The Asian Languages and Literature Department at the University of Washington in Seattle is seeking a full-time, temporary lecturer in Vietnamese language for the 2023-2024 academic year (mid-September to mid-June). Duties include teaching seven Vietnamese language courses of various levels across three academic quarters, and collaborating with existing faculty in the department’s modern Vietnamese language …
The 2022 Chicago Language Symposium will be held on April 23, 2022 on the beautiful University of Chicago campus, located on the city’s south side. This year’s symposium is focused on Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) and will discuss topics such as...
Presented by the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawai’i – Manoa January 27 – February 24, 2022 Register by January 27th! This series will highlight how online language instructors can use the Social Emotional Learning Framework to engage students in the virtual classroom and enhance the experience and satisfaction of learning …
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is sometimes seen as the latest bandwagon to jump on. Everyone talks about tasks; everyone uses tasks in their classrooms. In fact, TBLT has been an influential approach to second and foreign language education, and evidence for the impact of tasks on language learning is growing. Long (2015, 2016) states that it is probably the strongest empirically supported teaching approach. However, looking closer at the actual teaching in second or foreign language classrooms a different picture emerges. For many instructors, TBLT is still an innovative approach that deviates from more familiar form-focused teaching methods or the omni-present Presentation-Practice-Production (PPP) paradigm. It can be hard for instructors to incorporate tasks and TBLT principles in the development of their lesson materials (Erlam, 2016) and in their teaching practices (Vandommele, Van den Branden & Van Gorp, 2018)...
Center for Language Teaching Advancement Michigan State University Submission Deadline: November 1, 2021 This book will document and address root causes of declining enrollments seen in language programs at U.S. institutions of higher education over previous decades. It will identify obstacles created by programs and institutions that discourage students from either initially exploring or continuing …
“LCTLS Preparing Nations and Learners for a Multicultural World” Deadline for submission: September 27th, 2021 Notification of acceptance: December 1st, 2021 The 25th annual Virtual Conference of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages is scheduled for April 22-24, 2022, (with pre-conference workshops scheduled for April 21, 2022). The NCOLCTL Conference Committee invites proposals …
Deadline to Submit: August 23, 2021 Instituted in 2014 by the NFMLTA and the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL), this award supports graduate student research in the fields of applied linguistics and language education with small grants focused on the teaching and learning of less commonly taught languages (all languages except English, …
Application Deadline: Friday, May 14, 2021 (only a CV and cover letter required). Click here to learn more about these courses and to apply. As part of the LCTL and Indigenous Languages Partnership’s continued commitment to supporting LCTL instruction, we are happy to announce a call for applications for our Advanced Online Language Teaching (OLT) courses, open to …
Aloha! The National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) is pleased to make an additional offering of our Envisioning PBLL online course. Sign up today! Envisioning Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) April 5 – May 7, 2021 Registration deadline: April 1, 2021 Envisioning Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) is designed as a 5-week open-enrollment course for language educators …