COTSEAL 39th Annual Conference, July 21-22, 2023

 

Dear everyone,

We hope you are doing well and having a great summer break.  We invite you to attend our COTSEAL 39^th Annual Conference on July 21-22. This year's conference is hybrid, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The program for this conference can be found here. 

If you are planning to attend this conference, especially in-person, we urge you to Register as soon as possible before July 19^th deadline so that we can do accurate headcount for the food catering.

A Zoom link will be emailed ONLY to those who have registered.  Registration is free for COTSEAL members and $40 for non-members. To become a member or to renew your membership, click:  Membership Form for more information.

To request more information about the conference, please email Agustini, COTSEAL President agustini@umich.edu

If you need hotel accommodations, we recommend staying at Wisconsin Union South Hotel which is within a walking distance to our conference venue (https://union-wisc.webhotel.microsdc.us/home.jsp)

Thank you very much for your kind attention and continued support. 

Sincerely,

Agustini, Jayson, Sakti

COTSEAL Officers

39th COTSEAL Conference Call for Papers EXTENDED TO JUNE 4, 2023

The deadline for abstract submission to the 39th COTSEAL Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on July 21-22, 2023 has been extended to June 4, 2023. Please refer to the guidelines in the original Call for Abstracts if you intend on presenting a paper.

Thank you so much and we look forward to receiving your abstracts.

Sincerely,
COTSEAL Officers

 

 

 

 

39th COTSEAL Conference, July 21-22, 2023, University of Wisconsin-Madison CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Harvard University hiring language teaching positions in Filipino, Indonesian, and Thai

Harvard University is seeking applications for language instructors in the following positions:

 

Filipino:

https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12253

 

Indonesian:

https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12250 

 

Thai:

https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12254

COTSEAL TALK STORY 2023 (via Zoom): Friday, February 10, 2-3.30 pm PST

 Dear colleagues,

 

We are looking forward to seeing you at COTSEAL first event of the year “Talk Story” this Friday, February 10, 2-3.30 PST.

 

The first 3 presenters on best practices/activities/strategies (10 minute-presentation) will each receive a $15 Amazon gift card.

Sign-up by Wednesday, 2/8/23, 11:59 p.m. Click on the Google form to sign-up https://forms.gle/TMXSTZGw5bpJsBn29

Join the Event Zoom February 10, 2-3.30 PST: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92176294925  (Registration is not needed).

See you this Friday!

 

Best,

Juliana

 

Juliana Wijaya, Ph.D.

COTSEAL President

CSEAS Indonesian Studies Coordinator

UCLA Asian Languages & Cultures

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"Teaching about Tasks:" COTSEAL Fall 2022 Webinar, Fri., 12/9

 

Talking about Tasks: Exploring the language learning
potential of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT)

by Dr. Koen Van Gorp, Assistant Professor in the Applied Linguistics
Program and Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Coordinator Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures
Michigan State University.*

Everyone seems to talk about tasks. Task-based language teaching (TBLT) may well be the strongest empirically supported teaching approach around. However, for many instructors, TBLT is still an innovative approach that deviates from more familiar structure-based or form-focused teaching methods. They find it difficult to incorporate strong tasks in their teaching practices.
This talk will focus on tasks, on what makes a task different from an activity or exercise, on how classroom tasks can be used to support language learning at different proficiency levels. This talk aims to provide you with the foundational principles of TBLT
so you can make tasks work for you and your students.

.*Dr. Koen Van Gorp is also Head of Research for the National LCTL Resource Center (NLRC) and serves as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Language and Education (KU Leuven, Belgium). His research interests are task-based language teaching and assessment, language-in-education policy, multilingual awareness and multilingualism. He is founding Co-Editor (together with Kris Van den Branden) of TASK. Journal on task-based language teaching and learning and Treasurer of the International Association for Task-Based Language Teaching and learning (IATBLT). 

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Register: https://ucla.in/3WQhpwU by Wednesday, Dec. 7.
Zoom link will be emailed on Dec. 8.

REGISTRATION is FREE for COTSEAL members.
To become a COTSEAL member, please click this link: https://cotseal.net/COTSEAL_membership_form.pdf

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

Co-Sponsor: UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Contact: Juliana Wijaya, Ph.D., jwijaya@humnet.ucla.edu

Position Available: SEALC Project Manager

 

PROJECT MANAGER - SEALC at UW–Madison Job Summary: The Project Manager for the Southeast Asian Language Council (SEALC) is a 50% position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The project manager has primary responsibility for day-to-day administration of SEALC programs and management of the funded project, Professional and Materials Development to Strengthen Southeast Asian Language Instruction. jobs.hr.wisc.edu

 

 

Ellen Rafferty

SEALC Project Director
Professor Emerita, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
U. Wisconsin-Madison