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Title: Article: Digital Games and Language Teaching and Learning
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CASLS Director Julie Sykes has published an article, "Digital games and language teaching and learning," in the latest issue of ACTFL's Foreign Language Annals. Here is the abstract:
The digital gaming industry has captured the public's attention worldwide and in the United States alone, the video game industry is predicted to increase by 30% from 2010 to 2019, reaching $19.6billion in revenue (Takahashi, 2015, n.p.). Not surprisingly, digital gameplay is also rapidly expanding in educational domains. Although researchers have often cautioned that digital games are not a panacea or magic bullet, for the past decade educators have been exploring the inherent complexities and benefits of digital gaming and the significant opportunities they provide for effective, meaningful learning across disciplines (Caillois, 1961; Gee, 2007; McGonigal, 2013; Squire, 2009). World language learning and teaching have followed suit. This piece provides a brief exploration of the use of digital games in the language learning context and offers three ideas for future work in this area: (1) increased access to community-based games, (2) meaningful incorporation of virtual reality, and (3) increased access to commercial games.
Access the article at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/flan.12325/epdf
Access the full Spring 2018 issue of Foreign Language Annals at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/flan.v51.1/issuetoc
Source: Wiley
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Title: Book: Language Acquisition at the Interfaces
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From http://www.cambridgescholars.com/language-acquisition-at-the-interfaces
Language Acquisition at the Interfaces: Proceedings of GALA 2015
Edited by Jiyoung Choi, Hamida Demirdache, Oana Lungu, and Laurence Voeltzel
Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing
This volume is a collection of papers presented at the 12th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference held at the University of Nantes, France, in 2015. Language acquisition, a field of inquiry that has witnessed continuous growth during the past four decades, is central to building a detailed understanding of the human amazing capacity to develop language. The papers gathered here reflect the current research in the field of first, second and heritage language acquisition, addressing a variety of topics in syntax, semantics, phonology and their interfaces, from a wide range of languages such as Tashlhiyt Berber, English, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, European Portuguese, Heritage Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Heritage Sign Language, and Yudja. This volume will thus serve as a valuable reference guide to all scholars interested in (first/second/bilingual) language acquisition, multilingualism, heritage languages, sign language, language pathology and impairment, and experimental research in linguistics.
Visit the publisher's website at http://www.cambridgescholars.com/language-acquisition-at-the-interfaces
Source: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Title: Book: Cuban Spanish Dialectology
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From http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/cuban-spanish-dialectology
Cuban Spanish Dialectology: Variation, Contact, and Change
Edited by Alejandro Cuza
Published by Georgetown University Press
Despite the significant presence of Cuban immigrants in the United States, current research on Cuban Spanish linguistics remains underexplored. This volume addresses this lacuna in Cuba Spanish research by providing a state-of-the-art collection of articles from a range of theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas, including phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches, sociolinguistic perspectives, and heritage language acquisition. Given increasing interest in Cuban Spanish among graduate students and faculty, this volume is a timely and highly relevant contribution to Hispanic linguistics and Cuban Spanish dialectology in particular.
Visit the publisher's website at http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/cuban-spanish-dialectology
Source: Georgetown University Press
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Title: Digital Short: Teaching Advanced Language Skills through Global Debate
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From http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/teaching-advanced-language-skills-through-global-debate
Teaching Advanced Language Skills through Global Debate: Theory and Practice
By Tony Brown and Jennifer Brown
Published by Georgetown University Press
Using debate to develop advanced competency in a second language is a method that is finding increased interest among instructors and students alike, whether in synchronous online teaching or the individual classroom. Through debate, students learn how to make hypotheses, support their conclusions with evidence, and deploy the rhetoric of persuasion in the target language. Though this method provides an exciting pedagogy for moving students from the advanced to the superior level, there is a paucity of materials available for instructors who wish to plan a curriculum focused on debate. Teaching Advanced Language Skills through Global Debate: Theory and Practice provides teachers with both the theoretical underpinnings for using debate in the foreign language classroom as well as practical advice for developing reading, listening, writing, and speaking skills through debate. It discusses task-based language learning and helps instructors design debate-related tasks for the classroom.
Visit the publisher's website at http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/teaching-advanced-language-skills-through-global-debate
Source: Georgetown University Press
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Title: Call for Papers: Multilingualism, Creativity, and the Arts
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From https://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-1089.html
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Critical Multilingualism Studies
Multilingualism, Creativity, and the Arts
This special issue of CMS, to be published in spring 2019, invites submissions (scholarly articles, interdisciplinary essays, or mixed-genre pieces) focusing on the relationship between multilingualism and creative expression, as it is informed by theories or practices of multilingualism.
Translingual literature is the phenomenon of authors who, like Samuel Beckett, André Brink, and Vladimir Nabokov, write in more than one language or who, like Chinua Achebe, Joseph Conrad, and Ha Jin, write exclusively in a language other than their primary one. Some writers, such as Marc Chagall--who was a prolific artist, wrote poetry in Russian and Yiddish, and famously used his mixed languages and alphabets in his artwork--exhibit creative versatility in multiple art forms. Like the great Chinese calligrapher-poets, 'metrolingual' artists (Jaworski 2014) use creative combinations of linguistic and artistic codes, genres, and multimodal dimensions in their text art (e.g. Laurie Anderson). Does translingual theory help us to understand what happens when an artist (of multiple media) --such as Jean (Hans) Arp, who moved among painting, sculpture, and poetry but also between German and French, or Breyten Breytenbach, who moves between fiction and painting but also among Afrikaans, English, and French--is also multilingual?
Expressions of interest due May 1, 2018.
The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2018.
View the full call for papers at https://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-1089.html
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Call for Proposals: 2019 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
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From https://csctfl.wildapricot.org/
2019 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
"Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges, Promoting Performance"
March 14-16, 2019
Columbus, Ohio
Proposals are due April 15, 2018.
Access the session and workshop proposal form at https://csctfl.wildapricot.org/event-2761594
Source: CSCTFL
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Title: Call for Submissions: All the Russias Blog
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All the Russias, the official blog of NYU’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, is now accepting submissions. The editors welcome short pitches and/or completed drafts of 500-1200 words on any topic relating to Russian, East European, and Eurasian politics and culture. Pieces may belong to any number of different genres, including, but not limited to,
- Cultural criticism
- Political analysis
- Reviews of…
- …recently released or upcoming films or books, fictional or non-;
- …ongoing or upcoming exhibitions, performances, or events
- Exposés of recent research within Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, broadly defined
- Essays on disciplinary matters
- “Explainers” offering insight into perplexing contemporary cultural phenomena or current events
Please send ≤200-word proposals/ pitches (in the body of your email) or 500-1200-word drafts (as .docx’s or Google Drive attachments) to Maya Vinokour at alltherussias@gmail.com, along with a one-line bio (including a hyperlink to your webpage, if applicable). For detailed submission and style guidelines, please see this page: http://jordanrussiacenter.org/blog-submission-guidelines/. The editors look forward to reading your submissions!
Vinokour, M. [SEELANGS] Call for Submissions: NYU's All the Russias' Blog. SEELANGS listserv (SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, 13 Mar 2018).
Source: SEELANGS
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Title: Call for Proposals: Symposium on Indigenous Languages and Cultures
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From https://clas.osu.edu/ilcla
Symposium on Indigenous Languages and Cultures (ILCLA/STLILLA)
October 25-28, 2018
The Ohio State University
The second Symposium on Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America (ILCLA), organized in conjunction with the fourth Symposium on Teaching and Learning Indigenous Languages of Latin America (STLILLA 2018) brings together instructors, practitioners, activists, indigenous leaders, scholars and learners who study indigenous languages and cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean.
This international symposium engages participants in a hemispheric dialogue and also serves as a permanent forum for networking and exchanging ideas, experiences and research on methodological, theoretical, pedagogical, and practical issues from inter and trans-disciplinary perspectives. This forum will enable professionals from around the world to interact with leading experts in the fields of education, language policy and planning, linguistics, cultural studies, ethnomusicology, anthropology, informatics, and other disciplines. Through different venues such as keynotes presentations, panels, round tables, interactive workshops, poster sessions, and technological tool showcases, this symposium will contribute to the teaching and learning, dissemination and preservation, study and advancement of indigenous languages and cultures of the region.
The Call for Proposals deadline has been extended to March 31, 2018.
View the full call for proposals at https://clas.osu.edu/ilcla
Source: The Ohio State University
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Title: Global Language and Culture Conference 2018
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From https://www.nysais.org/page.cfm?id=3094&verbose=15863
Global Language and Culture Conference 2018
April 22
Mohonk Mountain House
New Paltz, New York
Speaker: Dr. Helena Curtain
The Global Language and Culture Conference is open all teachers of World and Classical Languages grades K-12. The conference will feature a keynote speaker, job-alike sessions, and 40 workshops on a variety of topics of interest to teachers of all languages and levels.
Come to learn new techniques and methods, explore best practices in language teaching, establish connections with colleagues and strengthen your Personal Learning Network.
Visit the conference website at https://www.nysais.org/page.cfm?id=3094&verbose=15863
Source: New York State Association of Independent Schools
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Title: 2018 Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) Conference
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From https://www.du.edu/cwlc/clac_2018/index.html
2018 Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) Conference
Providing Access: Inclusivity in Internationalization through CLAC
University of Denver Center for World Languages & Cultures
Denver, Colorado
April 12-14, 2018
Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) philosophies, approaches, and models provide flexible and meaningful ways to include and engage all students, staff, and faculty access to the internationalization of the curriculum. CLAC provides a platform through which access to knowledge, inclusivity, sustainability, community engagement, and internationalization may be addressed equitably through the engagement of languages and cultures across disciplines and co-curricular experiences.
Visit the conference website at https://www.du.edu/cwlc/clac_2018/index.html
Source: University of Denver
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