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From https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/asian-language-and-linguistics/communicating-asia-future-english-global-language?format=PB

Communicating with Asia: The Future of English as a Global Language
Edited by Gerhard Leitner, Azirah Hashim, and Hans-Georg Wolf
Published by Cambridge University Press

Communicating with Asia brings together an international team of leading researchers to discuss South, South-East, East and Central Asia, and explore Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi-Urdu, Malay, and Russian as major languages. The volume locates English inside a number of national, regional or lingua franca contexts and illustrates the way it develops in such contact situations. Local dynamics affecting languages in contact and cultural links of languages are dealt with, such as educational-political issues and tensions between conflicting norms. In today's global world, where the continent is an increasing area of focus, it is vital to explore what it means to 'understand' Asian cultures through English and other languages. This important new study will be of interest to students and researchers working in the fields of regional studies, English as a global language, Asian languages and cultural studies.

Visit the publisher's website at https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/asian-language-and-linguistics/communicating-asia-future-english-global-language?format=PB

From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788923057

A World of Indigenous Languages: Politics, Pedagogies and Prospects for Language Reclamation
Edited by Teresa L. McCarty, Sheilah E. Nicholas, and Gillian Wigglesworth
Published by Multilingual Matters

Spanning Indigenous settings in Africa, the Americas, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, Central Asia and the Nordic countries, this book examines the multifaceted language reclamation work underway by Indigenous peoples throughout the world. Exploring political, historical, ideological, and pedagogical issues, the book foregrounds the decolonizing aims of contemporary Indigenous language movements inside and outside of schools. Many authors explore language reclamation in their own communities. Together, the authors call for expanded discourses on language planning and policy that embrace Indigenous ways of knowing and forefront grassroots language reclamation efforts as a force for Indigenous sovereignty, social justice, and self-determination. This volume will be of interest to scholars, educators and students in applied linguistics, Ethnic/Indigenous Studies, education, second language acquisition, and comparative-international education, and to a broader audience of language educators, revitalizers and policymakers.

Visit the publisher's website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788923057

From https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-676.html

The editors of the Journal of Second and Multiple Language Acquisition cordially invite you to publish your research; the journal is free of charge for both authors and readers since 2013. 

JSMULA is a quarterly published, double-blind peer reviewed journal which publishes original theoretical and applied research papers in second and multiple language acquisition. Publication language is English but research papers to be submitted may study the acquisition or learning of any language as a second, third or multiple languages. 

View the full call for papers at https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-676.html

From https://eng.inn.no/project-sites/multilingual-childhoods-education-policy-and-practice

The international research conference Multilingual Childhoods: Education, policy and practice will be held on 15-16 May 2019, at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences in Hamar, Norway.

Visit the conference website at https://eng.inn.no/project-sites/multilingual-childhoods-education-policy-and-practice

From https://oiea2019.uoregon.edu/

42nd Oregon Indian Education Association Annual Conference
May 9 – 10, 2019
University of Oregon

This year’s Oregon Indian Education Association (OIEA) conference focuses on the theme “Creating Spaces for Indigenous Education: Sharing our Struggles, Celebrating our Successes.” Through this theme, the OIEA conference seeks to recognize the countless ways Indigenous educators and communities create space for Indigenous education. Despite limited resources or a lack of institutional supports, Indigenous educators work tirelessly to create spaces that affirm Indigenous students, communities, and nations, and that recognize the importance of Indigenous languages, lifeways, and knowledges. We have started clubs, programs, and schools, created curriculum, and advocated for educational policy to reflect our priorities. This legacy of Indigenous education reflects important survivance work that should be shared and celebrated!

Visit the conference website at https://oiea2019.uoregon.edu/

From http://www.languageandtheun.org/events.html

The Study Group on Language and the United Nations invites you to a Symposium 
The United Nations at 75: Listening, Talking and Taking Action in a Multilingual World
May 9-10, 2019
New York, New York

This symposium will give particular attention to the question of language. Although the UN has always promoted dialogue, in recent years it has grown more sensitive to the need for equality in dialogue. In other words, it has become increasingly aware of the need to listen to its constituents rather than simply talking to them, and to understand as well as to be understood. Such concepts are inherent in the Sustainable Development Goals accepted in 2015 and setting the agenda for the UN as it grows closer to its first hundred years. In a world in which thousands of languages are spoken, is the UN ready for equal dialogue, now and in the future? If not, what is to be done to create linguistic readiness – both in the internal workings of the organization and in its relations with the larger world? These questions have particular relevance in 2019, the UN’s International Year of Indigenous Languages.

Visit the symposium website for more details: http://www.languageandtheun.org/events.html

From https://sils2019.com/

SILS 2019
June 6-8, 2019
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Register before May 10 for an early bird discount. Registration is available at https://sils2019.com/registration/

From https://www.kentuckyteacher.org/bulletin-board/conferences-workshops/2019/04/kentucky-coalition-for-english-learners-to-hold-inaugural-summer-institute/

Kentucky Coalition for English Learners
Inaugural Summer Institute
June 10-11, 2019
Louisville

The conference is designed for general education teachers and school and district leaders. Workshop topics will include strategies for instruction, special education and English learners, building equity and use of technology. Keynote speakers will include Diane Staehr Fenner, founder and president of SupportEd, which provides skills and resources to educators of English learners; and Aída Walqui, director of WestEd’s Quality Teaching for English Learners project. General education teachers and school and district leadership are encouraged to attend.

For full details, go to https://www.kentuckyrefugees.org/kyc-el-conference/