Workshop for Indigenous Language Activists: Workshop: Where Are Your Keys?

From http://aildi.arizona.edu/wyak_workshop

As part of AILDI's mission to provide critical training to strengthen efforts to revitalize and promote the use of Indigenous languages across generations, they are pleased to introduce and demonstrate "Where Are Your Keys?" a new and different method for language teaching.

The two day, hands-on workshop scheduled for February 10 & 11, 2012 will introduce the key concepts and techniques of WAYK, enabling participants to quickly learn any language by talking with a fluent speaker without the help of textbooks, dictionaries or translations. The WAYK method is not intended to replace any existing language learning method necessarily, but it is an additional tool that can be used and modified to enhance any current language learning curriculum. The workshop will be entirely experiential, not theoretical.

For full details about the workshop go to http://aildi.arizona.edu/wyak_workshop

Conference: Southwest Association of Language Learning Technology

From http://silc-lss-dev.asu.edu/conf

Southwest Association of Language Learning Technology 2012
Language Learning Centers and Internationalization: Supporting Global Connections
March 23-24
Arizona State University

SWALLT 2012 is a regional IALLT conference open to language technologists, faculty members and administrators at the university and community college levels, K-12 teachers and administrators, the international education community and graduate students.

Go to http://silc-lss-dev.asu.edu/conf for more information and to register.

TESOL's Electronic Village Online 2012

From http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/10708567/FrontPage

For five weeks in January-February, participants can engage with volunteer ESOL experts in collaborative, online discussion sessions or hands-on virtual workshops of professional and scholarly benefit. These sessions will bring together participants for a longer period of time than is permitted by the land-based TESOL convention and will allow a fuller development of ideas and themes of the convention or of professional interest in general.

The sessions are free and open to all interested parties. You do not need to be a TESOL member to participate.

EVO will take place January 9-February 12. Learn more at http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/10708567/FrontPage

Call for Papers: 5th International Symposium on Digital Technologies in Foreign Language Learning

From http://digitallanguagelearning.wikispaces.com

The 5th International Symposium on Digital Technologies in Foreign Language Learning will be held on 31st March 2012.

Venue: Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Japan
Keynote Speaker: Professor James Paul Gee (Arizona State University, USA)
Call for Papers: 10th November 2011 - 31st January 2012

Abstracts of no more than 250 words are now being accepted on the following or related themes:
digital game-based language learning
web 2.0 technologies in the language classroom
e-learning and collaborative learning
social networking applications and tools
teacher professional development and digital technologies
mobile-assisted language learning
digital literacies
telecollaboration
social media and language learning

View the full call for papers at http://digitallanguagelearning.wikispaces.com

Call for Papers: EuroCALL 2012

From http://www.eurocall2012.eu

The University of Gothenburg in Sweden would like to warmly welcome you to the Eurocall conference 22-25 August, 2012. The theme of the Gothenburg conference is CALL: using, learning, knowing. As this dynamic field gains recognition and weight, this conference seeks to establish the current state of the art.

Proposals are invited for presentations in the categories below, and should be submitted online via the web-based submission system between 16 January 2012 and 20 February 2012. Submissions can also be made for workshops.

Sub-themes include, but are not limited to:
Theoretical perspectives in CALL
Hybrid spaces
Emergent technologies
Social media and networking
Perspectives on corpora
Interdisciplinarity and interculturality
Multimodality
The 21st century learner
New practices - new contexts
Assessment and feedback
Less widely taught languages
Mobile learning
Virtual learning environments
Computer-Mediated-Communication
Virtual worlds
Courseware design
Managing multimedia environments
Distance and collaborative learning
New pedagogical developments

View the full call for papers at http://www.eurocall2012.eu/?id=4

Call for Proposals: Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Fall Conference

From http://www.ictfl.org/form/2012-call-conference-proposals

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ICTFL FALL CONFERENCE
Theme: "Navigation 2012: Celebrating our 25 Year Journey- Mapping the Next 25 Years"
Dates: October 18-20, 2012
Location: Tinley Park Conference Center, Tinley Park, IL
Submission Deadline: February 1, 2012

Requested Topics - Sessions are desired on the following topics:
21st Century Skills World Language Map / Common Core
OPI or Developing Oral Proficiency
Performance Based / Skill Assessments
TPRS/Comprehensible Input
NELL/FLES
New Teachers
Culture - with focus on global connections/community
Technology
Language-Specific Topics

View the full call for proposals at http://www.ictfl.org/form/2012-call-conference-proposals

Nebraska K-12 Foreign Language Frameworks

View the K-12 foreign language frameworks, the Nebraska standards, and additional resources at http://www.education.ne.gov/forlg/FrameworksMain.htm