Photos from the COTSEAL Webinar

 

Workshop: Distance Learning in Tetun

 The Timor-Leste Studies Initiative, with generous support from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Southeast Asia Council’s (SEAC) Indonesia and the Timor-Leste Studies Committee (ITLSC) at the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), will be holding a pre-conference workshop online on the 18th and 19th March 2021 (Dili, Timor-Leste time – for time converter click here)

 

The workshop includes two panels:

 

The first panel on ‘Tetun-language learning for international scholars and students’ will take place on Thursday, March 18th, 8.30h to 12.00h (Dili, Timor-Leste time). This panel focuses on one of the five priority areas identified by participants in previous TLSI workshops in Toronto (2017), Washington (2018) and Online (2020). We have gathered experts in the field of Tetun-language learning and teaching to explore teaching Tetun as a less commonly taught Asian language through distance learning. After a short break, the presentations and discussion will be followed by a smaller planning session with invited speakers and representatives from North American Institutions to discuss ways of promoting Tetun-Language training in North, Central and South American Colleges and Universities.

 

The second panel on ‘Gender and Sexuality in Timor-Leste‘ will take place on Friday, March 19th, 08.30h to 12.00h (Dili, Timor-Leste time). This panel aims to explore issues of gendered behaviour, roles, relations, attitudes and perceptions in contemporary society in Timor-Leste.

 

For more details: https://tlstudiesinitiative.org/pre-conference-workshop-2021/

 

Zoom links for panel sessions will be posted on the Workshop Platform: https://tlstudiesinitiative.org/pre-conference-workshop-platform/

 

Please contact Richard Fox rpfox@uvic.ca for more info about the workshop and password.

 

Warm regards

 

Susana Barnes

David Webster

Richard Fox

 

 

 
 

Richard Fox

Professor & Chair of Pacific and Asian Studies

Professor of Anthropology (adjunct)

AAS Southeast Asia Council Chair

University of Victoria (BC, Canada)

Connecting SLA to Language Teaching: COTSEAL 2021 Webinar

Connecting SLA to language teaching: A focus on multiword items

COTSEAL 2021 Webinar

 

 

Speaker: Prof. Charlene Polio   Friday, March 12, 2021 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PST)

Register by March 10, 2021: https://www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/event/14933

(The Zoom link and login information will be emailed only to registered participants).

 

Registratiom is free for COTSEAL active members:

To renew COTSEAL membership or become a member, please fill out this form: http://cotseal.net/COTSEAL_membership_form.pdf.

(Dues are $30/one-year and $55/two-year.)

 

Description:

 

One of the most interesting areas of research in second language acquisition is how language learners process and use multiword items, or chunks of language.  Theory and empirical research suggest that a pedagogical focus on multiword items can facilitate language learning.  I will start with an overview of what a multiword item is and will provide evidence for why multiword items are psychologically real.  The bulk of the talk will describe what we know about how to best teach these items. Sample activities for listening, speaking, reading, and writing, as well as for different proficiency levels, will be demonstrated.

 

Dr. Charlene Polio is a professor in the Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian, & African Languages at Michigan State University. She is also a core faculty member in the Second Language Studies Program. Her main area of research is second language (L2) writing. She is particularly interested in the various research methods and measures used in studying L2 writing as well as the interface between the fields of L2 writing and second language acquisition (SLA). She has published and done research in the areas of SLA, foreign language classroom discourse, and behavior differences in novice vs. experienced teachers. Dr. Polio is the co-editor of TESOL Quarterly and the past associate editor of the Modern Language Journal.  She is also a member-at-large for the American Association for Applied Linguistics.

 

Co-sponsor: UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies