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…
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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 …
Congratulations to our 2021-2022 SEALC Liaisons!
SEALC congratulates our two new SEALC liaisons, Pittaya Paladroi-Shane (Ohio University) and ThuyAnh Nguyen (University of Michigan), on their appointment for the 2021-2022 term. The goal of these volunteer positions is to inform and enrich …
Call for Proposals: NCOLCTL 25th Annual Virtual Conference
“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 …