Duke University
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department
February 20, 2009: “Computer-mediated Interaction and the New Frontiers of Language Learning”
Presenter: Steven L. Thorne

National Standards for Korean Task Force Meeting
University of Rhode Island
February 27-28, 2009
Task Force Member: Susan Strauss

Chinese Language Teachers Association of California
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA,
March 7, 2009: “Discourse and Corpus Approaches to [...]

Mündliche Kompetenz im Unterricht amerikanischer High-Schools: Theorie, Praxis, Evaluierung und Didaktik (MUTPED), June 13-July 11, Leipzig.
For high school teachers and graduate students planning on a career in K-12 teaching to improve German language skills, teaching methods, and assessment strategies. The deadline has been extended to February 23, 2009.

For more information:  http://www.aatg.org/content/view/443/34/

CALPER faculty will be presenting at ACTFL (Nov. 21-23, 2008, Orlando, FL):
Sat, Nov 22 - 8:00 - 9:15am
Building/Room: Swan / Swan 7
Panel: Korean SIG - National Standards for Korean
Title: National Standards For Korean Language Learning in the 21st Century
Presenters: Young-Mee Yu-Cho, Susan Strauss, Hae-young Kim, Hyosang Lee, June Hong, and Sahie Kang (Chair)
Sat, Nov [...]

The Fall 2008 conference on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) provides an opportunity for faculty, graduate instructors, and administrators to share expertise in building and managing post-secondary CLAC programs.  A special focus this year will be on the implications of the May 2007 MLA Foreign Language Report (http://www.mla.org/flreport) on [...]

“Mündliche Kompetenz im Unterricht amerikanischer High-Schools: Theorie, Praxis, Evaluierung und Didaktik”
AATG announces funding for a seminar at the University of Leipzig from June 28-July26, 2008. Deadline for application: February 1, 2008.
Please consult the website of the American Association of Teachers of German at http://www.aatg.org

CALL FOR PAPERS.
The 20th annual conference of the Central Association of Teachers of Japanese (CATJ) will take place May 31 - June 1, 2008 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The theme of the conference is “Towards Advanced Japanese Language Proficiency”. Together we will explore the following questions:

How can we conceptualize advanced language proficiency?
How [...]