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Title: Book: ¿Por qué? 101 Questions About Spanish
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From http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/por-que-101-questions-about-spanish-9781474227919/
¿Por qué? 101 Questions About Spanish
By Judy Hochberg
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing
¿Por qué? 101 Questions about Spanish is for anyone who wants to understand how Spanish really works. Standard textbooks and grammars describe the "what" of Spanish - its vocabulary, grammar, spelling, and pronunciation - but ¿Por qué? explains the "why".
Judy Hochberg draws on linguistic principles, Hispanic culture, and language history to answer questions such as:
Why are so many Spanish verbs irregular? - Why does Spanish have different ways to say "you"? - Why is h silent? - Why doesn't Spanish use apostrophes? - Why does Castilian Spanish have the th sound?
Packed with information, guidance, and links to further research, ¿Por qué? is an accessible study guide that is suitable for Spanish students, instructors, native speakers, and the general reader. It is a valuable supplementary text for serious students of Spanish at all levels, from beginning to advanced. ¿Por qué? also covers topics usually left to specialized books, including the evolution of Spanish, how children and adults learn Spanish, and the status of languages that co-exist with Spanish, from Catalan to Spanish sign language to the indigenous languages of Latin America.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/por-que-101-questions-about-spanish-9781474227919/
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Title: Book: Language Across the Curriculum & CLIL in English as an Additional Language (EAL) Contexts
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From http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811018008
Language Across the Curriculum & CLIL in English as an Additional Language (EAL): Contexts
Theory and Practice
By Angel M.Y. Lin
Published by Springer
This book will be of interest to a broad readership, regardless of whether they have a background in sociolinguistics, functional linguistics or genre theories. It presents an accessible “meta-language” (i.e. a language for talking about language) that is workable and usable for teachers and researchers from both language and content backgrounds, thus facilitating collaboration across content and language subject panels.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811018008
Source: Springer
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Title: Book: Exploring the US Language Flagship Program
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Exploring the US Language Flagship Program: Professional Competence in a Second Language by Graduation
Edited by Dianna Murphy and Karen Evans-Romaine
Published by Multilingual Matters
A number of reports in the US have highlighted the country’s need for improved second language skills for both national security and economic competitiveness. The Language Flagship program, launched in 2002, aims to raise expectations regarding language proficiency levels at the post-secondary level and to address structural gaps in the curricula of many L2 programs. This federally funded program provides opportunities for US undergraduate students in any specialization to reach a professional level of competence in a targeted second language by graduation. This volume highlights innovative practices that enable students to achieve this goal – even those with no exposure to the second language prior to university. This book explores the rationale and history of the federal program and showcases models and strategies of existing Flagship programs.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingualmatters.com/display.asp?sort=sort_date/d&sf1=title_exact&st1=exploringtheuslanguageflagshipprogram
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Book: Enacting the Work of Language Instruction: High-Leverage Teaching Practices
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From https://isgweb.actfl.org/ISGweb/Purchase/ProductDetail.aspx?Product_code=EWLI_HLTP
Enacting the Work of Language Instruction: High-Leverage Teaching Practices
By Eileen W. Glisan and Richard Donato
Published by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
This book presents an approach to teacher education and professional development that emphasizes carefully deconstructing fundamental instructional practices that are complex and often not visible through observation, definition, or brief explanation. Its goal is to assist teachers in learning how to enact specific practices, referred to as high-leverage teaching practices, deemed essential to foreign language teaching and situated in theory and research.
Six practices are presented:
• Facilitating Target Language Comprehensibility
• Building a Classroom Discourse Community
• Guiding Learners to Interpret and Discuss Authentic Texts
• Focusing on Form in a Dialogic Context Through PACE
• Focusing on Cultural Products, Practices, and Perspectives in a Dialogic Context
• Providing Oral Corrective Feedback to Improve Learner Performance
Unique features of the book include deconstruction of each practice, activities for rehearsing the practices, rubrics for assessing performance, tools to assist teachers in enacting the practices, and discussion of how each practice relates to larger educational issues.
You can pre-order the book at https://isgweb.actfl.org/ISGweb/Purchase/ProductDetail.aspx?Product_code=EWLI_HLTP
Source: ACTFL
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Title: Call for Papers: Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference Annual Meeting
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From http://miflc.com/
Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference Annual Meeting
October 5-7, 2017
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Wilmington, NC
Submissions of abstracts are welcome in Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. The organizers are especially interested in papers dealing with the following: ASL and Deaf culture, Asian studies, Classics, digital humanities, eco-criticism, English as a second language, film studies, Francophone studies, Italian literature and culture, Jewish studies, women’s and gender studies, Latin American studies, Latino studies, linguistics, literature and the arts, Ludo-Brazilian studies, service learning, Slavic studies, study abroad, and translation and interpretation. The deadline for submission is April 15, 2017.
View the full call for papers at http://miflc.com/MIFLC2017_CFP.pdf
Source: MIFLC
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Title: Call for Papers: Purdue Languages and Cultures Conference
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From http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-4255.html
Purdue Languages and Cultures Conference
March 3-5, 2017
West Lafayette, Indiana
The Purdue Linguistics Association, The School of Languages and Cultures, and the Second Language Studies Program at Purdue University are happy to announce the Second Purdue Languages and Cultures Conference. The aim of the conference is to create an environment that supports collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects related to the fields of study in language and language use. In an academic climate that is placing increasing demands for the justification of research in the social sciences and humanities, it has become important for research in the fields of linguistics and literature to demonstrate their value across disciplines. Recognizing this situation, this conference looks for presentations of original research in the theme of Translational Ideas - Bridging Gaps Between Research and Society.
Call Deadline: 02-Dec-2016
View the full call for papers at http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-4255.html
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Call for Proposals: Global Education Conference
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From http://www.globaleducationconference.com/page/call-for-proposals
This year’s Global Education Conference will take place Sunday, November 13 through Wednesday, November 16, 2016 (November 17th in some time zones). It will be free to attend, and everyone is encouraged to submit a presentation proposal, including first-time presenters. All submissions must relate directly to the conference’s mission of increasing opportunities for collaboration, developing active global citizens, and ensuring educational opportunities for all. All sessions will be held in the Blackboard Collaborate online platform.
Proposals can be submitted from August 1st until November 1, 2016
View the full call for proposals at http://www.globaleducationconference.com/page/call-for-proposals
Source: Global Education Conference
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Title: Call for Chapter Proposals: Refugee Education
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From https://www.hetl.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CALL-FOR-CHAPTER-PROPOSALS-Refugee-Education.pdf
Book Title: Refugee Education: International Perspectives from Higher Education and NGOs
An edited volume by Dr. Patrick Blessinger, St. John’s University and Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association and Dr. Enakshi Sengupta, The American University of Kurdistan.
This volume explores and highlights the strategies and programs that have been implemented by higher education institutions and NGOs to help address the problem of refugee education, as refugees struggle for equality, equity, and social justice in education. This book will touch upon and examine related and overlapping issues such as equality, equity, power, privilege, identity, rights, and pluralism. This book will address the relevant issues at the theory, policy, and practice levels and how educational institutions can be transformed through increased attention on making basic and higher education more inclusive and available to all, especially in countries ravaged by war and oppression.
Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline: DECEMBER 18, 2016
Final Full Chapters Due: JUNE 16, 2017
Target Book Release: FEBRUARY, 2018
Submissions should be submitted electronically to https://www.hetl.org/emerald-refugee-education-submission-form/
View the full call for chapters at https://www.hetl.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CALL-FOR-CHAPTER-PROPOSALS-Refugee-Education.pdf
Source: Higher Education Teaching & Learning Association
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Title: 24th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium
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24th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium
May 26-28, 2017
Franklin, Wisconsin
The S.I.L.S. is the oldest and largest gathering of Native Language stakeholders in North America. In its 24th year, S.I.L.S. continues to be a premier venue, inspiring language revitalization, the advancement in research, the best practice strategies and more demonstrations in language development. All this progress plus more, so that our Native language and culture, of ALL Nations, is not lost forever.
Learn more about this event at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/24th-annual-stabilizing-indigenous-languages-symposium-tickets-28771197426
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Title: Webinar: Striking a Balance: Input, Vocabulary and Grammar in Teaching Russian
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From https://actr.wildapricot.org/event-2335751
Striking a Balance: Input, Vocabulary and Grammar in Teaching Russian
American Council of Teachers of Russian
November 3, 2016
In the webinar participants will consider the roles played in language instruction by input, vocabulary and grammar, and explore ways of incorporating grammar teaching into communicatively focused language practice. The activities take the learner from the first encounter with new language input through focused work on vocabulary to a structured introduction of grammar via scaffolded communicative student-student interaction. Teachers participating in the webinar will receive guidelines for creating and sequencing communicative activities, as well as a set of materials that implement this approach.
For more information and to register go to https://actr.wildapricot.org/event-2335751
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