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From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783099177

Bilingual Childcare: Hitches, Hurdles and Hopes
By Victoria Benz
Published by Multilingual Matters

This ethnographic study explores aspects of bilingual education in two early childhood German–English education centers in Australia. Using various sources of data and multiple methods of analysis, it investigates the processes at work when establishing and implementing a bilingual program and examines the language attitudes, ideologies and practices of the parents, educators and administrators involved. It addresses the complex relationship between the childcare provider and its clientele in its socio-political context in an attempt to arrive at a broader understanding of institutional bilingual education in early childhood. The book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in bilingual education, language ideology and early childhood education studies, as well as to teachers, trainee teachers and childcare providers.

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From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?K=9781783099085

Crosslinguistic Encounters in Language Acquisition: Typical and Atypical Development
Edited by Elena Babatsouli, David Ingram, and Nicole Müller
Published by Multilingual Matters

This book presents diverse, original research studies on typical and atypical child language acquisition in monolingual, bilingual and bi-dialectal settings, with a focus on development, assessment and research methodology. Languages investigated in the studies include underrepresented languages, such as Farsi, Greek, Icelandic, isiXhosa, Maltese, Mandarin and Slovene, without excluding representative work in major languages like English and Spanish. The language areas of focus are phonology, lexicon, morphology and syntax and the book incorporates studies in under-researched language impairment, such as Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome and language impairment in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. The book has practical significance in that it proposes tools and assessment practices that are of universal crosslinguistic relevance while also dealing with language-specific complications. The studies presented enhance existing knowledge and stimulate answers on what the acquisition of disparate languages in different contexts can teach us about language/communication development in the presence or absence of disorder.

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From https://bloomsbury.com/us/learner-corpus-research-9781474272889/

Learner Corpus Research: New Perspectives and Applications
Edited by Vaclav Brezina and Lynne Flowerdew
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing

This volume showcases original, agenda-setting studies in the field of learner corpus research of both spoken and written production. The studies have important applications for classroom pedagogy. 

The volume brings readers up-to-date with new written and spoken learner corpora, often looking at previously under-examined variables in learner corpus investigations. It also demonstrates innovative applications of learner corpus findings, addressing issues such as the effect of task, the effect of learner variables and the nature of learner language. 

The volume is of significant interest to researchers working in corpus linguistics, learner corpus research, second language acquisition and English for Academic and Specific Purposes, as well to practitioners interested in the application of the findings in language teaching and assessment.

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From http://www.ictfl.org/form/2018-ictfl-fall-conference-call-sessions

Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages  Fall Conference 2018
October 26 - 27 
NIU Naperville Conference Center

ICTFL is committed to offering conference sessions that are current and are presented in a professional manner. ICTFL endeavors to provide professional development that produces credit toward the renewal of teaching licenses. The committee is seeking a balanced program on the teaching of classical and modern languages, including heritage languages, as well as professional concerns of language educators. Special consideration will be given to proposals emphasizing the practical application (specifically the “how-to-do-it”) of the Core Practices emphasized at the 2017 Fall Conference. These were 90% in Target, Grammar in Context, and Feedback.

Submission Deadline: March 1, 2018.

For full details and to submit a proposal, go to http://www.ictfl.org/form/2018-ictfl-fall-conference-call-sessions

From http://www.nystesol.org/ALWC2018/

Call for Proposals
39th Annual Applied Linguistics Winter Conference (ALWC 2018)
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Sponsored by NYS TESOL Applied Linguistics SIG
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Teachers College, Columbia University

Deadline for submission: January 22, 2018 

View the full call for proposals at http://www.nystesol.org/ALWC2018/

From http://www.uta.edu/linguistics/current-students/lingua/conference/index.php

On March 1-2, 2018, the UTA Department of Linguistics & TESOL will host the 24th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL (UTASCILT). The keynote speaker for this year’s conference is Dr. Emily Elfner (York University). More details can be found on the conference page at http://www.uta.edu/linguistics/current-students/lingua/conference/24-utascilt-2018/index.php

From http://spanish.arizona.edu/graduate/seminar

28th Annual Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture
Periphery at the Center
February 23-24, 2018
University of Arizona

Keynote speakers: Manel Lacorte and Ivonne de Valle

Visit the conference website at http://spanish.arizona.edu/graduate/seminar