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Title: STARTALK Summer Program in Portland Public Schools
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The Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) extends its congratulations to Portland Public Schools (PPS) for kicking off their first STARTALK Summer programs. STARTALK, a component of the National Security Language Initiative designed to expand the teaching and learning of strategic world languages, began fulfilling its mission to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, and teaching critical foreign languages in 2006.
PPS already began its teacher training program for instructors of Russian and Chinese and will begin its student programs later this month. These student programs include a Russian Bridging Summer Academy and a Chinese Bridging Summer Academy for the elementary grades, each with a STEM focus. Additionally, PPS is offering a Chinese Bridging Summer Academy for advanced secondary learners. This program will utilize a place-based language learning curriculum developed by the team at CASLS (https://casls.uoregon.edu/student-programs/bridging-project/). 
Congratulations, PPS, and thank you for your continued commitment to world language education!
Source: CASLS Spotlight
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Title: New Evaluation Tool on PEBLL
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The Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) is excited to announce a new resource for educators and researchers interested in place and experience-based language learning. This resource, a tool for evaluating learning experiences that employ this approach to language learning, is available for free on PEBLL (http://pebll.uoregon.edu/).
Educators and researchers who access the tool will be able to read about five central criteria for evaluating all place-based language learning experiences: interactivity, contextuality, engagement, cognitive challenge, and technological affordances. Each criterion is defined and explained through a summary of relevant, contemporary research.
We hope that you will download the tool and use it to evaluate some of the curated place-based language learning experiences that are available to educators on the site. Happy exploring!
Source: CASLS Spotlight
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Title: Book Set: The Atlas of Ancient Rome
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From http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10849.html
The Atlas of Ancient Rome: Biography and Portraits of the City
Edited by Andrea Carandini
Published by Princeton University Press
The Atlas of Ancient Rome provides a comprehensive archaeological survey of the city of Rome from prehistory to the early medieval period. Lavishly illustrated throughout with full-color maps, drawings, photos, and 3D reconstructions, this magnificent two-volume slipcased edition features the latest discoveries and scholarship, with new descriptions of more than 500 monuments, including the Sanctuary of Vesta, the domus Augusti, and the Mausoleum of Augustus. It is destined to become the standard reference for scholars, students, and anyone interested in the history of the city of Rome.
The Atlas of Ancient Rome is monumental in scope. It examines the city's topography and political-administrative divisions, trade and economic production, and social landscape and infrastructure—from residential neighborhoods and gardens to walls, roads, aqueducts, and sewers. It describes the fourteen regions of Rome and the urban history of each in unprecedented detail, and includes profiles and reconstructions of major monuments and works of art. This is the only atlas of the ancient city to incorporate the most current archaeological findings and use the latest mapping technologies.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10849.html
Read a discussion of this resource at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/map-traces-roman-history-over-1500-years-180963773/
Source: Princeton University Press
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Title: Book: Early Language Learning
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From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783098309
Early Language Learning: Complexity and Mixed Methods
Edited by Janet Enever and Eva Lindgren
Published by Multilingual Matters
This is the first collection of research studies to explore the potential for mixed methods to shed light on foreign or second language learning by young learners in instructed contexts. It brings together recent studies undertaken in Cameroon, China, Croatia, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania and the UK. Themes include English as an additional language, English as a second or foreign language, French as a modern foreign language, medium of instruction controversies and content and language integrated learning (CLIL). The volume reviews the choice of research methodologies for early language learning research in schools with a particular focus on mixed methods and proposes that in the multidisciplinary context of early language learning this paradigm allows for a more comprehensive understanding of the evidence than other approaches might provide. The collection will be of interest to in-service and trainee teachers of young language learners, graduate students in the field of TESOL and early language learning, teacher educators, researchers and policymakers.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783098309
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Book: Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School
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From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783098095
Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School: Research Insights
Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo
Published by Multilingual Matters
This book presents research on the learning of foreign languages by children aged 6-12 years old in primary school settings. The collection provides a significant and important contribution to this often overlooked domain and aims to provide research-based evidence that might help to inform and develop pedagogical practice. Topics covered in the chapters include the influence of learner characteristics on word retrieval; explicit second language learning and language awareness; meaning construction; narrative oral development; conversational interaction and how it relates to individual variables; first language use; feedback on written production; intercultural awareness raising and feedback on diagnostic assessment. It will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, teachers and stakeholders who are interested in research on how children learn a second language at primary school.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783098095
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Book: The Japanese Writing System
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From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783098149
The Japanese Writing System: Challenges, Strategies and Self-regulation for Learning Kanji
By Heath Rose
Published by Multilingual Matters
This is the first book devoted to exploring issues of learning written Japanese, focusing on the challenges the writing system poses for the second language learner. It weaves together previous research on Japanese second language acquisition and kanji learning with original studies on self-regulation and kanji learning strategies. It provides the most comprehensive overview of the Japanese writing system and kanji learning to date; helps further our understanding of second language writing acquisition and offers new directions for research in the wider fields of language learning strategies, motivation and self-regulation. Each chapter concludes with a brief discussion of the implications of the content of the chapter for the Japanese language learner, instructor and researcher. It will appeal to researchers of the teaching and learning of Japanese as a foreign/second language, the Japanese writing system and second language acquisition, as well as to instructors and learners of Japanese who are struggling with the teaching and learning of kanji.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783098149
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Call for Papers: International Society for Language Studies 2018 Conference
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From https://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-2905.html
The International Society for Language Studies, co-sponsored by Wilfird Laurier University, will hold a conference from June 28-30, 2018 at the Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, about one hour outside of Toronto. The theme of the conference will be “Intersections of Language Studies and Social/Political Movements, Activism, and Participation.”
In order to provide a guide and structure to the theme, the following represent possible key words (called strands and elaborated below) to describe your proposed session.
Strands
- Discourse & Social/Political Movements, Activism, and Participation
- Language & Social/Political Movements, Activism, and Participation in the Professions & Workplace
- Language, Social/Political Movements, Activism, and Participation & K-12 Education
- Language, Social/Political Movements, Activism, and Participation & Higher Education/Adult Education
- Language Policy & Social/Political Movements, Activism, and Participation
- Language, Culture & Social/Political Movements, Activism, and Participation
- Researching Social/Political Movements, Activism, and Participation in Language Studies
- Other
Call deadline: November 30, 2017
For more conference details go to http://www.isls.co/conference.php
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Call for Proposals: Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference
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From http://www.asian-studies.org/Conferences/AAS-Annual-Conference/Conference-Menu/Conference-Home
Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference
March 22-25, 2018
Washington, DC
The Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference is the largest Asian Studies conference held in North America. With over 3,000 attendees, 370 panel sessions, a book exhibition, and much more, the AAS Annual Conference is appropriate for anyone interested in the study of Asia.
View the Call for Proposals frequently asked questions at http://www.asian-studies.org/Conferences/AAS-Annual-Conference/Conference-Menu/Call-for-Proposals-FAQs, and submit a proposal at http://www.asian-studies.org/Conferences/AAS-Annual-Conference/Conference-Menu/Call-for-Proposals1.
The deadline is August 8, 2017.
Source: AAS
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Title: Globalization and Localization in Computer-Assisted Language Learning
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From https://glocall.org/
The Globalization and Localization in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (GLoCALL) conference will be held jointly with the Professional Communication for Business, Engineering and Technology conference on September 7-9, 2017, at Universiti Teknologi Brunei, Brunei Darussalam.
Visit the conference website at https://glocall.org/
Source: GLoCALL
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Title: 52nd Annual International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages
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From http://icsnl.org/
The 52nd Annual International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages will take place August 18-19, 2017, at Simon Fraser University’s Vancouver Campus. Visit the conference website at http://icsnl.org/
Source: Simon Fraser University
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