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Title: Merriam-Webster Launches Vocab App for Kids
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From: https://www.languagemagazine.com/2019/10/11/merriam-webster-launches-vocab-app-for-kids/
Merriam-Webster launched a new app, Puku, for children ages 8-12 that aids users with vocabulary building. The more words that students master, the more their virtual pet in the app grows and evolves. This game mechanic is designed to promote ongoing motivation and interaction within the app.
Learn more at: https://www.languagemagazine.com/2019/10/11/merriam-webster-launches-vocab-app-for-kids/
Source: Language Magazine
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Title: Taking the Fear out of Dyslexia
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From: https://www.languagemagazine.com/2019/10/10/taking-the-fear-out-of-dyslexia/
Society has tightly associated intelligence with the ability to read and write, thus making dyslexia somewhat shameful. However, this article does work to destroy that construct, explaining how dyslexia functions and how to keep students motivated when they have said learning disability. Further, the article provides teachers with an action plan on how to help their students with learning disabilities.
Read more at: https://www.languagemagazine.com/2019/10/10/taking-the-fear-out-of-dyslexia/
Source: Language Magazine
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Title: Blueprint for Success
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From: https://lftic.lll.hawaii.edu/blueprint-for-success/
The Language Flagship Technology Innovation Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa presents this Language Technology Blueprint in order to help The Language Flagship, as well as other federal initiatives and academic programs interested in enhancing high quality language programs, to improve language learning through the strategic integration of technology.
Learn more at: https://lftic.lll.hawaii.edu/blueprint-for-success/
Source: Technology Innovation Center at The Language Flagship
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Title: A Transdisciplinary Approach to International Teaching Assistants
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From: https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3916.html
North American universities’ dependence on international teaching assistants (ITAs) as a primary source of teaching labor has led many undergraduates and parents to criticize ITA’s linguistic competence. This book argues counter to that, stating that ITAs should be recognized as multilingual, skilled, migrant professionals who are discursively invaluable to the institutions who employ them. The chapters offer research that constitutes a transdisciplinary perspective and ultimately argues for the importance of dialogue between research and practice.
Visit the publisher’s website at: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788925532
Source: Stephen Daniel Looney and Shereen Bhalla
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Title: Professioneel Taalgebruik in het Economische Beroepenveld
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From: https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3830.html
This book, written in Dutch, explores how professional language is used in the field of economics with a needs analysis for language curriculum design in higher economic education. The argument revolves around the importance of an early focus on pragmatic language standards and interactive conversation for those pursuing higher education. This book provides an interesting and specific look at how pragmatics affects career opportunities and success for language learners.
Visit the publisher’s website at: https://www.lotpublications.nl/professioneel-taalgebruik-in-het-economische-beroepenveld
Source: Pauline Koeleman
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Title: Call: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/China
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From: https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3967.html
The 4th International Conference on Interactional Linguistics and Chinese Language Studies is accepting papers on online production and its interpretation mechanism; sensitive positions within turns and sequences and their discourse functions; stance-taking in interaction; and prosody and multimodality in interaction. The conference will be held August 18-19, 2020, at the Capital Normal University in Beijing, China with workings languages of English and Chinese. The call deadline for paper submissions is February 28, 2020.
To learn more, go to: https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3967.html
Source: Linguist List
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Title: LaTeS: Genre Matters in a Contextualized World Language
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From: https://cercll.arizona.edu/event/lates-genre-matters-in-contextualized-world-language/
This workshop, held on November 16, 2019 at the University of Arizona , introduces participants to a genre theory and pedagogy that views spoken and written texts as genres that can be made visible and systematically taught to students. Participants will learn how to integrate genre into a backward-design approach for the assessment and instruction of language that is centered on the development of the learner’s ability to communicate in written and spoken genres.
To learn more, go to: https://cercll.arizona.edu/event/lates-genre-matters-in-contextualized-world-language/
Source: CERCLL
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Title: Flawed Algorithms are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays
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From: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7dj9/flawed-algorithms-are-grading-millions-of-students-essays
As computerized grading for essays becomes a more readily available and affordable option for standardized tests, concerns arise around the accuracy of the grading. Vice’s investigation into computerized grading found that, just as human grading can be biased towards a particular gender or race, so can computerized grading. This article concludes that computers cannot account for insight or true understanding of knowledge in the way humans can leading to the implication that computerized grading must undergo significant development before it can be the sole grader of written exams.
Read the full article at: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7dj9/flawed-algorithms-are-grading-millions-of-students-essays
Source: Vice
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Title: Signs that are Close But Not the Same - Set 12
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From: https://www.signingsavvy.com/blog/227/Signs+That+Are+Close...+But+Not+the+Same+-+Set+12
In this article, the author lays out five pairs of signs in American Sign Language that are visually quite similar and therefore difficult to distinguish. There are both written descriptions of the differences between the signs as well as videos to help students visualize the difference. This resource could be used by students on their own or by teachers to help narrow-in on the minor differences in signs that can alter meaning.
See the signs at: https://www.signingsavvy.com/blog/227/Signs+That+Are+Close...+But+Not+the+Same+-+Set+12
Source: Signing Savvy
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Title: Code Switch: Saving the Endangered Hawaiian Language
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From: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/14/770133522/code-switch-saving-the-endangered-hawaiian-language
Hawaiian-language schools and the revitalization of the once dying language are the focus of this interview conducted by NPR. The principal of the prominent Hawaiian-language-only school Ke Kula ‘O Nawahiokalani’opu’u describes how she grew up knowing Hawaiian culture, but only learned the language when she was 18 due to the state's Enligsh bias. Her creation of a school where students can develop fluency in Hawaiian at a young age has helped revitalize the Hawaiian language.
Read more at: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/14/770133522/code-switch-saving-the-endangered-hawaiian-language
Source: NPR
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