March 6-12th, 2022 | Alpha Mu Gamma
National Foreign Language Week was inaugurated in the Spring of 1957 by Alpha Mu Gamma. Sister Eloise Therese, the National President of Alpha Mu Gamma from 1956 to 1960, discovered that such a week had never been officially celebrated in the United States as a whole, although foreign language had receive recognition by different educational institutions at various periods of the academic year.
Inspired by her the National Executive Council of Alpha Mu Gamma began to formulate plans to make the United States aware of the need for and importance of foreign language study through the celebration of NFLW. The first celebration was set for the week of February 17 to 23, 1957.
Each year since then the National Executive Council of AMG has set a week for this event. In recent years it has become the practice to have NFLW during the first full week of March.
JNCL-NCLIS envisions a world where language facilitates the free movement of people, information, and ideas.
By promoting personal development and mutual understanding of cultural and linguistic diversity, we celebrate humanity through language!
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February 17th, 2022 | Language Magazine
March 8 marks International Women's Day, a day to shine a light on grassroots efforts to advance gender equality in communities across the country.
Indigenous women are often regarded as traditional keepers of language and culture. CBC News speaks with seven women who are making changes, both big and small, in their lives, communities, and nations when it comes to the reclamation, revitalization, and preservation of Indigenous languages.
Mary Ann Naokwegijig-Corbiere, originally from Wikwemikong First Nation, is an assistant professor in Indigenous Studies at the University of Sudbury and has been teaching Nishnaabemwin for the last three decades. She is one of two editors of the Nishnaabemwin: Odawa and Eastern Ojibwe Dictionary.
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March 7, 2022 | Chalkbeat
The Illinois state board of education has created a $4 million grant from federal coronavirus relief funds that would help increase the number of bilingual educators in the state, amid growing calls to fill teacher vacancies.
The grant will give school districts money to pay tuition for current teachers who have a bilingual endorsement but want to earn professional licensure and for current educators who want to earn a bilingual endorsement.
Illinois school districts have struggled to fill teacher vacancies throughout the pandemic. Bilingual educators are in high demand, second only to special education teachers. In October, local school districts reported 98 vacancies for bilingual educators. One key issue preventing districts from filling vacancies is finding teachers who have a state license.
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January 28th, 2022 | The Loc Show
Jonathan interviews Dr. Sarah Mercer - Professor of Foreign Language Teaching & Head of ELT Methodology Department at the University of Graz.
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Date: March 15th, 2022
Two years since COVID-19 hit and CCHI offered up a webinar on the topic. Two years of pivoting realities, roller-coaster upheavals, dusting off and pulling oneself up by the bootstraps. What have we learned? How have we adapted and embraced what will go down in history as… What? Our 21st Century multi-faceted revolution-making epidemic?
Join us as a healthcare systems language services manager, a small community business leader, and an interpreter and subject matter expert offer up their experiences and perspectives on where they’ve been, what they’ve gained, and how they envision moving forward. The participants of this conversation are:
• Erin Rosales, CPTD, CHI™-Spanish, Director of Interpreter Development, Connecting Cultures (WI)
• Susana Jacobus, CHI-Spanish, Healthcare interpreter (Boston, MA)
• Christopher Bruce, Language Services Manager, Advocate Aurora Health (WI)
The American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation for this roundtable is sponsored by Certified Languages International (https://certifiedlanguages.com/).
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Date: April 11-12th, 2022
A Professional Learning Conference for Delaware Educators. Join the Delaware Department of Education for a virtual conference dedicated to high-quality instruction for Multilingual Learners. Free for All Delaware educators, advocates, and constituents advancing outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse learners.
Virtual Event: April 11-12 2022
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Date: September 12-14, 2022
The National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and the Center for Applied Second Language Studies at the University of Oregon are pleased to announce the 2022 Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference (PLL 2022) which will take place online on September 12-14, 2022.
The conference main theme will be Teaching and Learning Interactional Pragmatics in a Digital World, but we welcome 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.
We hope this conference brings together scholars and educators from all around the world who are interested in discussing both established and innovative approaches to teaching and learning pragmatics to strengthen our understanding of principles and practices in PLL and push the field to new and exciting directions in research and practice.
Abstract submissions deadline extension: The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended from March 1st to March 15th, 2022.
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“Ensuring that Americans have the opportunity to learn English and at least one other language.”
Joint National Committee for Languages
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THURSDAY, March 10th, 2022 ISSUE
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