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<p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="ES"> </span></p><p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="ES"><b>Yuko Goto Butler</b></span></p><p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="ES">University of Pennsylvania</span></p><p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="ES">Graduate School of Education<br></span></p><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b> </b></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><b><br></b></span></span></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><b>April 21, 2022</b></span></span></font></div><p style="margin:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><b>4:30-5:30pm</b></span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><b>Online - Eastern US Time</b></span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><span>Summary</span></b></span></font></p><p style="line-height:14.95px;margin:0pt 0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:black">Although research with children has gained substantial attention in child developmental studies, the methodological and ethical issues associated with research with children have not yet been sufficiently addressed in applied linguistics. Based on a game design project that she conducted with 6th grade students in a public school in Japan, Dr. Butler addresses both the opportunities and challenges associated with conducting research with children. Although she will focus on children in her talk, the same issues should be relevant to any learners being studied.</span></span></font></p><p style="line-height:14.95px;margin:0pt 0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:black"><br></span></span></font></p><p style="line-height:14.95px;margin:0pt 0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:black"><b>Dr. Yuko Goto Butler </b>is Professor of Educational Linguistics in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the Director of the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Program at Penn. Her research interests include language assessment and second and foreign language learning among children.</span></span></font></p><p style="line-height:14.95px;margin:0pt 0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><br></p><p style="line-height:14.95px;margin:0pt 0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><br><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font><p style="margin:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="ES"><font color="#ff0000">Free Registration</font></span></b><br></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>Free registration by e-mail to <a href="mailto:TESOL@umbc.edu" target="_blank">TESOL@umbc.edu</a></span></span></font></p></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>About UMBC</b></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) offers a master of arts (MA TESOL) and a four-course post-baccalaureate certificate (TESOL PBC) in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Options are available for those seeking to teach any age group from children to adults in the United States or abroad, including Maryland P-12 teacher certification in ESOL. Both the MA TESOL and the TESOL certificate can be completed on campus, online, or through a combination of online and campus courses. Learn more at</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://tesol.umbc.edu/learnmore.php" target="_blank">https://tesol.umbc.edu/learnmore.php</a></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">UMBC also offers a doctor of 
philosophy (PhD) in Language, Literature, and Culture.  This 
interdisciplinary doctoral program investigates the concepts and 
processes of language, literacy, and culture in relationship to social, 
cultural, linguistic, historical, technological, and ideological 
formations.  A unique value of this program is the wide range of 
contemporary multi-disciplinary perspectives and a continuum of 
methodological approaches from the arts, humanities, social sciences, 
and education.  The program advocates for socio-cultural and linguistic 
diversity in research, practice, and policy, with special emphasis on 
social justice, change, equity, power, and identity.  Find out more at</span></font></div><a href="https://llc.umbc.edu/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://llc.umbc.edu/</a>

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