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Title: Call for Papers for the CALICO Journal Special Issue: Social Inclusivity
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From https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/CALICO/announcement/view/218
Call for Papers: Special Issue 36.1: Moving forward with critical CALL to promote social inclusivity
This special issue will explore the interplay between technology-mediated language learning and issues of social injustice, power, and inequality. … Integral questions from the perspective of critical CALL include: How does technology play a role in this dynamic? How do neoliberal principles such as an individualistic competition model and CALL intertwine? (How) can we leverage technology to promote “social inclusion” (Warschauer, 2003, p. 8)? Gruba and Hinkelman’s (2012) three-tiered approach to the design and evaluation of blended learning experiences provides a springboard for expanding the study of critical CALL. Where most critical CALL research to date has been concerned with micro-level issues (e.g., how a particular technology used in a particular classroom helped students learn the target language), there is relatively little discussion of meso-level issues and macro-level issues. By focusing on these two areas, the special issue issue seeks to uncover which structures, strategies, or modes of technology-mediated language instruction serve to “enact, sustain, legitimate, condone or ignore social inequality and injustice” (van Dijk, 1993, p. 252). Ultimately, it asks a similar question to that posed by Motha (2014, p. xxiii): How do we participate in CALL “in a way that is responsible, ethical, and conscious of the consequences of our practice”?
Deadline for submission of abstracts: July 15, 2017
View the full call for papers at https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/CALICO/announcement/view/218
Source: CALICO Journal
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Title: Himalayan Studies Conference 2017
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From http://www.colorado.edu/hsc2017/
Himalayan Studies Conference V is scheduled for September 1-4, 2017 (Labor Day Weekend) at the University of Colorado Boulder. The conference will start the evening of Friday the 1st and end by midday on Monday the 4th.
The keynote speakers for HSC V will be the acclaimed author Manjushree Thapa, whose works of fiction and non-fiction explore current events in Nepal and themes of war and peace, development and diaspora, and the scholar and writer Lama Jabb, Research Fellow at Oxford University, whose research focuses on modern Tibetan literature and its interface with oral traditions.
Visit the conference website at http://www.colorado.edu/hsc2017/
Source: University of Colorado Boulder
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Title: Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching 9th Annual Conference
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From http://speechlab.utah.edu/PSLLT2017.php
Pronunciation in Second Language Learning & Teaching (PSLLT)
9th Annual Conference
September 1-2, 2017 | University of Utah
Bridging L2 Pronunciation Research and Teaching
Visit the conference website at http://speechlab.utah.edu/PSLLT2017.php
Source: University of Utah
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Title: 16th International Conference on Minority Languages and 34th Summer School and Conference of Applied Language Studies
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From https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/applied-summerschool/summerschool2017
The 16th International Conference on Minority Languages and 34th Summer School of Applied Language Studies will be held in Jyväskylä & Närpes, Finland, August 28-30, 2017. The theme of the conference is Revaluing minority languages.
Visit the conference website at https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/applied-summerschool/summerschool2017
Source: University of Jyväskylä
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Title: Overview of STARTALK Summer Programs
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From https://startalk.umd.edu/public/about
STARTALK’s mission is to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, and teaching critical need foreign languages. STARTALK offers students (K–16) and teachers of these languages creative and engaging summer experiences that strive to exemplify best practices in language education and in language teacher development.
For an overview of this summer’s STARTALK programs, go to https://startalk.umd.edu/public/find-a-summer-program/Occidental%20College%20%28Teacher%29?f[0]=im_field_st_language%3A38
Source: STARTALK
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Title: Context Important for Understanding African Languages
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From https://qz.com/1002582/wed-have-a-better-chance-of-preserving-africas-dying-languages-if-we-learned-their-history/
We’d have a better chance of preserving Africa’s dying languages if we learned their history
June 13, 2017
by Abdi Latif Dahir
Across the world, African languages are slowly taking the center stage and are being recognized for their importance. For instance, you can now learn Zulu on an app, read a growing list of articles in African languages on Wikipedia, and receive thousands of dollars in awards for your fictional Swahili piece or poem. And many universities from Ethiopia to South Africa are making African languages like Afan Oromo and isiXhosa a compulsory subject.
But Africa still has some of the world’s highest concentration of at-risk languages. And that can be reversed by first understanding and studying the past history, present evolution, and future use of these languages.
Read the full article at https://qz.com/1002582/wed-have-a-better-chance-of-preserving-africas-dying-languages-if-we-learned-their-history/
Source: Quartz
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Title: KoreanClass101: Free Korean Lessons
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The KoreanClass101 website requires users to sign up for a free account to access leveled audio and video lessons and other Korean language learning tools. The site is available at https://www.koreanclass101.com/
Source: KoreanClass101
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Title: GeoHistory Today: New Eurasian Resource
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From http://geohistory.today/about/
GeoHistory Today is devoted to those seeking a deeper understanding of Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Central Asia, and other Eurasian locations. Information provided on GeoHistory Today will range from histories to analysis of current affairs and will be provided with the goal of helping students to better understand contemporary events, politics, and cultures. This site is authored primarily by staff and students from The School of Russian and Asian Studies.
The GeoHistory Today website is available at http://geohistory.today/
Source: GeoHistory Today
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Title: How Arabic Translators Helped Preserve Greek Philosophy and the Classical Tradition
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From http://www.openculture.com/
Josh Jones writes, “… this ‘Byzantine humanism,’ as it’s called, ‘helped the classical tradition survive, at least to the large extent that it has.’ As ancient texts and traditions disappeared in Europe during the so-called ‘Dark Ages,’ Arabic and Syriac-speaking scholars and translators incorporated them into an Islamic philosophical tradition called falsafa.”
Read the full article at http://www.openculture.com/2017/06/how-arabic-translators-helped-preserve-greek-philosophy-and-the-classical-tradition.html
Source: Open Culture
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Title: Communication in a Latin Classroom
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From http://todallycomprehensiblelatin.blogspot.com/
Keith Toda follows up on last week’s blog post about communicative exercises, activities, and tasks (http://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/23321) with a thoughtful reflection on the range of goals that different Latin teachers and students have and where communicative language fits in Latin classrooms. Read his new blog post at http://todallycomprehensiblelatin.blogspot.com/2017/06/wrapping-my-mind-around-communicative_13.html
Source: Todally Comprehensible Latin
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