With support from the Henry Luce Foundation, The Southeast East Asian Language Council (SEALC) and The Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA) consortium awards financial assistance to students who incur tuition fees when studying a Southeast Asian language via synchronous distance learning during the academic year at an institution other than their home institution. This award is intended to facilitate cross-institutional collaboration and increase access to Southeast Asian language instruction. Eligibility requires that the course is credit-bearing at a North American institution and that the applicant is a full-time student at a North American institution. Priority will be given to graduate students, but all are encouraged to apply. SEALC and GETSEA encourage applicants to consider attending SEASSI which serves as an excellent resource for summer language instruction. This award is intended to improve access during the academic year so that students can obtain multi-year instruction in a timely manner.
Opportunities
CFP: 38th COTSEAL Conference (Hybrid)
COTSEAL invites participants from academic institutions, teachers, researchers, and graduate students who are interested in, involved in, or have conducted research on Southeast Asian language education and linguistics to submit abstracts to the conference, entitled “Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in Southeast Asian Language Teaching and Learning.”
SEALC-COTSEAL Roundtable Session at 2022 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference
In this roundtable session, the Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages (COTSEAL) in collaboration with the Southeast Asian Language Council (SEALC) showcased the results of SEALC’s initial projects funded by the Henry Luce Foundation’s Initiative on Southeast Asia…
Launch of SEALC-GETSEA Language Tables (Burmese, Vietnamese, and Thai)
SEALC and GETSEA are pleased to announce the launch of our first three virtual language conversation groups – Burmese, Vietnamese, and Thai! Language conversation groups are free and open to all students currently studying Burmese, …
2022 Chicago Language Symposium – Registration Open!
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…
Free Webinar Series: Engaging Online Language Learners through SEL
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 …
SEALC Information and Feedback Session: January 19th, 7pm CST
The Southeast Asian Language Council (SEALC) invites instructors of Southeast Asian languages to attend an Open Meeting of the SEALC Steering Committee at 7 PM CST on January 19, 2022. This Information and Feedback Session will give updates on our current and planned activities, deliverables that have been developed, and most importantly an opportunity for you to offer comments and recommendations for future activities.
University of Chicago Language Center Webinar: Task Based Language Teaching
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)…
Call for Applications: Reading Proficiency Assessment Workshop at NIU (Deadline Extended!)
SEALC Reading Proficiency Assessment Workshop Northern Illinois University Extended Application Deadline: October 11, 2021 Workshop Dates: March 3-6, 2022 The Southeast Asian Language Council (SEALC) invites applications from Southeast Asian language instructors for a Reading …
Call for Proposals: Edited Volume on Language Program Vitality in the U.S. (Michigan State University)
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 …