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Workshops & Conferences
NFLRC holds a wide range of international conferences, annual summer institutes
(both on-site and online), symposia, and workshops on a variety of themes and
topics. Foreign language educators come together to share resources on, and gain
hands-on experience with relevant developments in the field.
Recent Events
- 1st
International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation
(ICLDC), March 12th-14th, 2009
- Second
Language Research Forum, October 17-19, 2008
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On-line Cafés for Heritage Learners of Filipino, Japanese,
Samoan, and Chinese, June
17-21, 2008
- Filipino as a
Global Language, March 17-19, 2008
- 2nd Int'l Conference
on Task-Based Language Teaching, September 20-22, 2007
- Developing
Useful Evaluation Practices in College Foreign Language Programs, May
28-June 6, 2007
- 17th
International Conference on Pragmatics & Language Learning, March
26-28, 2007
- more...
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Online
Summer Institute for Non-native Teachers of Chinese & Japanese
June 22 —July 3 , 2009 • University of Hawai`i
This online professional development opportunity
is specifically for non-native-speaking teachers of
Chinese and Japanese language at the K-16 level, with
a focus on teachers in underserved areas. NFLRC offers
2 concurrent two-week intensive language courses in
Chinese and Japanese. The intensive courses, delivered
entirely online, employ a tested and
proven pedagogic model and concentrate on the development
and/or maintenance of communicative language skills
at the advanced level, with strong emphasis on written
communication meeting high standards of literacy.
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pre-conference
CULTURA:
Web-based Intercultural Exchanges
October 10-11, 2009
The Cultura project, pioneered at MIT by Gilberte Furstenberg
and her colleagues, has inspired a variety of online
cultural exchanges based on a set of principles and
best practices. The Cultura: Web-Based Intercultural
Exchanges pre-conference event will feature presentations by a
variety of educators who have created exchanges based on the Cultura
model.
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Language
Learning in Computer Mediated Communities (LLCMC) Conference
October 11-13, 2009
Once, computers were seen as thinking machines or electronic
tutors. Now the computer has become one of many devices
that people use to form virtual communities of all kinds. In the
field of language education, computer mediated communication (CMC)
enables students to interact with one another free of space and
time constraints and to participate in communities of learning
with their counterparts in the target culture. The Language Learning
in Computer Mediated Communities (LLCMC) Conference explores the
use of computers as a medium of communication in language learning
communities.
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