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<br><div><br><div><br></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></b></span></font><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Please Post</b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Call for Papers</b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times Albanian; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>8</b></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b>th</b></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Conference on Distinguished Language Studies</b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Washington, DC</font></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">December 1-2, 2007</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times Albanian; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers (CDLC), the only international organization dedicated to theory, research and teaching associated with the achievement of native-like foreign-language proficiency, will host a conference in Washington, DC, on December 1-2, 2007, venue to be announced soon. Participation from US, Middle Eastern, Asian and European scholars and practitioners is anticipated in the form of individual research papers, workshops, and a roundtable on the topic of sociolinguistic and sociocultural aspects of near-native language proficiency.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times Albanian; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The term “distinguished language proficiency” refers to ILR Level 4 and above on the scale of the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR: see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a href="http://www.govtilr.org"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">www.govtilr.org</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">).</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Paper proposals are solicited in the following topic areas:</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </font></div><div style="text-indent: -18px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">the development of advanced professional ability in all modes of foreign-language proficiency (reading, writing, listening, and speaking)</font></div><div style="text-indent: -18px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">translation & interpretation skills</font></div><div style="text-indent: -18px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">cultural understanding, and sociolinguistic aspects of high level communication</font></div><div style="text-indent: -18px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">assessment of advanced proficiency and/or advanced language aptitude</font></div><div style="text-indent: -18px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">curriculum design</font></div><div style="text-indent: -18px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">characteristics of learners who achieve distinguished foreign language ability</font></div><div style="text-indent: -18px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">analysis of what constitutes near native language ability</font></div><div style="text-indent: -18px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">language policy questions</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </font></div><div style="text-indent: -18px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">other topic areas relevant to the understanding of near-native ability.</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </font></div><li style="text-indent: -18px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times Albanian; min-height: 15px; "><br></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">To submit a proposal, send a title, one-page abstract in English and 50-word biographical statement<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>by</b></span></font><span class="Apple-converted-space"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b> </b></span></font></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>September 15</b></span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to Dr. Frederick Jackson (<a href="mailto:fhjackson@mac.com">fhjackson@mac.com</a>). Include the name(s) and email address(es) of the author(s).</font></li><li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times Albanian; min-height: 15.0px"><br></li><li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">While the working language of the conference will be English there will be strands in Russian, Spanish, and Arabic. Papers are solicited to be delivered in all of these languages. Presentations in languages other than the above may be possible; please check in advance with Dr. Jackson.</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </font></li><li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times Albanian; min-height: 15.0px"><br></li><li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Proposal writers will be notified whether their proposal has been accepted by October 15, 2007. Presenters of accepted sessions will be invited to submit a written version for consideration for a post-conference publication of selected conference proceedings. (Proceedings of previous conferences are available through bookstores, libraries, and online. Information about these volumes is posted at the CDLC website:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.distinguishedlanguagecenters.org">http://www.distinguishedlanguagecenters.org</a>.)</font></li><li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times Albanian; min-height: 15.0px"><br></li><li align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b>Deadline: September 15, 2007</b></font></li></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>