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Title: ACTFL 2018: Where Language Educators Meet
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We had a wonderful time at this year’s ACTFL in New Orleans, and we hope you did as well. The energy, excitement, and conversations will help carry us through this academic year.
Similar to last year, the Title VI Language Resource Centers hosted a joint pavilion to showcase the curricular materials, assessments, professional development opportunities, and research of all sixteen centers.
“The joint LRC pavilion was a one-stop spot for attendees to find quality resources and materials,” says CASLS Director and LRC Coordinating Council Chairperson Julie Sykes. “It was also the perfect opportunity to showcase the collaborative work among the LRCs.”
Congratulations to Rebecca Aubrey, a Spanish teacher at Ashford School in Connecticut, who received the 2019 ACTFL Teacher of the Year Award.
Thanks to all of those who introduced themselves and met with us during the convention. We love listening to your ideas and hope to see you next year!
Source: CASLS Spotlight
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Title: Book: Research and Practice in Assessing the English of School-age Learners
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Examining Young Learners: Research and Practice in Assessing the English of School-age Learners
By Szilvia Papp, Shelagh Rixon, Nick Saville, and Cyril J. Weir
Published by Cambridge University Press
The volume reflects on how learners' L2 development between the ages of 6 and 16 can be coherently described and their L2 assessment defined in terms of socio-cognitive validity. There is particular focus on the theoretical foundations, language competence model, development and validation framework, and evaluation and review processes to provide evidence for the validity of the Cambridge English family of assessments for children and teenagers. Academics, assessment professionals and postgraduate researchers of L2 development in children and teenagers will find great value in the volume's theoretical insight, while policy-makers and teachers will gain rigorous practical advice for the young language learner's classroom and assessment.
Visit the publisher's website at https://www.cambridge.org/gb/cambridgeenglish/catalog/teacher-training-development-and-research/examining-young-learners-research-and-practice-assessing-english-school-age-learners/
Source: Cambridge University Press
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Title: Book: Teaching Language and Teaching Literature in Virtual Environments
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From https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811313578
Teaching Language and Teaching Literature in Virtual Environments
Edited by Carrió-Pastor and Maria Luisa
Published by Springer
This book sheds new light on language and literature teaching and offers examples of teaching language in virtual environments. Providing an overview of virtual environments for teaching, it also includes chapters devoted to methodology design for second language teaching in these environments. Further it describes tools for second/ foreign language teaching and proposals for specific second language teaching in virtual environments. Lastly, it presents experiments on literature teaching in virtual environments and discusses the future of technology in education. With interdisciplinary appeal, the book is a particularly valuable resource for scholars with an interest in technology, language teaching and literature teaching.
Visit the publisher's website at https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811313578
Source: Springer
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Title: Book: English as a Lingua Franca for EFL Contexts
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From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788921756
English as a Lingua Franca for EFL Contexts
Edited by Nicos C. Sifakis and Natasha Tsantila
Published by Multilingual Matters
This book explores the interfaces of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) pedagogy. It presents the theoretical aspects of ELF, discusses issues and challenges that ELF raises for the EFL classroom, and demonstrates how EFL practitioners can make use of ELF theorizing for classroom instruction, teacher education, developing language learning materials, policymaking and testing and assessment. Accounts of innovative and practical pedagogical practices and researchers’ insights from diverse geographical, cultural and institutional contexts will inform and inspire EFL practitioners to reconsider their practices and adopt new techniques in order to meet their learners’ diverse communicative needs in international contexts.
Visit the publisher's website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788921756
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Call for Abstracts: Arabic Heritage Education
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From https://www.qatar.georgetown.edu/faculty/arabic-events
The Fourth Georgetown-Qatar Arabic Program Symposium
Arabic Heritage Education: Pedagogy, Challenges, and Prospects
Doha, April 24-25, 2019
Over the past 10 years the Arabic program at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) has been predominantly involved in defining, articulating, and offering a separate track in Arabic language, culture, and literature introduced as Heritage Arabic. This track targets students of Arab descent, who have a connection to Arabic culture but whose pre-college language of instruction is not Arabic. While speaking one Arabic dialect fluently, these students have limited exposure to Modern Standard Arabic, which usually influences their competency in reading and writing skills. Constituting the majority of our Arabic students at GU-Q, these students often graduate from international high schools in the Arab world, but can also be identified among Arab communities living outside the Arab world. This symposium seeks to address significant aspects of heritage Arabic education. It aspires to provide a platform for sharing and discussing key issues in this field. Given the recent recognition of this separate track in Arabic learning, much needs to be done in terms of research, course preparation, and material development. Participants are expected to share their research on heritage Arabic education, whether in the Arab world or elsewhere. Suggested themes of the symposium are:
● Heritage Arabic: Concepts and Definitions
● Heritage Arabic Learners in the Arab world
● Heritage Arabic: East and West
● Acquisition of Arabic as a Heritage Language
● Teaching Literature for Heritage Learners
● Arabic: Native vs. Heritage
● Heritage vs Bilingualism
● Linguistic Features of Heritage Learners
● Curriculum Development
● Heritage Learners: Challenges and Struggles
● Curriculum: Content-based vs. Skill-based
● Proficiency and Assessment
The deadline for abstracts is December 10, 2018.
View the full call for proposals at https://www.qatar.georgetown.edu/faculty/arabic-events
Source: Georgetown University
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Title: Call for Papers: Eleventh International Conference on Language Teacher Education
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From http://carla.umn.edu/conferences/lte2019/call.html
Society, Identity, and Transformation in Language Teacher Education
Eleventh International Conference on Language Teacher Education
May 30–June 1, 2019
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Eleventh International Conference on Language Teacher Education welcomes proposals for papers and symposia on all aspects of the education and professional development of language teachers. Papers and symposia may report on empirical research, theoretical and conceptual analyses, or practices in language teacher education.
The mission of this unique biennial conference is to address the education of teachers of all languages, at all instructional and institutional levels, and in all the many national and international contexts in which this takes place, including: English as a Second or Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) instruction; foreign/modern/world language teaching; bilingual education; immersion education; indigenous and minority language education; heritage language education; and the teaching of less commonly taught languages. The conference aims to bring together teacher educators from these many contexts to discuss and share research, theory, and best practices and to initiate and sustain meaningful professional dialogue across languages, levels, and settings. The conference will focus on four broad themes, which are described below.
All papers must address an audience of language teacher educators and fit within one of the four themes listed below:
- Theme I: The Knowledge Base of Language Teacher Education
- Theme II: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts of Language Teacher Education
- Theme III: Collaborations in Language Teacher Education
- Theme IV: Practices of Language Teacher Education
Call for Papers Deadline: January 18, 2019
View the full call for papers at http://carla.umn.edu/conferences/lte2019/call.html
Source: CARLA
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Title: Submit a Proposal for ACTFL 2019
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From https://www.actfl.org/actfl2019
We hope that many of you are freshly returned from the 2018 ACTFL Annual Convention and World Languages Expo in New Orleans. Next year's convention will be Friday, November 22 through Sunday, November 24, 2019 (Pre-Convention Workshops scheduled on Thursday, November 21) at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC, and the call for proposals is now open.
The goal of the ACTFL Annual Convention is to provide a comprehensive professional development experience for language educators of all languages and levels. Compelling proposals address the needs of today’s learners and educators by focusing on innovative programs, emerging trends and research-informed practices.
The deadline to submit a proposal is Friday, January 11, 2019.
View the full call for proposals at https://www.actfl.org/actfl2019
Source: ACTFL
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Title: 6th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language
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From https://nsshl2019.weebly.com/
6th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language
February 21-23, 2019
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Keynote speakers: Andrew Lynch, Damian Wilson, and Ana Celia Zentella
Visit the symposium website for the program and registration: https://nsshl2019.weebly.com/
Source: 6th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language
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Title: Fourth International Symposium on the Intergenerational Transmission of Minority Languages
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From http://konferens.edu.uu.se/itml4
The Fourth International Symposium on the Intergenerational Transmission of Minority Languages: Language and Identity (ITML4)
A free, online asynchronous symposium is jointly arranged this year by the University of Canterbury and Uppsala University, opening on 10 December 2018.
For full details, go to http://konferens.edu.uu.se/itml4
Source: Uppsala University
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Title: American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Conference
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From https://www.aatseel.org/program
In 2019, the AATSEEL conference will meet February 7th through February 10th at the JW Marriott New Orleans across the street from the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Annual AATSEEL Conferences are energetic gatherings that focus on the aesthetic, creative, and communicative aspects of Slavic cultures long considered to be among the world's richest and most provocative.
Go to https://www.aatseel.org/cfp_program_2019 to see the conference program and to https://www.aatseel.org/program to register
Source: AATSEEL
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