COTSEAL-sponsored panel at AAS and COTSEAL Business Meeting Agenda

Dear colleagues,

Happy 2019! I hope this email finds you well. If you’re coming to AAS March 21-24, 2019 in Denver. I’d like to invite you to attend our COTSEAL-sponsored roundtable:

Trimming the Hegemony: Linguistic Imperialism and Ethnic Diversity in the Language Classroom (Panel 333)

Sunday, March 24: 9.00-10.45 AM (Room: TBA)

Panelists:

Dr. Abigail C. Cohn, Professor of Linguistics & Director of Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University

Dr. Bich-Ngoc Turner, Vietnamese Lecturer, University of Washington

Ms. Pittaya Paladroi-Shane, CIS World Languages Coordinator & Thai Lecturer, Ohio University

Ms. Jinda Moore, Program Coordinator, SEASSI, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. Kanjana Thepboriruk, Assistant Professor of Thai Language and Culture, Northern Illinois University (Moderator)

We’re also going to hold our business meeting on Saturday, March 23, 8 – 9.30 AM at Place: TBA. We’ll have a breakfast meeting, and the agenda will include:

  

1. COTSEAL Financial Report
2. Online membership payment and membership drive
3. Upcoming COTSEAL conference in UW-Seattle
4. SEALC activity and Luce proposal updates

Please let me know if you’d like us to include new items to discuss in the meeting, and please contact Pittaya Paladroi-Shane paladroi@ohio.edu to RSVP.

Do let me know if you have further questions. We greatly appreciate your continued support to COTSEAL.

Look forward to seeing you in Denver.

Best regards, 

Juliana Wijaya, PhD

COTSEAL President

Call for Papers and Presentations: COTSEAL Conference at UW-Seattle, May 17-18, 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS

35th Annual Conference and Technology Workshop at the University of Washington, Seattle

Empowering Southeast Asian Language Teachers: Collaborations and Innovations

May 17-18, 2019

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.

Paper/presentation topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Different approaches in teaching SEA languages
• Proficiency, project, and community-based learning
• Heritage language learners
• Distance learning and flipped classrooms
• University policies & related issues affecting SEA language instruction

Abstract Submission Deadline: March 1, 2019

Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2019

An abstract proposal should include the title, a brief description of 250 words maximum, and a presenter profile that should include your name, institution, email address, and phone number. Send them as two email attachments (MS Word and PDF) to jwijaya@humnet.ucla.edu. Subject line: COTSEAL 2019 Abstract Submission.

Travel Grants

COTSEAL is offering partial travel grants to help lecturers and graduate students whose papers are accepted to present at the conference. Please indicated if you would like to apply for a travel grant in your submission email. Those awarded the travel grants are expected to fully participate in the 2-day conference and workshop. A detailed description of the travel grant process, the conference announcement, hotel information, and updates will be posted on the COTSEAL website as the conference approaches: http://cotseal.net/conference_2019.html.

Please note: All presenters and travel grant recipients are required to be PAID members of COTSEAL at the time of the conference.

To become a COTSEAL member: http://cotseal.net/COTSEAL_membership_form.pdf

Online dues payment: http://www.asian-studies.org/About/Committee-Payment-Donations (scroll down the page under SEAC). Please e-mail your online payment confirmation to the COTSEAL Secretary: agustini@umich.edu.

For more information about the conference, please contact the conference co-chairs:

       Juliana Wijaya                   jwijaya@humnet.ucla.edu

      Desiana Pauli Dandjaja    sandjaja@uw.edu

COTSEAL Officers: Juliana Wijaya, Pittaya Paladroi-Shane, Agustini