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Title: September 2016 Issue of Language Magazine
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The September 2016 issue of Language Magazine is available online at http://languagemagazine.com/?p=125921
In this issue:
Stressing Classy Communication: Margo Gottlieb and Gisela Ernst-Slavit know that academic language is important for all students and essential for English language learners
Testing Benefits: Mariana Castro shows what language proficiency assessments have to offer educators of English Learners
Helping Students Find their Voices: Adrienne Almeida examines the unique challenges that ELL students face and the impact these challenges have on their social-emotional and academic health
Curing Initiative Fatigue: Stacy Hurst and Laura Axtell explain how to kick off the new school year with buy-in from everyone
On the Road to Multilingualism: Bilingual rapper GüeroLoco takes us on his passionate journey to promote language learning and allow students to reap the benefits
Citizens of the World: Beth Marshall believes that awareness of global citizenry is the true goal of language education
Source: Language Magazine
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Title: Book: Beyond Language Boundaries
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From http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/466574?rskey=Et10en&format=G
Beyond Language Boundaries: Multimodal Use in Multilingual Contexts
Edited by Marta Fernández-Villanueva and Konstanze Jungbluth
Published by De Gruyter Mouton
The way speakers in multilingual contexts develop own varieties in their interactions sheds light on code switching and multimodal dynamic co-constructions of grammar in use. This volume explores the intersection of multimodality and language use of multilingual speakers.
Firstly, theoretical frames are discussed and empirical studies involving Catalan, German and Spanish as L1, L2 or FL are presented interconnecting verbal and gestural modalities into grammar description or exploring actions as sources for gestures, which may nonverbally represent the argument in German dynamic motion verbs. Other chapters focus on positionings in interviews, lexical access searches or proxemics in greetings and farewells.
The contributions secondly focus on verbal features of language use in multilingual contexts related to self-representation and co-construction of identity through code-switching, deixis or argumentative reasoning in different communicative events based on multilingual data of languages including Croatian, English, Italian, Brazilian-Portuguese and Polish.
The findings call for a reviewed conception of grammar description with implications also for the conceptualization of deixis, for L2/foreign language acquisition and language teaching policies.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/466574?rskey=Et10en&format=G
Source: de Gruyter
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Title: Book: L2 Learning, Teaching and Assessment: A Comprehensible Input Perspective
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From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783096336
L2 Learning, Teaching and Assessment: A Comprehensible Input Perspective
By Nihat Polat
Published by Multilingual Matters
This book explores second language (L2) learning, teaching and assessment from a comprehensible input (CI) perspective. This focus on the role of input is important for deepening our understanding of interactions between the learner, teacher and the environment as well as of the nature of the learning, teaching and assessment processes. The book takes a blended approach that promotes the intertwining of theory, research and practice in L2 pedagogy and assessment and aims to address the commonly used concept of CI and its role in L2 education. Content includes a comprehensive discussion of the conceptual foundation of CI; a multimodal and dynamic interpretation of CI from numerous perspectives; a critical discussion of well-known L2 acquisition theories and research; a practical examination of the role of multimodal forms of CI in L2 pedagogy; an analytical review of factors to be considered when modifying CI for pedagogical purposes in different settings and an overview of CI in L2 assessment. It will be of interest to students in the fields of L2 learning, teaching and assessment, teachers in second/foreign language settings and researchers of SLA and teacher education.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783096336
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Book: Language Teaching and the Older Adult
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From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783096299
Language Teaching and the Older Adult: The Significance of Experience
By Danya Ramírez Gómez
Published by Multilingual Matters
The aging of the population and the increasing number of older adults pursuing foreign language courses call for a greater understanding of the ways in which these individuals learn foreign languages. This book offers a pioneering contribution to the literature on foreign language education for older adults (aged 60 and over), termed foreign language geragogy. It details an empirical, multidisciplinary study on Japanese older learners of Spanish and focuses on the influence of learning experiences on vocabulary learning strategy use. It discusses the constraints that preconceptions impose on learners, researchers, instructors and administrators, and it offers a set of practical recommendations for foreign language activities for elderly individuals. It also introduces the notion of ‘learner re-training’, an instructional mechanism that contributes to older learners' self-acknowledgment and autonomy development in foreign language learning. The book is directed at teachers and trainee teachers of foreign languages to older adults, and also at education professionals and researchers in the field of foreign language learning in general.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783096299
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Call for Proposals: National Chinese Language Conference
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From http://asiasociety.org/national-chinese-language-conference
The National Chinese Language Conference (NCLC) provides a high–profile platform for sharing new ideas and best practices in the fields of Chinese language teaching and learning, Chinese arts and culture, and U.S.–China educational exchange. The tenth annual NCLC is organized by Asia Society and the College Board and will be held in Houston, TX, April 6-8, 2017. The conference will focus on:
• building and sustaining quality Chinese programs at all levels of K–12 and higher education;
• cutting-edge approaches to teaching that incorporate culture, technology and collaborations; and
• best practices in the classroom leading to high levels of language proficiency and cultural competency.
Educators from all areas of K–12 and higher education are encouraged to submit a proposal.
Submission deadline: Sunday, October 16, 2016
View the full call for proposals at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NCLC2017RFP
Source: Asia Society
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Title: Call for Papers: 39th Language Testing Research Colloquium
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From http://www.iltaonline.com/LTRC/index.php/ltrc2017
39th Language Testing Research Colloquium
July 17–21, 2017
Universidad de los Andes
Las Aguas, Bogotá, Colombia
July 17–18 preconference workshops
July 19–21 39th LTRC
Theme: Language Assessment Literacy Across Stakeholder Boundaries
LTRC 2017 marks a milestone for the assessment community as the International Language Testing Association will meet for the first time in Latin America. LTRC 2017’s venue reminds us of the tremendous growth our field has experienced, in part from engaging with language testers in different contexts across a variety of language testing issues. Accordingly, as we explore different stakeholder territories, the theme of language assessment literacy (LAL) seems appropriate as we strive to build understanding among different stakeholders in an effort to learn from their perspectives and to generate new knowledge in LAL research.
While all proposals will be considered for LTRC 2017, preference will be given to proposals which highlight understandings of and tensions between the different skills, knowledge, and competencies of language assessment literacy as they interact with different assessment stakeholders—including the specialists themselves—in the ecologies of their particular contexts. Examples include, but are not restricted to:
• language assessment research as related to language policy and policy makers;
• validation research that includes bi-directional collaborations with assessment stakeholders;
• assessment literacy in relation to the assessment of languages other than English;
• investigations of the sociocultural context in relation to assessment literacy;
• examinations of differential knowledge and assessment literacy needs of different stakeholder groups.
The proposal deadline is October 2, 2016.
View the full call for papers at http://www.iltaonline.com/LTRC/index.php/call-for-papers-2017
Source: ILTA
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Title: Conference of Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum Consortium
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From http://clac2016.wordpress.drake.edu/
Conference of Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum Consortium
October 21-22, 2016
Drake University
This 10th CLAC Conference will explore definitions and comprehensive strategies for infusing foreign language as well as intercultural skill sets and competencies for developing a global mindset throughout the curriculum. The 2016 theme is “Developing Responsible Global Citizenship Through CLAC.”
Visit the conference website for more information and to register: http://clac2016.wordpress.drake.edu/
Source: Drake University
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Title: Annual Institute of the Classical Association of the Empire State
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From http://www.caesny.org/p/annual-institute.html
53rd Annual Institute
October 28-29, 2016
Union College
Schenectady, NY
THEME: vis unita fortior
W. Jeffrey Tatum, Professor of Classics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, will deliver the keynote address. He is renowned for his entertaining and instructive lectures, and is, among other works on the history and literature of the Roman Republic, author of Always I am Caesar (2008) and A Caesar Reader (2012).
For more information go to http://www.caesny.org/p/annual-institute.html
Source: Classical Association of the Empire State
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Title: 2016 Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South
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From https://camws.org/2014CAMWSSSMeeting
The 96th Meeting of CAMWS-SS will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Courtyard by Marriott-Decatur and Conference Center at the invitation of Emory University on October 27-29, 2016.
For more information visit the conference website at https://camws.org/2014CAMWSSSMeeting
Source: CAMWS
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Title: Classical Association of the Atlantic States Fall 2016 Meeting
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The Classical Association of the Atlantic States 2016 Annual Fall Meeting
Thursday, October 20 – Saturday, October 22
New Brunswick, NJ
For more information go to http://caas-cw.org/wp/
Source: CAAS
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