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University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC)
Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR)
Co-Sponsors
Apprentissage des Langues et Systemes d'Information et de Communication (ALSIC)
Australian Technology Enhanced Language Learning Consortium (ATELL)
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota (CARLA)
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC (CAL)
Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)
European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL)
International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT)
University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC)
The University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center engages in research and materials development projects and conducts Summer Institutes for language professionals among its many activities.
UPCOMING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Distance Education, Distributed Learning & Language Instruction: Reports from the Field (July 27-30, 2004)
Language education has been revolutionized by the availability of electronic resources. The boundaries between distance education and traditional education are dissolving as both distance and non-distance language classes make use of multiple technologies, especially the Web, for delivering educational resources--hence the term "distributed learning." The National Foreign Language Resource Center is pleased to announce its 2004 Summer Institute Symposium Distance Education, Distributed Learning & Language Instruction: Reports from the Field. Invited and selected language educators with significant experience using distance and distributed learning models will be presenting on their work during the three-and-a-half-day Symposium to be held on July 27-30, 2004. Please register and join us for this exciting event!
Cultural Diversity and Language Education Conference (September 17-19, 2004)
This conference, co-sponsored and organized by the NFLRC and the UH Center for Second Language Research, will focus on theories, policies, and practices associated with cultural and language diversity in educational contexts and will provide a forum for examining a broad range of issues concerned with the potential and challenges of education that builds on diversity. The primary strands for exploring diversity in language education at the conference are
* Foreign/Heritage Language Education
* Bilingual/Immersion Education
* English Language Education
* Language Education Planning and Policy
* Literacy Education
Conference highlights will include keynote speeches (Sonia Nieto, Glynda Hull, and more), colloquia and paper presentations, and hands-on workshops, plus a variety of planned social events (including a fabulous ticketed reception at the Waikiki Aquarium). Registration forms and payment received by August 27, 2004 will enjoy special pre-registration rates!
NFLRC Publications
Filmed on location in East Java, Indonesia, the Mari Belajar Sopan Santun Bahasa Indonesia set consists of two videotapes, a manual, and extended notes on the individual video scenarios.
The videos present interactions among Indonesian native speakers and foreign language learners as they engage in tasks and activities of everyday life. The purpose of the videos is to model for foreign language learners how to speak politely in Indonesian by drawing their attention to the ways language is used and the ways it varies according to the social context in which the interaction occurs. The manual acompanying the videos includes the pedadogical background of this project, sample lessons, learning focus, suggested activities, and bibliographies on Indonesian pragmatics and on the teaching of pragmatics in foreign language classrooms. A docuent contatining extended notes on the videotaped scenarios is available at no charge online.
Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR)
CLEAR's mission is to promote the teaching and learning of foreign languages in the United States. To meet its goals, projects focus on foreign language research, materials development, and professional development training.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE RESEARCH
* Feedback to Learners: The Case of Heritage Language Learners
MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT
Products
* Business Chinese (CD-ROM)
* Modules for Assessing Socio-Cultural Competence for German (CD-ROM)
* Modules for Assessing Socio-Cultural Competence: Russian (CD-ROM)
* Pronunciacion y Fonetica (CD-ROM)
* African Language Tutorial Guide (guide and video)
* Thai Tutorial Guide (guide)
* Foreign Languages: Doors to Opportunity (video and discussion guide)
* Task-based Communicative Grammar Activities for Japanese and Thai (workbook)
* Test Development (workbook and video)
* The Internet Sourcebook for Business French (Web links)
* The Internet Sourcebook for Business German (Web links)
* The Internet Sourcebook for Business Spanish (Web links)
* Business Language Packets for High School Classrooms (French, German, & Spanish; PDF files)
Coming Soon!
* Introductory Business German (CD-ROM)
* French Pronunciation and Phonetics (CD-ROM)
Newsletter
CLEAR News is a biyearly publication covering FL teaching techniques, research, and materials. Contact the CLEAR office to join the mailing list or see it on the Web at http://clear.msu.edu/newsletter/.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Summer Workshops
Each summer, CLEAR offers professional development workshops for foreign language teachers on the campus of Michigan State University. For more information, go to http://clear.msu.edu/training/.
Onsite Workshops
CLEAR offers foreign language teachers at K-13+ institutions around the country the opportunity to host a CLEAR workshop. These 1-3 day workshops are led by CLEAR's professional development staff members. For more information, visit http://clear.msu.edu/training/onsite/about.html.
For more information about CLEAR, contact
Center for Language Education And Research (CLEAR)
A712 Wells Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027
Phone: (517) 432-2286
Fax: (517) 432-0473
Web: http://clear.msu.edu/
E-mail: clear@msu.edu
Australian Technology Enhanced Language Learning Consortium (ATELL)
Contacts: Assoc. Prof. Mike Levy, Griffith University (michael.levy@mailbox.gu.edu.au) Dr. Robert Debski, The University of Melbourne (r.debski@hlc.unimelb.edu.au)
ATELL is pleased to announce the availability of the CALL Catalogue: http://www.callcatalogue.com.au/
The CALL Catalogue has been designed as a resource for researchers, designers, and teachers interested in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL).
The CALL Catalogue is essentially a searchable bibliographic database. It consists of a large set of abstracted articles on CALL and an index of specially designed keywords. The CALL Catalogue is an ongoing research venture that began with the construction of a large corpus of CALL publications for 1999. As such the CALL Catalogue (1999) included all the chapters in four books (Cameron, 1999a, 1999b; Debski & Levy, 1999; Egbert & Hanson-Smith, 1999) and all the articles in four major CALL journals: Computer Assisted Language Learning, CALICO, ReCALL, and the online journal, Language Learning and Technology. This amounted to 177 journal articles and book chapters for the year. Each item was then abstracted and indexed to form the original CALL Catalogue (1999). So far the CALL Catalogue has been completed for 1999 and 2000.
The CALL Catalogue is an ongoing project and we are keen to have your contributions (see Abstracting & Indexing Guidelines on the Web site). Our immediate goal is to add abstracted and indexed articles on CALL for 2001, and then, subsequently, to work forward to the year prior to the current year of publication. The CALL Catalogue directly relates to published works by Levy (2000, 2002) where more detail about the overarching framework and methods of production are given.
The CALL Catalogue is the first resource to be made available by ATELL, the Australasian Technology Enhanced Language Learning network. ATELL is an informal grouping of CALL researchers and practitioners in Australia and New Zealand. More resources for researchers and practitioners are to follow.
References
Cameron, K. C. (Ed.). (1999a). CALL: Media, design and applications. Lisse, The Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger.
Cameron, K. C. (Ed.). (1999b). CALL and the learning community. Exeter, England: Elm Bank Publications.
Debski, R., & Levy, M. (Eds.). WORLDCALL: Global perspectives on computer-assisted language learning. Lisse, The Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger.
Egbert, J., & Hanson-Smith, E. (Eds.). (1999). CALL environments: Research, practice and critical issues. Alexandria, VA: TESOL Inc.
Levy, M. (2000). Scope, goals and methods in CALL research: Questions of coherence and autonomy. ReCALL, 12(2), 170-195.
Levy, M. (2002). CALL by design: Products, processes and methods. ReCALL, 14(1), 129-142.
Apprentissage des Langues et Systemes d'Information et de Communication (ALSIC)
ALSIC (Language Learning and Information and Communication Systems, http://alsic.org/) is an electronic journal in French for researchers and practitioners in fields related to applied linguistics, didactics, psycholinguistics, educational sciences, computational linguistics, and computer science. The journal gives priority to papers from the French-speaking community and/or in French, but it also regularly invites papers in other languages so as to strengthen scientific and technical exchanges between linguistic communities that too often remain separate. The editorial board of ALSIC invites you to contact them for any prospective contributions at the following electronic address: infos@alsic.org.
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