2007 Conferences & Workshops (in Hawaii)

[National Foreign Language Resource Center]

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The National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawaii
at Manoa is pleased to announce the following 2007 professional
development events . . .


1) 17th International Conference on Pragmatics & Language Learning
   Imin International Conference Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
   March 26-28, 2007
   http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/pll/

The conference will address a broad range of topics in pragmatics,
discourse, interaction and sociolinguistics in their relation to second
and foreign language learning, education, and use, approached from a
variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives.

Conference highlights include:
* Plenary talks by Junko Mori (University of Wisconsin-Madison) & Steven
  Talmy (University of British Columbia)
* Invited colloquia on "Study Abroad Experiences from a Language
  Socialization Perspective" (Convener: Haruko Cook, University of Hawaii)
  & "Negotiating the Self in Another Language: Discourse Approaches to
  Language Learning as Cross-cultural Adaptation" (Convener: Christina
  Higgins, University of Hawaii)
* Invited workshops on "Using Questionnaires in Research on Pragmatics"
  (Kenneth Rose, City University Hong Kong) & "Teaching and Learning L2
  Pragmatics in Computer-mediated Environments" (Julie Belz, Monterey
  Institute of International Studies
* Over 100 paper presentations and 25 poster presentations
* An optional reception at the Waikiki Aquarium

Register early to get special rates!  The preregistration deadline is
February 15, 2007.  For more information, visit
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/pll/


2) 2007 NFLRC Summer Institute Developing Useful Evaluation Practices
   in College Foreign Language Programs
   University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
   May 28 - June 6, 2007
   http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/si07d/

This NFLRC Summer Institute is designed to help college foreign language
administrators and teachers engage in useful, practical, and effective
program evaluations to meet a variety of purposes. It takes seriously the
values, goals, and constraints that characterize college language programs
and will provide language educators with a user-oriented approach to
developing evaluations that maximize benefits for language learners and
teachers, while minimizing potential negative consequences. It will also
provide participants with tools and strategies for making program
evaluation a systematic and consistently useful component of their FL
departments.

The Institute will be run by Dr. John M. Norris (UH Dept. of Second
Language Studies), an expert in language program evaluation and
assessment.  Activities over the 9-day institute will include lectures and
demonstrations, in-depth analyses of practical evaluation examples,
invited guest speakers (language evaluation experts), social events, and
extensive hands-on development and discussion of evaluation plans,
procedures, and instruments for immediate use in the participants specific
program settings.

This workshop is intended for foreign language administrators and teachers
who are directly responsible for program evaluations in their foreign
language departments. It assumes no prior grounding in program evaluation
theory or practice, but it requires a willingness to help increase
evaluation capacity in college FL education. In order to maximize the
impact of this event across U.S. colleges, participants will be
purposefully selected to represent diverse FL program types, based on
size, languages taught, geography, and institutional status. Some
financial support is available to all participants in the NFLRC Summer
Institute, on a competitive and space-limited basis. Summer Institute
participants will be expected to participate in the 2007 ADFL Summer
Seminar West, which will directly follow the workshop on the University of
Hawaii at Manoa campus.

For more information or the online application form (submission deadline -
February 15, 2007), visit our website at
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/si07d/


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