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Title: Book: Why English?
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From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783095841
Why English? Confronting the Hydra
Edited by Pauline Bunce, Robert Phillipson, Vaughan Rapatahana, and Ruanni Tupas
Published by Multilingual Matters
This book explores the ways and means by which English threatens the vitality and diversity of other languages and cultures in the modern world. Using the metaphor of the Hydra monster from ancient Greek mythology, it explores the use and misuse of English in a wide range of contexts, revealing how the dominance of English is being confronted and counteracted around the globe. The authors explore the language policy challenges for governments and education systems at all levels, and show how changing the role of English can lead to greater success in education for a larger proportion of children. Through personal accounts, poems, essays and case studies, the book calls for greater efforts to ensure the maintenance of the world’s linguistic and cultural diversity.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783095841
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Call for Papers: Association for Asian Studies 2017 Annual Conference
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AAS 2017 Annual Conference
March 16-19, 2017 * Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The program committee invites colleagues in Asian studies to submit proposals for Organized Panels, Roundtables, Workshops, in addition to Individual Papers sessions to be created by the Committee. The Committee seeks sessions that will engage panelists and audiences in the consideration of ideas, information, and interpretations that will advance knowledge about Asian regions and, by extension, will enrich teaching about Asia at all levels.
Deadline for Receipt of All Proposals is August 9, 2016.
View the full call for papers at http://www.asian-studies.org/Conferences/AAS-Annual-Conference-2017/Call-for-Papers-Annual-Conference
Source: AAS
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Title: Call for Papers: Multimodality in Electronic Feedback on Writing
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From http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-2796.html
The following is a call for papers for a Special Issue of Writing & Pedagogy (Winter 2017, 9:2) titled “Multimodality in Electronic Feedback on Writing.”
This special issue seeks to gather both researchers´ and practitioners´ accounts on how multimodality affects electronic feedback practices of language teachers and engagement of learners with such feedback for the development of L2 writing skills.
Potential areas of inquiry that the papers in this special issue may address include, but are not limited to, the following questions:
- What are learner perspectives on electronic feedback?
- How can teachers/tutors make more efficient use of the electronic systems via which they provide feedback?
- How can we make electronic feedback more effective to foster noticing?
- Do interaction patterns between teacher/tutor and learner/tutee change when feedback is provided in different modes?
- How do learners engage with feedback affectively (i.e. motivation, anxiety) and/or cognitively (i.e. uptake, learning gains)?
- How does the medium of feedback affect learning outcomes?
- What are the affordances of different communication channels for feedback provision?
Extended summaries are due July 15.
View the call for papers at https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/WAP/announcement/view/130
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Ninth Annual Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa Conference
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From https://asmea.nonprofitcms.org/c/conferences/4/pages/overview
Taking the Long View: Assessing Change in the Middle East and Africa
October 27 – 29, 2016 | Key Bridge Marriott Hotel | Washington, D.C.
The 2016 Conference will feature:
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Prof. Martin Kramer, President of Shalem College and author of Ivory Towers on Sand, will speak on "The Pathology of Middle Eastern Studies."
Panel presentations on scholarly topics from Middle Eastern and African studies, and related disciplines.
Banquet luncheon and professional networking reception.
Roundtable discussions on "Water and War: A New Conflict for the Middle East" (sponsored by Marine Corps University Press); "Assessing Iran-Saudi Tensions"; and "Fire in the Desert: Jihad in the Sahel."
Film screenings.
Displays by publishers of the latest academic titles.
Visit the conference website at https://asmea.nonprofitcms.org/c/conferences/4/pages/overview
Source: ASMEA
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Title: Online Forum: Studying and Interning in China and the Americas
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The U.S. Department of State's Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program would like to invite you to the final webinar in our Gilman Web Symposium Series for the 2015-2016 academic year, "Studying & Interning in China and the Americas" on Wednesday, July 13 at 2:00pm CDT.
This online forum, moderated by Gilman Program staff member Courtney Castillo, will feature Morgan Jones from the US-China Strong Foundation and Matt Clausen from the 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund, speaking on the importance of these areas to U.S. foreign policy and higher education, as well as two Gilman Scholarship alumni, who will share their own personal experiences of studying and interning abroad in these areas.
We hope you can join us for "Studying & Interning in China and the Americas" on Wednesday, July 13 at 2:00pm CDT. Please register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1771217950331993602.
You can find recordings and transcripts of previous Web Symposiums on the Gilman Program's Webinars & Workshops page at www.iie.org/gilman.
The Gilman International Scholarship Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), and administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE). The Gilman Program aims to diversify the kinds of U.S. undergraduate students who study and intern abroad and the countries and regions where they go. To learn more about the Gilman Scholarship Program, please visit the website at www.iie.org/gilman or contact gilmanadvisors@iie.org.
Gilman Advisors. [FLTEACH] Web Symposium: Studying & Interning in China and the Americas. FLTEACH listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 27 Jun 2016).
Source: FLTEACH
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Title: Online Course: Effective Conversation in the Classroom
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From http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=7b6d4ab533d076294848eed78&id=ad9606a9f0&e=7894354fa9
Starting August 2, Professor Kenji Hakuta and Drs. Jeff Zwiers and Sara Rutherford-Quach at Stanford Graduate School of Education will offer a short online professional development course, Effective Conversation in the Classroom: Preparing for Rich Talk in Every Lesson, to help teachers prepare for teaching students to have in-depth conversations about content area concepts and topics.
This course consists of three online sessions, three weeks in a row. Each session includes expert video screencasts, classroom video clips, readings and resources, and assignments that will prompt participants to strengthen the curricular foundations of communication the first month of school. You will learn to:
• model and build activities for cultivating constructive classroom conversations;
• create conversational opportunities within a lesson and craft effective;
• and set up an assessment plan and reflect on it to improve learning and teaching.
Classroom teachers and instructional coaches from grades K to 12 and in all subject areas are welcome and encouraged to take this course together with their colleagues.
For full details go to http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=7b6d4ab533d076294848eed78&id=ad9606a9f0&e=7894354fa9
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Education
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Title: Listening Comprehension in Arabic: Islamic Fashion
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Here is a listening comprehension exercise about a fashion show for Islamic and modest clothes in Istanbul, Turkey.
The video and questions are available at http://blogs.transparent.com/arabic/listening-comprehension-fashion/
The answers are available at http://blogs.transparent.com/arabic/listening-islamic-fashion/
Source: Transparent Language
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Title: Location Words in Chinese
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Here is a two-part series about location words in Chinese.
Part 1: http://blogs.transparent.com/chinese/location-words-chinese-one/
Part 2: http://blogs.transparent.com/chinese/location-words-in-chinese-part-two/
Source: Transparent Language
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Title: New Website: Listen Together: The Songs of Japan
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The Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute, Kansai has launched a new website "Listen Together: The Songs of Japan," which supports Japanese-language learning with music.
For more details: http://nihon-no-uta.jp/
Japan Foundation. JF E-mail Magazine | Website "Listen Together: The Songs of Japan" Launched. (jf-news@jpf.go.jp, 27 Jun 2016)
Source: Japan Foundation
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Title: JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
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From http://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan-cuts-2016
Festival of New Japanese Film
July 14–24, 2016
New York
North America’s largest festival of new Japanese film returns for its 10th anniversary edition, offering eleven days of impossible-to-see-anywhere-else screenings of the best new movies made in and around Japan with special guest filmmakers and stars, post-screening Q&As, parties, giveaways and much more. Featuring an expansive and eclectic slate of cinematic offerings that includes crowd-pleasing blockbusters, peerless independents, arthouse gems, influential classics, radical documentaries and avant-garde animations, JAPAN CUTS 2016 promises thrilling new discoveries for film fans of all stripes.
For more information and a schedule, go to http://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan-cuts-2016
Source: Japan Society
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