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Title: Creating Your Own Mixed-Reality Complex Learning Scenario
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This month, we have explored Mixed-Reality Complex Learning Scenarios (MRCLSs), including a general description, explanation of the elements in MRCLSs, and ways to teach with MRCLSs. This week we look at how to create them yourself.
Key to the creation of MRCLSs is the intentional integration of learning objectives with a meaningful narrative, language outcomes, and meaningful tasks that lead to deep thinking and language learning.
A meaningful narrative is anything that catches learners’ attention and matches the intended learning outcomes. When coming up with a narrative scenario, one of the best tricks is to consider is popular storylines from books and films. Spy stories, explorer adventures, daring escapes, space explorations, critical science discoveries, time travel, and robberies always make for engaging experiences. In this week’s Activity of the Week, we showcase a weather puzzle that is critical to solving a spy-theft drama.
Language outcomes should focus on the key language functions with explicit attention to the vocabulary, structures, strategies, and pragmatics key to interpretation and production. This week’s activity targets the key functions of a weather report, including temperatures and making predictions.
Finally, meaningful tasks can be created to incorporate these outcomes in your chosen narrative. To make engaging MRCLSs, it is fundamental the language tasks and puzzles match how language would be used in the scenario in real life. For example, in our accompanying spy narrative, the weather report is used to determine a code to figure out where the other agent is. As such, it has a language purpose and a narrative purpose.
We hope you enjoy creating your own experiences for your language learning context!
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Title: Book: Kenyan English
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From: https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4301.html
While Kenyan English is a stable postcolonial English dialect often employed as a lingua franca among ethnic groups and used everywhere from private domains to court rooms, it has yet to be the subject of a comprehensive research monograph that surveys its characteristic linguistic features. This book does just that, providing an overview of Kenyan English’s phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. It would be a worthwhile read for anyone who utilizes Kenyan English or who is interested in dialectical differences between types of English.
Read more at: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/248613?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kenyan_english
Source: Alfred Buregeya
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Title: Book: The Intricacy of Languages
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From: https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4449.html
The cultural globalization and recent population movements have installed a new linguistic diversity in most traditional linguistics territories that has put the ideology of the national language into a state of crisis. This book investigates this phenomenon and the idea that the intricacy of languages may open up room for local social and economic development.
Visit the publisher at: https://benjamins.com/catalog/ivitra.20
Source: Francesc Feliu and Olga Fullana (eds.)
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Title: Book: Pragmatics
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From: https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4434.html
Pragmatics delve into the non-literal meanings behind our ability to communicate fully ideas to one another. This textbook guides students through the facets of English pragmatics and discusses how people successfully convey and recover meanings that go beyond the denoted meaning in what they are saying.
Visit the publisher at: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-pragmatics-17048.html
Source: Chris Cummins
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Title: Book: Rethinking Morphology
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From: https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4433.html
In this book, the author presents a new way to think about morphological structure that maximizes the benefits from the existing approaches. It equips students with the tools to discuss morphology in relation to other linguistic contexts, including semantics, psycholinguistics, and language change, making it a universally applicable read.
Visit the publisher at: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-rethinking-morphology.html
Source: Laurie Bauer
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Title: Happy Retirement to Linda Forrest
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CASLS Research Director Dr. Linda Forrest will be retiring in December 2019. Linda earned her Ph.D. in linguistics and is known for her talent of translating complex research findings into easy-to-understand language.
“Educators love Linda’s approachable writing style,” says CASLS Associate Director Mandy Gettler. “It’s precisely her use of language that has resulted in our Ten Burning Questions project being one of the most visited sections of the website even today, nearly ten years after they were first published.”
Linda’s ability to synthesize complex research findings is paired with her talents to conduct the research itself. Most currently, Linda has been leading the development of the intercultural and pragmatic framework used for the Intercultural, Pragmatic, and Interactional Competence Measure, which combined more than 50 different frameworks from various fields. She has also developed complex learning scenarios for use in the Virtual and Augmented Reality Language Training (VAuLT) initiative.
“Linda has been a driving force in CASLS’ research and development initiatives. Above all, she is an exceptional human being, and I have come to rely on her wisdom. Her absence at CASLS will be deeply felt, and I know that she will continue to do amazing things,” says CASLS Director Dr. Julie Sykes.
Those amazing things include the continuation of her genealogy research, traveling abroad, and spending time with her family and grandchildren.
Linda began working at CASLS as a research director in 2005 and worked as a data analyst for CASLS five years prior. She developed the first online course at the University of Oregon on the structure of English words.
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Title: Call: 37th Conference of Applied Linguistics
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From: https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/applied-summerschool/language-education-and-social-justice
The 37th Conference of Applied Linguistics (to be held June 1-3, 2020 at the University of Jyväskylä, Language Campus, Finland) has issued a call for papers around the following foundational question: What does social justice have to do with language education? Why do we need to talk about social justice as language teachers, teacher educators, and researchers? Submissions are due on December 15, 2019, and can be submitted at the conference’s website.
Learn more at: https://sites.google.com/jyu.fi/lang-education-social-justice/home
Source: University of Jyväskylä
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Title: Call: Babel: The Language Magazine
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From: https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4308.html
Babel, a popular language magazine that covers languages and linguistics for non-specialist readers, is seeking contributions for their 2020 issues. They publish articles on all linguistic disciplines and topics, the only requirement being that the content is accessible to the magazine’s audience. Submissions should be between 1,500 and 3,500 words in length.
Read more at: https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4308.html
Source: Linguist List
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Title: Call: (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages 10
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From: https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4317.html
The Linguistics Department at the Ohio State University is hosting (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages 10 in 2020 from March 20-22. The conference invites the submission of abstracts for talks and posters engaged in analyses of phonetics, morphosyntactics, and semantic phenomena of South Asian languages.
Learn more at: https://u.osu.edu/fasal10/
Source: Linguist List
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Title: Call: The Interface of Emotion and Cognition in Language Learning and Use (L1, L2, Lx)
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From: https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4320.html
The International Workshop at the Center for Research in Language Development through the Lifespan (LaDeLi) at the University of Essex is inviting abstracts for their upcoming interface on emotion and cognition in language learning and use. Paper and poster submissions should speak to how emotion and cognition interact, particularly in bi- and multilingual contexts, and they must be submitted by February 15, 2020.
Learn more at: https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4320.html
Source: Linguist List
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