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ACTFL understands that the current economy has affected everyone’s pocketbook but we are striving to offer you the best quality programming for your dollars spent. We want you to benefit from one of the most outstanding annual professional development opportunities available to language professionals.

The ACTFL Annual Convention and World Languages Expo has so much to offer you!

* Seven (7) AP pre-convention workshops sponsored by ACTFL and The College Board.
* Two (2) NEW full-day immersion pre-convention workshops in French and Spanish.
* More than 500 educational sessions for language professionals at all levels and all languages. Earn a minimum of 17 CEU credits. Learn techniques and activities you can use in the classroom come Monday morning.
* A top-notch World Languages Expo where you can visit one-on-one with 250 exhibiting companies and attend exhibitor workshops on the Expo floor.
* Special networking events hosted by ACTFL, its co-sponsoring associations, and many others where you can meet colleagues from around the world, make new friends and grow your contact list.

We know that times are tough and everyone is budget conscious. To help you save on housing, ACTFL was able to get lower hotel rates than usual for San Diego. You can SAVE on registration by taking advantage of the Early Bird rates by July 15. Go to the 2009 ACTFL Convention area of ACTFL to book your room and register.

CTFL 1001 N Fairfax St Suite 200 Alexandria, VA 22314
P 703.894.2900 Fax 703.894.2905
membership@actfl.org | www.actfl.org | www.discoverlanguages.org

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The March 15 deadline has been extended for a few days if you or any of your colleagues or students are interested in participating in this summer’s _Heritage Research Institute_ at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, June 22-26. The Consortium will fully fund UC faculty. The Heritage Center will provide some funding for graduate students.

Please see the website for details and the online application.

http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/nhlrc/2009summer/

Karen Callahan
Assistant Director
UC Language Consortium/SLAI
220 Voorhies Hall/Davis, CA 95616
Phone: 530-752-2719/Fax: 530-754-7152

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* 1st International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC), March 12-14, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii (pre-registration deadline – January 31)

* 2009 NFLRC Online Summer Institute for Non-native Teachers of Chinese & Japanese, June 22-July 3, 2009 (apply now – limited space, rolling admissions)

* Language Learning in Computer Mediated Communities (LLCMC) Conference, October 11-13, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii (Call for Proposals deadline – March 1)

plus, CULTURA: Web-based Intercultural Exchanges Pre-conference event, October 10-11, Honolulu, Hawaii

For more information, see below:
1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION & CONSERVATION (ICLDC): Supporting Small Languages Together
March 12-14, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/icldc09/

It has been a decade since Himmelmann’s article on language  documentation appeared and focused the field into thinking in terms of creating a lasting record of a language that could be used by speakers as well as by academics. This conference aims to assess what has been achieved in the past decade and what the practice of language documentation within linguistics has been and can be. It has become apparent that there is too much for a linguist alone to achieve and that language documentation requires collaboration. This conference will focus on the theme of collaboration in language documentation and revitalization and will include sessions on interdisciplinary topics.

Plenary speakers include: Nikolaus Himmelmann (University of Munster), Leanne Hinton (UC Berkeley), Paul Newman (Indiana University), & Phil Cash (University of Arizona)

There will also be an optional opportunity to visit Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawai’i, in an extension of the conference that will focus on the Hawaiian language revitalization program, March 16th-17th.

Conference pre-registration deadline: January 31, 2009

2009 NFLRC ONLINE SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR NON-NATIVE TEACHERS OF CHINESE & JAPANESE
June 22-July 3, 2009
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/si09w/

This workshop serves as an online professional development opportunity for non-native-speaking teachers of Chinese and Japanese language at the K-16 level, with a focus on teachers in underserved areas. As part of our mission to serve the development and enhancement of Asian language in the United States, the University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center will offer 2 concurrent two-week intensive language courses in Chinese and Japanese. The intensive courses, delivered entirely free of charge over the World Wide Web using a tested and proven pedagogic model, focus on the development and/or maintenance of communicative language skills at the Advanced level, with strong emphasis in written communication meeting high standards of literacy.

Space is limited, so submit your online application form today!

(NOTE: For interested Chinese teachers, there is a special additional opportunity to travel to Hawaii after the online workshop for intensive hands-on teacher training in the STARTalk Sports and Language Immersion Camp [planned for July 6-31, 2009] at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu. Pending the approval of funding for the 2009 STARTalk Hawaii Sports and Language Immersion Camp, Chinese teachers successfully completing the online summer institute will be eligible for up to $800 travel defrayment for the
STARTalk Hawaii camp.)

LANGUAGE LEARNING IN COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNITIES (LLCMC) CONFERENCE
October 11-13, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/llcmc/

Once, computers were seen as thinking machines or electronic tutors. Now the computer has become one of many devices that people use to form virtual communities of all kinds. In the field of language education, computer mediated communication (CMC) enables students to interact with one another free of space and time constraints and to participate in communities of learning with their counterparts in the target culture. The Language Learning in Computer Mediated Communities (LLCMC) Conference explores the use of computers as a medium of communication in language learning communities.

Conference highlights
* Keynote talk by Dr. Gilberte Furstenberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
* Special colloquium showcasing online cultural exchanges based at the University of Hawaii
* Optional pre-conference event – CULTURA: Web-based Intercultural Exchanges (October 10-11)

We welcome your session proposal submissions in this exciting area. Use our convenient online submission form – deadline March 1, 2009.
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University of Hawai’i
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Extended Deadline for Submissions: December 31, 2008
Preparing Language Teachers for the 21st Century:  Sixth International Language Teacher Educator Conference
May 28 – 30, 2009
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C.

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Designed for practitioners and researchers involved in the preparation and ongoing professional development of language teachers, LTE 2009 will address the education of teachers of all languages, at all instructional and institutional levels, and in many national and international contexts in which this takes place including: English as a Second or Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) instruction; foreign/modern/world language teaching; bilingual education; immersion education; indigenous and minority language education; and the teaching of less commonly taught languages.

Conference Themes

Theme I: The Knowledge Base of Language Teacher Education
Theme II: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts of Language Teacher Education
Theme lll: Collaborations in Language Teacher Education
Theme IV: Practices in Language Teacher Education

Plenary Speakers:

* Second Language Teacher Education in Times of Change: Jack Richards, The Regional Language Centre
* Teacher Cognition and Communicative Language Teaching: Simon Borg, University of Leeds
* The Moral Lives of Teacher Educators: Bill Johnston, Indiana University
* A Sociocultural Perspective on Language Teacher Education: Karen Johnson, Pennsylvania State University

Types of Sessions

Symposia (2 hours):
Paper Sessions (25-minute papers)
Discussion Sessions (55 minutes)
Poster Sessions (60 Minutes)
For more information and to submit a proposal, see:
http://nclrc.org/lte2009

To contact us:
LTE@nclrc.org

Sponsored by
The National Capital Language Resource Center (Georgetown University, The George Washington University & The Center for Applied Linguistics)
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition at the University of Minnesota

The Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a one-year Lecturer in Hindi language for the academic year 2008-2009. The appointee will be expected to teach beginning and intermediate Hindi language classes (3 classes per semester). Applicants should have native or near-native fluency in Hindi, an M.A. or PhD in a related field, and proof of excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level. Salary will be commensurate with level of academic qualification as well as teaching experience.

Dossiers consisting of a cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching statement, and three letters of reference should be sent to Hindi Search Committee Chair, Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 820 Williams Hall, 255 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Candidates must also complete a short on-line profile at http://facultysearches.provost.upenn.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=50597 Application review begins immediately and continues until the position is filled.

The University of Pennsylvania is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply.

Frankly Speaking: Challenges in Integrating
Languages and Cultures into a Post-Secondary Curriculum
October 15-17, 2008
FedEx Global Education Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://www.unc.edu/clac

The Fall 2008 conference on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) provides an opportunity for faculty, graduate instructors, and administrators to share expertise in building and managing post-secondary CLAC programs. A special focus this year will be on the implications of the May 2007 MLA Foreign Language Report (http://www.mla.org/flreport) on CLAC initiatives nationwide.

CULTURES AND LANGUAGES ACROSS THE CURRICULUM (CLAC)

The CLAC movement intends to make global competence a reality for students and to create alliances among educators to share practices and methods for incorporating an international dimension in curricula, and, more generally, to achieve internationalization goals. General principles of CLAC include:
A focus on communication and content;
An emphasis on developing meaningful content-focused language use outside traditional language classes;
An approach to language use and cross-cultural skills as a means for the achievement of global intellectual synthesis, in which students learn to combine and interpret knowledge produced in other languages and in other cultures.

Within this large framework, CLAC can take many forms, depending on specific content and curricular goals within a discipline.

PROPOSAL GUIDELINES

Proposals for 30-minute papers or 90-minute panels on any issue relating to CLAC are welcome, although the following topics are of particular interest:
Institutional, professional, and practical obstacles to CLAC
CLAC: in competition or collaboration with foreign language departments?
Innovative interdepartmental or interinstitutional links
CLAC models for less commonly taught languages or heritage languages
Preparing graduate students and faculty to implement CLAC
The role of Title VI Centers and other funding agencies
CLAC evaluation and assessment
Sample teaching materials: syllabi, classroom activities, lesson plans
The use of technology in CLAC
The implications of national foreign language standards on CLAC
Languages for special purposes / professional use / service learning

To submit a proposal, please email an submission form (available on the web at http://www.unc.edu/clac) and a one-page abstract (max. 350 words) to clac2008@unc.edu by May 15, 2008.

Selected papers will be published on the CLAC conference website. Submission of a proposal constitutes agreement to online publication. This in no way limits the author’s rights to publish the paper elsewhere.

For additional information, please visit the conference website at http://www.unc.edu/clac.

Please send a letter of application indicating the texts and methods that you have used in Hindi/Urdu instruction, a C.V., one-two sets of student course evaluations, sample tests and quizzes, and three letters of reference to: Professor Suad Joseph, Director, Middle East/South Asia Studies Program, 156 Everson Hall, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, CA 95616. For more information e-mail: mesastaff@ucdavis.edu and check our website at http://mesa.ucdavis.edu/. The University of California, Davis is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Review of applications will begin on March 14, 2008.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS:

31st Annual Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)
October 17-19, 2008
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/

ONLINE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION SYSTEM IS NOW OPEN! (See Call for Proposals
section for complete details and instructions for proposal submissions)

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 15, 2008
Notification of selection: Mid-May 2008

Theme: EXPLORING SLA: PERSPECTIVES, POSITIONS, AND PRACTICES

Plenary speakers:
- Dr. Harald Clahsen (University of Essex)
- Dr. Alan Firth (Newcastle University)
- Dr. Eva Lam (Northwestern University)
- Dr. Richard Schmidt (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)

We welcome all areas of second language research, including, but not
limited to:
- Instructed SLA
- Acquisition of grammar and phonology
- Child SLA
- L2 Processing
- Language and learner characteristics
- Language and cognition
- Discourse and interaction
- Language and socialization
- Bilingualism and multilingualism
- Language and ideology
- Literacy development
- Learner corpora
- Language learning and technology
- Second language measurement

1) PAPERS:
Individual papers will be allotted 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for
discussion).

2) POSTERS:
Posters will be displayed for a full day. Posters are intended for
one-on-one discussion or reports of work in progress.

3) COLLOQIUA:
The colloquia/panels consist of individual paper presentations that relate
to a specific or related topics of interest. They are offered in 2-hour
sessions.

Please see our website for complete proposal submission instructions and
additional updates: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/.

Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2008.

For any proposal submission questions, please contact the SLRF 2008
Program Chairs at slrf2008program@gmail.com

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World Language Teaching and Learning in the N-Generation: Issues and Perspectives

Don Tapscott, in his book Growing Up Digital (1998), coined the term “Net Generation” in reference to the group of young people who have grown up immersed in a digital- and internet-driven world. While the exact years of birth for those included in this generation is debated, the idea is that it includes those born between 1976 and 2001, being comprised, then, of some 88 million members. Others, in reference to these children of the Baby Boomers, have called them the N-Generation, the Y-Generation, or the Millennials. Certainly, there is no definitive agreement about the chronological composition, or labeling, of this group, but it is readily apparent that to reach and teach these individuals, traditional pedagogical techniques need to be revisited.
To that end, the editors are requesting submission of manuscripts for a monograph tentatively entitled: World Language Teaching and Learning in the N-Generation: Issues and Perspectives. This volume will focus on the research, practices, and professional interests/isssues of world language instructors, researchers, and administrators concerned with the teaching and learning of world languages at all levels of instruction. Manuscripts may include, but are not limited to, data-based research studies, policy essays, revised/new methodologies, curriculum studies, and technological implementations within the world language classroom. Contributors are invited to address issues such as the use of the internet, Ipods, Xpods, video streaming, e-mail, instant messaging, IM language, Telnet, wikis, cell phones, online or hybrid courses, etc. and how these are used in and/or affect world language teaching and learning. Deadline for submission is June 1, 2008.

Submit manuscripts in electronic form, either as Word or WordPerfect document (e-mail attachment or on diskette), or address questions, to:

Dr. Raquel Oxford
Curriculum and Instruction
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Phone: 414-229-5994
E-mail: roxford@uwm.edu

OR

Dr. Jeffrey Oxford, Chair
Spanish and Portuguese
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Phone: 414-229-5977
E-mail: oxford@uwm.edu