The deadline for proposals for presentations at the 2018 COTSEAL conference has been extended to Sunday, June 17.
Please see the previous post for more information.
Saturday, June 9, 2018
Monday, May 21, 2018
2018 COTSEAL/SEASSI Conference: Call for Papers and Presentations
24th
COTSEAL ANNUAL CONFERENCE at SEASSI 2018
SEA Languages in the 21st Century: Teaching Strategies and Overcoming Challenges
July
27-28, 2018
University of Wisconsin, Madison
COTSEAL invites participants from
academic institutions, teachers, researchers, and graduate students who are
interested in, involved in, or have conducted research on Southeast Asian
language education and linguistics to submit abstracts to the conference.
Paper/presentation topics may include,
but are not limited to:
· Different approaches in teaching SEA languages
· Proficiency, project, community-based learning
· Heritage language learners
· Distance learning and flipped classrooms
· University policies &related issues affecting SEA
language instruction
(We
encourage participants of the ACTFL Familiarization Workshop at University of
Michigan to present results of their group work.)
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 17, 2018 (deadline extended)
Notification of Acceptance: June 14, 2018
An abstract proposal should include the
title, a brief description of 250 words
maximum, and a presenter profile that should include your name,
institution, email address, and phone number. Send them as two email attachments (MS words/pdf) to: jwijaya@humnet.ucla.edu,
Subject line: COTSEAL 2018 Abstract
Submission.
Travel
Grants
COTSEAL is offering partial matching travel
grants to help lecturers and graduate students whose papers are accepted to
present at the conference. Please indicate if you would like to apply for the
travel grant in your submission email. A detailed description for applying for
a travel grant can be found at http://cotseal.net/travel_grants.html, and the
conference announcement and hotel and local travel information can be found
here: http://cotseal.net/conference.html.
Refer back to the website for frequent updates as the conference approaches,
including the conference program.
Please note: all presenters and
travel grant recipients must be paid
members of COTSEAL at the time of the conference. To become or renew as a COTSEAL
member: http://cotseal.net/COTSEAL_membership_form.pdf.
For more information about the
conference, please contact the conference co-chairs:
Juliana
Wijaya jwijaya@humnet.ucla.edu
Pittaya
Paladroi-Shane paladroi@ohio.edu
Conference Organizing Committee: Juliana
Wijaya, Pittaya Paladroi, Ellen Rafferty, Desiana Pauli Sandjaja
COTSEAL Officers: Juliana Wijaya,
Pittaya Paladroi-Shane, Agustini
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Holiday Wishes from COTSEAL
Dear COTSEAL members,
As 2017 year draws to a close, we want to take a moment to thank you for your continued support to COTSEAL. From volunteering to participating at our events, your contributions matter to the development of our Southeast Asian language teaching. With the support of Cornell SEAP and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and many of SEA NRCs, we successfully held the Conference on Southeast Asian Teaching: New Directions last September. Many of our members reap the benefits from the workshop. We shared teaching materials and effective teaching strategies and mobilized to formalize our language specific organizations. We hope we will continue our collaboration to strengthen our field.
Wishing you a very Happy Holiday season and a peaceful and prosperous New Year!
COTSEAL Officers: Juliana Wijaya, Pittaya (Fon) Paladroi, and Agustini
Thursday, December 21, 2017
ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines Workshop April 20-21, 2018
ACTFL
Proficiency Guidelines Workshop for Southeast Asian Language Teachers
University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 20-21, 2018
Sponsored
by COTSEAL
You
are invited to apply to participate in the ACTFL Proficiency
Guidelines Workshop for Southeast Asian Language Teachers at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor April 20-21, 2018.
This
two-day workshop will familiarize participants with the ACTFL
Proficiency Guidelines, ACTFL Rating Scale, and
the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview Process, and the
implications of
proficiency for academic and professional purposes. It will include
the application of proficiency for Southeast Asian language
instruction and assessment, and how proficiency guidelines can be
customized to address specific program needs and goals.
Upon
completion of the workshop, there will be follow-up activities
involving proficiency-based material development to support the
integration of the ACTFL guidelines in Southeast Asian language
teaching.
Priority
will be given to those applicants who make a firm commitment to
participate in the follow-up activities, and who have not yet
received the ACTFL guidelines/OPI training.
Application
should be submitted online at https://ucla.in/2BeP2lI
by January 22, 2018.
To
apply to participate in the ACTFL workshop, please submit:
1.
A one page statement describing your background in teaching a
Southeast Asian language and your commitment to apply the knowledge
you gain from the ACTFL proficiency training to your language
teaching.
2.
Your CV covering your language teaching experience.
With
acceptance, your registration cost for the workshop is covered.
3.
Submit a statement of need including information from your
institution indicating what portion of the cost they can cover.
It is expected that participants from NRCs will seek travel funds
from their institution, but if full funding is not available, they
can also apply for travel support.
Active
membership in COTSEAL is required to participate in the ACTFL
workshop.
To
renew or become a member please fill out this form:
Questions
should be addressed to COTSEAL@gmail.com
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.
Friday, September 1, 2017
Academic Position Posting: Vietnamese Language Lecturer at Columbia University
Academic Position
Vietnamese Language Lecturer
Columbia University
Deadline: September 15, 2017
Web announcement: academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=65075
The Vietnamese Language Program of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures invites applications for a full-time lecturer position in modern Vietnamese, beginning fall 2018. Responsibilities include teaching first-year through fourth-year modern Vietnamese. We are particularly interested in an engaging instructor willing to work collaboratively with other Columbia faculty and staff in developing Vietnamese studies at Columbia. Applicants should have extensive experience in teaching Vietnamese at the university-level to native speakers of English, demonstrated exceptional teaching achievement at all levels (level 1 through level 4) with both heritage and non-heritage learners, and familiarity with instructional technology.
Call for Papers: 3rd International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages
Call for Papers
Third International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages
Deadline: September 30, 2017
UCLA
February 16-17, 2018
The Third International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages will focus on heritage/community language studies as a multidisciplinary field, impacting a variety of educational contexts. Submissions are welcomed from disciplines including but not limited to anthropology, applied linguistics, assessment, bilingualism, demographics, education, linguistics, policy, psychology, and sociology.
Please provide a 400-word (maximum) abstract of your paper, panel, poster session and a 50-word (maximum) summary.
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