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From: https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3414.html

10th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics
The International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS) is a biennial conference that brings together scholars and students from around the globe involved in the study of language in society with a particular focus on Spanish and/or contact situations between Spanish and other languages. All fields and methodologies are welcome, including synchronic and diachronic approaches to language, quantitative and qualitative research, language variation and change, contact linguistics, bilingualism and multilingualism, Spanish in the US and Spanish in the Southeastern US, pidgin and creole languages, language policy and planning, and language ideologies.
The 2020 conference, its 10th edition, will be held at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center in Atlanta, on April 16-18. There will be two pre-conference workshops on April 15.

Call for Papers:
We invite abstracts for individual papers (20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion), organized panels (3 or 4 participants for a total of 90 minutes or 120 minutes, respectively) and/or poster presentations. Papers and poster presentations can be delivered in Spanish or English.
Individual and poster presenters should submit an abstract of 300 words in length. Panel organizers should submit a 300-word description of the panel together with a 300-word abstract for each presentation. Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per person. Please DO NOT include any personal information in the abstract file you are uploading. The organizers may choose not to accept your abstract if personal information is in the file.
For the full call for papers and abstract submission info, visit:
https://wss10.modlangs.gatech.edu/call-for-papers/

Abstracts Due: November 15, 2019

From: https://camlangsci.tumblr.com/post/121005667431/the-language-of-light-how-we-imitate-light-with-sounds

This blog post discusses the degree to which all languages use signs that have a connection between sound (certain morphemes) and meaning, but this connection may be arbitrary. Spoken and sign languages make meaning out of smaller, meaningless sounds and gestures as well as sounds and gestures that are more iconic and represent the concept at play.

Visit the blog at: https://camlangsci.tumblr.com/post/121005667431/the-language-of-light-how-we-imitate-light-with-sounds

From the Arabic K-12 Teachers Network: https://mailchi.mp/qfi/arabic-k-12-bulletin-may-13-993483?e=feb2c9cab6, 26 Aug, 2019

See the Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/SiraProduction/

If you're teaching the Levantine dialect, this site, Sira Films, which features short films focusing on aspects of life and identity may be of interest to you. A recently added film, "شو بتحلم؟", features interviews with a wide range of folks from different backgrounds and does have English subtitles (though they are sometimes hard to read).
The Sira Films Facebook page is available at: https://www.facebook.com/SiraProduction/
 

From: http://armchairarabist.blogspot.com

See the Armchair Arabist, a blog and website created by former Fulbright English teaching assistant Matt Schumann, for a site dedicated to learning about Moroccan Arabic. Resources include video lessons, review materials, a curated collection of links to online Arabic resources, and a blog to follow.

Visit the website at: http://armchairarabist.blogspot.com/

From: http://tprsforchinese.blogspot.com/2019/09/chinese-language-teaching-materials.html

In this post, Diane Neubauer offers a summary of various resources for the teaching and learning of Chinese from a comprehension-based teaching perspective. Materials include teacher training resources, blog resources, and curricular materials.

See the full post at: http://tprsforchinese.blogspot.com/2019/09/chinese-language-teaching-materials.html