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Title: New Issue of Reading in a Foreign Language
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The October 2016 issue of Reading in a Foreign Language is available online at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/October2016/
This issue of RFL begins as a special issue, “Celebrating Linguistically Diverse Learners of St. Louis: Responsive Research and Practice for Literacy,” edited by Cindy Brantmeier. It features three articles.
The first article, by Brevik, Olsen & Hellefkjaer, examines the timely and important topic of reading assessment with adolescents at the secondary level. The second article, by Endley, examines proficiency levels and strategy use with 12 Arabic speakers studying English at a university. The last article, by Zhao, Guo, Biales and Olszewski, investigates several factors of individual learner differences as predictors of L2 incidental vocabulary acquisition.
In addition, there are two regular articles. In the first, Eun Young Jeon and Richard Day present their results of a meta-analysis of the impact of extensive reading on reading proficiency. This is followed by Kate Paesani’s report of her investigation of reading-writing connections to determine if these literacy practices facilitated students’ understanding and use of resources such as grammar, vocabulary, genre, and style.
Tianxu Chen reviews Second Language Reading: Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Perspectives. Then there is a special issue discussion piece by Elizabeth Thorne-Wallington. There are three regular discussion pieces, by Tom Cobb, Paul Nation, and Jeff McQuillan. This issue concludes with the valuable October feature, Readings on L2 reading: Publications in other venues 2015-2016.
Source: NFLRC
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Title: Book: Innovative Strategies for Heritage Language Teaching
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From http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/innovative-strategies-heritage-language-teaching
Innovative Strategies for Heritage Language Teaching: A Practical Guide for the Classroom
Edited by Marta Fairclough and Sara M. Beaudrie
Published by Georgetown University Press
Heritage language (HL) learning and teaching presents particularly difficult challenges. Melding cutting-edge research with innovations in teaching practice, the contributors in this volume provide practical knowledge and tools that introduce new solutions informed by linguistic, sociolinguistic, and educational research on heritage learners. Scholars address new perspectives and orientations on designing HL programs, assessing progress and proficiency, transferring research knowledge into classroom practice, and the essential question of how to define a heritage learner. Articles offer analysis and answers on multiple languages, and the result is a unique and essential text—the only comprehensive guide for heritage language learning based on the latest theory and research with suggestions for the classroom.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/innovative-strategies-heritage-language-teaching
Source: Georgetown University Press
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Title: Book: Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century
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From http://hepg.org/hep-home/books/teaching-and-learning-for-the-twenty-first-century#
Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century: Educational Goals, Policies, and Curricula from Six Nations
Edited by Fernando M. Reimers and Connie K. Chung
Published by Harvard Education Press
This book describes how different nations have defined the core competencies and skills that young people will need in order to thrive in the twenty-first-century, and how those nations have fashioned educational policies and curricula meant to promote those skills. The book examines six countries—Chile, China, India, Mexico, Singapore, and the United States—exploring how each one defines, supports, and cultivates those competencies that students will need in order to succeed in the current century.
Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century appears at a time of heightened attention to comparative studies of national education systems, and to international student assessments such as those that have come out of PISA (the Program for International Student Assessment), led by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This book’s crucial contribution to the burgeoning field of international education arises out of its special attention to first principles—and thus to first questions: As Reimers and Chung explain, “much can be gained by an explicit investigation of the intended purposes of education, in what they attempt to teach students, and in the related questions of why those purposes and how they are achieved.”
Visit the publisher’s website at http://hepg.org/hep-home/books/teaching-and-learning-for-the-twenty-first-century#
Source: Harvard Education Press
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Title: Call for Papers: Academiae Latinitati Fovendae
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From https://conventus-lex.github.io/en/
Conventiculum Lexintoniense: 20 - 26 July 2017
Conventus XIV Academiae Latinitati Fovendae: 27 - 31 July 2017
at the University of Kentucky, Lexington
Conventiculum Lexintoniense
20 - 26 July, 2017
These summer workshops have become internationally known for providing a stimulating occasion in which participants can live for an extended period of time in an all-Latin environment, speaking and hearing no language but Latin.
Conventus XIV
Academiae Latinitati Fovendae
27 - 31 July, 2017
DE ITINERIBUS
The language of this conference will be exclusively Latin. All lectures and all presentations will be entirely in the Latin language. JOURNEYS will be the main theme of this conference.
The organizers of the Academiae Latinitati Fovendae also invite any Latinist, who is prepared to give a presentation in Latin on a topic connected with the general theme of this conference, to submit an abstract or summary of her/his proposed topic. Abstracts must be kept within a limit of two hundred words. The deadline for our receipt of abstracts will be February 1, 2017.
For more details go to https://conventus-lex.github.io/en/
Source: Conventiculum / Conventus ALF
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Title: Call for Chapters: Language Teaching in the Linguistic Landscape
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From http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-4095.html
With the continued growth of research on linguistic landscape in fields such as sociolinguistics and language policy, interest in the possibilities of linguistic landscape for fostering language development as well as culture and literacy learning has also been on the rise.
However, as global flows and superdiverse conditions have come to redefine relationships of people, place, and language there is an imperative for L2 educators and learners to answer Leander and Sheehy’s (2004) call for the “spatialization” of language/literacy education, and to engage with notions of geographical locations as culturally charged and contested spaces of top-down and bottom-up meaning-making practices.
This edited volume seeks to take up this call for a spatialized approach, both illuminating the potential of the linguistic landscape to address long-standing challenges in language and literacy pedagogy, and mobilizing research on teaching and learning to expand the theoretical and methodological repertoires of linguistic landscape research. The editors invite chapter proposals grounded in teaching and learning practice that address the aforementioned aspects of the topic.
The editors welcome proposal submissions by December 1, 2016.
View the full call for chapters at http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-4095.html
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Call for Papers: Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
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The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference will take place in Lexington on April 20-22, 2017. The deadline to submit abstracts for conference papers is November 20, 2016. For more information go to https://kflc.as.uky.edu/call-for-papers
Source: KFLC
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Title: Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers Fall Conference
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Paving The Road to Proficiency
Empowering 21st century learners to develop their cultural understandings, cross-curricular literacy, and communication
Radisson Paper Valley Hotel, Appleton, Wisconsin
November 3- 5, 2016
Keynote presenter: Thomas Sauer
Visit the conference website at http://www.waflt.org/conferences-events/
Source: WAFLT
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Title: Chinese Lantern Festival in Spokane
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From http://www.spokanelanternfestival.com/
The Chinese Lantern Festival is taking place in Spokane now through October 30. This 6-week celebration of Chinese culture features massive lanterns, amazing performances, and incredible food.
Learn more at http://www.spokanelanternfestival.com/
Source: Chinese Lantern Festival
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Title: 2017-2018 Training Programs for Japanese Teachers
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From http://www.jflalc.org/grants-jle-teachertraining.html
The Japan Foundation is offering five different residential training programs for Japanese teachers. The trainings will all take place at the Japanese-Language Institute in Urawa, Japan. The programs are as follows:
1. Long-term Program (for non-native speakers of Japanese)
2. Short-term Program (for non-native speakers of Japanese)
3. Training Program on a Specific Theme (for BOTH native and non-native speakers of Japanese)
4. Project-based Training Program (for individuals and teams [up to 3 participants] of BOTH native and non-native speakers of Japanese)
5. Graduate Program in Japanese-Language and Culture (Master's Degree Course) (for non-native speakers of Japanese)
The application deadline for all programs is December 1, 2016.
For full details go to http://www.jflalc.org/grants-jle-teachertraining.html
Source: Japan Foundation
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Title: Radio Shows Where Russians Talk about Russian
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From http://blogs.transparent.com
Maria of the Russian Language Blog writes, “I am sure many of our readers would enjoy listening to shows dedicated to the Russian language. I have listed a few program(me)s that touch upon the challenges in the language that even native or advanced speakers struggle with.” Read her descriptions of a few programs at http://blogs.transparent.com/russian/radio-shows-where-russians-talk-about-russian/
Source: Transparent Language
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