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Title: Collaboration Between US-China Strong and CASLS
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Source: CASLS Spotlight
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Title: Book: Native and Non-Native Teachers in English Language Classrooms
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From https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/468790?format=G
Native and Non-Native Teachers in English Language Classrooms: Professional Challenges and Teacher Education
Edited by Martinez Agudo and Juan de Dios
Despite being highly debated in applied linguistics and L2 teaching literature, the controversial issue of (non)nativeness still remains unresolved. Contemporary critical research has questioned the theoretical foundations of the nativeness paradigm, which still exerts a strong influence in the language teaching profession.
Written by well-known researchers and teacher educators from all over the world, both NSs and NNSs, the selected contributions of this volume cover a great variety of aspects related to the professional role and status of both NS and NNS teachers in terms of both perceived differences and professional concerns and challenges. The strongest aspects of this volume are the global perspectives and the implications for future research and teacher education. It is precisely this international perspective which makes this volume illustrative of different realities with a similar objective in mind: the improvement of second language teaching and teacher education. In today's world, being a NS or NNS should not really matter but rather teachers' professional competences.
This publication thus provides a forum of reflection and discussion for all L2 educators who need to be aware of how much they might offer to their future students.
Visit the publisher’s website at https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/468790?format=G
Source: de Gruyter
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Title: Book: Applied Linguistics Perspectives on CLIL
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From https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/lllt.47/main
Applied Linguistics Perspectives on CLIL
Edited by Ana Llinares and Tom Morton
Published by the John Benjamins Publishing Company
This book represents the first collection of studies on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) which brings together a range of perspectives through which CLIL has been investigated within Applied Linguistics. The book aims to show how the four perspectives of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), Discourse Analysis, and Sociolinguistics highlight different important aspects of CLIL as a context for second language development. Each of the four sections in the book opens with an overview of one of the perspectives written by a leading scholar in the field, and is then followed by three empirical studies which focus on specific aspects of CLIL seen from this perspective. Topics covered include motivation, the use of tasks, pragmatic development, speech functions in spoken interaction, the use of evaluative language in expressing content knowledge in writing, multimodal interaction, assessment for learning, L1 use in the classroom, English-medium instruction in universities, and CLIL teachers’ professional identities.
Visit the publisher’s website at https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/lllt.47/main
Source: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Title: The Impact of Environmental Factors on the Production of English Narratives by Spanish-English Bilingual Children
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From http://lincom-shop.eu/LSB-03-The-Impact-of-Environmental-Factors-on-the-Production-of-English-Narratives/en
The Impact of Environmental Factors on the Production of English Narratives by Spanish-English Bilingual Children
By Wei Chen and Liang Chen
Published by LINCOM Academic Publishers
English learners (ELs) entering the U.S. educational system form a heterogeneous group, with different patterns of home language use, different instructional programs, and different socio-economic background. The present study explores the impact of these environmental factors on the development of narrative skills in Spanish-speaking ELs. Three independent studies are reported, focusing on ELs’ use of referring expressions, evaluative expressions, and relative clauses in the English oral narratives.
While the results did not provide direct evidence for “the astounding effectiveness” (Collier & Thomas, 2004) of bilingual immersion program in aspects of the ELs’ narrative production, results suggested that this might have resulted from the modulating roles of family socioeconomic status and home language use. Indeed, socioeconomic status was found to play a more important role in predicting individual differences in adequately managing references and using richer evaluative devices in oral narratives than other environmental factors. The study contributes to the field by highlighting the need to examine the interactions of environmental factors to maximize ELs’ language and literacy outcomes.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://lincom-shop.eu/LSB-03-The-Impact-of-Environmental-Factors-on-the-Production-of-English-Narratives/en
Source: LINCOM
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Title: Call for Proposals: 2017 Confederation in Oregon for Language Teaching Fall Conference
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Source: COFLT
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Title: Call for Chapters: Spanish in Contact and in the US
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From https://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-2562.html
Inspired by the 26th Conference on Spanish in the United States & 11th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages.
Original and unpublished manuscripts are invited to be published in an edited volume of articles related to Spanish in the US and Spanish in contact with other languages. The editors have been in contact with Vernon Press, Sabio Books, and John Benjamins Publishing, all of whom have expressed interest in publishing this edited volume.
The editors invite submission of papers in all areas of language research related to any aspect of Spanish in the United States or Spanish in contact with other languages including but not limited to the following:
- Bilingualism
- Educational policies and practices
- Formal aspects of US Spanish
- Heritage language learning and teaching
- Language and identity
- Language and the law
- Language contact and change
- Language ideologies
- Language in politics and politics of language
- Language maintenance
- Language planning
- Language policy
- Language rights
- Linguistic anthropology
- Linguistic variation
- Mass media and Spanish
- Spanish in the professions
- Spanish and the economy
Manuscripts are due August 1, 2017.
View the full call for chapters at https://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-2562.html
Source: LINGUIST LIst
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Title: Call for Presentations: Language Is Life Gathering for California Indian Languages
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The Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival are convening their 13th biennial Language is Life Gathering, October 6-8, 2017 at Wonder Valley Ranch in Sanger, Ca. AICLS welcomes language workers from around the state to join them for an inspiring experience in the beautiful foothills of Kings Canyon in this statewide gathering and learning experience for those working to restore California Indigenous languages.
This year’s theme is “Healthy Languages – Healthy Families” and highlights family language revitalization, what works and how to sustain it.
Submit a presentational proposal at https://aicls.org/language-is-life/call-for-presentations/
Source: AICLS
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Title: Call for Papers: Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference in Kentucky
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From http://kflc.as.uky.edu/call-for-papers
KFLC
The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference
April 19-21
Lexington, Kentucky
The KFLC has a tradition of attracting scholars from a broad range of languages and specializations. This year’s conference will have sessions in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Classical Studies, East Asian Studies, French and Francophone Studies, German-Austrian-Swiss Studies, Hispanic Linguistics, Hispanic Studies (Spanish Peninsular and Spanish American), Indigenous and Endangered Languages, Intercultural Studies, Italian Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language Studies for the Professions, Linguistics, Lusophone Studies, Neo-Latin Studies, Russian and Slavic Studies, Second Language Acquisition, and Translation Studies.
Deadline for abstract submission: November 6, 2017.
View the call for papers at http://kflc.as.uky.edu/call-for-papers
Source: University of Kentucky
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Title: Heritage Language Conference
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From http://www.american.edu/cas/education/iie/Annual-Community-Based-Heritage-Language-Schools-Conference.cfm
2017 Community-Based Heritage Language Schools: Promoting Collaboration among Educators, Families, and Researchers
October 6-7, 2017
American University, Washington, DC
This conference is for program directors and administrators of community-based heritage language schools; members of the language communities involved in these schools; and directors and leaders in public, private, and charter schools who are interested in working with community-based heritage language schools.
Visit the conference website for more information at http://www.american.edu/cas/education/iie/Annual-Community-Based-Heritage-Language-Schools-Conference.cfm
Source: American University
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Title: Secondary Spanish Dual Immersion 2-Day Symposium
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Secondary Spanish Dual Immersion 2-Day Symposium
September 28-29, 2017
California State University Fullerton
For more information, go to the symposium website at http://www.gocabe.org/index.php/event/secondary-spanish-dual-immersion-2-day-symposium/
Source: CABE
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