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Language Institute Programs for Faculty and Staff

The Language Institute is pleased to announce the following events in the 2012-13 academic year:

Themed lecture series, Language, Cognition and Sociality
Invited lectures in the Second Language Acquisition Talk Series (sponsored by the SLA PhD Program)
Language Institute Brownbags Series: Bi-weekly, on Mondays at 12:00 pm in 1322 Van Hise Hall
Special workshops, lectures and other events

Lecture Series: Language, Cognition and Sociality

(Spring 2013 only)

Distributed Cultural-Historical Dynamics and the Development of Semiotic Agility
Steven Thorne, Portland State University and University of Groningen
Comments from Heather Willis Allen, Department of French and Italian
4:00 pm, Thursday, March 7, 2013
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive

The Co-Operative Organization of Human Action
Charles Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles
Comments from Mitchell Nathan, Department of Educational Psychology
4:00 pm, Thursday, April 11, 2013
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive

Language Over Lunch: Language Institute Brownbag Series

Spring 2013 Language Institute Brownbags: Conversations on Innovation in Language Teaching and Learning
12:00 pm, 1322 Van Hise Hall

Distance Learning 1: Sharing Courses
12:00-1:00 pm, Monday, January 28

Distance Learning 2: Business Models
12:00-1:00 pm, Monday, February 4

Prosodic Features, Self-Monitoring and Perception of Oral Disfluency
Bei Yang, Department of East Asian Languages and Literature
12:00-1:00 pm, Monday, February 11

Preparing, Mentoring and Supporting Teaching Assistants and Language Instructors
12:00-1:00 pm, February 18

Advocating for Language Learning
12:00-1:00 pm, February 25

Summer and Professional Language Programs
12:00-1:00 pm, March 4

Multilingual Subjectivity in Linguistic Ethnography: Meeting the Native in the Diaspora
Isil Erduyan, Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition
12:00-1:00 pm, March 11

Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in Languages
12:00-1:00 pm, April 8

Maximizing Language and Culture Learning Outside of the Classroom
12:00-1:00 pm, April 15

Language Learning and Study Abroad
12:00-1:00 pm, April 29

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Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Talk Series

Functional Grammar in Support of English Language Learners' Literacy Development in the Elementary Grades
Mary Schleppegrell, University of Michigan
5:00 pm, Wednesday, February 13, 2013
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive

Previous Language Institute Lecture Series

Fall 2012:Language, Cognition and Sociality
Fall 2012 Language Over Lunch brownbag series
2011-2012: Cosmopolitanism and Language
2010-11: Immersion and Language Learning: Contexts and Challenges
2009-10: The Pain of Language: Language and Migration
2008-09: Culture, Literature, and Language: Power and Pedagogies
2007-08: Assessing Language Learning
2006-07: National Standards and Instructional Strategies for Foreign Language Teaching
2005-06: World Language Policies and Pedagogical Practices
2004-05: Voices of America

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