[EDLING:783] Re: ILRinfo: CALPER E-NEWS May 2005

Fri Apr 29 20:42:38 UTC 2005

By way of the ILR list...

> E-NEWS FROM CALPER - MAY 2005
> Monthly news from the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and
> Research (CALPER) at
> the Pennsylvania State University. Please feel free to share this
> information with your colleagues.
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> CALPER 2005 Summer Workshops for Language Educators at Penn State
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> Our workshops are filling up. If you are interested in attending, we suggest
> that you register now and guarantee your space.
>
> June 29, 2005
> Investigating Real  <http://calper.la.psu.edu/profdev.php?page=ws05_corpus>
> Language
> Using  <http://calper.la.psu.edu/profdev.php?page=ws05_technology>
> Technology to Promote Advanced Language Proficiency
> Project Work:  <http://calper.la.psu.edu/profdev.php?page=ws05_projectwork>
> Linking Content and Language Instruction
>
> July 6, 2005
> Conceptual  <http://calper.la.psu.edu/profdev.php?page=ws05_russian>
> Fluency, Emotional and Narrative Competence as Components of Advanced
> Language Proficiency
> Recent  <http://calper.la.psu.edu/profdev.php?page=ws05_studyabroad>
> Research on Language Learning During Education Abroad
> Pragmatics in  <http://calper.la.psu.edu/profdev.php?page=ws05_cmii>
> Cyberspace
>
> July 11-12, 2005
> Performance-based
> <http://calper.la.psu.edu/profdev.php?page=ws05_assessment> Second Language
> Assessment
> July 11 and 12, 2005 Cost: $75 (early registration)
> Presenters: Elana Shohamy and Ofra Inbar
>
> One-day workshops are free of charge, but pre-registration is required. For
> more detailed information about each workshop, registration, and
> accomodation go to CALPER's Professional Development page at
> http://calper.la.psu.edu/profdev.php <http://calper.la.psu.edu/profdev.php>
> Pennsylvania educators can earn ACT 48 credits for CALPER workshops.
>
> May 7-8, 2005: Workshop for Japanese language educators held at the
> University of Southern California
> "The instructional use of digital video clips of naturalistic interactions"
> In this workshop, Professor Junko Mori will introduce various examples of
> digital video clip teaching materials that are presently developed at CALPER
> and which can be viewed at <
> http://calper.la.psu.edu/learningthroughlistening/index.php
> <http://calper.la.psu.edu/learningthroughlistening/index.php> >. Contact
> Professor Junko Mori < jmori at facstaff.wisc.edu
> <mailto:jmori at facstaff.wisc.edu> > for more information.
>
>
> New Working Paper No. 3 and No. 4
> We just added to our Professional Development Library two working papers:
> No. 3 "Concept-Based Instruction: Teaching Grammar in an
> Intermediate-Advanced Spanish L2 University Classroom " by Eduardo
> Negueruela (UMass-Amherst) and James P. Lantolf (Penn State).
> No. 4 "Computer-mediated Learner Corpus Research and the Data-driven
> Teaching of L2 Pragmatic Competence: The Case of German Modal Particles" by
> Julie A. Belz and Nina Vyatkina (Penn State). (see also our CALPER workshop
> Pragmatics in  <http://calper.la.psu.edu/profdev.php?page=ws05_cmii>
> Cyberspace , which is related to this topic).
> You can download the papers as a pdf-file at
> http://calper.la.psu.edu/publications.php
> <http://calper.la.psu.edu/publications.php>
>
> CALPER Website
> You will now find short announcements about updates to our projects on the
> front page of our site.
>
> Visit CALPER - LARC - NFLRC-Hawaii at CALICO 2005
> Three National Language Resource Centers will join and exhibit at this
> year's CALICO conference held at Michigan State University. If you are
> attending CALICO, come by the exhibit space BOOTH 15 & 16 and see what's new
> from CALPER, LARC and the NFLRC-Hawaii.
>
> CALPER People Presenting at  CALICO <http://www.calico.org/>  - May 17-21,
> 2005 held at Michigan State University
> A Human Computer Interaction Study of Data-driven Learning, S. Payne
> Data Driven Learning in L2 Writing Instruction, S. Payne & B. Ross
> Corpus Analytic Insights into Foreign Language Uses , S. Thorne & J.
> Reinhardt
> Inter-activity System Analysis, AIM, and Pedagogical Innovation, S. Thorne,
> J. Reinhardt, A. Bensinger, D. Webber
>
> Symposium on "Advanced Language Proficiency" at Penn State
> CALPER will hold its first symposium "Perspectives on Advanced Language
> Proficiency" on Wednesday, July 13, 2005. This one-day symposium will
> feature a panel of distinguished Applied Linguistics who will present
> position papers that focus on perspectives of advanced language proficiency.
>
> Confirmed panelists are:
>
> *	Rod Ellis (University of Auckland)
>
> *	Merrill Swain (Unversity of Toronto-OISE)
>
> *	Jim Lantolf (Penn State)
>
> *	Andrew Cohen (University of Minnesota) and
>
> *	Elana Shohamy (Tel Aviv University)
>
> CALPER is planning on broadcasting the event over the Internet. For
> regularly updated information visit our symposium
> <http://calper.la.psu.edu/profdev.php?page=symposia> site
>
> 2nd Summer Institute in Applied Linguistics at Penn State
> Penn State's Center for Language Acquisition  <http://language.la.psu.edu/>
> will hold its 2nd Summer Institute in Applied Linguistics from June 27 -
> July 21, 2005. More information is available at
> http://www.outreach.psu.edu/cnf/AppliedLinguistics/
> <http://www.outreach.psu.edu/cnf/AppliedLinguistics/> . Please feel free to
> share this information with your colleagues and graduate students.
>
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> Best regards from CALPER - the LRC in Pennsylvania
> Gabriela Appel, Program Coordinator
>
> The Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER)
> at the Pennsylvania State University is one of fourteen Title VI National
> Language Resource Centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Find
> websites of other Title VI LRCs here.  <http://calper.la.psu.edu/nflrc.php>
> We greatly welcome you to share this information with your colleagues.
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