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Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:22:44
From: Rebecca Sachs [rsachs at viu.edu]
Subject: Conference on Language, Learning, & Culture -- Making Research Matter: Motivated Inquiry for Actionable Insights

Conference on Language, Learning, & Culture -- Making Research Matter: Motivated Inquiry for Actionable Insights 
Short Title: CLLC 2018 

Date: 06-Apr-2018 - 07-Apr-2018 
Location: Fairfax, VA, USA 
Contact: Kevin Martin 
Contact Email: kevin at viu.edu 
Meeting URL: http://conference.viu.edu/cllc 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Language Documentation 

Meeting Description: 

In focusing on “Making Research Matter,” the 2018 Conference on Language,
Learning, and Culture seeks to stimulate conversations on how research and its
uses in society might be transformed if more of us were to make a point of
asking “for what, for whom, and by whom?”* at the outset of every research
endeavor.

Our aim is to involve a diverse group of practitioners, researchers,
policy-makers, community members, and other stakeholders in a multidirectional
sharing of perspectives, values, priorities, and expertise. We especially
welcome proposals involving projects in which the investigators considered the
users and uses of their research from the very beginning and made decisions
accordingly -- from action-research projects conducted by individual teachers
in their classrooms to larger-scale funded endeavors where collaborative teams
had an eye toward wider public engagement and policy impacts, and everything
in between.

We hope that this year’s conference will yield insights, tools, and
connections that improve all groups’ abilities to formulate meaningful
research questions; identify collaborators; establish research-practice
partnerships; maximize benefits to research participants; produce results that
are relevant and accessible to a variety of audiences; and ensure that
findings are not over-, under-, or misinterpreted in public conversations and
policy debates.

We hope to see you at our 5th annual CLLC! 

Kevin Martin and Rebecca Sachs
Organizers, Conference on Language, Learning, and Culture

*Ortega, L. (2005). For what and for whom is our research? The ethical as
transformative lens in instructed SLA. Modern Language Journal, 89, 427-443.

Ortega, L. (2012). Epistemological diversity and moral ends of research in
instructed SLA. Language Teaching Research, 16(2), 206-226.

Program: 

Friday, April 6

8:45 am:

Opening Communal Discussion – Making research matter: Motivated inquiry for
actionable insights
- Rebecca Sachs & Kevin Martin, Virginia International University

10:00 am:

Professional learning practices and beliefs of an online community of English
language teachers 
- Jeremy Slagoski, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

The proficiency level of learners and the choice of deletion or epenthesis 
- Omar Alkhonini, George Mason University

Language cross-training as an optimization strategy: Leveraging prior learning
experience to enhance learning outcomes 
- Jared Linck, Erica Michael, Ewa Golonka, Nick Pandza, Alison Tseng, Amalia
Gnanadesikan, & Claudia Brugman, University of Maryland

10:35 am:

Mexican student and teacher views on the characteristics and practices of
effective EFL instructors
- Kenneth Richter, University of Guanajuato

How input modality in the second language classroom affects pronunciation
accuracy
- Marcella Farina, University of Central Florida

Engaging with stakeholders to develop effective virtual reality training:
Simulating second language immersion
- Medha Tare, Digital Promise, Ewa Golonka, University of Maryland, Jared
Linck, University of Maryland, & Sunhee Kim, University of Maryland

11:10 am:

English language instructors’ assessment literacy: Toward transformative
teaching and learning practices
- Thuy Tu, George Mason University

English in the workplace: An analysis of the communication needs of mass media
personnel 
- Mahmoud Al-Khatib & Islam Mayyas, Jordan University of Science and
Technology

How to create relevant and meaningful digitally mediated tasks – Implications
from an EFL seminar
- Judith Hofmann, Celestine Caruso, & Andreas Rohde, University of Cologne

11:45 am:

>From the word go: Ensuring that research on multi/plurilingualism leads to
better trained teachers
- Karen Ferreira-Meyers, University of Swaziland

A community-driven approach to language preservation in Wisconsin Walloon
- Kelly Biers, University of North Carolina at Asheville, & Ellen Osterhaus,
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Traditional craft or technology education: An innovation for language learning
in primary schools of Nepal
- Mani Ram Sharma, Nepal English Language Teachers Association (NELTA), Arjun
Barnwal, Fitness Studio, Bimal Lal Shrestha, Fitness Studio, Prabin Shahi,
Fitness Studio, & Dipak Joshi, LRI School

1:15pm:

Exploring the teaching adaptations chosen (or not) by international-origin
faculty
- Charles Brua, Larkin Hood, & Olga Buchko, Pennsylvania State University

Analysis of literature on the impact of remittances on the education of
children
- Gulnaz Atabaeva, Ala-Too International University

Utilizing open architecture to design a transformative learning experience
- Mishkat Al Moumin, Defense Language Institute

Read aloud as an instructional strategy: The need for awareness among Nigerian
teachers
- Mohammed Bello Umar, Aminu Saleh College of Education Azare

2:20 pm:

Presidential Keynote – Inquiry to promote effective practices in higher
education: Taking advantage of actionable insights from the accreditation
process
- Judith Eaton, President, Council for Higher Education Accreditation

3:30 pm:

Aligning with TESOL standards for short-term TEFL/TESL certificate programs: A
case study 
- Sherry L. Steeley & Suzanne L. Matula, Georgetown University

Summary writing instruction strategies using appraisal and ideational
metafunctions: Implicit and explicit instruction
- Khalid Albishi, Bisha College of Technology

ELLs and public schools in Trump’s America: What future teachers think
- Alyssa Vuono & Dominik Wolff, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

4:05 pm:

Anti-plagiarism pedagogy for TEFL students: A case of an academic writing
course
- Hadis Sabzi, West Virginia University, & Saeed Rezaei, Sharif University of
Technology

Teaching English in a rural context through place-based education: Expressing
experiences with place through poems
- Rocio del Pilar Salazar Jaramillo & Yeyson David Espejo Malagon, National
Pedagogic University

The effects of acculturation and language acquisition on English language
learners: A case study
- Marietta Bradinova, Virginia International University

4:40 pm:

Getting your students motivated with interactive response systems
- Amy Fang-Yen Hsieh, National Taiwan Normal University

Engaging young adult EFL/ESOL learners in meaning-making tasks
- Kathleen Ramos & Ying Liu, George Mason University

Panel: Human-centered design for equity in education
- Lauren Moffett, New York City Department of Education, Tazeen Rashid,
Suncoast Community High School, & Rayhan Ahmed, Expeditionary Learning School
for Community Leaders

Saturday, April 7

8:45 am (2-hour workshops):

Interactive, communicative activities for motivating students with picture
books
- Ana Lado & Valerie Sheridan Comer, Marymount University

Enhancing ESL teachers’ cross-cultural views through various media
- Sungshim Choi, Shelley Wong, Liana Smith, Hyejin Yoon, Hsiao-Ping Tai, &
Kyounghye Park, George Mason University

Culture and language training: What to do when time is not on your side to
research, develop, and train your students
- Mark Overton, ManpowerGroup Public Sector

10:50 am:

Plenary – Language teaching for social justice: A critical pedagogical
approach
- Jennifer Leeman, George Mason University

12:30 pm:

Model-based strategies using picture books to teach writing to Arabic speakers
- Norah Almoharib, Manahel Alnasser, & Ana Lado, Marymount University

Roundtable: Challenging commonly held beliefs in language learning and
teaching
- Claire Gimble, Glen Habbershaw, & Michael Seyfert, Virginia International
University 

Planning and assessing student learning
- Kevin Martin, Virginia International University

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