administrator in higher education and are seeking new ways to internationalize your campus, course, and/or curriculum, please consider joining the Center for the Study of Global Change at our renowned institute.
• Learn how to internationalize your curriculum and campus
• Understand comprehensive internationalization and the importance of collaboration and dialogue
• Identify innovative pedagogies, technologies, and best practices
• Explore the teaching and assessment of global learning objectives
• Examine strategic planning and measurements of institutional success
• Become a member of a network of international and global educators and administrators and much more
For more details go to https://icci.indiana.edu/
Source: Indiana University Bloomington
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Title: The New York State Association for Bilingual Education Annual Conference
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From http://www.nysabeconference.org/
The 2016 New York State Association for Bilingual Education Conference is on Saturday, May 21st and will occur in two locations this year: Buffalo and New York City. The theme is Changing Policies, New Directions: Bilingual Education Paving the Way to Every Student’s Success.
For information about both locations and to register, go to http://www.nysabeconference.org/
Source: NYSABE
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Title: Corpus Linguistics Fest
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From http://cl.indiana.edu/clif16/
Corpus Linguistics Fest 2016
June 6-10, 2016
Indiana University, Bloomington
The Corpus Linguistics Fest (CLiF) at Indiana University will be a week-long event to provide a space for linguists, psycholinguists, computational linguists, and anyone else wishing to explore the use of corpus data and to understand the methodologies and practices of Corpus Linguistics. With theoretical and practical sessions Monday-Thursday, participants will have chances to develop skills through courses on:
• Statistical methods for corpora (using R)
• Tools for annotating and searching corpora
• Learner corpora and Second Language Acquisition research
In addition, the Friday of CLiF will feature workshop-style (refereed) presentations targeted at younger researchers. Papers based on these presentations will be published in online proceedings.
More information about the conference is available at http://cl.indiana.edu/clif16/
Source: Indiana University
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