2016 Project-Based Language Learning & Interculturality Intensive Summer Institute June 27-July 1, 2016

How can Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) help learners develop interculturality -- the ability to inhabit and interpret different cultures and to see one’s own culture through the eyes of another? How do I design rigorous PBLL projects to incorporate intercultural telecollaborations?

The NFLRC 2016 Intensive Summer Institute (ISI) will help you answer these questions with guidance from experts in the field through a dynamic, technology-rich professional development experience. You will further develop a Project Blueprint for your own language classroom assisted by colleagues and guided by a group of language professionals with background in PBL, language pedagogy, instructional technology, and assessment.

In-service K-16 world language educators are invited to apply for this on-site, in-person institute. The NFLRC 2016 Intensive Summer Institute is not a beginner's workshop. In order to join, applicants will need to first create an interculturality-focused Project Blueprint and earn a digital badge from the 2016 Fundamentals of Project-Based Language Learning Online Institute as a prerequisite. Seats are limited and applications will be competitive. Partial funding available for the top 10 eligible applicants.

See website for full details about the intensive summer institute (ISI): http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/events/view/84/

Summer Institute for Thai Studies, Bangkok, Thailand, June 6-30, 2016

The Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, is organizing a Summer Institute for Thai Studies, June 6-30, 2016.

For further details see:

http://www.arts.chula.ac.th/cusits/.

or e-mail

thaistudies_chula@hotmail.com

Summer Workshops of Possible Interest to Southeast Asian Language Instructors

CALPER, the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at Penn State University, will be offering three workshops for language educators in June. They might be of interest to some instructors.

June 13 & 14, 2016
Discourse Analysis and L2 Writing
Presenter: Susan Strauss (Penn State)

June 15 & 16, 2016
How to Integrate Explicit Knowledge in the Second Language Classroom: Concept-based Language Instruction
Presenters: Jim Lantolf (Penn State) & Adam van Compernolle (Carnegie Mellon)

For more information, see
http://calper.la.psu.edu/summer_workshops

9th Annual Heritage Language Research Institute: June 15-18 2016

The Ninth Heritage Language Research Institute: From bilingual children to adult heritage speakers, will be held at the University of Washington-Seattle, from June 15-18.

Contact kathryn@humnet.ucla.edu at the NHLRC for more information.en to adult heritage speakers

CLaSIC Conference 2016 Call for Sumbmissions

The 7th CLS International Conference (CLaSIC 2016) will be held at the National University of Singapore from 1st to 3rd Dec 2016. The theme of the conference will be Learning in and beyond the classroom: Ubiquity in foreign language education.

See here for more:

http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cls/CLaSIC/clasic2016/

Lessons Produced by Language Groups from the 2015 COTSEAL Teacher Training Workshop

The first set of lessons has been produced by language-specific groups who attended the 2015 COTSEAL professional development workshop at UC-Berkeley.

You can see all final lessons from the first round here:

http://cotseal.net/workshop.html

Lessons from the second round will be uploaded in May.

Video of the 2015 COTSEAL Conference Keynote by Dr. Abby Cohn

Dr. Abby Cohn of Cornell University delivered the keynote address at the recent 23rd Annual COTSEAL Conference at UW-Madison, titled "Teaching of Southeast Asian Languages in the US: Impact of National Priorities and Institutional Policies."

You can download the Powerpoint slides from her presentation here, and you can view the full presentation, including discussion afterward, in this video: