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Title: New Book: Diagnosing Foreign Language Proficiency
Body: From http://tinyurl.com/y2tath Diagnosing Foreign Language Proficiency: The Interface between Learning and Assessment Author: J. Charles Alderson Pub Date: 01 Nov 2006 Continuum International Publishing Group Description This book addresses the need for tests that can diagnose the strengths and weaknesses in learners' developing foreign language proficiency. It presents the rationale for, and research surrounding, the development of DIALANG, a suite of internet-delivered diagnostic foreign language tests funded by the European Commission. The word 'diagnosis' is common in discussions in language education and applied linguistics, but very few truly diagnostic tests exist. However, the diagnosis of foreign language proficiency is central to helping learners make progress. This volume explores the nature of diagnostic testing, emphasizing the need for a better understanding of the nature of appropriate diagnosis. The book starts with a debate about how diagnostic testing might most appropriately be developed. Charles Alderson argues that the field has neglected to construct diagnostic tests, partly because other forms of testing have dominated the field. Alderson examines how proficiency has been diagnosed in the key areas of language: reading, listening, writing, grammar and vocabulary. The value of self-assessment is discussed and exemplified as a key component in developing learners', and teachers', awareness of the complexity of language learning. The book ends with a consideration of and recommendations for future developments in the diagnosis of foreign language proficiency. Go to the publisher’s website at http://tinyurl.com/y2tath .
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Title: New Book: Diagnosing Foreign Language Proficiency
Body: From http://tinyurl.com/y2tath Diagnosing Foreign Language Proficiency: The Interface between Learning and Assessment Author: J. Charles Alderson Pub Date: 01 Nov 2006 Continuum International Publishing Group Description This book addresses the need for tests that can diagnose the strengths and weaknesses in learners' developing foreign language proficiency. It presents the rationale for, and research surrounding, the development of DIALANG, a suite of internet-delivered diagnostic foreign language tests funded by the European Commission. The word 'diagnosis' is common in discussions in language education and applied linguistics, but very few truly diagnostic tests exist. However, the diagnosis of foreign language proficiency is central to helping learners make progress. This volume explores the nature of diagnostic testing, emphasizing the need for a better understanding of the nature of appropriate diagnosis. The book starts with a debate about how diagnostic testing might most appropriately be developed. Charles Alderson argues that the field has neglected to construct diagnostic tests, partly because other forms of testing have dominated the field. Alderson examines how proficiency has been diagnosed in the key areas of language: reading, listening, writing, grammar and vocabulary. The value of self-assessment is discussed and exemplified as a key component in developing learners', and teachers', awareness of the complexity of language learning. The book ends with a consideration of and recommendations for future developments in the diagnosis of foreign language proficiency. Go to the publisher’s website at http://tinyurl.com/y2tath .
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Title: Online Journal: Language Learning and Technology
Body: From http://llt.msu.edu Language Learning & Technology is a refereed journal which began publication in July 1997. The journal seeks to disseminate research to foreign and second language educators in the US and around the world on issues related to technology and language education. * Language Learning & Technology is sponsored and funded by the University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) and the Michigan State University Center for Language Education And Research (CLEAR), and is co-sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL). * Language Learning & Technology is a fully refereed journal with an editorial board of scholars in the fields of second language acquisition and computer-assisted language learning. The focus of the publication is not technology per se, but rather issues related to language learning and language teaching, and how they are affected or enhanced by the use of technologies. * Language Learning & Technology is published exclusively on the World Wide Web. In this way, the journal seeks to (a) reach a broad audience in a timely manner, (b) provide a multimedia format which can more fully illustrate the technologies under discussion, and (c) provide hypermedia links to related background information. * Beginning with Volume 7, Number 1, Language Learning & Technology is indexed in the exclusive Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), ISI Alerting Services, Social Scisearch, and Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences. * Language Learning & Technology is currently published three times per year (January, May, September). The latest edition includes the following articles: E-Learning and the Development of Intercultural Competence Meei-Ling Liaw ESL Students' Computer-Mediated Communication Practices: Context Configuration Dong-Shin Shin L1 and L2 Glosses: Their Effects on Incidental Vocabulary Learning Makoto Yoshii Noticing and Text-Based Chat Chun Lai and Yong Zhao For more information, to browse archived articles, or to subscribe, go to http://llt.msu.edu .
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Title: Online Journal: Language Learning and Technology
Body: From http://llt.msu.edu Language Learning & Technology is a refereed journal which began publication in July 1997. The journal seeks to disseminate research to foreign and second language educators in the US and around the world on issues related to technology and language education. * Language Learning & Technology is sponsored and funded by the University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) and the Michigan State University Center for Language Education And Research (CLEAR), and is co-sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL). * Language Learning & Technology is a fully refereed journal with an editorial board of scholars in the fields of second language acquisition and computer-assisted language learning. The focus of the publication is not technology per se, but rather issues related to language learning and language teaching, and how they are affected or enhanced by the use of technologies. * Language Learning & Technology is published exclusively on the World Wide Web. In this way, the journal seeks to (a) reach a broad audience in a timely manner, (b) provide a multimedia format which can more fully illustrate the technologies under discussion, and (c) provide hypermedia links to related background information. * Beginning with Volume 7, Number 1, Language Learning & Technology is indexed in the exclusive Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), ISI Alerting Services, Social Scisearch, and Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences. * Language Learning & Technology is currently published three times per year (January, May, September). The latest edition includes the following articles: E-Learning and the Development of Intercultural Competence Meei-Ling Liaw ESL Students' Computer-Mediated Communication Practices: Context Configuration Dong-Shin Shin L1 and L2 Glosses: Their Effects on Incidental Vocabulary Learning Makoto Yoshii Noticing and Text-Based Chat Chun Lai and Yong Zhao For more information, to browse archived articles, or to subscribe, go to http://llt.msu.edu .
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Title: Call for Papers: Interfaces in Second Language Acquisition Research
Body: From http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/eurosla17 The 17th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association will be organized by Newcastle University, UK. Date: 11- 14 September 2007 THEME OF THE CONFERENCE: Interfaces in Second Language Acquisition Research ABSTRACT SUBMISSION INFORMATION: Proposals for papers, posters and thematic colloquia on any aspect of second language acquisition research are invited. All topics in the field of second language acquisition will be considered. Priority will be given to abstracts that discuss the theme of the conference. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously and evaluated in terms of originality, clarity and significance of findings and conclusiones. Each author may submit no mre than one individual and one co-authored abstract. The paper must not have been previously published. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS will be 30 minutes (20 minutes for presentation plus 10 minutes for discussion). POSTERS are intended as a separate format for compact research reports. - Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 February 2007 - Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2007 For more information, go to http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/eurosla17/call_for_papers.htm .
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Title: Call for Papers: Interfaces in Second Language Acquisition Research
Body: From http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/eurosla17 The 17th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association will be organized by Newcastle University, UK. Date: 11- 14 September 2007 THEME OF THE CONFERENCE: Interfaces in Second Language Acquisition Research ABSTRACT SUBMISSION INFORMATION: Proposals for papers, posters and thematic colloquia on any aspect of second language acquisition research are invited. All topics in the field of second language acquisition will be considered. Priority will be given to abstracts that discuss the theme of the conference. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously and evaluated in terms of originality, clarity and significance of findings and conclusiones. Each author may submit no mre than one individual and one co-authored abstract. The paper must not have been previously published. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS will be 30 minutes (20 minutes for presentation plus 10 minutes for discussion). POSTERS are intended as a separate format for compact research reports. - Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 February 2007 - Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2007 For more information, go to http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/eurosla17/call_for_papers.htm .
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Title: Call for Presentations: MFLA/MAALLT
Body: The Mid-Atlantic Association for Language Learning Technology (MAALLT) will meet jointly with the Maryland Foreign Language Association (MFLA) at Goucher College in Towson, MD on March 17, 2007. We invite your proposals! Please see our online proposal submission form at http://maallt.org/conference.htm and please note that the deadline for submissions is December 31. More information about the conference is available at http://maallt.org/conference.htm .
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Title: Call for Presentations: MFLA/MAALLT
Body: The Mid-Atlantic Association for Language Learning Technology (MAALLT) will meet jointly with the Maryland Foreign Language Association (MFLA) at Goucher College in Towson, MD on March 17, 2007. We invite your proposals! Please see our online proposal submission form at http://maallt.org/conference.htm and please note that the deadline for submissions is December 31. More information about the conference is available at http://maallt.org/conference.htm .
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Title: Calll for Papers: Kant Revisited: Testing Output and Outcomes
Body: From http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-3656.html Immanuel Kant revisited: testing the output and outcomes of L1,2,n reading/ writing/visual literacy and discourse competencies A Thematic Strand of AILA 2008 -- the 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics -- Multilingualism: Challenges and Opportunities August 24-29, 2008 Essen, Germany This symposion aims at the presentation of a wide array of assessment and evaluation measures with regard to reading, written and/or visual literacy and discourse competencies in different institutionalised and non-institutionalised domains (e.g. school, vocational training, professional fields like business, journalism/media, any other biographically relevant learning context) from a clear-cut educational perspective. Nowadays, formative or summative assessment and evaluation have become well-established measures to meet the demands of accountability in education systems and in all kinds of professional fields. For example, the PISA-Consortium has made great efforts to develop test concepts and items on the background of a functional approach of education. However, this approach and its operationalisation by specific proficiency scales and levels could be improved or even substituted, if there were more elaborated theoretical heuristics and empirical results at hand being committed to testing the educational output and/or, if possible, the educational outcomes. Researchers from text-, pragma- and sociolinguistics, as well as from applied, cognitive or educational linguistics are invited to put their empirically tested concepts to the fore (e.g. portfolio, semi-structural interviews on learning biographies, assessment dialogues, oral proficiency interviews, tests of second language pragmatics, Discourse Complementary Tests, Information Gap Tasks in interaction, Cloze-tests, test constructs on the basis of the Item Response Theory) and to discuss the achieved competencies in terms of their educational impact to be identified as a specific output or as somehow measurable outcomes. In this context, we would appreciate a discussion on im-/possibilities of controling presage and process variables that are supposed to have an impact on the learning effects (output, outcomes). Submission deadline is January 15, 2007. More information about this strand is available at http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/~dirks/Texte/Dirks-AILA2008.pdf .
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Title: Calll for Papers: Kant Revisited: Testing Output and Outcomes
Body: From http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-3656.html Immanuel Kant revisited: testing the output and outcomes of L1,2,n reading/ writing/visual literacy and discourse competencies A Thematic Strand of AILA 2008 -- the 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics -- Multilingualism: Challenges and Opportunities August 24-29, 2008 Essen, Germany This symposion aims at the presentation of a wide array of assessment and evaluation measures with regard to reading, written and/or visual literacy and discourse competencies in different institutionalised and non-institutionalised domains (e.g. school, vocational training, professional fields like business, journalism/media, any other biographically relevant learning context) from a clear-cut educational perspective. Nowadays, formative or summative assessment and evaluation have become well-established measures to meet the demands of accountability in education systems and in all kinds of professional fields. For example, the PISA-Consortium has made great efforts to develop test concepts and items on the background of a functional approach of education. However, this approach and its operationalisation by specific proficiency scales and levels could be improved or even substituted, if there were more elaborated theoretical heuristics and empirical results at hand being committed to testing the educational output and/or, if possible, the educational outcomes. Researchers from text-, pragma- and sociolinguistics, as well as from applied, cognitive or educational linguistics are invited to put their empirically tested concepts to the fore (e.g. portfolio, semi-structural interviews on learning biographies, assessment dialogues, oral proficiency interviews, tests of second language pragmatics, Discourse Complementary Tests, Information Gap Tasks in interaction, Cloze-tests, test constructs on the basis of the Item Response Theory) and to discuss the achieved competencies in terms of their educational impact to be identified as a specific output or as somehow measurable outcomes. In this context, we would appreciate a discussion on im-/possibilities of controling presage and process variables that are supposed to have an impact on the learning effects (output, outcomes). Submission deadline is January 15, 2007. More information about this strand is available at http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/~dirks/Texte/Dirks-AILA2008.pdf .
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Title: DigitalStream Conference
Body: From http://wlc.csumb.edu/digitalstream/2007/index.html CSUMB 9th Annual DigitalStream Conference March 22-24, 2007 Convergence in World Language and Culture Learning: Pedagogy, Technology, and Classroom Management In an era of dynamic, world-wide socio-cultural transformation enabled by technological innovation, what synergies are affecting world language and culture learning? How do we utilize our better understanding of how people learn and these new tools in our classrooms and learning spaces to drive best practices in instructional approaches? Come to the 9th Annual DigitalStream Conference to participate and contribute to this important dialog! For more information, visit http://wlc.csumb.edu/digitalstream/2007/index.html .
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Title: DigitalStream Conference
Body: From http://wlc.csumb.edu/digitalstream/2007/index.html CSUMB 9th Annual DigitalStream Conference March 22-24, 2007 Convergence in World Language and Culture Learning: Pedagogy, Technology, and Classroom Management In an era of dynamic, world-wide socio-cultural transformation enabled by technological innovation, what synergies are affecting world language and culture learning? How do we utilize our better understanding of how people learn and these new tools in our classrooms and learning spaces to drive best practices in instructional approaches? Come to the 9th Annual DigitalStream Conference to participate and contribute to this important dialog! For more information, visit http://wlc.csumb.edu/digitalstream/2007/index.html .
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Title: Online Conference on Teaching and Research
Body: From http://www.readingmatrix.com/onlineconference/index.html Third International Online Conference on Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Research, March 2-4, 2007 "Coming Together: The Shrinking Global Village" The basic aim of this conference is to provide a venue for educators, established scholars and graduate students around the world to present work on a wide variety of pedagogical, theoretical and empirical issues as related to the multidisciplinary field of second and foreign language teaching and research. On these two days, we will gather to share information and capitalize on each others' knowledge, experiences and contributions. This conference will also give you an opportunity to make global connections with people in your field. The conference is held entirely on the Internet using email, the Web, synchronous chats, discussion areas, and other Internet technologies. About two weeks before the conference formally begins, we open the password-protected webpages that contain the presentations. Registered participants will have access to the Conference Timetable and will have the opportunity to "attend" (i.e., read and listen to) the presentations that interest them. On the actual conference days, each presenter is also scheduled for a fifty-minute live chat session. In these sessions, participants get to meet and talk with presenters about ideas in the papers. Participants can enter presentation rooms by accessing the Conference Timetable. Each presenter has their own presentation room so attendees can even stay after the livechat session to continue discussions! Participants may also access the Foyer Cafe to meet others in more social surroundings. The Foyer Cafe is a place that stays open throughout the conference days. The Cafe itself includes several parlors (discussion lists/forums) allowing participants to meet with others who may be interested in similar topics as themselves. Through this event, we have tried to create an online conference community to allow groups of conference participants to share information, participate in discussions and learn from one another. We encourage you to participate as a presenter or attendee. While some of you may be new to this type of event, if you are able to read and send email, and log on to a webpage, you can certainly take part in these activities! We hope that you will be an integral part of this conference. Please browse through this web site to learn how you can participate in this exciting event - looking forward to meeting you all online! For more information, go to http://www.readingmatrix.com/onlineconference/index.html .
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Title: Online Conference on Teaching and Research
Body: From http://www.readingmatrix.com/onlineconference/index.html Third International Online Conference on Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Research, March 2-4, 2007 "Coming Together: The Shrinking Global Village" The basic aim of this conference is to provide a venue for educators, established scholars and graduate students around the world to present work on a wide variety of pedagogical, theoretical and empirical issues as related to the multidisciplinary field of second and foreign language teaching and research. On these two days, we will gather to share information and capitalize on each others' knowledge, experiences and contributions. This conference will also give you an opportunity to make global connections with people in your field. The conference is held entirely on the Internet using email, the Web, synchronous chats, discussion areas, and other Internet technologies. About two weeks before the conference formally begins, we open the password-protected webpages that contain the presentations. Registered participants will have access to the Conference Timetable and will have the opportunity to "attend" (i.e., read and listen to) the presentations that interest them. On the actual conference days, each presenter is also scheduled for a fifty-minute live chat session. In these sessions, participants get to meet and talk with presenters about ideas in the papers. Participants can enter presentation rooms by accessing the Conference Timetable. Each presenter has their own presentation room so attendees can even stay after the livechat session to continue discussions! Participants may also access the Foyer Cafe to meet others in more social surroundings. The Foyer Cafe is a place that stays open throughout the conference days. The Cafe itself includes several parlors (discussion lists/forums) allowing participants to meet with others who may be interested in similar topics as themselves. Through this event, we have tried to create an online conference community to allow groups of conference participants to share information, participate in discussions and learn from one another. We encourage you to participate as a presenter or attendee. While some of you may be new to this type of event, if you are able to read and send email, and log on to a webpage, you can certainly take part in these activities! We hope that you will be an integral part of this conference. Please browse through this web site to learn how you can participate in this exciting event - looking forward to meeting you all online! For more information, go to http://www.readingmatrix.com/onlineconference/index.html .
Source: The Reading Matrix
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Title: Language and Globalization: Policy, Education, and Media
Body: From http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-2824.html#2 Georgetown Linguistics Society: Language and Globalization: Policy, Education, and Media Short Title: GLS 2007 March 30-April 1, 2007 Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. We will explore the interaction between language and the processes of globalization. GLS 2007 is a conference run by the graduate students in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. The conference will include three days of oral and poster presentations by students as well as invited plenary addresses and panel discussions by established scholars. The objective of this Graduate Student Conference is to provide students with the opportunity to present their work in progress and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow students. For more information and registration, visit http://www.glsconf.com .
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Title: Language and Globalization: Policy, Education, and Media
Body: From http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-2824.html#2 Georgetown Linguistics Society: Language and Globalization: Policy, Education, and Media Short Title: GLS 2007 March 30-April 1, 2007 Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. We will explore the interaction between language and the processes of globalization. GLS 2007 is a conference run by the graduate students in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. The conference will include three days of oral and poster presentations by students as well as invited plenary addresses and panel discussions by established scholars. The objective of this Graduate Student Conference is to provide students with the opportunity to present their work in progress and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow students. For more information and registration, visit http://www.glsconf.com .
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Title: Conference on Teaching and Learning to Near-Native Levels
Body: From http://www.distinguishedlanguagecenters.org/conferences.htm The Spring 2007 Conference on Teaching and Learning to Near-Native Levels of Language Proficiency will be held in Irbid, Jordan as a strand of the Eighteenth International Conference on Language, Linguistics, Literature, and Translation. The Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers conducts annual (and, in some years, semi-annual) conferences about teaching to and reaching Level 4 (near-native) proficiency. The conferences include theory and research, as well as updates on high-level-language program activities, along with a healthy dose of shared practical experience. Date/Time: April 18-20, 2006 Location: Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan (arrival city: Amman) Sponsored: Jordan Consortium for Distinguished Language Studies For more information, visit http://www.distinguishedlanguagecenters.org/conferences.htm .
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Title: Conference on Teaching and Learning to Near-Native Levels
Body: From http://www.distinguishedlanguagecenters.org/conferences.htm The Spring 2007 Conference on Teaching and Learning to Near-Native Levels of Language Proficiency will be held in Irbid, Jordan as a strand of the Eighteenth International Conference on Language, Linguistics, Literature, and Translation. The Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers conducts annual (and, in some years, semi-annual) conferences about teaching to and reaching Level 4 (near-native) proficiency. The conferences include theory and research, as well as updates on high-level-language program activities, along with a healthy dose of shared practical experience. Date/Time: April 18-20, 2006 Location: Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan (arrival city: Amman) Sponsored: Jordan Consortium for Distinguished Language Studies For more information, visit http://www.distinguishedlanguagecenters.org/conferences.htm .
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Title: British Schools Emphasize Earlier Language Study, Mandarin
Body: From http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2502528.html Teach 'Useful Mandarin', Schools Told Alexandra Frean State schools should be encouraged to teach economically useful languages such as Mandarin, a government report will recommend today. The report, by Lord Dearing, the Government’s troubleshooter, is also expected to recommend that language teaching be offered in all primary schools. It will also call for language classes in secondary schools to be made more engaging to persuade greater numbers of pupils to take part. The report is unlikely, however, to recommend that ministers reverse the decision to make foreign languages optional at age 14. That decision in September 2004 caused an outcry and led to accusations that the young would miss out on good jobs, either overseas or at home, and was followed by a steep decline in language learning in secondary school. Read the rest of the article at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2502528.html .
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Title: British Schools Emphasize Earlier Language Study, Mandarin
Body: From http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2502528.html Teach 'Useful Mandarin', Schools Told Alexandra Frean State schools should be encouraged to teach economically useful languages such as Mandarin, a government report will recommend today. The report, by Lord Dearing, the Government’s troubleshooter, is also expected to recommend that language teaching be offered in all primary schools. It will also call for language classes in secondary schools to be made more engaging to persuade greater numbers of pupils to take part. The report is unlikely, however, to recommend that ministers reverse the decision to make foreign languages optional at age 14. That decision in September 2004 caused an outcry and led to accusations that the young would miss out on good jobs, either overseas or at home, and was followed by a steep decline in language learning in secondary school. Read the rest of the article at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2502528.html .
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