<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_l5nc2qiy0" alt="ConnecTalks_logo-RGB.jpg" width="444" height="230"><br></div><br clear="all"><div><span id="m_-2548780825315194454gmail-docs-internal-guid-98497b05-7fff-449a-2ec4-0ff56f181e4c"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.connectalks.org" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>ConnecTalks</b></span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is an event that features brief, TED-style talks by speakers with fresh viewpoints and diverse perspectives on language learning and teaching. The target audience is typically language educators, but the talks can be enjoyed by the general public interested in languages.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This year’s ConnecTalks features two internationally recognized speakers: <b>Dr. Marta Gonzalez-Lloret (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa)</b>, whose talk will focus on why Pragmatics should be an essential component of language learning, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and <b>Dr. Steven Thorne (Portland State University & </b></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>University of Groningen)</b>, whose talk will focus on how language educators can better cultivate multilingual and interculturally aware societies.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please join us on Facebook Live (</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/FlagshipTechCenter/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tech Center</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/NFLRC/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NFLRC</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Facebook Page) on Saturday, July 23rd, 3:00-4:00 pm, Hawaiʻi time (6:00 pm Pacific, 7:00 pm Mountain, 8:00 pm Central, and 9:00 pm Eastern).</span></b></p><div><span><br></span></div><br><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This event is proudly organized and sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) and the Language Flagship Technology Innovation Center (The Tech Center) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, with support from the National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CERCLL), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;fon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