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Some Language-Related Conferences 2006-2007

2006

October 28-29, 2006
Fourth Annual Conference on the Teaching and Learning to Near-Native Levels of Second Language Proficiency. Washington, DC. Contact : Leaver@aol.com. http://www.distinguishedlanguagecenters.org/conferences.htm

October 12-13, 2006
East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT)
George Washington University
Washington, DC. http://nzo.williamhall.us/cal/webpage.htm
ECOLT represents an East Coast group of professionals, scholars, and students who are involved in language testing projects and research. One of the organization's goals is to support connections among academia, government, and not-for-profit testing organizations.

October 27 - 28, 2006
National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs (NASILP) Annual Conference

Arlington, VA http://www.nasilp.org/Conference.html
The Association's annual meeting will feature presentations reflecting current research on issues pertinent to academically-based self-accessed programs for LCTLs. The meeting provides access to nationally-recognized scholars in the fields of pedagogy, design, materials development, instructional technologies, program administration, and establishes channels through which the special concerns and expertise of NASILP's institutional members are shared.

November 1-4, 2006
Annual Conference of the American Translators Association

New Orleans, www.atanet.org
Join your colleagues for this rewarding experience featuring over 175 educational sessions, exhibits offering the latest services, opportunities to network with over 1200 translators and interpreters from around the world, and much more!

November 16-19, 2006
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages 39th Annual Meeting & Exposition "Discover the World—Discover Languages"

Nashville, TN www.actfl.org

November 18-21, 2006
Annual Convention of the Middle East Studies Association

Boston University, Boston, MA, November 18-21, 2006
http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/MESA05/mesa05.htm

December 27-30 2006
Modern Language Association Annual Convention

Philadelphia, PA http://www.mla.org/convention
The MLA's 122nd annual convention will be held in Philadelphia.


December 27-30, 2006
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) AATSEEL Annual Meeting

Philadelphia, PA http://aatseel.org/program/

2007

January 4-7, 2007
81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America

Anaheim, CA www.lsadc.org
The Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America will take place. The American Dialect Society, the American Name Society, the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, and the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas will meet concurrently with the LSA.

March 8-11 , 2007
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT)

Washington, DC http://www.georgetown.edu/events/gurt/

March 15-18, 2007
21st Conference on Spanish in the U.S. and 6th International Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages.

George Mason University and U. of Maryland.

March 21-24, 2007
The Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibit (TESOL 2007)

Seattle, WA www.tesol.org

March 22-25, 2007
Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association

Boston, MA http://www.aasianst.org/annmtg.htm

April 12-14, 2007
The 2007 Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL)

New York Marriott Marquis http://www.dickinson.edu/nectfl/conf.html

April 21-24, 2007
American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)

Costa Mesa, CA
http://www.aaal.org

April 26-29, 2007
National Conference of the Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCLCTL)

Madison, WI. http://www.councilnet.org/conf/announce.htm

May 10-11, 2007
SCOLA Annual Foreign Language Conference

Omaha, NE http://www.scola.org; Phone: 712-566-2202 ; email: scola@scola.org

May 22-26, 2007
Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)

Texas State University, San Marcos,TX
www.calico.org

Dates to be Announced, 2007
International Conference on Hebrew Language and Literature (NAPH)

Australia; venue to be announced. http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/naph/ichll.html

June-July, 2007
National Foreign Language Resource Center Summer Institutes.
There are 16 National Language Resource Centers, all located at major universities. The list of summer institutes provided by the Centers in Summer 2006 is provided at http://nflrc.msu.edu/summer.html
Details of workshop topics and dates for 2007 will be announced later.

July 1-27, 2007
2007 Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America.
Stanford, CA
Theme: Empirical Foundations for Theories of Language. http://www.lsadc.org/info/inst-2007.cfm

Dates to be Announced, 2007
COTSEAL/SEASSI Conference on Southeast Asian Language Learning and Teaching.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. http://cotseal.siamwestdc.com/

Dates to be Announced 2007
South Asian Studies Languages Institute. University of Wisconsin and Madison.
http://www.wisc.edu/sasli.

November 17-20, 2007
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Meeting & Exposition (ACTFL)
San Antonio, TX www.actfl.org

Also see:

Language Conferences Worldwide: Upcoming events in language, linguistics, speech and hearing therapy, translation, TESOL and related fields.

Conference Schedules for for Linguists, Translators, Interpreters and Teachers of Languages.