42nd Annual TESOL Convention & Exhibit
April 2-5, 2008
New York, New York USA
For more info visit: http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/seccss.asp?CID=1518&DID=8281

Ohio Foreign Language Association (OFLA) 2008 Conference
Cincinnati, Ohio
April 3-5, 2008
http://www.ofla-online.org/index.php?module=webpage&id=55

South Carolina Foreign Language Teachers’ Association 2008 Conference
Myrtle Beach, SC
April 3-5, 2008
http://www.scflta.org/conf_wkshps/conference.html

2008 SCOLT/SCFLTA Conference
Myrtle Beach, SC
April 3-5, 2008
http://scolt.org/?page_id=38

38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 38)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
April 4-6, 2008
Main Session: All areas of Romance Linguistics
Parasession on Sociolinguistics: Romance Languages in the Diaspora
Conference website: http://www.lsrl.uiuc.edu
Contact: lsrl-38@uiuc.edu

2008 Business Language Conference: Preparing Global Business Leaders
Center for International Business Education and Research
Hosted by the University of Florida
St. Petersburg, FL
April 9-11, 2008
Please note that the schedule for submission of proposals will be significantly earlier than in previous years. August 15, 2007: Call for Proposals to be published. It will include specific themes and formats for proposals. Deadline for Submission of Proposals: November 15, 2007. Submissions must be limited to 200 words. CIBER http://www.cba.ufl.edu/ciber/

At Whom Are We Laughing: "Humor in Romance Languages and Literatures"
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
April 10-12, 2008
Featuring the participation of more than 90 authors, scholars, performers and historians from a number of different countries, including Australia, Belgium, the Canary Islands, Italy, Latin America, Mexico, Spain and across the United States. This may in fact be the first conference of its kind to have panels that address humor in as many as seven Romance languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan and Galician. Though the vast majority of panel discussions will be conducted in English, there are select sessions that will be presented in French, Italian and Spanish.
For more info, visit, http://www.hofstra.edu/Community/culctr/culctr_events_humor.html or Contact: culdsl@hofstra.edu

College Board and Asia Society
National Chinese Language Conference
Building Global Competence of U.S. Students: Making Chinese Accessible for All
April 17-19, 2008
Renaissance Hotel, Washington, D.C.
U.S. and international political, economic, and educational leaders share visions, plans, or programs for Chinese language education in the global age.
http://askasia.org/chinese/announcements/nclc.htm

The 61st Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
University of Kentucky, U.S.A.
17-19 April 2008
http://www.as.uky.edu/kflc/
Deadlines for abstracts: November 21, 2007

11th Annual NCOLCTL Conference
April 24-27, 2008
Madison, WI

Deadline for proposal submissions: November 30, 2007
"LCTLs and Globalization: Challenges, Expectations and Possibilities"
Proposal submission: http://www.councilnet.org/conf/conf2008/prpsl.htm
Contact NCOLCTL if you encounter technical problems

Language Symposium 2008
Reconciling Language Learning and Assessment
April 25-26, 2008
University of Illinois-Chicago
For further information, please consult: http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/lclc/Research/intro.shtml

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Applied Natural Language Processing (Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society)
Coconut Bay Florida
May 15, 2008 - May 17, 2008
Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work and not submitted (or in submission) to any other conference. Papers should not exceed 6 pages and are due by November 20, 2007.
http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/applied_nlp/flairs_2008.pdf

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Third annual LCTL Summer Institute for Secondary teachers of Chinese and Japanese
Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland
Montgomery County Public Schools Foreign Language Program
June 16 - June 20
The focus of the institute will be on developing standards-based activities and assessments based on research-based best practices. National consultants of each language will facilitate the materials development process. There is no cost for participants. Participant teachers will receive all materials created during the workshop. Come collaborate with your colleagues!
More information is available on http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/lang/

Concordia Language Villages
Teacher Seminars
Moorhead, Minnesota
June 22 – July 2, 2008
http://clvweb.cord.edu/prweb/educators/teacher_seminar.asp

Two seminars will be held:
1. Second Language Methodologies for Teachers
Join language teachers from across the United States for a ten-day summer graduate course at the Villages. Upon successful completion of the course, four semester hours of graduate credit are earned through Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota. Learn about and discuss current practices and issues related to second language acquisition.
The course is open to all K-12 second language educators including ESL educators, college educators with an interest in K-12 second language methodologies, and pre-service education majors.

2. Master of Education in World Language Instruction: Combine On-site With Online Learning
The Master of Education Program is designed for the working teacher :
Summer One, July 5 - 29, takes place at Concordia Language Villages.
Two online courses during the academic year bridge to Summer Two, July 5 – 28, at the Villages.
The program capstone is a thesis and online seminar during the fall semester of 2009. The total program includes 34 semester hours of instruction.

For more information, please contact:
Concordia Language Villages, Teacher Seminars,
901 Eighth Street South,
Moorhead, Minnesota 56562
Phone: 800.222.4750 Ext. 2002 or 218.299.4179
Email: educators@cord.edu

LTRC 2008
Hangzhou, China
June 25, 2008 - June 28, 2008
The Conference will address language awareness in the learning and teaching of languages; in literature; and in broader educational, social, professional, and cultural dimensions. A particular aim of the 2008 ALA Conference is to promote language awareness research and practice within the region. The deadline for receipt of abstracts: 30 November 2007.
http://www.iltaonline.com/ltrc2008.htm

Association for Language Awareness (ALA) 9th International Conference
The University of Hong Kong
June 26-29 2008
http://www.hku.hk/clear/ala/papers.html

The 13th Annual Conference and Workshop
SUNY, Binghamton
June 27-29, 2008
The ICKL Meeting will be held at Cornell University from 6/27 ~ 6/28 and there will be shuttle service available between the two campuses.
http://www.aatk.org/

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