November 2009

The 34th Penn Linguistics Colloquium
March 19-21, 2010; University of Pennsylvania
Deadline for Submission: November 20, 2009

The 34th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium will take place March 19-21, 2010 at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia.

Invited Speaker: Chris Kennedy of the University of Chicago (topic and title TBA).

There will also be a special interdisciplinary panel on Friday, March 19 on The Nature of Mental Representations.  More information will be posted closer to the conference.
Papers on any topic in linguistics and associated fields are welcome. Speakers will have 20 minutes for their presentations and 5 minutes for discussion and questions.
Deadline: Abstracts are due Friday, November 20, 2009. Notification of acceptance/rejection will be given by Wednesday, January 20, 2010.
Length: Please limit abstracts to one page, single- or double-spaced. An additional page may be used for references and tables. Do not include your name or affiliation within the abstract.

Format: To facilitate the review process, please submit your abstract as a .pdf file. If you cannot create .pdf files, you may submit a .doc, .rtf, or .txt file, and we will convert it for you. However, since phonetic fonts are not likely to output correctly, we ask that you set up a legend using standard ASCII characters.

Abstract Submission: To submit an abstract, you must follow these steps:

   1. To begin, click here to go to our abstract submission system.
   2. Click "Abstract submission" on the page, and enter your paper title and upload a PDF version of your abstract.
      Only PDFs will be accepted.
   3. Do not include your name or affiliation in the abstract/file name!
   4. Fill in the blank to provide the name of authors, email addresses, and affiliation.
   5. Choose one from the given abstract classifications.
   6. You will receive an email confirming your abstract submission. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously.

Proceedings: Conference proceedings will be published as a volume of the Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. Speakers will be invited to provide camera-ready copies of their papers after the Colloquium.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Email plc34@ling.upenn.edu
Visit http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc34

Penn Linguistics Colloquium
Department of Linguistics
619 Williams Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

This event is supported by funding from SASgov, the student government for graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences, and GAPSA, the Graduate and Professional Students’ Association at the University of Pennsylvania.

28th Annual Conference
Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics (AESLA)
April 15-17, 2010; University of Vigo, Spain
Deadline for Submission: November 20, 2009
Submit proposals via the conference page http://webs.uvigo.es/aesla2010

The Conference will cover the following areas:
   * Language acquisition
   * Language teaching
   * Language for specific purposes
   * Language psychology, child language and psycholinguistics
   * Sociolinguistics
   * Pragmatics
   * Discourse analysis
   * Corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and linguistic engineering
   * Lexicology and lexicography
   * Translation and interpreting

The list of panel coordinators and contact details can be downloaded  from http://www.aesla.uji.es/paneles

The conference languages are Spanish and English.

Georgetown University Roundtable for Arabic Language 2010
Deadline for Submission: November 15, 2009
http://www8.georgetown.edu/college/gurt/2010/

Our Changing Environments: Cultivating New Spaces, Tools, and Ideas in Language Learning.
MAALT and SEALLT
March 10-13, 2010

Pre-conference Workshops: March 10, 2010
Presentation Sessions: March 11 - 13
MAALLT and SEALLT are professional organizations dedicated to sharing pedagogical research and practical applications of technology in foreign language learning and teaching.
The keynote speaker will be Randy Bass, Executive Director of the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship and Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning Initiatives at Georgetown University.

Topics might include:

- emerging technologies
- language center design and management
- virtual learning environments and simulation
- web 2.0 tools
- mobile learning
- open source software for language instruction
- one-to-one laptop programs
- interactive Whiteboards
- student response systems
- computer-mediated communication
- innovations in language teaching practices/classroom space design
- assessment and research on language learning technologies,
including case studies, action research and qualitative/quantitative
analyses

Presentation types include 20, 30 and 45-minute sessions, one-hour panels and poster sessions.

To submit a proposal or for further information, please visit the conference website at:
www.maallt.org

Follow the 'Submit a proposal' link under the 2010 conference info section.

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: November 22, 2009
You will be notified of the status of your proposal by January 11, 2010.

Plurilingualism and Pluriculturalism in a Globalised World
June 17-19, 2009
Paris, France
Contact: Geneviève ZARATE

Web Site: http://www.plidam.fr/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

The conference follows the wide debate launched with the publication, in 2008,
of the Précis du plurilinguisme et du pluriculturalisme (Handbook of
multilingualism and multiculturalism) - Editions des archives contemporaines.
The conference seeks to identify the changes and the new theoretical
disciplinary dimensions which are emblematic of this new perspective within the
field of Language and Culture Pedagogy, by answering the following questions:

- How can Language and Culture Pedagogy be redefined as Plurilingual and
Pluricultural?
- How can its fields of reference, first limited to the discipline of "Applied
Linguistics" in the 20th century, now be widened?

Notions and concepts which have emerged or are gaining acceptance in Europe
(Common European Framework, European Portfolios, etc.) shall be analysed and
developed through the following:

- The social actor and the valorisation of his/her strategies in the field of
language and culture teaching.
- The symbolic dimension of languages and cultures in the dynamic construction
of identities and how it is taken into account into teaching.
- The social role played by languages and cultures in different forms of
mobility-geographic, social, economic- and acknowledgement of experience as a
capital and its dimension in language learning.
- The power struggle between languages and the national, regional and local
representations that make up a plurilingual environment, the resultant
institutional logic and their impact on learning.
- The different forms of mediations- institutionalised or unstable- that
compensate for conflict situations specific to a heterogeneous educational
environment.
- The changes within these notions as they confront other ideologies,
traditions
or communicative patterns, as well as their adaptation in other languages.

Abstract of up to 2500 characters (references included) will be required to
present theoretical background, key words, the kind of data or corpora used as
well as the methodological approach. This should be sent with the attached
questionnaire (to be filled in) to colloque-plidam-2010yahoogroupes.fr before
30th November 2009.

Languages for the conference are French and English. Conference proposals will
be blindly reviewed by two readers and papers accepted for publication
after the
conference will only be published after a second assessment.

To send with your proposal:

Last name (in capitals):
First name:
Sexe: Male /Female
Title/post:
(For PhD Students, name of research supervisor: )
Your Institution (name, city, country):
Address:
Tel :
e-mail:

http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-3355.html

NCOLTCL 2010: Moving LCTLs to a New Professional Level
April 22-25, 2010
Madison, WI
http://www.councilnet.org/conf/conf2010/2010-announce.htm
Deadline for Submissions: November 30, 2009

The theme for the 2010 NCOLTCL Conference is "Moving LCTLs to a New Professional Level." More information can be found at http://www.councilnet.org/conf/conf2010/prpsl.htm. Please note that only proposals submitted electronically will accepted. The form can be found here

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December 2009

The Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Student Association (SLATSA)
February 19-20, 2010
University of Arizona
Intersections in Second Language Acquisition
In the field of SLA, we are situated in the fluid intersection of theory and practice, teaching and learning, researching and being researched. Our life experiences shape our research interests and perspectives. This year’s Roundtable theme invites participants to explore their place in these intersections.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Paul Kei Matsuda

IMPORTANT DATES
RoundtableDates: February 19-20, 2010
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2009
Notification Schedule: Early January

CATEGORIES
Presentations of Research in Progress: 45 min (30 min talk/15 min Q&A)
These talks will address small audiences of up to 30 participants. Papers representing the strands of the SLAT Program (language pedagogy, assessment, language program administration, language use, language processes, or language analysis) as well as those that bridge these areas are welcome.

Panels: 75 min (15 min ea / 30 min Q&A)
Students (especially pre-dissertation students) are encouraged to create panels of 3 to discuss different perspectives on complicated issues in SLA. Possible topics include: high tech/low tech/no tech, Native/Non-native Teachers, Language Standards/World English, Teaching grammar/Teaching culture, functionalism/ structuralism, top-down/bottom-up strategies, Whole Language/Phonics. These are only examples, if you can build a panel around another topic, feel free! Panel speakers should establish a brief theoretical framework before beginning discussions about real-life scenario.

Workshops: 30 min teaching demonstration sharing innovative language pedagogy.
Applicants should provide a specific lesson plan outlining the teaching objective and activities that the audience will participate in.

Posters: A visual representation of research.
Proposals for Presentation, Panels, & Workshops can choose to also apply to the poster session. Posters will be judged by faculty and awards will be given at the end of theRoundtable!

All proposals should be submitted electronically.
Please see our website for submission instructions:
http://w3.coh.arizona.edu/slatroundtable

MULTILINGUALISM AND EDUCATION:
GLOBAL PRACTICES, CHALLENGES AND THE WAY FORWARD.
Co-Hosted by Kenyatta University and the University of Pennsylvania
July 22-23, 2010
KENYATTA UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE CENTRE (KUCC), NAIROBI, KENYA

The conference is intended to bring together researchers,
professionals, classroom practitioners, policy makers and language
specialists interested in issues that relate to multilingualism,
education and linguistic diversity as global phenomena. Papers at the
conference are expected to range from presentation of research
findings to analysis of practice.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15th December 2009
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 30th January 2010
Deadline for submission of full paper: 30th March 2010

THEMES AND SUB-THEMES
1. Language policies and language choice in a multilingual education context.
2. Linguistic challenges in a multilingual set-up.
3. Benefits of mother-tongue education in early childhood.
4. Teaching methodologies in multilingual education.
5. Multilingualism in education in Africa: Reality on the ground.
6. Multilingual education and IT/computing.
7. Models for multi-literacy, multilingual, multimodal practices.
8. Benefits of multilingualism in education
9. Socio-cultural issues, multilingualism and special language
needs/ disorders.

Principal Speakers:
Prof. Nancy H. Hornberger, Graduate School of Education, University of
Pennsylvania
Prof. Okoth Okombo, Department of Linguistics, University of Nairobi
Prof. Susan Malone, SIL International, Bangkok, Thailand

Registration Fee:
Participants from Africa: Kshs. 4,000
Rest of the World 150 USD

Abstracts not exceeding 300 words (excluding references) should be
sent via e-mail as a Word attachment to:
multilingualismconference@gmail.com
by December 15, 2009.

The document should contain presentation title, the abstract, and
preference for poster or paper presentation. Please DO NOT include
information identifying the author(s) in the email attachment.
Author(s) information including name, affiliation and e-mail
address(es) should be detailed in the body of the email.

Contact person at Kenyatta University:
Martin C. Njoroge, PhD
Department of English & Linguistics
Kenyatta University
P.O. Box 43844-00100
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel. 254208710901 ext 57338
Email: marttoh68@yahoo.com

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January 2010

2010 ACTFL ANNUAL CONVENTION AND WORLD LANGUAGES EXPO
November 19-21 (Pre-convention workshops on Thursday, November 18)
Boston, Massachusetts
Deadline for Submission: January 10, 2010

Languages: Gateway to Global Communities
The Annual Convention and World Languages Expo of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) will be Friday, November 19 (Pre-Convention Workshops scheduled on Thursday, November 18) through Sunday, November 21, 2010 in Boston, MA. The ACTFL Convention features over 500 educational sessions covering the whole spectrum of the foreign language profession. The entire selection of sessions is designed to provide attendees with an exciting array of sessions and events to further their knowledge and help them be better teachers or administrators.  We welcome you to submit a proposal for consideration.  When you login, it is very important that you read carefully the Submission Guidelines before proceeding to complete your online submission.
The convention draws approximately 6,000 attendees and is the only national event bringing together all languages, levels and assignments within the profession. Please note:  Presenters whose proposals are selected for presentation MUST be available to present any day during the Convention.
New this year, the login process has changed.  You will NOT be able to use your previous Call for Proposals username and password.  Please read below for instructions on how to logon, have your password reset or to create a login.

ACTFL Members: Your login for the Call for Proposals is the same as your ACTFL members only login.  If you don’t know your ACTFL login click here to have it reset and e-mailed to you.

Non ACTFL Members: You will need to create an account with ACTFL in order to logon and submit a proposal.  Please click here to create an account and have your logon e-mailed to you. 
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Second Language Acquisition Theories, Technologies, and Language Learning
CALICO Journal Special Issue
Co-editors: Bryan Smith (Arizona State University) and Steven L. Thorne (Penn State)
This special issue of the CALICO Journal is intended to provide a state-of-the-art overview of diverse approaches to the processes, methodologies, and findings associated with second language acquisition theory and research in the context of new media and second/foreign language education. We solicit technology-related research that examines foreign and second language learning and teaching taking place in traditional instructional settings, blended learning formats, distance education contexts, as well as language use and learning in organic and open internet environments (e.g., internet interest communities, online gaming and virtual worlds, etc.). Empirical studies are particularly encouraged and critical review pieces are also welcome.

The editors seek original submissions that represent diverse research methodological and theoretical approaches including (but not limited to):

Psycholinguistics
Human-computer interaction
Ecological approaches
Conversation analysis
Critical applied linguistics/critical pedagogy
Corpus and/or computational linguistics
Cognitive neuroscience
Discourse analysis
Interactional sociolinguistics
Language socialization
Systemic functional linguistics
Interaction approach to SLA
Sociocognitive approaches
Cultural-historical activity theory and/or Vygotskian sociocultural theory
Linguistic anthropology
Cultural studies
Communication theory

Each author will be expected to provide a concise description of the SLA approach and/or research methodology employed in the article, important research and pedagogical findings produced from this framework, and to address the strengths and limitations of the theory in relationship to applied linguistics research, pedagogical practice and technology design.

Please send inquiries and suggestions for contributions to both Steve Thorne (stevenlthorne@gmail.com) and Bryan Smith (bryansmith@asu.edu). Please list CALICO Journal Special Issue in the subject line.

Extended abstracts (~500 words) are due by January 15th, 2010.
Full-length manuscripts are due by May 15th, 2010.

Second International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence
DEADLINE EXTENDED
January 29-31, 2010
Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL)
Aiming for “The Third Place:”Intercultural Competence through Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
January 29-31, 2010
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
http://cercll.arizona.edu/icc_2010.php

Workshop, Paper and Poster Proposal Submission Extended Deadline: September 1, 2009

Keynote Speaker Claire Kramsch, Ph.D. -- University of California, Berkeley
Professor of German and Foreign Language Acquisition; Founding
Director of the Berkeley Language Center

Globalization, having brought individuals in contact with one another at an unprecedented scale, has also brought forth a general challenge to traditionally recognized boundaries of nation, language, race, gender, and class. For those living within this rapidly changing social landscape,intercultural competence--as defined by Michael Byram above--is a necessary skill, and the cultivation of such intercultural individuals falls on the shoulders of today's educators. They should provide students with opportunities to help them define and design for themselves their "third place" or "third culture," a sphere of interculturality that enables language students to take an insider's view as well as an outsider's view on both their first and second cultures. It is this ability to find/establish/adopt this third place that is at the very core of intercultural competence.

The conference aims to bring researchers and practitioners across languages, levels and settings to discuss and share research, theory,
and best practices and foster meaningful professional dialogue on issues related to Intercultural Competence teaching and learning.

This conference is organized by the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) and cosponsored by the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona

Complete Conference details: http://cercll.arizona.edu/icc_2010.php

Proposal guidelines and online submission form:
http://www.cercll.arizona.edu/icc_2010_proposals.php

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April 2010

The First Teachers College, Columbia University Roundtable in Second Language Studies (TCCRISLS)
Second Language Acquisition of Chinese
Deadline for Submissions: April 15, 2010
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/tcsol/events.asp?EventID=6761&m=9&y=2010 

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