Announcements

EUROCALL 2009 Virtual Strand – registration open

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After the success of EUROCALL’s Virtual Strand in past conferences, a virtual extension to the EUROCALL conference is offered once again this year. Both virtual and on-site EUROCALL delegates are invited to take part in the Virtual Strand’s programme. Registration is now open! To register, please go to : http://eurocall.webs.upv.es/eurocall2009/onlinereg.php.  What is the Virtual Strand? The Virtual Strand offers participants the possibility of viewing all the conference plenary sessions (keynote speakers, panel discussion, etc.) in live streamed video. These will also be archived for future reference in the Members-Only Area on the EUROCALL website. The Virtual Strand also includes podcasts of selected regular parallel sessions that will be uploaded onto the VS web page, as well as a conference blog with live blogging, a twitter stream, a shared virtual space in Second Life and live online presentations.

You can even blog your conference experience! Please, send an e-mail to virtualeurocall@googlemail.com if you would like to be a conference blogger.

Who is it for?
You can join the Virtual Strand if you are:
unable to attend the conference in person
at the conference venue but also wish to take part in the Virtual Strand

What does it offer?
A virtual conference space including:
virtual strand website
streamed plenary presentations live from the conference
selected podcast presentations of regular presentations
real time chat and online presentation area
deferred time discussion list
interactive conference blog and live blogging
twitter stream

Please note:
The plenary presentations and podcast presentations will be available from the conference website during the conference only. After this time, they will be available from a restricted website available solely to EUROCALL members.

What does it cost?
EUROCALL (CALICO or IALLT) members delivering an online session: 25 EUR
Non-EUROCALL (CALICO or IALLT) members delivering an online session: 25 EUR
+ 85 EUR EUROCALL membership fee = 110EUR
Regular VS participants: 25 EUR

www.eurocall-languages.org <http://www.eurocall-languages.org/> EUROCALL 2009 Conference website:
http://eurocall.webs.upv.es/eurocall2009/

Penn STARTALK Teacher Training Institute for Hindi & Urdu

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The South Asia Center at the University of Pennsylvania will host the Penn STARTALK Teacher Training Institute for Hindi & Urdu in the summer of 2009. It is a residential program and will run from 9AM to 3PM on weekdays from July 13-24. Participants will learn theory and best practices of teaching aligned with the national Standards of heritage and foreign language learning. Topics will include curriculum design, performance-based assessment, Oral Proficiency Interview, authentic materials, differentiated learning and Hindi structures. Expert Penn faculty and visiting professors will impart the knowledge through lecture demonstrations and workshops. The training will be learner-centered with lots of hands-on practice. A special feature of this institute is that teachers will have a chance to observe live classes of Hindi & Urdu taught by master teachers in Penn’s concurrent STARTALK Hindi & Urdu student programs.

The program is open to ALL pre-service and in-service teachers of Hindi and Urdu at school or college levels. All participants will receive a stipend of $1,000 upon the successful completion of the program. There is no tuition fee and participants can get free accommodation on Penn campus. Everyone will receive a certificate of attendance for MOPI training from ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) in addition to a certificate of attendance in the program from the University of Pennsylvania.

For more information and the application form, please go to <http://www.southasiacenter.upenn.edu/documents/Events08-09/STARTALK/Teacher-mainpage.html> or contact Dr. Vijay Gambhir <vgambhir@sas.upenn.edu>. The deadline is May 31, but apply early because the qualified applicants will be admitted on first come
first served basis.

Heritage Language Teacher Workshop
UCLA
July 20-24, 2009

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The workshop is sponsored by Startalk and the National Heritage Language Resource Center. The Startalk sponsored languages are: Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Persian, Swahili, Turkish and Urdu.  Additional spaces are available for other less commonly taught languages.

This workshop is designed to help language teachers face the challenge of teaching heritage language students. It will prepare them to understand the differences between teaching L2 and HL learners, the issues involved in heritage language teaching, and how to address them.

Apply on line at:

http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/programs/startalkworkshop/

Applications will be accepted through June 1, 2009. Notifications will be emailed by June 10, 2009

For additional information, contact kathryn@humnet.ucla.edu

3rd SUMMER INSTITUTE IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS

– Registration Deadline is Approaching —

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The Center for Language Acquisition and the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER) at Penn State University will hold the 2009 Summer Institute in Applied Linguistics at the University Park campus.

The Institute has two sessions - Session I from June 22-July 3 and Session II from July 6-17.

Courses can be taken for credit or non-credit.

Registration is through Penn State University – Deadline for registration is MAY 22, 2009. Link to the Summer Institute’s Web site. Link to Course descriptions

The following courses are offered.

TWO-WEEK COURSES (Session I: June 22 – July 3, 2009)

APLNG 597A

L2 Sentence Processing: Theory and Experimental Quantitative Research Methods - Nuria Sagarra

APLNG 597B

Lending a Hand: Gesture and L2 Learning and Teaching - Steven McCafferty

APLNG 597C

The Contributions of Chaos/Complexity Theory to Applied Linguistics – Diane Larsen-Freeman

APLNG 597D

Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of a Second Language: Investigating Learning and Instruction - Yasuhiro Shirai

APLNG 597E

Technology, Mediation, and Second Language Development - Steven L. Thorne

APLNG 597F

Psycholinguistic Approaches to Second Language Development - Kees de Bot

APLNG 597G

Language and Identity – Tim McNamara

APLNG 597I

Cognition and SLA - Nick Ellis

APLNG 597K

Language as Symbolic Power - Claire Kramsch

APLNG 596A

Language and Alzheimer’s - Robert Schrauf

APLNG 596B

Writing in Second Languages - Alister Cumming

APLNG 596C

Self, Identity, Agency: The Theory and Practice of Action-based Learning and Teaching – Leo van Lier

APLNG 596E

Cognitive Linguistics and Its Application to Second Language Learning – Marjolijn Verspoor

APLNG 497I

World Englishes: New Questions for Policy, Proficiency, and Pedagogy – Suresh Canagarajah

TWO-WEEK COURSES (Session II: July 6 – 17, 2009)

APLNG 596F

Error Correction in L2 Classrooms – Lourdes Ortega

APLNG 596G

Second Language Conversations – Johannes Wagner

APLNG 596I

A Conceptualization-based Approach to Grammar, Corpus, Discourse Analysis, and Cognitive Linguistics – Susan Strauss

APLNG 596K

Introducing Sociocultural Theories Through Narratives of Second Language Learning and Teaching – Merrill Swain

APLNG 497A

Second Language Teacher Education – Karen E. Johnson and Paula Golombek

APLNG 497B

Qualitative Interviews in Applied Linguistics – Gabriele Kasper

APLNG 497C

Non-western Perspectives on Applied Linguistics: Toward a Globalizing Applied Linguistics - Sinfree Makoni

APLNG 497D

Critical Language Testing: Power, Consequences, Responsibility, and Responses – Elana Shohamy

APLNG 497E

Classroom Interaction and Language Learning - Joan Kelly Hall

APLNG 497F

Multilingualism: Psycholinguistic, Sociolinguistic, and Educational Perspectives – Jasone Cenoz

APLNG 497G

Sociocultutal Theory and the Pedagogical Imperative – James P. Lantolf

APLNG 596D

Computational and Statistical Methods for Corpus Analysis – Xiaofei Lu

APLNG 497K

L2 Classroom-based Assessment – Pauline Rea-Dickins and Matthew E. Poehner

APLNG 496A

The Interactional Instinct: The Evolution and Acquisition of Language – John H. Schumann

WORKSHOP ON TAMIL EPIGRAPHY

29 June – 10 July 2009

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Announcing the sixth international workshop on Tamil Epigraphy, to be held from 29th June to 10th July 2009 at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Section des Sciences historiques et philologiques, Sorbonne, Paris. This special program is organised as requested by many researchers on humanities working on Tamil in different countries. There are no registration fees and the course is offered freely. Classes will be held from Monday till Friday, morning 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. (lunch break) afternoon 2.00 to 4.30 p.m. The participants have to arrange themselves their travel to Paris and accommodations. If you need more information please contact: a.murugaiyan@wanadoo.fr

Special Funding Support for LCTL Teachers for Professional Development at the CARLA Summer Institutes

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To support the improvement of instruction of Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs), the University of Minnesota’s National Resource Centers offer a limited number of $600 stipends for LCTL teachers to help defray the cost of attending any of the CARLA summer institutes. The University NRCs–the Consortium for the Study of the Asias (CSA), the European Studies Consortium (ESC) and the Institute for Global Studies (IGS)–are funded by the U.S. Department of Education and sponsor this program as part of their mission to support LCTL teachers. Applications are due by April 10, 2009.
See the following for more information and application materials:

European LCTL teachers see: http://www.esc.umn.edu/CARLA.htm

Asian LCTL teachers see: http://asias.umn.edu/funding/k16.html

All other LCTLs see: http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/language.html

For more details about the stipend program see:http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/scholarships.html

CARLA Summer Institutes 2009
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota has sponsored a summer institute program for second language teachers since 1996. These internationally-known institutes reflect CARLA’s commitment to link research and theory with practical applications for the classroom.

Each institute is highly interactive and includes discussion, theory-building, hands-on activities, and plenty of networking opportunities. Participants at the CARLA summer institutes have come from all over the world. They have included foreign language and ESL teachers at all levels of instruction, program administrators, and curriculum specialists. Over 2,000 language teachers have participated in the summer institute program since it began in 1996.
The institutes for summer 2009 are:

Meeting the Challenges of Immersion Education: Language and Learning Disorders and the Struggling Immersion Learner
July 13-17, 2009
Instructor: Tara Fortune

Culture as the Core in the Second Language Classroom
July 13-17, 2009
Instructors: Francine Klein and Wendy Allen

Developing Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs)
July 20-24, 2009
Instructors: Bill Johnston and Louis Janus

Improving Language Learning: Styles- and Strategies-Based Instruction
July 20-24, 2009
Instructor: Martha Nyikos with guest presenter Andrew Cohen

Content-Based Language Instruction and Curriculum Development
July 20-24, 2009
Instructor: Laurent Cammarata

Immersion 101: An Introduction to Immersion Teaching
July 20-24, 2009 (Session 1) -or- July 27-31, 2009 (Session 2)
Instructors: Diane Tedick, Tara Fortune, Maureen Curran Dorsano, and Mandy Menke

Focusing on Learner Language: Second Language Acquisition Basics for Teachers
July 27-31, 2009
Instructors: Elaine Tarone and Maggie Broner

Developing Assessments for the Second Language Classroom
July 27-31, 2009
Instructor: Ursula Lentz with guest presenter Donna Clementi

Language and Culture in Sync: Teaching the Pragmatics of a Second Language
July 27-31, 2009
Instructor: Noriko Ishihara with guest presenter Andrew Cohen

More information about each institute is available on the CARLA website at: http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/

The cost of each of the CARLA summer institutes is $350 if registration is received by May 31, 2009 and $400 after that date. More information and registration forms are available on the CARLA website at: http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/ or you can request a print copy of the brochure by contacting the CARLA office at: carla@umn.edu.

Note: The summer institutes were developed and are supported, in part, by the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI Language Resource Center program and by the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development and College of Liberal Arts. The LCTL stipends are supported by the University of Minnesota’s Title VI National Resource Centers.
**our apologies for cross-posting**

NCOLCTL announces two pre-conference workshops.

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NCOLCTL invites you to attend a Pre-Conference Workshop on “Task-based Language Teaching and Performance Assessment” in the Less Commonly Taught Languages (see below). The workshop, scheduled for Thursday, April 23, from 1:30 – 5:30 PM, as part of this year’s NCOLCTL conference titled, “Towards a New Paradigm in LCTLs,” which will be held in Madison, WI, April 23-26.

A second workshop on “Building 21st-Century Arabic Programs: A Roundtable Discussion for Program Directors” is scheduled for Thursday, April 23, from 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. (see below).

The workshops will be conducted at the Madison Sheraton Hotel. They are free and open to the public.

All conference attendees, NCOLCTL members, and UW language teachers, researchers, and students are especially invited to attend. Workshop participants are also invited to attend the Conference Welcome Reception, which will begin at 5:30 PM. These events are sponsored by the National African Language Resource Center and the Dean of International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Please feel free to post or circulate this announcement widely.

These events are sponsored by the Dean of International Studies at the UW-Madison.

Feel free to post the attached flyer in your LCTL organization.

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NCOLCTL PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP 1

THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2009

1:30 – 5:30 p.m.

MADISON SHERATON HOTEL

“Task-based Language Teaching and Performance Assessment”

A Workshop led by Hong Gang Jin, Professor of Chinese, Hamilton College and President, NCOLCTL

Professor Jin served as Vice-President of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages and is currently its President.

NCOLCTL PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP 2

THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2009

1:00 – 5:30 p.m.

MADISON SHERATON HOTEL

“Building 21st-Century Arabic Programs: A Roundtable Discussion for Program Directors”

A Workshop led by Mahmoud Al-Batal, University of Texas, Austin and

Kirk Belnap, BYU

NCOLCTL

4231 Humanities Building

455 North Park Street

Madison, WI 53706

www.councilnet.org

608-265-7903

ncolctl@mailplus.wisc.edu

Special Funding Support for LCTL Teachers for Professional Development at the CARLA Summer Institutes

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To support the improvement of instruction of Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs), the University of Minnesota’s National Resource Centers offer a limited number of $600 stipends for LCTL teachers to help defray the cost of attending any of the CARLA summer institutes. The University NRCs–the Consortium for the Study of the Asias (CSA), the European Studies Consortium (ESC) and the Institute for Global Studies (IGS)–are funded by the U.S. Department of Education and sponsor this program as part of their mission to support LCTL teachers. Applications are due by April 10, 2009.

See the following for more information and application materials:

European LCTL teachers see: http://www.esc.umn.edu/CARLA.htm

Asian LCTL teachers see: http://asias.umn.edu/funding/k16.html

All other LCTLs see: http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/language.html
For more details about the stipend program
see:http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/scholarships.html

CARLA Summer Institutes 2009

The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota has sponsored a summer institute program for second language teachers since 1996. These internationally-known institutes reflect CARLA’s commitment to link research and theory with practical applications for the classroom.

Each institute is highly interactive and includes discussion, theory-building, hands-on activities, and plenty of networking opportunities. Participants at the CARLA summer institutes have come from all over the world. They have included foreign language and ESL teachers at all levels of instruction, program administrators, and curriculum specialists. Over 2,000 language teachers have participated in the summer institute program since it began in 1996.

More information about each institute is available on the CARLA website at: http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/

The cost of each of the CARLA summer institutes is $350 if registration is received by May 31, 2009 and $400 after that date. More information and registration forms are available on the CARLA website at: http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/ or you can request a print copy of the brochure by contacting the CARLA office at: carla@umn.edu.

Note: The summer institutes were developed and are supported, in part, by the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI Language Resource Center program and by the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development and College of Liberal Arts. The LCTL stipends are supported by the University of Minnesota’s Title VI National Resource Centers.

The National Heritage Language Resource Center invites applications to participate in the 3rd Summer Heritage Language Research Institute directed by Professor Maria Polinsky (Harvard).

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It will be hosted this year by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and held on that campus from June 22-26.

This year’s institute will focus on the implications of research for classroom instruction. Each participant will design a small classroom research project during the course of the institute and carry it out during the fall 2009 term.

Applications are invited from faculty in languages, linguistics, and education. Graduate students are encouraged to apply, and some financial assistance may be available for them.

Additional information and online applications are available at http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/nhlrc/2008summer/

The deadline is March 15. Decisions will be announced in early April.