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Title: Ebook: Exploiting Infographics
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From http://peacheypublications.com/books/exploiting-infographics
Exploiting Infographics
By Nik Peachey
This ebook was designed with English language teachers in mind but should have some value for any teacher who is interested in developing their students’ digital literacy and critical thinking skills.
The book contains a wide range of suggested activities for both the creation and exploitation of infographics in the classroom.
It also helps teachers with tips and advice on how to plan and create infographics and suggestions for which tools to use to produce different types of infographic.
Learn how you can download this ebook at http://peacheypublications.com/books/exploiting-infographics
Source: PeacheyPublications.com
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Title: Book: Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism
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From https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/bpa.2/main
Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism
Edited by John W. Schwieter
Published by the John Benjamins Publishing Company
The human mind is a marvelous device that effectively regulates mental activities and facilitates amendable cognitive behaviour across several domains such as attention, memory, and language processing. For multilinguals, the mind also represents and manages more than one language system—a mental exercise which may lead to cognitive benefits. Through an in-depth exploration of these issues, Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism presents original studies and new perspectives which are cutting-edge and feature traditional and innovative methodologies such as ERPs, fMRIs, eye-tracking, picture- and numeral naming, the Simon, flanker, and oculomotor Stroop tasks, among others. The studies in this book investigate prominent themes in multilingual language control for both comprehension and production and probe the notion of a cognitive advantage that may be a result of multilingualism. The growing number of researchers, practitioners, and students alike will find this volume to be an instrumental source of readings that illuminates how one mind accommodates and controls multiple languages and the consequences it has on human cognition in general.
Visit the publisher’s website at https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/bpa.2/main
Source: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Title: Book: Corpora in Applied Linguistics
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From http://www.cambridgescholars.com/corpora-in-applied-linguistics
Corpora in Applied Linguistics: Current Approaches
Edited by Nikola Dobrić, Eva-Maria Graf, and Alexander Onysko
Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing
This volume brings together contributions from the Klagenfurt Conference of Corpus-Based Applied Linguistics (CALK14), in order to extend corpus linguistic research in different areas of applied linguistics. The studies gathered here explore the opportunities that both spoken and written corpora offer for answering questions in different domains of applied linguistics such as second language learning, language testing, comparative linguistics, learner pragmatics and specialised discourses. At the same time, the contributions also give insight into possible limitations and further challenges of corpus-based research in these areas.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.cambridgescholars.com/corpora-in-applied-linguistics
Source: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Title: Book: Responsible Design in Applied Linguistics: Theory and Practice
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From http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319417295#aboutBook
Responsible Design in Applied Linguistics: Theory and Practice
By Albert Weideman
Published by Springer
No mere history of applied linguistics, this volume presents a framework for interpreting the development of applied linguistics as a discipline. It offers a systematic account of how applied linguistics has developed, articulating the philosophical premises that have informed both its emergence and its subsequent growth. It asks questions that are seldom asked: Where does the discipline derive from? Where is it heading? What directions has it already taken? Which direction should it embrace in future? What is the relative worth of all of the variation in design and methods that have been developed by applied linguists? In defining applied linguistics as a discipline of design, it takes us beyond the diffuse and sometimes contradictory conventional definitions of the field. The framework of design principles it proposes not only helps to explain the historical development of applied linguistics, but also provides a potential justification for solutions to language problems. It presents us with nothing less than an emerging theory of applied linguistics.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319417295#aboutBook
Source: Springer
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Title: Call for Papers: Let's Talk 2017: Relationships, Research, and Results
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From https://cslc.nd.edu/research/conferences-and-symposiums/lets-talk/spring-2017/
Let's Talk 2017: Relationships, Research, and Results
March 31st and April 1st 2017
The Center for the Study of Languages & Cultures at the University of Notre Dame invites abstracts on the connections between community engagement and foreign language instruction in higher education. This conference will provide scholars and professional educators a venue to discuss research, theories, and best practices in regards to language-focused Community-Based Learning (CBL). The organizers of this conference strongly encourage submissions from scholars and educators from various different language backgrounds.
Potential paper topics include but are not limited to:
• Community-based learning and the 5Cs (Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities)
• Community-based learning as an alternative to study abroad
• Establishing CBL courses in languages other than Spanish or ESL
• The role of community engagement in students’ personal and professional journeys
• CBL-informed foreign language curriculum
• Theoretical and pedagogical issues in designing foreign language community-based courses
• CBL and foreign language class enrollment
• Building partnerships between a university/college and the foreign language community
• Providing foreign language instruction in elementary and middle schools through community engagement
• Language-focused CBL and the empowerment of minority cultures in the community
There will be a dedicated graduate student panel.
Abstracts should be 300-350 words and submitted by December 15, 2016.
View the full call for papers at https://cslc.nd.edu/research/conferences-and-symposiums/lets-talk/spring-2017/
Source: University of Notre Dame
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Title: Call for Proposals: 2017 Conference on Language, Learning, and Culture
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From https://conference.viu.edu/cllc/content/call-for-proposals
The School of Education at Virginia International University
invites your proposals for the 2017 Conference on Language, Learning, and Culture.
Enhancing and Advancing Teacher Education: Professional Identities, Communities, Beliefs, and Practices
April 7-8, 2017
Virginia International University, Fairfax, VA
In the spirit of promoting self-driven, collaborative, meaningful, and sustainable professional development, CLLC 2017 focuses on the professional identities, communities, beliefs, and practices of educators and how they can all be harnessed to enhance and advance the lifelong learning we recognize as the ideal meaning of the phrase “teacher education.”
The organizers’ goal is to involve pre- and in-service teachers, teacher educators, administrators, researchers, and other professionals at all stages of their careers in a multidirectional sharing of expertise and experiences that will contribute to future exploratory practice and professional growth.
Presentation topics need not address the topic of teacher education directly; the organizers welcome proposals on anything that educators themselves would consider worthwhile for enhancing their own and their colleagues’ professional development and daily practices.
The abstract submission deadline is December 5, 2016.
View the full call for proposals at https://conference.viu.edu/cllc/content/call-for-proposals
Source: Virginia International University
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Title: Call for Proposals: Texas Language Education Research Conference 2017
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From http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-3917.html
The 18th Annual Texas Language Education Research (TexLER) Conference is now accepting proposals for their annual conference on February 17-18, 2017 at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Bridging the gap between research and practice is an inevitable challenge in the field of foreign/second language teaching. TexLER unites scholars and educators from diverse contexts who strive to connect research findings to classroom practices, thus shaping the future direction of language education. TexLER welcomes research studies and practice-oriented presentations that clearly establish strong connections between theory and practice in diverse contexts. The organizers’ goal is to offer an interdisciplinary forum for all those interested in research findings with implications for the classroom as well as those interested in pedagogical approaches to language learning grounded in empirical findings.
The theme for the conference this year is “Educating Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students: Research and Practices.”
Proposals are due by October 31, 2016.
View the full call for proposals at http://www.texler.org/call-for-proposals1.html
Submit a proposal at http://www.texler.org/submit-a-proposal1.html
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Fourth International Hindi Conference
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From http://www.hindiconferenceamericas.com/register
Fourth International Hindi Conference
January 6-8, 2017
Gitam University, India
Conference theme: Teaching Hindi to Speakers of Other Languages: Pedagogical Perspectives, Language Planning and Program Development
The conference aims to create a bridge between the pedagogical experts of the Hindi language taught to speakers of other languages (THSOL) in India and particularly in the non- Hindi speaking areas of India, and the pedagogical experts and instructors in the USA and the rest of the world, including the South Asian diaspora (Canada, England, Mauritius, Fiji, etc.), where Hindi is mostly taught as a heritage language as well as a foreign language.
Visit the conference website at http://www.hindiconferenceamericas.com/
Source: International Hindi Conference
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Title: Take the Basic Online Language Design and Delivery Survey
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This is an invitation to participate in the third annual survey on online language education in the USA at the post-secondary level. The Basic Online Language Design and Delivery (BOLDD) collaboratory has been in existence since 2010 and has deemed data collection on the field to be essential to the growth and improvement of the field. Results are reported only in aggregate. Without your express permission, there will be no reference to you or your institution as a respondent to this survey.
For the past two years, the survey has included sections on: institutional data, languages and their levels delivered entirely online, initiation and design issues, delivery including teaching, assessment and evaluation. This year's survey includes a section on teacher preparation among others.
Once more than ten (10) respondents have participated, there is access to various data graphs. To cite the data, one should wait until 1/15/17. Also please note the RedCap citation details that must be included to publish this data.
Please forward the link included below to other colleagues who may be willing to participate.
If you have any problems, email kmurphy@vcu.edu.
Here is the link for the public survey: http://bit.ly/BOLDD2015-16survey.
Source: BOLDD
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Title: Editorial: The Deaf Body in Public Space
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The Deaf Body in Public Space
by Rachel Kolb
September 28, 2016
“It’s rude to point,” my friend told me from across the elementary-school cafeteria table. I grasped her words as I read them off her lips. She stared at my index finger, which I held raised in midair, gesturing toward a mutual classmate. “My mom said so.”
I was 6 or 7 years old, but I remember stopping with a jolt. Something inside me froze, too, went suddenly cold.
“I’m signing,” I said out loud. “That’s not rude.”
Read the full article, which will give all teachers insight into the worlds their Deaf students navigate and will give special insight to hearing learners of ASL, at http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/opinion/the-deaf-body-in-public-space.html?_r=0
Source: New York Times
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