Call for Applications: SEALC Reading Materials Development Workshop for SEA LCTL Instructors in Southeast Asia

 

 Call for Applications

SEALC Reading Materials Development Workshop for SEA LCTL Instructors in Southeast Asia
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Application Deadline: November 11, 2022
Workshop Dates: March 9-11, 2023

 

The Southeast Asian Language Council (SEALC) invites applications from Southeast Asian language instructors in Southeast Asia for a Reading Materials Development workshop, in collaboration with and hosted by Chulalongkorn University in Thailand from March 9-11, 2023. This professional development opportunity will provide a valuable opportunity for participants to collaborate with colleagues in Southeast Asia as well as colleagues in the United States to develop reading proficiency lessons  for the field of Southeast Asian languages. Lodging, meals, workshop fees, airfare and modest honorarium are provided for all participants.

 

Activities

March 9-11, 2023 Workshop (in person at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand): Participants will receive intensive training on developing reading proficiency materials from Stephen Tschudi, Specialist in Technology for Language Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa (retired) and will produce a prototype reading lessons in collaboration with colleagues from the same language with support from the trainer, Stephen Tschudi, and Erlin Barnard, SEALC pedagogy specialist.

 

March – June 2023 Language-specific working groups of two or more instructors will complete reading proficiency lessons at two levels with support from SEALC.

 

Follow-up workshop (hybrid at UCLA): There will be a two-day follow-up workshop on September 22-23, 2023 at which participants will report on their group’s achievements and receive feedback from the trainers. Once the materials are revised and finalized, the deliverables will be kept on file by SEALC and made accessible to all instructors of that language.

 

Eligibility and Application Process

Applicants must be Southeast Asian language instructors. Additionally, applicants must have attended an ACTFL OPI workshop. Those who successfully completed the SEALC Reading Assessment project in Spring 2022 will receive priority. Contact SEALC (SEALC@intl.wisc.edu) if you require assistance finding an ACTFL OPI workshop to attend.

 

To apply for this opportunity, please email the following materials to SEALC’s Project Manager, at sealc@intl.wisc.edu by end of day November 11, 2022:

·      A brief statement of interest addressing the following four points:

1.     Your career path up to this point and your position teaching a SEA language as a foreign language, including what levels of the language you teach.

2.     Your commitment to collaborate and develop pedagogical materials following the workshop.

3.     How this SEALC opportunity will benefit your professional development as a SEA language instructor.

4.     Written confirmation that you have attended an ACTFL OPI workshop, including the dates of the workshop attended (or a written agreement that you will attend an ACTFL OPI workshop before this workshop starts).

·      A current CV

 

The selection committee will notify applicants within one month of the application deadline. Should you have any questions about this opportunity, please email sealc@intl.wisc.edu.

Call for Applications: SEALC Reading Materials Development Workshop

 

 Call for Applications

SEALC Reading Materials Development Workshop for SEA Instructors
at U. Wisconsin-Madison

Application Deadline: November 11, 2022
Workshop Dates: April 13-15, 2023

 

The Southeast Asian Language Council (SEALC) invites applications from Southeast Asian language instructors for a Reading Materials Development workshop at U. Wisconsin-Madison on April 13-15, 2023. This professional development opportunity will provide a valuable opportunity for participants to collaborate with colleagues in the U.S. and in Southeast Asia to develop reading proficiency lessons for the field of Southeast Asian languages. Lodging, meals, workshop fees, and a modest honorarium are provided for participants. Participants are asked to request airfare from their home university.  Please note that due to U.S. regulations some visa holders will not be able to receive the honorarium.

 

Activities

April 13-15 2023 Workshop: Participants will receive intensive training on developing reading proficiency materials from Stephen Tschudi, Specialist in Technology for Language Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa (retired) and will produce a prototype reading lesson in collaboration with colleagues from the same language with support from the trainer, Stephen Tschudi, and Erlin Barnard, SEALC pedagogy specialist.

 

March – June 2023 Language-specific working groups of two or more instructors will complete reading proficiency lessons at two levels with support from SEALC.

 

Follow-up workshop (hybrid at UCLA): There will be a two-day follow-up workshop on September 22-23, 2023 at which participants will report on their group’s achievements and receive feedback from the trainers. Once the materials are revised and finalized, the deliverables will be kept on file by SEALC and made accessible to all instructors of that language.

 

Eligibility and Application Process

Applicants must be Southeast Asian language instructors who have attended an ACTFL OPI workshop. Those who successfully completed the SEALC Reading Assessment project in Spring 2022 will receive priority.  Contact SEALC (SEALC@intl.wisc.edu) if you require assistance finding an ACTFL OPI workshop to attend.

 

To apply for this opportunity, please email the following materials to SEALC’s Project Manager, at sealc@intl.wisc.edu by end of day November 11, 2022:

·      A brief statement of interest addressing the following four points:

1.     Your career path up to this point and your position teaching a SEA language as a foreign language, including what levels of the language you teach.

2.     Your commitment to collaborate and develop pedagogical materials following the workshop.

3.     How this SEALC opportunity will benefit your professional development as a SEA language instructor.

4.     Written confirmation that you have attended an ACTFL OPI workshop, including the dates of the workshop attended (or a written agreement that you will attend an ACTFL OPI workshop before this workshop starts).

·      A current CV

 

The selection committee will notify applicants within one month of the application deadline. Should you have any questions about this opportunity, please email sealc@intl.wisc.edu.

More Information on the SEALC Reading Proficiency Assessment Workshop

 The description of and details on how to apply for the workshop can be found here.

Participants in this workshop will be collaborating in groups to develop reading tests. Groups will complete a majority of test design during the workshop in March. Producing these reading tests does not require primary data collection, as in the Oral Proficiency Guidelines project completed earlier this year. Rather, groups will work together to find reading texts suitable for the test design they have created under supervision of the workshop trainers. SEALC expects the project to finish in late June of 2022. We recognize and appreciate the commitment that instructors make when joining SEALC projects, and would be happy to discuss the expectations further with interested applicants. 

 

SEALC Reading Proficiency Assessment Workshop (March 3-6, 2022) Application Deadline: Oct. 11

Note new deadline for applications: October 11!

Additional information on the workshop can be found here. 

The Southeast Asian Language Council (SEALC) invites applications from Southeast Asian language instructors for a Reading Proficiency Assessment workshop, in collaboration with and hosted at Northern Illinois University from March 3-6, 2022. This professional development workshop will provide a valuable opportunity for participants to collaborate with colleagues across the United States, to develop reading proficiency assessment materials for the field of Southeast Asian languages. Lodging, meals, and workshop fees are covered for all participants.

Proposed Activities
March 3-6, 2022 Workshop (in person at NIU): Participants will receive intensive training on assessing reading proficiency from Drs. Catherine Baumann and Ahmet Dursun, language assessment experts from the University of Chicago.

Catherine Baumann is director of the University of Chicago Language Center. She received her Ph.D. in Second Languages and Cultures Education at the University of Minnesota, specializing in reading comprehension and language testing. She is a certified ACTFL tester and trainer, and does consulting for high school and college language programs on a variety of curricular and assessment-related issues. She oversees all programs in the University of Chicago Language Center.

Ahmet Dursun is the Director of the Office of Language  Assessment, where he is responsible for researching, developing, and managing the University’s language assessment programs. He is co-founder of the Language Pedagogy Innovation Initiative (LPII) at the University of Chicago where he has been designing and leading workshops in second language assessment and pedagogy. His work focusing on computer-assisted language teaching, testing research and practice, and test validation have appeared in multiple peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, and books. He speaks Kurdish, Turkish, and Arabic. Ahmet was also the invited workshop trainer at the COTSEAL 37th Virtual Conference, with a session entitled "The Role of Proficiency-oriented, Performance-based Reading Assessments in Second Language Reading Instruction."

April-August 2022 Language-specific working groups of three or more instructors will complete the tools/tests for assessing reading proficiency at three levels with support from SEALC.

Follow-up workshop (in person at NIU): There will be a two-day follow-up workshop from September 17-18, 2022 at which participants will report on their group’s achievements and receive feedback from the trainers. The finalized deliverables will be submitted to SEALC by October 2022. These deliverables will be kept on file and made accessible to all instructors of that language.

Eligibility and Application Process
Applicants must be Southeast Asian language instructors and active members of The Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages (COTSEAL). To learn more about COTSEAL and to apply for membership, click here. Additionally, applicants must have attended an ACTFL OPI workshop.

To apply for this opportunity, please email the following materials to Lisey Doty, SEALC’s Project Manager, at sealc@intl.wisc.edu by end of day October 11, 2021:

A current CV, and a statement of interest addressing the following:
 

-Your career path up to this point and your position teaching a SEA language as a foreign language, including what levels of the language you teach
-Your commitment to collaborate and develop pedagogical materials following the workshop
-How this SEALC opportunity will benefit your professional development as a SEA language instructor
-Written confirmation that you have attended an ACTFL OPI workshop, including the dates of the workshop attended

The selection committee will notify applicants within one month of the application deadline. Should you have any questions about this opportunity, please email sealc@intl.wisc.edu.

Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum Workshops

 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded Central New York Humanities
Corridor Working Group on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum
 is pleased to present two workshops: “Cultures and Languages in and
beyond the Time of COVID” on Friday, May 14, 2021 (1-3pm EDT) and
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 (1-3pm EDT).  The workshops will be led by three
members of the The Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC)
Consortium<https://clacconsortium.org/>:

  *   Bernd Estabrook, Professor of World Languages and Cultures -
German, Illinois College
  *   William Pavlovich, Director, Global Learning Initiatives,
Binghamton University
  *   JY Zhou, Director of Global Engagement and Senior International
Officer, Stockton University

The two workshops will explore the use of CLAC pedagogies and
principles as innovative approaches to respond more effectively to the
recent and ongoing challenges facing higher education, such as:

  *   Responding to budget cuts to your department or programs
  *   Repurposing the humanities for greater relevance and innovation
  *   Overcoming barriers to interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary
collaborations
  *   Engaging international students in classrooms
  *   Reimagining and sustaining study abroad programs
  *   Promoting social justice pedagogy in international programs
  *   Rethinking the pedagogical uses of social media
  *   Applying CLAC principles to hybrid classrooms, virtual exchange,
and other online technologies

The workshops are designed to appeal to both faculty and
administrators and to those who are familiar with CLAC as well as to
those who would like to learn more about CLAC.

Registration links:

Workshop 1: Friday, May 14, 2021 at 1-3pm
EDT<https://stockton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkduqsrD0uEtNaCOBLh5aBXMFSXrkLuofg>

Workshop 2: Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 1-3pm
EDT<https://stockton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYucO2orjkqG915-JPJHPkXlS3Kw17KuRud>

Please feel free to share these workshops with any colleagues who you
think may be interested.

Thanks so much.

Sincerely,

Lisa J. Sansoucy
Coordinator of Language Learning Initiatives
Language Resource Center
G-04E Stimson Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
http://www.lrc.cornell.edu

Call for Applications: SEALC 2021 Publication Workshop, May 14-15

 

Call for Applications: SEALC 2021 Publication Workshop, May 14-15, 2021

Hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA

 

Note: the application deadline has been extended to May 3 for this workshop.

 

SEALC invites applications for an academic publication workshop. The goal of this workshop is to support Southeast Asian language instructors who are interested in submitting their work to academic journals but have little to no prior experience in publishing academically. Participants will be coached by Donna M. Brinton, retired Lecturer in the Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL at UCLA, in an interactive, webinar style workshop. The workshop will be held in two-hour sessions each day, 1-3 PM PT / 3-5 PM CT / 4-6 PM ET / 10 AM – 12 PM HT from May 14-15, 2021, with time for Q+A.

 

Webinar #1 – The Role of Publication in Teacher Professional Development

This webinar focuses on the importance of publication as part of the overall process of professional development. Participants will gain an enhanced understanding of the publication process, beginning with manuscript conception and continuing through determination of relevant journals, submission to the editor, responding to reviewer comments, and submission of the revised publication. Primary focus will be on the factors required for successful publication in the field of language teaching.

 

Webinar #2 – Enhancing Your Chances of Getting Your Research Published

This webinar focuses on how participants can enhance their chances of getting published. Included will be discussion of the various options for submissions (e.g., materials review, literature review, research report), relevant research options (e.g., case study, classroom research, action research), citation requirements and citation resources, issues of academic integrity, and tips for manuscript preparation. Primary focus will be on adhering to standards expected for publication in the field of language teaching.

 

Eligibility and How to Apply

Applicants must be instructors of a SE Asian language and an active member of COTSEAL. To apply for or renew COTSEAL membership, click here. Participants must commit to attending both workshop sessions. Following the workshop, applicants will submit one of the following:

• A one-page reflection on how the workshop has impacted their publishing goals and where they plan on publishing
• A draft abstract for an article
• A proposal for a panel presentation at a national conference

The application for this workshop can be found here. Applications must be submitted by May 3, 2021. The workshop will be highly interactive and space is limited, we encourage instructors to apply as soon as possible. There is no registration fee for this workshop. To view this announcement on the SEALC website, follow this link: https://sealc.wisc.edu/2021/04/01/sealc-publication-workshop-opportunity/