As discussed at our strategic planning meeting at the recent COTSEAL conference in Seattle, the University of Wisconsin in collaboration with SEALC submitted a grant proposal for a project “Professional and Materials Development to Strengthen Southeast Asian Language Instruction,” to the Henry Luce Foundation Southeast Asia Initiative. We are delighted to report that this grant has now been funded and we will be starting with the proposed series of workshops in December.
Here are links to the full announcement of the grant as well as a Save-the-Date announcement for the first grant sponsored workshop, the ACTFL OPI workshop to be held Dec 13-18, 2019 at the University of Wisconsin. We hope that you will consider attending the workshop and also share this news with potentially interested colleagues.
We will be circulating more information later in the summer about the details of the ACTL OPI workshop and the application process.
SEALC steering committee,
Abby Cohn, Cornell University
Erlin Barnard, University of Wisconsin
Eric Jones, NIU
Ellen Rafferty, SEASSI
Juliana Wijaya, UCLA
Mary Jo Wilson, University of Wisconsin
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Monday, July 29, 2019
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Report on the 2017 COTSEAL Conference on Southeast Asian Teaching: New Directions
An historic meeting of the Southeast Asian language teachers took place this year at the Conference on Southeast Asian Teaching: New Directions, on September 8-10, 2017 at Cornell University.
The conference was hosted by Cornell’s Southeast Asian Program, and co-sponsored by Asian Studies and the Language Resource Center. This event is also part of a series of professional workshops that began at the University of California, Berkeley in 2015, which was co-sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies of University of California, Los Angeles, and the 2016 meeting, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016, and sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. All the three workshops were co-sponsored by Henry Luce Foundation. About 70 people registered to participate in the 2017 conference. It was one of a kind conference that included all the major stakeholders involved in the teaching of SEA languages in the U.S, namely, language teachers, academics, and grant organizations and administrators. The event not only served as a catalyst to foster a stronger sense of camaraderie among all language teachers, and collaboration among different universities, but also strengthen the field of teaching SEA languages.
The conference was a dynamic event packed with various activities that allowed participants to be involved and engaged. After the registration and welcoming lunch, the conference kicked off with the meetings of specific language groups. including Burmese, Khmer, Indonesian, Tagalog, Thai and Vietnamese. In this session, the participants discussed issues of relevance to their language of instruction and their interests. The next event was a thematic session in which the SEA language faculty at Cornell University shared their insights on implementing a one-credit hour jumpstart course. The highlight of the day was the keynote address entitled “Culturally Speaking: Intercultural Competence and Attaining Advanced L2 Proficiency” by Dr. Thomas Garza, UT Regents and University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin.
The second day began with a session of language specific meetings followed by a series of presentations on COTSEAL Materials Development Project: Reflections. The COTSEAL content-based materials development project has been up and running since 2015 and supervised by Dr. Erlin Bernard, Pedagogy Coordinator for Less Commonly Taught Languages, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The afternoon section exhibited poster presentations, a follow up workshop by Dr. Thomas Garza on one of the most recent trends, backward curriculum design, and a series of presentations on the teaching of SEA languages. Dr. Ellen Rafferty, Emerita Professor of Indonesian Language and Culture, University of Wisconsin and the Language Director of Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI), ended the second day by giving a keynote address titled “Challenges and Potentials in the field of Southeast Asian Language Teaching: Reflections from SEASSI”. All participants were then invited to the dinner accompanied by live musical performances.
The conference ended on the third day after a sequence of presentations focusing on distance learning, especially Tagalog, Thai and Khmer, and different rounds of reports from six language groups. The representatives from all language groups shared their working goals and showed their commitment to the idea of institutionalizing the professional language organizations.
This was followed by a strategic meeting involving the directors or representatives from 10 different National Southeast Asian Centers. The other participants also included 8 representatives from NON-NRC institutions that offer SEA languages, representatives from different language groups, COTSEAL president, Dr. Juliana Wijaya and SEASSI Director and Language Director, Dr. Mike Cullinane, and Prof. Ellen Rafferty. Included among the participants was Ms. Helena Kolenda from Henry Luce Foundation and Prof. Katherine Bowie, the President of the Association of Asian Studies, who attended the meeting to address issues related to funding and identify areas of collaboration.
Follow this link for photos from the 2017 conference.
The conference was hosted by Cornell’s Southeast Asian Program, and co-sponsored by Asian Studies and the Language Resource Center. This event is also part of a series of professional workshops that began at the University of California, Berkeley in 2015, which was co-sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies of University of California, Los Angeles, and the 2016 meeting, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016, and sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. All the three workshops were co-sponsored by Henry Luce Foundation. About 70 people registered to participate in the 2017 conference. It was one of a kind conference that included all the major stakeholders involved in the teaching of SEA languages in the U.S, namely, language teachers, academics, and grant organizations and administrators. The event not only served as a catalyst to foster a stronger sense of camaraderie among all language teachers, and collaboration among different universities, but also strengthen the field of teaching SEA languages.
The conference was a dynamic event packed with various activities that allowed participants to be involved and engaged. After the registration and welcoming lunch, the conference kicked off with the meetings of specific language groups. including Burmese, Khmer, Indonesian, Tagalog, Thai and Vietnamese. In this session, the participants discussed issues of relevance to their language of instruction and their interests. The next event was a thematic session in which the SEA language faculty at Cornell University shared their insights on implementing a one-credit hour jumpstart course. The highlight of the day was the keynote address entitled “Culturally Speaking: Intercultural Competence and Attaining Advanced L2 Proficiency” by Dr. Thomas Garza, UT Regents and University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin.
The second day began with a session of language specific meetings followed by a series of presentations on COTSEAL Materials Development Project: Reflections. The COTSEAL content-based materials development project has been up and running since 2015 and supervised by Dr. Erlin Bernard, Pedagogy Coordinator for Less Commonly Taught Languages, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The afternoon section exhibited poster presentations, a follow up workshop by Dr. Thomas Garza on one of the most recent trends, backward curriculum design, and a series of presentations on the teaching of SEA languages. Dr. Ellen Rafferty, Emerita Professor of Indonesian Language and Culture, University of Wisconsin and the Language Director of Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI), ended the second day by giving a keynote address titled “Challenges and Potentials in the field of Southeast Asian Language Teaching: Reflections from SEASSI”. All participants were then invited to the dinner accompanied by live musical performances.
The conference ended on the third day after a sequence of presentations focusing on distance learning, especially Tagalog, Thai and Khmer, and different rounds of reports from six language groups. The representatives from all language groups shared their working goals and showed their commitment to the idea of institutionalizing the professional language organizations.
This was followed by a strategic meeting involving the directors or representatives from 10 different National Southeast Asian Centers. The other participants also included 8 representatives from NON-NRC institutions that offer SEA languages, representatives from different language groups, COTSEAL president, Dr. Juliana Wijaya and SEASSI Director and Language Director, Dr. Mike Cullinane, and Prof. Ellen Rafferty. Included among the participants was Ms. Helena Kolenda from Henry Luce Foundation and Prof. Katherine Bowie, the President of the Association of Asian Studies, who attended the meeting to address issues related to funding and identify areas of collaboration.
Follow this link for photos from the 2017 conference.
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Southeast Asian Language: New Directions (deadline extended)
Call
for Proposals for Presentations/Posters/Roundtables
Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY
September
8-10, 2017
DEADLINE
EXTENDED TO WEDNESDAY JUNE 21!
All
Southeast Asian language teaching
professionals are invited to submit proposals for presentations,
posters, or roundtables focused
on innovations, curriculum development, and research on pedagogy and
assessment for Burmese, Filipino, Indonesian, Khmer, Thai, Vietnamese
and/or other Southeast Asian languages. Topics of interests include
(but are not limited to): language structure, acquisition,
methodology, technology, instruction strategies, content-based
lessons, or heritage language learners.
See the NEW conference
website: https://agh955.wixsite.com/sealangconference
for details.
Prospective presenters and conference
participants must complete the application and pre-registration FORM.
Abstracts of 300-500 words must follow the guidelines below and
should include a title, the language(s) being addressed, and a short
description of the purpose and content of the proposed poster,
presentation, or roundtable. Travel funding may be available.
Posters
The
main text of the poster should be in English except for illustrations
on the teaching/research language(s).
-
Poster session participants place materials such as pictures, data, graphs, diagrams and narrative text on boards that are usually 4 x 8 feet
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Presenters of a poster will be expected to be in attendance on Saturday, September 9 2017 in order to explain their poster and to hand out any supplemental materials they may have prepared.
Presentations
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Paper presentations/talks should be 20 minutes long and must be in English except for examples presented in the talk or in audio-visuals
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Presentations will be scheduled across all three days of the conference and may be group thematically or by language
Roundtables
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Roundtable proposals may submitted by individuals or groups of language professionals
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Please indicate in the abstract if the topic is intended to address a language-specific topic and audience, or if it is a thematic discussion that cuts across more than one Southeast Asian language.
Important Dates
Deadline for Abstract
submission: June 15, 2017
Notification of
Acceptance: July 8, 2017
Conference Dates:
September 8-10, 2017
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Save the Date: Third COTSEAL Teacher Training Workshop at Cornell, Sept. 8-10, 2017
Save the date! Please mark your calendars.
Southeast Asian Language Teaching: New Directions Cornell University, Ithaca NY
September 8-10, 2017
Friday September 8 noon - Sunday September 10 noon
Talks and panels on topics of interest across the languages of the region as well as about specific languages, including reports from the Content-based Instruction Working groups from the workshop last year at UW-Madison.
Some travel funds will be available for participating language teachers.
This website will have information soon: http://conf.ling.cornell.edu/SEAlang/
Questions can be addressed to SEALangTeaching@gmail.com
Southeast Asian Language Teaching: New Directions Cornell University, Ithaca NY
September 8-10, 2017
Friday September 8 noon - Sunday September 10 noon
Talks and panels on topics of interest across the languages of the region as well as about specific languages, including reports from the Content-based Instruction Working groups from the workshop last year at UW-Madison.
Some travel funds will be available for participating language teachers.
This website will have information soon: http://conf.ling.cornell.edu/SEAlang/
Questions can be addressed to SEALangTeaching@gmail.com
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