The Southwest and Northwest Associations for Language Learning Technology will hold a joint regional group meeting October 15-16, 2010 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
We welcome proposals for individual or joint presentations, panels, workshops, and posters that showcase technology-enhanced language learning and teaching. Our theme is “Sustainable Language Learning Technology” and our focus will be on which current and emerging technologies will best enhance our limited resources. Other related topics will be considered. Please join us if you can.
The deadline for proposal submission is June 15, 2010. Submit your proposal at:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGY4TkQ2U2NnX1l3Zk1ZV3B5aWk0bkE6MQ
or through the link at http://swallt.org/conferences/
See you there.
DIVISION ON THE TEACHING OF LANGUAGE
2011 MLA SESSIONS
CALL FOR PAPERS
Session title: Foreign Language Cultural Literacy and Web 2.0
The 2009 Horizon Report on emerging technologies details a multiplicity of technology trends that are already having an impact on foreign language teaching. These drivers of change in higher education include awareness of globalization, openness to accelerated information sharing, and advances in collaborative networking and collective knowledge production.
For one of its 2011 MLA sessions, the Committee on the Division of Language Teaching seeks papers that examine how practices and tools associated with Web 2.0 and the use of instructional technology more generally can be effectively used to enhance foreign language teaching and learning. Presentations are invited on multi-media curriculum design that advances foreign language literacy objectives, especially models that can serve a broad range of departmental contexts.
We are especially interested in research that has been conducted in the following areas:
- Initiatives that enhance cultural learning and the development of foreign language skills through the use of instructional technology (e.g., global simulations, gaming, asynchronous or synchronous exchanges);
- Discussion and analysis of applications for the incorporation of personal mobile devices into language classes;
- Outcomes assessment (qualitative and quantitative) related to the implementation of technology-enriched curriculum in language instruction contexts;
- Curriculum development initiatives that strengthen the ability of institutions to offer less commonly taught languages;
- Examples of cross-institutional collaboration in foreign language instruction that demonstrate or show the limitations in the efficacy of technology-enhanced teaching.
Abstracts should include a detailed description of the paper’s organization, as well as an explanation of how it fits into the theme of the session. Please send a one page abstract to Professor Charlotte Melin at melin005@umn.edu by March 10, 2010.
Fernando Rubio
Co-Chair and Associate Professor
Department of Languages and Literature
University of Utah
(801) 581-4610
Dear all, please join me for an exciting new SWALLT Online presentation:
Using the Interactive Features of Moodle to Give Focused Feedback to Students (Trevor Shanklin, San Diego State University)
When? December 11, 2009 at noon on the west coast
How? Via Adobe Connect. You have received the link through your SWALLT listserv. If you didn’t, please contact me.
Swallt.org now has a new template and most pages have been added. Members who wish to get an account so that they can blog may contact the president.
Any input and feedback is highly encouraged: what can swallt.org do for you? What can we offer here that we currently do not provide?
We look forward to hearing from you!
The new swallt.org site is online! We’ll need a few days to make everything nice and pretty, and also to move our content over. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Thanks to Ryan and Gus to make this switch possible!
