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Title: 2017 Annual Convention and World Languages Expo
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The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages will hold its Annual Convention and World Languages Expo November 17-19 in Nashville, Tennessee. Come participate in the world’s most comprehensive language education meeting of the minds featuring more than 800 educational sessions in a variety of formats that focus on innovative programs, emerging trends that impact the language profession, and research-informed practices.
Visit the convention website at https://www.actfl.org/convention-expo
Source: ACTFL
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Title: Conference: Reimagining the Role of World Languages in the 21st Century
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From https://hope.edu/academics/modern-classical-languages/crisis-management-innovation/index.html
FROM CRISIS MANAGEMENT TO INNOVATION
Reimagining the Role of World Languages in the 21st Century
October 6-7, 2017
Hope College, Michigan
In an era of changing demographics, pragmatism, and ever-tightening budgets, higher education is changing rapidly. If headlines are any indication, world language programs are often the first to be eliminated when cuts must be made.
What if language departments could be part of the solution in a more positive and proactive way? What if world languages played a leadership role in reshaping the 21st-century academy?
Originally started at Simpson College in 2015, this conference offers an opportunity for teams of language educators and college administrators to explore this question in depth. The organizers invite college faculty and administrators (as individuals or, more effectively, in teams) seeking innovative solutions to the problems facing language programs in higher education.
Visit the conference website at https://hope.edu/academics/modern-classical-languages/crisis-management-innovation/index.html
Source: Hope College
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Title: Workshop: Creating a Digital Commentary for Teaching
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From http://blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2017/08/10/workshop-creating-a-digital-commentary-for-teaching/
Dickinson Latin Workshop
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Creating a Digital Commentary for Teaching
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Do you write your own notes on Latin texts for your students? Are you frustrated with the limitations of Microsoft Word when it comes to parallel display of text, notes, and vocabulary? Now you can create attractive, usable reading texts online with vocabulary lists and notes simultaneously displayed, and the ability to include hyperlinks and add audio-visual material. This workshop will demonstrate and provide practice with a new plugin for the WordPress CMS that mimics the easy-to-read format of Dickinson College Commentaries. In addition, participants will see demonstrations of and practice using a variety of online tools that are helpful in the creation and annotation of reading texts: The Bridge for vocabulary list creation; DCC core vocabulary; Pleiades for geography; digitized grammars and reference works for simplifying annotations; Johan Winge’s macronizer; and others.
This workshop will be of interest primarily to Latin teachers, but others are more than welcome to attend. The workshop is free of charge, but to order materials and food the organizers need to have an accurate count of attendees. Please pre-register by October 9.
For full details go to http://blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2017/08/10/workshop-creating-a-digital-commentary-for-teaching/
Source: Dickinson College Commentaries
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Title: Language Educator Bookclub Reads Social LEADia
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The University of Colorado Boulder facilitates an online bookclub for language educators. The book for August and September is Social LEADia by Jennifer Casa-Todd. Reading will begin on August 16. Learn more at http://mailchi.mp/0c4e9cc2bf29/language-educator-book-club-our-next-book?e=d6a5991ab8
Source: University of Colorado Boulder
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Title: Webinar: Building Bridges to Success
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New research from the Center for Promise, the research arm of America’s Promise Alliance, finds that schools and educators who want to boost the prospects for English-language learners should take stock of what is happening in their lives both inside and outside the classroom. Drawing on student data and interviews with English-learners, the researchers explored why the students may struggle to achieve English proficiency and identified steps that educators can take to knock down barriers ELLs encounter on the road to earning a diploma. Join us for a conversation with researchers and educators to explore how to build bridges, not barriers, to success for English-learners.
Register for this on-demand, one-hour webinar at https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=reg20.jsp&partnerref=POST&eventid=1434293&sessionid=1&key=E7C82F5F22C3CD10CFFADBEF4A1FD2D4®Tag=&sourcepage=register
Source: Education Week
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Title: Online Course: Short Film in Language Teaching
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From https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/short-film-language-teaching
Use short film in foreign language teaching and learning.
Three-week online course beginning September 18, 2017
Teachers and learners of a new language face exciting challenges in engaging with speaking, listening, reading and writing in, and getting to grips with a different culture.
Research has shown that film, especially short film, has much to offer language learners and teachers, helping them to develop awareness and understanding in engaging and inspiring ways.
This online course will share effective strategies for working short film into language teaching and learning, developing confidence and ability in both teachers and learners of a new language.
Learn more at https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/short-film-language-teaching
Source: Future Learn
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Title: NEH Pledges $2.1 Million to Revitalize Endangered Native American Languages
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From https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2017-08-03
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced a three-year partnership with First Nations Development Institute to foster the revitalization of Native American languages through language-immersion education programs within tribal communities.
Two million one hundred thousand dollars in funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities will be matched dollar for dollar by First Nations Development Institute to support curriculum development, technology access, and recruitment and training of teachers for twelve immersive Native-language programs a year. Language programs will be designed with input from an advisory committee of Native-language immersion practitioners and members of Native communities to incorporate Native cultural content and culturally appropriate ways of teaching and learning.
Read the full article at https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2017-08-03
Source: National Endowment for the Humanities
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Title: Portuguese through an Independent Lens
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From https://www.languagemagazine.com/2017/08/portuguese-independent-lens/
Portuguese through an Independent Lens
by Kristal Bivona
August 7, 2017
Portuguese instruction faces some challenges that are by no means unique to Portuguese but also affect the instruction of other imperialist languages, such as English, Spanish, and French. One such challenge is the underrepresentation of cultures and peoples who identify as indigenous and African. Of course, this gross underrepresentation is not limited to language-teaching materials, nor is it occurring in a vacuum within the field of education—it is pandemic in cultural production from formerly imperial or colonized places everywhere, as evident, for example, in the lack of cultural and racial diversity in film and television. As a result, language teachers often present a version of the target culture that misrepresents the reality of the places about which they are teaching. In the case of Portuguese, which faces a dearth of published teaching materials compared to other imperialist languages, textbooks present a whitened Brazil, only mentioning Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous culture and history as side notes.
As instructors, if we want our students to have a deeper engagement with underrepresented groups in the target culture, we need to get creative. The program at the Claremont Consortium is exemplary in building in opportunities for the students to practice Portuguese outside of the classroom and to learn about Afro-Brazilian culture, research, and experiences.
Read more about the program and its involvement with the Instituto Cultural Steve Biko in Bahia, Brazil, at https://www.languagemagazine.com/2017/08/portuguese-independent-lens/
Source: Language Magazine
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Title: Russia on the Ground: Domestic News Inside Russia
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What’s the latest news inside Russia? Find out what Russians want from their next leader, what they currently believe about history how they feel about foreign affairs, and more in the latest installment of Russian on the Ground: http://geohistory.today/russia-on-the-ground-july-2017/
Source: Geohistory
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Title: Two Italian Festivals in California
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Here are two upcoming cultural opportunities for Italian lovers in California:
37th Annual Italian Family Festa
History Park San Jose
August 26-27
More information: https://www.italianfamilyfestasj.org/
9th Annual Festa Coloniale Italiana
San Francisco Italian Athletic Club
August 19
More information: http://www.sfiacfesta.com/
Source: Various
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