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Call for Papers Special Issue 2016

Showcasing the translingual SL/FL classroom: strategies, practices, and beliefs

The Canadian Modern Language Review (CMLR) invites manuscripts to be considered for the special issue “Showcasing the translingual SL/FL classroom: strategies, practices, and beliefs” to appear in 2016. In this issue, we solicit empirical research as well as practice-oriented articles on translingual practices, particularly in Canadian classrooms or those with special relevance to Canadian second, foreign, heritage, aboriginaland ancestral language teaching. By translingual practices we mean “making meaning, shaping experiences, gaining understanding and knowledge through the use of two languages” (Baker 2011: 288). The special issue targets studies in any of the following settings: language minority students in structured immersion and/or transitional settings as well as language minority and/or majority students in immersion, maintenance, two-way/dual language, additive, and mainstream bilingual settings.

We welcome a wide range of methodological approaches, including auto-ethnography, survey research, mixed-methods designs, case studies, discourse analysis, and conversation analysis. In addition to classroom practices, research related to the status and role of students’ native languages in the SL/FL/HL/Aboriginal and ancestral language classroom including school policies, teachers’ attitudes, beliefs, and classroom practices, and students’ attitudes towards their own learning are welcome. We strongly encourage contributions for the “Focus on the classroom” section, in which research-based approaches to pedagogy and methodology are presented and elaborated. Submissions are welcome in either English or French. All submissions are subject to the usual CMLR peer review process.

Please visit the submission guidelines at the following link for information on manuscript length, the mandate of the journal, and other aspects of submission: www.utpjournals.com/cmlr

Submission deadline: June 30, 2015

Submissions should be sent electronically through PRESTO: http://bit.ly/cmlrPresto

Receipt of all manuscripts will be acknowledged via PRESTO.

Questions about the special issue may be addressed to the co-editors:

Shelley Taylor

Western University

taylor@uwo.ca

Cecelia Cutler,

City University of New York

Cecelia.Cutler@lehman.cuny.edu

Appel d’articles pour le numéro spécial de 2016
Les classes d’accueil et d’immersion : stratégies, pratiques et croyances

La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes (RCLV) invite les chercheurs à proposer des articles en vue d’un numéro spécial ayant pour thème : « Les classes d’accueil et d’immersion : stratégies, pratiques et croyances » qui paraîtra en 2016. La revue sollicite des articles de recherche empirique et théorique sur les pratiques translinguistiques, en particulier dans les salles de classe canadiennes ou qui sont directement concernées par l’enseignement des langues secondes, étrangères, d’origine, autochtones et ancestrales au Canada. Les « pratiques translinguistiques » englobent les activités visant à « produire du sens, vivre des expériences, approfondir sa compréhension et ses connaissances par l’utilisation de deux langues » (Baker, 2011 : 288). Les articles proposés aborderont l’un des thèmes suivants : les élèves issus des minorités linguistiques inscrits à un programme d’immersion ou de transition ou les élèves issus de la majorité ou de minorités linguistiques participant à un programme d’immersion, de maintien des connaissances, bidirectionnel, favorisant le bilinguisme à effet positif (ou « additif ») ou intégré au programme scolaire.

Les articles peuvent s’inspirer de diverses approches méthodologiques, y compris l’autoethnographie, la recherche-sondage, les méthodes mixtes, les études de cas, l’analyse du discours et l’analyse conversationnelle. En plus des travaux sur les pratiques en classe, les études sur le statut et le rôle accordés à la langue maternelle des élèves dans l’enseignement des langues d’origine, étrangères, ancestrales et autochtones sont bienvenues, y compris celles portant sur les politiques scolaires, l’attitude des enseignants, les croyances, les pratiques scolaires et l’attitude des élèves vis-à-vis de leurs apprentissages. Nous favorisons aussi vivement la soumission d’articles pour la rubrique « Pleins feux sur la classe » dans lesquels des pistes concrètes d’action didactique ou méthodologique sont présentées et commentées. Les articles peuvent être rédigés en anglais ou en français. Ils seront soumis au processus habituel d’évaluation par les pairs de la RCLV.

Veuillez consulter les normes de présentation des manuscrits en cliquant sur le lien suivant pour en savoir plus sur la longueur des articles, la mission de la revue ou pour tout autre renseignement concernant la soumission des manuscrits :www.utpjournals.com/cmlr.

Date limite de soumission : le 30 juin 2015

Les articles doivent être soumis électroniquement au moyen de l’interface PRESTO (http://bit.ly/cmlrPresto).

La revue accusera réception de tous les manuscrits par l’entremise de PRESTO.

Pour toute autre question sur ce numéro spécial, veuillez contacter les corédactrices :

Shelley Taylor

Western University

taylor@uwo.ca

Cecelia Cutler,

City University of New York

Cecelia.Cutler@lehman.cuny.edu

The Canadian Modern Language Review ONLINE

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Hundreds of peer-reviewed articles, insightful book and software reviews, calendars of forthcoming events and research-based articles, in all areas of second language teaching and acquisition, from 1997 to the present await you at this comprehensive resource.

CMLR Online features a comprehensive archive of past and current issues and includes features that address the research needs of today’s second language teachers, administrators and researchers, worldwide. Subscribers to CMLR Online enjoy:

•             Enhanced features not available in the print version

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Canadian Modern Language Review is also available at Project MUSE - http://bit.ly/cmlr_pm

For more information about CMLR/ RCLV (in print or online) or for submissions information, please contact

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The Canadian Modern Language Review

SPECIAL ISSUE 2017

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The Editors of the Canadian Modern Language Review invite proposals for the annual special issue of the journal. Proposals should identify a contemporary topic which will allow for the exploration of recent advances in theory, research, and practice in second language learning and teaching. The proposed topic should also be one that will attract diverse perspectives, research methodologies, and pedagogical applications.

The special issue of the CMLR is an open call for papers; guest editors therefore manage the submissions, which consists of the standard double blind review process. At least one of the editors should be fluent in both English and French.

Proposals will be evaluated by the CMLR Editors and members of the Editorial Board. The criteria will include:  relevance to the mandate of the journal; significance of the topic to the field; and the qualifications of the two editors. The successful proposal will be announced in the spring of 2015.

Guest editors should refer to the Guidelines for Special Issue Proposals on the CMLR website – www.utpjournals.com/cmlr - for details on the submission requirements.

Due date for proposals:  January 25, 2015

La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes

NUMÉRO SPÉCIAL – 2017

APPEL À PROPOSITIONS DE THÈMES

Les rédacteurs de la Revue canadienne des langues vivantes invitent les personnes intéressées à proposer des thèmes pour le numéro spécial annuel de la revue. Chaque proposition devra porter sur un sujet contemporain ouvrant sur l’exploration des progrès récents en matière de théorie, de recherche et de pratiques en apprentissage et en enseignement des langues secondes. Le thème proposé devra également susciter des contributions sur des perspectives, des méthodes de recherche et des applications pédagogiques variées.

Pour ce numéro spécial de la RCLV, il y aura un appel général à contributions. Les rédacteurs invités auront donc à gérer les articles soumis au moyen du processus habituel d’évaluation à double insu. Au moins un des rédacteurs devra s’exprimer couramment en anglais et en français.

Les propositions seront évaluées par les rédacteurs de la RCLV et les membres du conseil d’administration, selon les critères suivants : la pertinence du thème relativement au mandat de la revue, l’importance du sujet dans le champ d’études et les qualifications des deux rédacteurs. La proposition retenue sera dévoilée au printemps 2015.

Pour tout renseignement concernant les exigences de soumission, les rédacteurs invités devront se référer aux Directives sur la proposition de thèmes pour le numéro spécial, disponible sur le site web de la RCLV - http://www.utpjournals.com/Revue-canadienne-des-langues-vivante.html.

Date limite d’envoi des propositions : le 25 janvier 2015

The Canadian Modern Language Review/La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes

During the nearly 70 years of its existence, The Canadian Modern Language Review/La Revue canadienne des langues vivanteshas evolved from an Ontario-centered journal containing mainly classroom-based teaching strategies and resources to a Canada-wide, bilingual, refereed scholarly publication of national scope and international repute. The CMLR/RCLV serves members of the teaching profession, administrators and researchers interested in all levels of English and French as second languages and, in addition, those interested in native and other modern, international, or heritage language programs and issues.

CMLR is available online at www.utpjournals.com/cmlr and at Project MUSEhttp://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_modern_language_review

For more information about CMLR/ RCLV (in print or online) or for submissions information, please contact

Canadian Modern Language Review

University of Toronto Press  Journals Division

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Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T8

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ear AsiaCALLers,

This is a reminder for you, your teachers, your colleagues or your friends to please respond to this important survey.

Below is a call for participation.

All the best

Andrew Lian
President of AsiaCALL

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

AsiaCALL, the Asia Association of Computer Assisted Language Learning, has released a Graduate Thesis Survey designed to catalog all higher degree theses in the field of CALL/TELL in the Asian region. Please consider responding.

The purpose of this five-minute survey is to list as many as possible (ideally all) higher degree theses in the field of CALL/TELL in the Asian region currently undertaken or completed in the last 10 years.

The results of the survey will be made available on the AsiaCALL website (http://asiacall.org) and will (a) assist graduate students to discover what is being researched (or has recently been researched) by other graduate students, (b) enable researchers to contact each other and (c) provide information for researchers and CALL professionals to examine and develop the field of CALL/TELL.

Survey results will provide an invaluable source of CALL research information in that they will offer a snapshot of current research preoccupations as well as documenting the development of research
trends over time. Survey results, suitably anonymised, may be used for research purposes. Survey results will also be invaluable to the operation of the AsiaCALL Doctoral Consortium to be inaugurated at theAsiaCALL2013 International Conference in November 2013 at Khon Kaen University, Thailand.

It is intended to keep this research inventory up to date, so this will be an ongoing venture.

So… if you are currently enrolled for a graduate degree thesis or have recently completed one (within 10 years), please complete this survey and also please circulate this message to as many people as
possible who may be able to respond or who may know someone who can respond (teachers, friends, colleagues). That way we can hope to get maximum coverage of the field. .

The link below will provide direct access to the survey and the survey will only take about 5 minutes to complete. Thank you for your contributions.

Link: http://asiacall.org/network/?q=content/asiacall-graduate-thesis-survey

Andrew Lian
President of AsiaCALL

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Dear Colleagues:

I am very pleased to announce the the publication of the spring 2013 Issue of the IALLT Journal for Language Learning Technologies, a peer reviewed academic journal published by the International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT). The IALLT Journal is online and open-access and is available to the worldwide public at http://www.iallt.org/iallt_journal

Issue 1 of Volume 43 features articles that address current issues within the field of language learning technology: online peer editing at the elementary level, Asynchronous Computer Mediated Communication, a presentation of an online audio recording software program, and a discussion of computer-graded vs. instructor-graded online language learning activities.

In the Issue’s opening article, “Online peer feedback in beginners’ writing task,” Constanza Tolosa, Martin East, and Helen Villers present a project with eleven-year old students in which Spanish language learners in New Zealand interacted with English learners in Colombia. Their study investigates the quantity and quality of written corrective feedback in these interactions.

In our second article, “Exploring the Benefits of ACMC for Speaking Development,” Nicolás Pino-James presents a study in which Spanish language learners supplemented their in-class activities by engaging in asynchronous CMC speaking projects using the tool MyBrainshark, in order to provide more opportunities for working with the presentational mode of communication.

Similarly, Atsushi Fukada presents “An Online Oral Practice/Assessment Platform: Speak Everywhere.” Speak Everywhere is an online tool developed at Purdue University which allows instructors to design a variety of speaking tasks for students. He describes the kinds of activities that the software produces that can be used for oral practice and for the submission of speaking assignments.

Finally, in an article titled “Effectiveness of Computer-Graded vs. Instructor-Graded Homework Assignments in an Elementary Spanish Course: A comparative study at two undergraduate institutions,” Richard Dabrowski, Jean W. LeLoup, and Lunden MacDonald present the results of a comparative study conducted at Metropolitan State University in Denver and at the US Air Force Academy. They describe both the differences between the institutions which also reflect differences between computer-graded and instructor-graded homework assignments.

This issue concludes with our regular column by Judy Shoaf on Legal Issues & LLT. The column this time deals with recent legal developments relating to the extent to which instructors may use materials within a classroom setting. The issue continues to evolve, and there are signs that restrictions may be loosening. Finally, we welcome Deanne Cobb-Zygadlo as the contributor to the column “LLTI Highlights” — a compendium of issues discussed on the listserve maintained by IALLT and dealing with technology used to support the teaching and learning of languages.

If you are interested in submitting an article for consideration in the IALLT Journal, please send all inquiries and submissions to journaleditor@iallt.org.

With Best Wishes,
Dan Soneson
Managing Editor, IALLT Journal

The 30th International Conference on English Teaching and Learning in the R.O.C.

As Chair of the IALLT 2013 Program Committee, I am pleased to announce our Call for Papers! An abridged version of the call is included below, the full version is attached to this email and is available from the conference web site.

The conference site (http://2013.iallt.org) is undergoing some final tweaking. Submissions will be accepted through the site beginning next week, so you have time to get your proposals ready.

You can visit the site now to sign up for news and updates about the conference.

We look forward to seeing you all in Fort Lauderdale in June!

Judi

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Judi Franz, MA, Director
Humanities Instructional Resource Center
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/hirc/
949-824-4500 | Humanities Hall 269

International Assoc. for Language Learning Technology
Host of IALLT 2011 | http://iallt2011.wordpress.com/
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IALLT 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

June 11-15, 2013

The International Association for Language Learning Technology is a professional organization devoted to the advancement, integration, evaluation, and management of instructional technology for the teaching and learning of language, literature and culture.  This conference will be of particular interest to all language and culture instructors whether K-12 or post-secondary, to individuals affiliated with a media center or language lab, to developers of language technology, and to individuals interested in any facet of language learning technology. The biennial IALLT conference attracts participants world-wide and offers an international perspective into the future of educational technology for language and cultural learning.

The theme for the 2013 conference, “Sunshine and Cloud Apps: The Next Generation in Language Learning Technology,” reflects both the atmosphere of Florida, “The Sunshine State”, as well as a glance into the future with the wide use of “Apps” that are already making their mark with the next generation of language users in global social networks and seamless, mobile technologies.  The hosts of the conference, Pine Crest School and Florida Atlantic University, are culturally diverse campuses which pride themselves in second-language acquisition.  As the first K-12 host school in IALLT history, we are proud to announce that Yo Azama, 2012 ACTFL Teacher of the Year, will be our Keynote Speaker.

SUGGESTED TOPICS

Although no technology conference is complete without demonstrations of the latest gadgets, software and digital resources, the categories of proposals we are seeking are equally focused in the fields of pedagogy, methods, best practices, K-12, Specific Tools/Technologies, Lab and Media Center Administration. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Best Practices in Computer-Assisted Language Learning

Professional Development Solutions and Challenges

New Frameworks for Distance Education and Hybrid Environments

Leadership in the field of Language Learning Technologies

Innovative Practices in K-12 Language and Cultural Learning

Lab and Media Center Administration

Generation NeXt, Technology and Language Education

Online Language Learning Today and Tomorrow

Student and institutional privacy issues in digital language learning contexts

New Horizons in Gaming and Virtual Reality for Language & Cultural Learning

Augmented reality for the language learning context

The Edges of Copyright & e-Learning

Mobile language learning

SESSION TYPES

a.     Full day pre-conference workshop

b.     Half day pre-conference workshop

c.     60 minute panel presentation

d.     25 minute poster presentation

e.     25 minute paper presentation

f.      45 minute paper/demonstration session

Please submit an abstract of up to 100 words, and a full description of up to 300 words.

The deadline for submitting proposals to the Program Committee is January 11, 2013. Questions regarding the program, proposals or the submission process can be sent to the Program Chair, Judi Franz (judi.franz@uci.edu).

Language Testing in Europe: Time for a New Framework?
International Conference hosted by Universiteit Antwerpen
27-29 May 2013

We hereby extend a cordial invitation to attend our Second International Conference on Language Testing. This conference will bring together practitioners, policy makers and researchers in order to discuss the following issues related to the use of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in language testing.

• Competence and performance
What is the link between ‘can do’ performance statements and areas of linguistic knowledge? To what extent can or should the levels be made more explicit in terms of required vocabulary and grammar?
• Degree of difficulty of the levels
How can we make sure that our tests are measuring at the CEFR levels we claim they are? What evidence do we have to support our claims?
• Test purpose
Why are we testing? What kind of decisions will be made on the basis of information collected via the test? What will be the consequences of these decisions?
• Practicality
How do we link our tests to the CEFR? How practical, applicable and operational is the CEFR for concrete language testing situations?
You are invited to submit a proposal for a practice-related paper, a research paper, a poster session or a symposium. The scientific committee will designate three submissions as ‘Selected Plenaries’.
Please visit our website for any information regarding submission, calendar, venue and programme.
Looking forward to meeting you in Antwerp.

The organizing committee

Ann Aerts (conference manager), Jozef Colpaert (chair), Margret Oberhofer, Mathea Simons

Contact details
· LT-CEFR2013@ua.ac.be
· www.ua.ac.be/LT-CEFR2013

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the publication of papers from the NEALLT 2011 conference in the IJVPLE (International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments). These articles focus on various aspects of language teaching and learning through technology. Contributors and their articles are:

- Utilizing Innovative Chat Technology to Meet National Standards: A Case Study on a STARTALK Hindi Language Program (pages 1 – 20) Shaheen Parveen (University of Pennsylvania, USA), and Carley Pater (Central European University, USA)

- Designing a Virtual Social Space for Language Acquisition (pages 21 – 42) Maria Alessandra Woolson (Middlebury College, USA)

- Email Tandem Exchanges as a Tool for Authentic Cultural Learning (pages 43 – 59) Reyes Llopis-García (Columbia University, USA)

- Identities, Borders, Change: A Case Study of (Trans) Cultural Learning in Mediated Learning Communities (pages 60 – 80) Sébastien Dubreil (University of Tennese – Knoxville, USA)

- Building a Model for Online Distance Courses through Social Media and Networks (pages 81 – 94) Ed Dixon (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

These articles are available in Issue 3 of Volume 3 (2012) at:

http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-virtual-personal-learning/1134

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Edward M. Dixon, Ph.D.
Technology Director, Penn Language Center
Lecturer for German
University of Pennsylvania
Williams Hall 715
255 S. 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
215-573-4267
edixon@sas.upenn.edu