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Title: Getting to Know CASLS Staff: Lara Kim Higgins
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5-Question Profile for Lara Kim Higgins, Graphic Designer for CASLS.
1. What is your role at CASLS? What types of projects do you usually work on?
I’m a graphic designer at CASLS and typically work on projects that have some kind of visual component, from designing materials for the ACTFL conference to digital graphics for language learning apps.
2. What are your areas of interest/expertise?
I studied languages and fine arts in college - two areas that I never expected to combine well, but it ended up being a perfect background coming into CASLS as a graphic designer.
3. What do you like best about working at the University of Oregon and living in Eugene?
I’ve been so privileged to meet so many amazing people at the University of Oregon, it’s a really special place to study, work, and live. My favorite thing is hands down being part of the CASLS team, who are the coolest group of passionate individuals that I’ve met during my years here.
4. If you could have any super power, what would it be and why?
Silly and impractically, I wish I could fly! Otherwise, I wish I could teleport so I could travel the world and skip the airlines, hah.
Source: CASLS Spotlight
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Title: New Position at CASLS
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Come join our team! The Center for Applied Second Language Studies is looking for a Pedagogical Experience Designer. This person will create, implement, and evaluate curricular materials for learners studying a second and/or foreign language in formal instructional contexts and out-of-classroom spaces. See the full position description at http://careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us/job/519975/pedagogical-experience-designer
Source: CASLS
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Title: Getting to Know CASLS Staff: Christopher Daradics
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5-Question Profile for Christopher Daradics, Language Technician for CASLS.
1. What is your role at CASLS? What types of projects do you usually work on?
I'm a Research Associate at CASLS and focus most of my energy on curriculum design. Ideally, my work brings together contemporary theories of language (in the broadest sense) with conscientious experience design and pedagogical best practices. As far as the projects I usually work on, most of my assignments have to do with coordinating and/or improving an aspect of the design process.
2. What are your areas of interest/expertise?
My main academic interests have to do with the connection between language use and learners' perception of and participation in the world. I'm interested in understanding and working with the natural ecology of language to support personal formation, self-construction, and metacognition—especially through second language development. My core concerns have to do with the quality of people's conscious experience and the development of higher quality consciousness through the cultivation of curiosity and mindful attention.
3. What do you like best about working at the University of Oregon and living in Eugene?
Working at CASLS is pretty much a dream come true. The university context is satisfying on a number of levels, and my colleagues are brilliant and tons of fun to be in the trenches with. So, I guess what I like best about working at UO is that I get to do the stimulating and rewarding work we do at CASLS with such tremendously supportive and bright colleagues. And about living in Eugene, well, I guess I like that it feels like home—rain and all.
4. If you could have any super power, what would it be and why?
My super power would be to have a supernatural capacity for empathy, because I think being able to understand, appreciate, and accept others' experience is the key to creating a better world.
5. What are your favorite quotes?
"When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a woodcarver's gouge, a surgeon's probe. You wield it, and it digs a path you follow." -Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
"Pardon the egg salad stains, but I'm in love." -Billy Collins, Marginalia
Source: CASLS Spotlight
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Title: Book: Task-Based Language Learning in a Real-World Digital Environment
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Task-Based Language Learning in a Real-World Digital Environment: The European Digital Kitchen
Edited by Paul Seedhouse
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing
How can you use the latest digital technology to create an environment in which people can learn European languages while performing a meaningful real-world task and experiencing the cultural aspect of learning to cook European dishes? This book explains how to do this from A to Z, covering how a real-world digital environment for language learning was designed, built and researched.
The project makes language learning motivational and fun by tapping into people's interest in both cooking and technology – you can learn a language while cooking and interacting with a speaking digital kitchen. The kitchens provide spoken instructions in the foreign language on how to prepare European cuisine. Digital sensors are inserted in or attached to all the kitchen equipment and ingredients, so the digital kitchen detects what learners are doing and gives them feedback. Learners are also able to communicate with the kitchens and can ask for help via photos and videos if they don't understand any foreign language words.
Based on two research grants, the book provides five research studies showing the learning experiences of users in five European countries. The book explains the principles and procedures involved in the project, enabling others to design and implement a real-world digital learning environment in the same way. It includes numerous photographs of the system in use and evidence of how and what 250 users actually learnt.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/task-based-language-learning-in-a-real-world-digital-environment-9781474264075/
Source: Bloomsbury Publishing
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Title: Book: What Is Cultural Translation?
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From http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/what-is-cultural-translation-9781472526274/
What Is Cultural Translation?
By Sarah Maitland
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing
What Is Cultural Translation? In this book, Sarah Maitland uncovers processes of negotiation and adaptation closely associated with the translation of languages behind the cultural phenomena of everyday life. For globalized societies confronted increasingly with the presence of difference in all its forms, translation has become both a metaphor for thoughtful encounter and a touchstone act for what we see, do and say, and who we are.
Drawing on examples from across cultural domains (theatre, film, TV and literature) this work illuminates the elusive concept of 'cultural translation'. Focusing on the built environment, current affairs, international relations and online media, this book arrives at a view of translation in its broadest sense. It is a means for decoding how we shape the cultural realm and serves as a vehicle for new ways of seeing and being that question the received ideas that structure the communities in which we live.
Written in a clear and engaging style, this is the first book-length study of cultural translation. It builds a powerful case for expanding the remit of translation to cover the experience of living and working in a globalized, multicultural world, and is of interest to all involved in the academic study of representation and contestation in contemporary cultural practice.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/what-is-cultural-translation-9781472526274/
Source: Bloomsbury Publishing
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Title: Book: Entrenchment and the Psychology of Language Learning
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From https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/246246?format=G
Entrenchment and the Psychology of Language Learning: How We Reorganize and Adapt Linguistic Knowledge
Edited by Hans-Jörg Schmid
Published by de Gruyter
In recent years, linguists have increasingly turned to the cognitive sciences to broaden their investigation into the roots and development of language. With the advent of cognitive-linguistic, usage-based and complex-adaptive models of language, linguists today are utilizing approaches and insights from cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, social psychology and other related fields.
A key result of this interdisciplinary approach is the concept of entrenchment—the ongoing reorganization and adaptation of communicative knowledge. Entrenchment posits that our linguistic knowledge is continuously refreshed and reorganized under the influence of social interactions. It is part of a larger, ongoing process of lifelong cognitive reorganization whose course and quality is conditioned by exposure to and use of language, and by the application of cognitive abilities and processes to language.
This volume enlists more than two dozen experts in the fields of linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurology, and cognitive psychology in providing a realistic picture of the psychological and linguistic foundations of language. Contributors examine the psychological foundations of linguistic entrenchment processes, and the role of entrenchment in first-language acquisition, second language learning, and language attrition. Critical views of entrenchment and some of its premises and implications are discussed from the perspective of dynamic complexity theory and radical embodied cognitive science.
Visit the publisher’s website at https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/246246?format=G
Source: de Gruyter
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Title: Call for Papers: Journal of Second and Multiple Language Acquisition
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From http://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-1209.html
The editors cordially invite you to publish your research in Journal of Second and Multiple Language Acquisition- JSMULA, a journal free of charge for both authors and readers since 2013.
JSMULA is a quarterly, double-blind peer reviewed journal which publishes original theoretical and applied research papers in second and multiple language acquisition. Publication language is English but research papers to be submitted may study the acquisition or learning of any language as a second, third or multiple language.
View the full call at http://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-1209.html
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Professional Development Opportunities: Camp Musicuentos and the Brave Little Tailor
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Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell will be offering two different kinds of workshops this coming summer, Camp Musicuentos and the Brave Little Tailor.
Camp Musicuentos is an intensive, 2-day workshop intended to help you plan your units for the coming year as far as possible in the amount of time given. Participants will discuss and implement strategies for choosing and sequencing units, designing proficiency-based assessments, identifying what students need to be successful on those assessments, and determining how those fit into daily lesson plans.
(Base)Camp Musicuentos will take place in Louisville, Kentucky, June 15-16.
Camp Musicuentos Northeast will take place in Warwick, Rhode Island, July 10-11.
The Brave Little Tailor series of four workshops focuses on comprehensible input strategies, with a special focus on authentic resources. Each workshop will have only four participants. The workshops will take place July 29, August 26, September 23, and October 28 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Get full details about and register for any of these workshops at http://musicuentos.com/2017/03/cmbt17/
Source: Musicuentos
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Title: Hindi and Urdu Teacher Training Summer Institute
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From https://wp.nyu.edu/virtualhindi/startalknyu/
STARTALK@NYU
Hindi and Urdu Teacher Training Summer Institute
June 5-30, 2017
STARTALK@NYU teacher-training institute is offered by the Hagop Kevorkian Center, NYU and is funded by the STARTALK grant from the National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland. The program is conducted online and face-to-face and it is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of school, community and college teachers of Hindi and Urdu.
Time:
• 5-16 June — two weeks online on Wikispaces (about 15 hours each week)
• 17-24 June — one week residential on NYU campus (40 hours) — program starts on Saturday June 17 at 1:00pm and ends on June 25 at 3:00pm (Participants arrive Saturday morning on June 17 and leave Saturday afternoon June 25)
• 25 June-1 July — one week online on Wikispaces (about 5 hours)
Location: The Richard Ettinghausen Library at the Hagop Kevorkian Center, New York
Learn more at https://wp.nyu.edu/virtualhindi/startalknyu/
Source: Virtual Hindi
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Title: Online Course: Multilingual Practices: Tackling Challenges and Creating Opportunities
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Learn about central aspects of multilingualism in today's globalized societies, such as cognition, policies and education in an upcoming free online course from Future Learn, “Multilingual Practices: Tackling Challenges and Creating Opportunities.”
The course begins on April 10. Learn more at https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/multilingual-practices
Source: Future Learn
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