From http://www.bu.edu/bucld
The 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development will take place November 2-4, 2012.
Keynote Address:
“Issues in acquisition from the perspective of the parallel architecture”
Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University
Plenary Address:
“Human language development: Using brain measures to advance theory”
Patricia Kuhl, University of Washington
Lunch Symposium:
“Language delay – does it matter?”
Yonata Levy, Hadassah-Hebrew University (organizer)
Fred Genesee, McGill University
Lauren McGrath, MGH, Harvard University
Gary Morgan and Bencie Woll, Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre UCL
Leslie Rescorla, Bryn Mawr College
Society for Language Development Symposium:
“Neuroplasticity and language”
Bruce McCandliss, Vanderbilt University
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Harvard University
Rebecca Saxe, MIT
See the full conference schedule at the conference website: http://www.bu.edu/bucld
October 14, 2012
CIBER Symposium on Teaching Business Language at Texas
From http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/Centers/CIBER/Business-Language-Symposium
CIBER Symposium on Teaching Business Language: Tools, Resources and Methodologies for the Classroom
November 2, 2012
University of Texas at Austin
This symposium is for current and prospective teachers of foreign languages. It will discuss the benefits of introducing, or adding, business language courses into the foreign language curriculum. The symposium focuses on identifying tools, resources and methods to help with implementation. Speakers will introduce technology resources and methods for business language education. They will discuss the way business teaching methods (e.g., case study analysis) can also be used to enhance language teaching. Plenary sessions will be followed by breakout sessions that identify resources relevant to particular languages.
For full details go to http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/Centers/CIBER/Business-Language-Symposium
CIBER Symposium on Teaching Business Language: Tools, Resources and Methodologies for the Classroom
November 2, 2012
University of Texas at Austin
This symposium is for current and prospective teachers of foreign languages. It will discuss the benefits of introducing, or adding, business language courses into the foreign language curriculum. The symposium focuses on identifying tools, resources and methods to help with implementation. Speakers will introduce technology resources and methods for business language education. They will discuss the way business teaching methods (e.g., case study analysis) can also be used to enhance language teaching. Plenary sessions will be followed by breakout sessions that identify resources relevant to particular languages.
For full details go to http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/Centers/CIBER/Business-Language-Symposium
CIBER Business Language Conference at Indiana
From http://kelley.iu.edu/cblc
2013 CIBER Business Language Conference – Call for Proposals
Indiana University’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) invites you to join them and all co-sponsoring CIBERs in Bloomington from April 4th through 6th for the 2013 Business Language Conference entitled The Business of Language: Educating the Next Generation of Global Professionals. The theme intends to generate an exchange of ideas and development of actions on how to make the teaching of business language and culture a priority in the academic setting. The organizers invite proposals for presentations that will support this theme. Topics could include but are not limited to:
· Critical language needs at the state, national, or international level
· Meeting cross-cultural communication needs for professional contexts
· Curriculum development to meet the needs of a specific business or profession
· Research and pedagogy in experiential business language education
· Innovative teaching techniques in curriculum development
· Methods and tools to set and assess learning outcomes
· Best practices for Languages for Specific Purposes
Proposal submissions are due on November 8, 2012. Details on the submission guidelines can be found at http://kelley.iu.edu/cblc .
Additional details regarding the conference, including registration and hotel information, can be found on the conference website.
2013 CIBER Business Language Conference – Call for Proposals
Indiana University’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) invites you to join them and all co-sponsoring CIBERs in Bloomington from April 4th through 6th for the 2013 Business Language Conference entitled The Business of Language: Educating the Next Generation of Global Professionals. The theme intends to generate an exchange of ideas and development of actions on how to make the teaching of business language and culture a priority in the academic setting. The organizers invite proposals for presentations that will support this theme. Topics could include but are not limited to:
· Critical language needs at the state, national, or international level
· Meeting cross-cultural communication needs for professional contexts
· Curriculum development to meet the needs of a specific business or profession
· Research and pedagogy in experiential business language education
· Innovative teaching techniques in curriculum development
· Methods and tools to set and assess learning outcomes
· Best practices for Languages for Specific Purposes
Proposal submissions are due on November 8, 2012. Details on the submission guidelines can be found at http://kelley.iu.edu/cblc .
Additional details regarding the conference, including registration and hotel information, can be found on the conference website.
Book: A History of German
From http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199697946.do#.UG3ILBh9ngo
A History of German
by Joseph Salmons
Published by Oxford University Press
This book provides a detailed introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructible prehistory to the present day. A key to understanding how any human language works is understanding how that language developed over time. German speakers, as well as language learners and teachers are often puzzled by many questions about the German language: How did German come to have so many different dialects and close linguistic cousins like Dutch and Plattdeutsch? Why does German have 'umlaut' vowels and why do they play so many different roles in the grammar (noun plurals and subjunctive verbs, among many more)? Why are noun plurals so complicated (-e, -en, -er, umlaut, -s or nothing at all)? Are there reasons for the different gender markings in the language (die Woche versus das Auge)? Are dialects dying out today? Does English, with all the words it loans to German, pose a threat to the language? Full, satisfying answers to many of these questions are emerging in current research and this book presents, in an accessible manner, a concise linguistic introduction to the history of German as specialists understand it today. The book is supported by a companion website and is suitable for language learners and teachers and students of linguistics, from undergraduate level upwards.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199697946.do#.UG3ILBh9ngo
A History of German
by Joseph Salmons
Published by Oxford University Press
This book provides a detailed introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructible prehistory to the present day. A key to understanding how any human language works is understanding how that language developed over time. German speakers, as well as language learners and teachers are often puzzled by many questions about the German language: How did German come to have so many different dialects and close linguistic cousins like Dutch and Plattdeutsch? Why does German have 'umlaut' vowels and why do they play so many different roles in the grammar (noun plurals and subjunctive verbs, among many more)? Why are noun plurals so complicated (-e, -en, -er, umlaut, -s or nothing at all)? Are there reasons for the different gender markings in the language (die Woche versus das Auge)? Are dialects dying out today? Does English, with all the words it loans to German, pose a threat to the language? Full, satisfying answers to many of these questions are emerging in current research and this book presents, in an accessible manner, a concise linguistic introduction to the history of German as specialists understand it today. The book is supported by a companion website and is suitable for language learners and teachers and students of linguistics, from undergraduate level upwards.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199697946.do#.UG3ILBh9ngo
Book: Online Communication in a Second Language
From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847698247
Online Communication in a Second Language: Social Interaction, Language Use, and Learning Japanese
By Sarah E. Pasfield-Neofitou
Published by Multilingual Matters
Summary: Online Communication in a Second Language examines the use of social computer mediated communication (CMC) with speakers of Japanese via longitudinal case studies of up to four years. Through the analysis of over 2000 blogs, emails, videos, messages, games, and websites, in addition to interviews with learners and their online contacts, the book explores language use and acquisition via contextual resources, repair, and peer feedback. The book provides insight into relationships online, and the influence of perceived 'ownership' of online spaces by specific cultural or linguistic groups. It not only increases our understanding of online interaction in a second language, but CMC in general. Based on empirical evidence, the study challenges traditional categorizations of CMC mediums, and provides important insights relating to turn-taking, code-switching, and language management online.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847698247
Online Communication in a Second Language: Social Interaction, Language Use, and Learning Japanese
By Sarah E. Pasfield-Neofitou
Published by Multilingual Matters
Summary: Online Communication in a Second Language examines the use of social computer mediated communication (CMC) with speakers of Japanese via longitudinal case studies of up to four years. Through the analysis of over 2000 blogs, emails, videos, messages, games, and websites, in addition to interviews with learners and their online contacts, the book explores language use and acquisition via contextual resources, repair, and peer feedback. The book provides insight into relationships online, and the influence of perceived 'ownership' of online spaces by specific cultural or linguistic groups. It not only increases our understanding of online interaction in a second language, but CMC in general. Based on empirical evidence, the study challenges traditional categorizations of CMC mediums, and provides important insights relating to turn-taking, code-switching, and language management online.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847698247
October 5, 2012
United Classrooms - Connect Your Classroom With the World
From http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/09/united-classrooms-connect-your.html
United Classrooms is a service connecting classrooms across the world. The service allows teachers to create classroom profile pages. On their classroom profile pages teachers can post assignments, projects, messages for students, and announcements for parents and students. Teachers can monitor and manage all of the communications between students on the classroom profile page.
United Classrooms allows teachers to share their classroom profile pages with the world. Teachers can search for other classrooms and connect with them. When classrooms are connected students can post messages for each other on the classroom profile pages.
Read the full review of the United Classrooms website at http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/09/united-classrooms-connect-your.html
United Classrooms is available at http://uclass.org
United Classrooms is a service connecting classrooms across the world. The service allows teachers to create classroom profile pages. On their classroom profile pages teachers can post assignments, projects, messages for students, and announcements for parents and students. Teachers can monitor and manage all of the communications between students on the classroom profile page.
United Classrooms allows teachers to share their classroom profile pages with the world. Teachers can search for other classrooms and connect with them. When classrooms are connected students can post messages for each other on the classroom profile pages.
Read the full review of the United Classrooms website at http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/09/united-classrooms-connect-your.html
United Classrooms is available at http://uclass.org
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Redesigned Its Website
ACTFL has redesigned its website. Visit http://www.actfl.org to learn about professional development opportunities, the upcoming Convention and Expo, language advocacy resources, language education in the news media, and more.
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