Getting Published in Journals

Wednesday, January 25, 11:30-12:30pm in Moore 258 • Editorial teams from Language Learning & Technology, Reading in a Foreign Language, Language Learning, and  Language Documentation & Conservation

Want to get your articles published in academic journals?  Come join the editorial staff of  Language Learning & Technology (LLT) , Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL) ,  Language Learning,  and Language Documentation & Conservation (LDC) at this special presentation. They will discuss their journals and their own submission & review process, while also providing strategies and tips for getting published in refereed journals in general.

Present Communities of Imagination (PCOIz)

Monday, April 2, 12:30-1:30pm in Moore 155A • Tim Murphey (Kanda University of International Studies, Japan)

Using group dynamics as an umbrella term for overlapping literatures on community, cooperative, and collaborative practices, I introduce the concept of PCOIz which might help teachers to better conceptualize their classes and the time-frame influences on their students. I position PCOIz as complementaryto but different from communities of practice and imagined communities, and in some ways overlapping, with an emphasis on imagining and re-imagining. Using the WickedEyebrows figure (above), we look at how teachers can systematically organize activities to look at students’ pasts, presents, and futures. I also present several mixed method studies done in Japan which indicate that PCOIz, when well developed, can nurture the aspirations, resilience, learning strategies, beliefs, motivations, and possible selves of its members through critical dialogue and collaboration. 

IMPORTANT NOTE :  This presentation is being videotaped as the tenth in a series of Dr. Murphey’s annual lectures. We welcome and encourage you to attend! We’ll ask you to sign a consent form for the use of the video for educational purposes. Please arrange to arrive a bit early, if possible, and to stay throughout. 

CHINESE FLAGSHIP CAFE: Online Intercultural Discovery at the Advanced Level

Wednesday, April 18, 11:30–12:20pm in Moore 258 • Stephen Tschudi (NFLRC), Song Jiang (EALL), & Haidan Wang (EALL)

The Language Flagship, a program of the National Security Education Program in the US Department of Defense, aims at providing sufficient language proficiency for learners to function as professionals in languages critical to US security, including Chinese. One essential component of such advanced proficiency is a deep understanding of differences between one's own culture and the target culture, which is best acquired through examining the "silent language" of values and assumptions that underlies even very ordinary utterances. Intercultural exchanges facilitating reflection by both sides on this "silent language" provide a robust medium for learners to discover implicit cultural values of both their own culture and the target culture. Based on a vision articulated at the NFLRC 2011 Summer Institute, a team involving eight participants at four institutions in the US as well as the in-country Flagship partner, Nanjing University, are designing and undertaking an exchange project in Spring 2012 supporting Flagship students and their Chinese partners as they reflect on differences in cultural values surrounding personal identity and familial relations. This session describes the design and execution of this particular exchange, as well as some preliminary findings regarding task design, coordination and organization, and student production. The session will be of interest to any language faculty interested in online exchanges with native speakers and with the acquisition of cultural knowledge by foreign language learners.

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