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Title: VAuLT: Virtual and Augmented Reality for Language Training
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The Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) is committed to ongoing pedagogical innovation and teacher support. An outgrowth of this commitment is VAuLT (Virtual and Augmented Reality for Language Training), a project that is one of CASLS’ current initiatives.
VAuLT utilizes cutting-edge technology to create virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) modules targeting real-world, unscripted language for professional and community domains. Each VAuLT module will situate learners in immersive contexts so they may gain the critical language skills they need. Learner outcomes will be promoted through three guiding pedagogical principles: 1) context-based content including vocabulary, grammar, and communication strategies; 2) a primary focus on pragmatics in which learning is based on appropriately navigating communicative scenarios and interpreting meaning; and 3) a strategic focus to help learners increase language capacities efficiently and effectively while learning how to learn.
Keep on the lookout for more information about VAuLT and the learning modules as they are released.
Source: CASLS Spotlight
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Title: New Issue of Journal of Lao Studies Available
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Volume 6, Issue 1 of the Journal of Lao Studies is available online at http://laostudies.org/journal/volume-6-issue-1-dec-2018
In this issue:
Princes without a Principality: Champassak Non-State Royals and the Politics of Performativity in France
Ian G. Baird
Nan Zhao Invasions and Buddha idols of Northern Thailand and Laos in the 7th to 9th Centuries
David Lempert
European Explorers in Northeastern Laos, 1882-1893
Frederic C. Benson
Ethnographic Notes on the "Ordination" of Novices in Mueang Sing (Northern Laos)
Souvanxay Phetchanpheng
PuYer-YaYer: Myths and Rituals of Ancestor Spirits with Buddhism in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR
Pathom Hongsuwan
Source: Center for Lao Studies
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Title: New Content on OASIS
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Source: OASIS
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Title: Book: Perspectives on Language as Action
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From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788922920
Perspectives on Language as Action
Edited by Mari Haneda and Hossein Nassaji
Published by Multilingual Matters
This edited volume has been compiled in honor of Professor Merrill Swain, one of the most prominent scholars in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) and second language (L2) education. For over four decades, her work has contributed substantially to the knowledge base of the field of applied linguistics, and her ideas have had a significant influence in a range of subfields, including immersion education, mainstream SLA, and sociocultural theory and SLA. The range of topics covered in the book reflects the breadth and depth of Swain’s contributions, expertise and interests. The volume is divided into four parts: immersion education, languaging, sociocultural perspectives on L2 teaching and learning, and developments in language as social action.
Visit the publisher's website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788922920
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Book: Critical Reflections on Research Methods
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From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788922548
Critical Reflections on Research Methods: Power and Equity in Complex Multilingual Contexts
Edited by Doris S. Warriner and Martha Bigelow
Published by Multilingual Matters
This book explores the challenges and opportunities involved in conducting research with members of immigrant, refugee and other minoritized communities. Through first-hand reflective accounts, contributors explore community-based collaborative work, and suggest important implications for applied linguistics, educational research and anthropological investigations of language, literacy and culture. By critically reflecting on the power and limits of university-based research conducted on behalf of, or in collaboration with, members of local communities and by exploring the complicated relationships, dynamics and understandings that emerge, the chapters collectively demonstrate the value of reflecting on the possibilities and challenges of the research process, including the ethical and emotional dimensions of participating in collaborative research.
Visit the publisher's website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788922548
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Book: Language, Media and Technologies: Usages, Forms and Functions
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From http://lincom-shop.eu/LE-119-Language-Media-and-Technologies-Usages-Forms-and-Functions/en
Language, Media and Technologies: Usages, Forms and Functions
Edited by Lozzi Martial Meutem Kamtchueng, Camilla Arundie Tabe, and Daniel Nkemleke
Published by LINCOM Academic Publishers
This book analyses from various perspectives topical and empirical issues related to language, media and technologies. To be more precise, the book studies the revitalization of minority languages through the media, the pragmatics of condolence messages in online news fora, the use of corpora to analyze of grammatical items, punctuation in cyber texts, the conceptualization of social ills such as corruption in online media, the gendered use of language in chat groups, issues on language and identity in online fora and digital practices such as internet memes. The volume comprises 10 papers whose data were collected from questionnaire, participant observation, written materials, online and audio-visual sources, just to name a few. The analyses done in the various papers are sociolinguistic, cognitive, graphological, morphological, lexical, discursive, semantic, pragmatic, etc.
Visit the publisher's website at http://lincom-shop.eu/LE-119-Language-Media-and-Technologies-Usages-Forms-and-Functions/en
Source: LINCOM
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Title: Call for Papers: Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium
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SILS 2019
June 6-8th 2019
Red River College
Winnipeg, Manitoba
To celebrate the Year of Indigenous Languages, SILS invites you to join them in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on the original lands of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, Treaty One territory and the homeland of the Métis Nation on June 6-8, 2019. This is home to speakers of seven Indigenous languages which Indigenous communities, school districts, colleges and universities are developing programs in classrooms and on the land to strengthen and grow.
The organizers invite teachers, activists, students and scholars to submit proposals for presentations, posters or workshops to share their best teaching practices, efforts to support documentation and revitalization, and linguistic research.
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2019
View the full call for papers at https://sils2019.com/
Source: SILS 2019
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Title: Call for Papers: 21st Annual Midwest Association of Language Testers Conference
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From http://www.indiana.edu/~lalab/mwalt/index.html
The Department of Second Language Studies at Indiana University is delighted to host the 21st annual conference of the Midwest Association of Language Testers for the first time in Bloomington, Indiana, on October 4 and 5, 2019. This year’s conference theme is Building Pathways Between Language and Assessment.
Abstracts are due on May 20, 2019. For more details and to submit an abstract, go to http://www.indiana.edu/~lalab/mwalt/index.html
Source: MwALT
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Title: Call for Proposals: The 9th Annual Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI)
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From https://www.tc.columbia.edu/lansi/
The 9th annual meeting of LANSI will take place at Columbia University on Friday and Saturday October 11-12, 2019. This meeting will bring together scholars and students who are interested in analyzing naturally-occurring data within the area of language and social interaction. The abstracts should be related to conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and critical discourse analysis.
Deadline for abstract submission is June 15, 2019.
For more information, visit https://www.tc.columbia.edu/lansi/
Source: Columbia University
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Title: New Mexico Association of Bilingual Education Annual State Bilingual Conference
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From https://nmabe.org/state-conference-2019-1
New Mexico Association of Bilingual Education Annual State Bilingual Conference
Language is a Gift - Reclaiming the Responsibility for our Future
April 25-27, 209
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Visit the conference website at https://nmabe.org/state-conference-2019-1
Source: NMABE
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