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Title: Book: Heritage and School Language Literacy Development in Migrant Children
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From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783099030
Heritage and School Language Literacy Development in Migrant Children: Interdependence or Independence?
Edited by Raphael Berthele and Amelia Lambelet
Published by Multilingual Matters
This book discusses literacy development in heritage language speakers and presents the results of four different quantitative studies that investigate the transfer of literacy skills in bi- and multilingual language development. The empirical studies focus on different populations of pupils, most of them located in various parts of Switzerland, and emphasize the potential residing in shared or transferred resources between their heritage languages and the languages spoken in the region to which their family has immigrated. The goal of all studies was to gain an understanding of the factors, both linguistic and non-linguistic in nature, that contribute to the development of language skills in both the heritage and school languages. Theoretical assumptions are put to the test via hypothesis testing and the generally shared assumptions on bilingual education are questioned based on the data. Furthermore, methodological problems in the investigation of linguistic interdependence are discussed. This book contributes to the scholarly investigation of potential beneficial effects in academic proficiency across languages in migrant children.
Visit the publisher's website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783099030
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Book: The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
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From http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Newcomers/Helen-Thorpe/9781501159091
The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
By Helen Thorpe
Published by Simon & Schuster
The Newcomers follows the lives of twenty-two immigrant teenagers throughout the course of the 2015-2016 school year as they land at South High School in Denver, Colorado, in an English Language Acquisition class created specifically for them. Speaking no English, unfamiliar with American culture, their stories are poignant and remarkable as they face the enormous challenge of adapting. These newcomers, from fourteen to nineteen years old, come from nations convulsed by drought or famine or war. Many come directly from refugee camps, after experiencing dire forms of cataclysm. Some arrive alone, having left or lost every other member of their original family.
At the center of The Newcomers is Mr. Williams, the dedicated and endlessly resourceful teacher of South’s very beginner English Language Acquisition class. If Mr. Williams does his job right, the newcomers will leave his class at the end of the school year with basic English skills and new confidence, their foundation for becoming Americans and finding a place in their new home.
With the US at a political crossroads around questions of immigration, multiculturalism, and America’s role on the global stage, Helen Thorpe presents a fresh and nuanced perspective. The Newcomers is a transformative take on these timely, important issues.
Visit the publisher's website at http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Newcomers/Helen-Thorpe/9781501159091
Source: Simon & Schuster
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Title: Book: Doing Pragmatics Interculturally
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From https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/488503
Doing Pragmatics Interculturally: Cognitive, Philosophical, and Sociopragmatic Perspectives
Edited by Rachel Giora and Michael Haugh
Intercultural Pragmatics is a large and diverse field encompassing a wide range of approaches, methods, and theories. This volume draws scholars together from a broad range of cognitive, philosophical, and sociopragmatic perspectives on language use in order to lay the path for a mutually informing and enriching dialogue across subfields and perceived barriers to doing pragmatics interculturally.
Visit the publisher's website at https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/488503
Source: de Gruyter
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Title: Call for Papers: Symposium on American Indian Languages
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From https://americanindianlanguages.com/
The Symposium on American Indian Languages (SAIL) is dedicated to discussion of the documentation, conservation and revitalization of the native languages of the Americas.
SAIL 2018 will be hosted by the Linguistic Department of the University of Ottawa on April 13-14, 2018. It will happen in conjunction with the 23rd Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA).
Abstracts are invited for papers on any aspect of American Indian languages. There is a special session entitled "Language Revitalization Strategies and Pedagogy," a Parasession entitled "Documentation, Description and Theory," and a poster session.
Submission Deadline: Thursday, February 1, 2018
View the full call for papers at https://americanindianlanguages.com/call-for-papers/
Source: SAIL
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Title: Call for Proposals: Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching
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Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Call for Papers: Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum
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From the JTIT-L listserv:
The 24th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum (PJPF) will take place on May 12-13, 2018 at Princeton University. The theme of the Forum is "Living Language, Transforming Leaners, Teachers, and Community: Ecological Approaches toward Language Education" Three keynote speakers, Professor Jaeho Lee (Waseda University), Professor Dave Malinowski (Yale University), and Professor Seiichi Makino (Princeton University) have been invited to give talks on this theme.
The Forum invites papers related to the main theme for both pre-college and college level as well as heritage Japanese language and culture education. In addition, we welcome any paper related to Japanese language education in general, including second language acquisition, linguistics, and technology in language learning and teaching, among others.
Individual papers should be 20 minutes long with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. We will also have one-hour poster sessions. When you submit your proposal, please tell us your preference. For submission, visit https://pjpf.princeton.edu/abstract-submission-form-pjpf-2018
The submission deadline is January 10, 2018.
Sato, S. PJPF Proposal Deadline: January 10th, 2018. JTIT-L listserv (JTIT-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU, 19 Dec 2017).
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Title: Call for Chapters: Corpora and Data-Driven Learning
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From https://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-5218.html
This is a call for papers for an edited book focusing on the use of corpora for data-driven learning (DDL, Johns, 1991) with young (i.e. pre-tertiary) learners. DDL, despite being a feature of corpora and language learning research for some time, has really taken off as a viable methodological approach in the last decade due to innovations in corpus query interfaces, data visualization, open access and improved internet access/speed. However, for a number of reasons including access, resources and difficulties in convincing those outside academia of the value of DDL, the majority of studies on DDL are conducted with tertiary or adult learners, leaving DDL for younger learners (those in pre-school, primary, or secondary education) as a relatively underexplored area in the literature.
With this in mind, chapter proposals are invited that explore the use of DDL with younger learners. Studies dealing with DDL for first or second language acquisition, genre and register learning/teaching and DDL for the teaching/learning of subjects other than languages are particularly welcome. The corpora involved in any of these studies can be spoken, written or multimodal. Chapters may be empirical studies of corpus use and its effects on learning, studies that explore the perceptions of corpus use by younger learners/teachers of younger learners, or studies that make a novel contribution to theory or methodology, such as new software or corpora that deal specifically with younger learners, and new approaches in training teachers / students of younger learners in DDL techniques.
Final chapters will be approximately 6000-7500 words. Chapter proposals of 400-500 words are due March 31, 2018. The edited volume is to be published in 2019 by Routledge, part of the Taylor and Francis publishing group.
View the full call for chapters at https://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-5218.html
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Title: California Language Teachers' Association 2018 Conference
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From http://clta.net/event/2018-annual-clta-conference/
The Quest for Proficiency
2018 Annual CLTA CONFERENCE
March 8-11, 2018
Double Tree & Convention Center
Ontario Airport
Learn more and register at http://clta.net/event/2018-annual-clta-conference/
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Title: 2018 Midwest Slavic Conference
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The 2018 Midwest Slavic Conference is scheduled for March 23 - 25, 2018, in Columbus, Ohio on the campus of Ohio State University.
For more details go to https://slaviccenter.osu.edu/about/conferences/midwest-slavic
Source: The Ohio State University
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Title: Purdue Linguistics, Literature, and Second Language Studies Conference
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Purdue Linguistics, Literature, and Second Language Studies Conference
March 2-4, 2018
The Purdue Linguistics, Literature, and Second Language Studies Conference (formerly the Purdue Languages & Cultures Conference) is a collaboration between the School of Languages and Cultures, the Purdue Linguistics Association, and the Program of Second Language Studies, which promotes scholarship in the fields of linguistics, literature, applied linguistics and second language studies.
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Source: Purdue University
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