January 2010

2010 ACTFL ANNUAL CONVENTION AND WORLD LANGUAGES EXPO
November 19-21 (Pre-convention workshops on Thursday, November 18)
Boston, Massachusetts
Deadline for Submission: January 10, 2010

Languages: Gateway to Global Communities
The Annual Convention and World Languages Expo of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) will be Friday, November 19 (Pre-Convention Workshops scheduled on Thursday, November 18) through Sunday, November 21, 2010 in Boston, MA. The ACTFL Convention features over 500 educational sessions covering the whole spectrum of the foreign language profession. The entire selection of sessions is designed to provide attendees with an exciting array of sessions and events to further their knowledge and help them be better teachers or administrators.  We welcome you to submit a proposal for consideration.  When you login, it is very important that you read carefully the Submission Guidelines before proceeding to complete your online submission.
The convention draws approximately 6,000 attendees and is the only national event bringing together all languages, levels and assignments within the profession. Please note:  Presenters whose proposals are selected for presentation MUST be available to present any day during the Convention.
New this year, the login process has changed.  You will NOT be able to use your previous Call for Proposals username and password.  Please read below for instructions on how to logon, have your password reset or to create a login.

ACTFL Members: Your login for the Call for Proposals is the same as your ACTFL members only login.  If you don’t know your ACTFL login click here to have it reset and e-mailed to you.

Non ACTFL Members: You will need to create an account with ACTFL in order to logon and submit a proposal.  Please click here to create an account and have your logon e-mailed to you. 
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Second Language Acquisition Theories, Technologies, and Language Learning
CALICO Journal Special Issue
Co-editors: Bryan Smith (Arizona State University) and Steven L. Thorne (Penn State)
This special issue of the CALICO Journal is intended to provide a state-of-the-art overview of diverse approaches to the processes, methodologies, and findings associated with second language acquisition theory and research in the context of new media and second/foreign language education. We solicit technology-related research that examines foreign and second language learning and teaching taking place in traditional instructional settings, blended learning formats, distance education contexts, as well as language use and learning in organic and open internet environments (e.g., internet interest communities, online gaming and virtual worlds, etc.). Empirical studies are particularly encouraged and critical review pieces are also welcome.

The editors seek original submissions that represent diverse research methodological and theoretical approaches including (but not limited to):

Psycholinguistics
Human-computer interaction
Ecological approaches
Conversation analysis
Critical applied linguistics/critical pedagogy
Corpus and/or computational linguistics
Cognitive neuroscience
Discourse analysis
Interactional sociolinguistics
Language socialization
Systemic functional linguistics
Interaction approach to SLA
Sociocognitive approaches
Cultural-historical activity theory and/or Vygotskian sociocultural theory
Linguistic anthropology
Cultural studies
Communication theory

Each author will be expected to provide a concise description of the SLA approach and/or research methodology employed in the article, important research and pedagogical findings produced from this framework, and to address the strengths and limitations of the theory in relationship to applied linguistics research, pedagogical practice and technology design.

Please send inquiries and suggestions for contributions to both Steve Thorne (stevenlthorne@gmail.com) and Bryan Smith (bryansmith@asu.edu). Please list CALICO Journal Special Issue in the subject line.

Extended abstracts (~500 words) are due by January 15th, 2010.
Full-length manuscripts are due by May 15th, 2010.

Second International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence
DEADLINE EXTENDED
January 29-31, 2010
Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL)
Aiming for “The Third Place:”Intercultural Competence through Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
January 29-31, 2010
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
http://cercll.arizona.edu/icc_2010.php

Workshop, Paper and Poster Proposal Submission Extended Deadline: September 1, 2009

Keynote Speaker Claire Kramsch, Ph.D. -- University of California, Berkeley
Professor of German and Foreign Language Acquisition; Founding
Director of the Berkeley Language Center

Globalization, having brought individuals in contact with one another at an unprecedented scale, has also brought forth a general challenge to traditionally recognized boundaries of nation, language, race, gender, and class. For those living within this rapidly changing social landscape,intercultural competence--as defined by Michael Byram above--is a necessary skill, and the cultivation of such intercultural individuals falls on the shoulders of today's educators. They should provide students with opportunities to help them define and design for themselves their "third place" or "third culture," a sphere of interculturality that enables language students to take an insider's view as well as an outsider's view on both their first and second cultures. It is this ability to find/establish/adopt this third place that is at the very core of intercultural competence.

The conference aims to bring researchers and practitioners across languages, levels and settings to discuss and share research, theory,
and best practices and foster meaningful professional dialogue on issues related to Intercultural Competence teaching and learning.

This conference is organized by the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) and cosponsored by the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona

Complete Conference details: http://cercll.arizona.edu/icc_2010.php

Proposal guidelines and online submission form:
http://www.cercll.arizona.edu/icc_2010_proposals.php

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April 2010

The First Teachers College, Columbia University Roundtable in Second Language Studies (TCCRISLS)
Second Language Acquisition of Chinese
Deadline for Submissions: April 15, 2010
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/tcsol/events.asp?EventID=6761&m=9&y=2010 

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