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<span style="margin:0px;font-weight:700;font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(15, 92, 26)">A virtual colloquium on heritage language education</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-weight:700;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><a href="https://commerce.cashnet.com/msu_3871" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://commerce.cashnet.com/msu_3871" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px">Join
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<span style="margin:0px;font-weight:700;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">Dates:</span><span style="margin:0px;font-weight:400;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"> May 23 - 25, 2022, times below</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">We are excited to announce a speaker series on heritage language education! W</span><span style="margin:0px;font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">e are very happy to welcome
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<div style="margin:0px;font-weight:bold"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Speaker sessions are $10/each, and all funds collected through the series will go to </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://voices.org.ua/en/__;!!HXCxUKc!mB3nBwp5zunphaI2ge1r1Qhm5pBFW0ttsI_2bY1rUJM9qNUWB4JQ6ODx4bRqUG8$" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="margin:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Voices
of Children</span></a><span style="margin:0px;font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">, a non-profit that offers psychological support to children of war, and one other non-profit supporting heritage and multilingual communities to be chosen by attendees.
Please see the attached flyer for further details and<span style="margin:0px"> </span><a href="https://commerce.cashnet.com/msu_3871" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://commerce.cashnet.com/msu_3871" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px">registration
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="margin:0px;font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Assistant Professor<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">|<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">ella/she/her</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="margin:0px;font-weight:400;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Check out my latest publication in SSLA on emotions and vocabulary learning for heritage and foreign language
learners:<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263121000851__;!!HXCxUKc!mB3nBwp5zunphaI2ge1r1Qhm5pBFW0ttsI_2bY1rUJM9qNUWB4JQ6ODxzVugjks$" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="5" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline">https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263121000851</span></a></p>
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Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples. The University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw.</span></p>
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