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1)<br>Date: 05 Mar 2013<br>From:<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Terrence Potter <<a href="mailto:tmp28@georgetown.edu" target="_blank">tmp28@georgetown.edu</a>></span><br>Subject:MLA Discussion of Applying Linguistics to Middle Eastern Language Teaching<br>
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2014 MLA Annual Convention</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">9 to 12 January 2014, Chicago</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">*Second* Call for papers:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The General Linguistics Discussion Group of the Modern Language Association</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">invites your paper proposal showing linguistics applied for the teaching</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and learning of a Middle-Eastern or Eastern Mediterranean language in North</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">America. While this call envisions proposals involving Arabic, Hebrew,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Persian, Turkish, or other language or dialect from the Middle East or</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Western Asia, other languages or cultures are not excluded. Those</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">submitting proposals should be members of MLA.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">*Deadline for proposals is March 15, 2013* - please submit your 250-word</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">proposal electronically to Terrence Potter (</span><a href="mailto:tmp28@georgetown.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">tmp28@georgetown.edu</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">**This is intentionally a general call to permit proposals from different</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">languages on a broad array of teaching/learning topics where linguistics is</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">used. This might include: teaching/learning of literature through discourse</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">analysis; teaching/learning of grammatical case by native speakers of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">English; support for the improvement of pronunciation; vocabulary learning</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">research and tools; the incorporation of discrete elements of cultural</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">information in the syllabus; teaching/learning translation; syllabus and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">curriculum development for less commonly taught languages, etc. Thank you</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">for making our languages, cultures and hard work visible in a national</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">forum dedicated to the teaching, learning and research in modern languages.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thank you for sharing this call for papers with graduate students, teaching</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and research faculty.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Terrence M. Potter</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Interim Chair, Executive Committee</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="mailto:tmp28@georgetown.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">tmp28@georgetown.edu</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
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