Some Language Related Conferences 2005-20062005 October 7-9, 2005 Second Language Research Forum (SLRF 2005)Teachers College, Columbia University New York, NY http://www.tc.columbia.edu/academic/tesol/SLRF2005/index.htm
University of California at Berkeley. http://uccllt.ucdavis.edu October 21-22, 2005 Third 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.htmOctober 28, 2005 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 28 - 29, 2005 National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs (NASILP) Annual ConferenceArlington, VA www.nasilp.org 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. October 28 – 29, 2005 Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium (GRAPHSY)Washington, DC http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/spanport/ GRAPHSY is the first Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Languages, Literature & Linguistics sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. November 8-9, 2005 Military Language Conference: Foreign Language & Culture Awareness: Force MultipliersMITRE Building, Washington, DC, http://www.universityofmilitaryintelligence.us/mifltc/default.asp November 9-12, 2005 Annual Conference of the American Translators Association Westin Hotel Seattle, Washington 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 10-13, 2005 Joint meeting of The Hispanic Linguistics Symposium & The Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages The Nittany Lion Inn The Pennsylvania State University http://sip.la.psu.edu/conf/Ling.htm November 18-20, 2005 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages 39th Annual Meeting & Exposition "2005-2015: Realizing Our Vision of Languages for All" November 18-19, 2005 American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages (AATT) Pre-Conference Session Georgetown University, Washington, DC This conference is being established to mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of AATT. The first Pre-Conference is co-sponsored by the Institute for Turkish Studies and Georgetown University. It will be held in conjunction with the 2005 meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. http://www.princeton.edu/~turkish/aatt/calendar.htm November 19-22, 2005 Annual Convention of the Middle East Studies Association Washington, DC http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/MESA05/mesa05.htm December 27-30 2005 Modern Language Association Annual Convention Washington, DC http://www.mla.org/convention The MLA's 121st annual convention will be held in Washington, DC. Most English sessions and the exhibits are in the Marriott Wardman Park. Most foreign language sessions are in the Washington Hilton.December 27-30, 2005 American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) AATSEEL Annual Meeting ACTR and AATSEEL are pleased to announce that at the 2005 AATSEEL Conference, the annual president's reception will be held at the Embassy of the Russian Federation and hosted by Ambassador Ushakov. 2006 January 5-8, 2006 80th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America Albuquerque, NM www.lsadc.org The 80th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America will take place at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and the Doubletree Hotel, Albuquerque, NM. 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 3-5, 2006 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties: Defining, Documenting and Developing.’ March 15-19, 2006 The 40th Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibit (TESOL 2006) “Daring to Lead” Tampa, Florida www.tesol.org March 23-26, 2006 African Languages Teachers’ Association Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Conference Theme: African languages in the age of globalization: Prospects and challenges http://lang.nalrc.wisc.edu/alta/call_paper.htm March 30-April 2, 2006 The 2006 Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL) New York Marriott Marquis http://www.dickinson.edu/nectfl/conf.html 2006's NECTFL conference will continue to celebrate the Year of Languages on the stage in Times Square, and based on the 2005 theme will reinforce the need for cultural understanding. April 6-9, 2006 CIBER 2006 Matters of Perspective: Culture, Communication and CommerceCenters for International Business Education and research. Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, GA http://www.modlangs.gatech.edu/ April 6-9, 2006 Annual Conference of the Asian Studies AssociationSan Francisco, CA http://www.aasianst.org/annmtg.htm April 27-30, 2006 National Conference of the Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCLCTL)Madison, WI. http://www.councilnet.org/conf/announce.htm May 16-20, 2006 Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) University of Hawaii www.calico.org June 11-13, 2006 International Conference on Hebrew Language and Literature (NAPH) University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/naph/ichll.html June 17-20, 2006 Joint Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) and Association Canadienne de Linguistique Appliquée/Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (ACLA/ CAAL) Hyatt Hotel Montreal Montreal, Canada http://www.aaal.org/aaal2006/index.htm June-July, 2006 National Foreign Language Resource Center Summer Institutes. There are 14 National Language Resource Centers, all located at major universities. The list of summer institutes provided by the Centers in Summer 2005 is provided at http://nflrc.msu.edu/summer.html Details of workshop topics and dates for 2006 will be announced later. July, 2006 COTSEAL/SEASSI Conference on Southeast Asian Language Learning and Teaching. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. http://cotseal.siamwestdc.com/ July-August 2006 South Asian Studies Languages Institute. University of Wisconsin and Madison. http://www.wisc.edu/sasli. July-August 2006 Sixth Foreign Language Education And Technology Conference (FLEAT 6). Conference of the International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT). Location and exact date to be announced. http://www.iallt.org/conferences/index.html August 5-6, 2006 International Conference on Japanese Language Education (ICJLE) Columbia University, New York City, U.S.A. http://www.japaneseteaching.org/icjle/ November 2-5, 2006 Annual Conference of the American Translator's Association Sheraton Hotel New Orleans, Louisiana www.atanet.org November 17-19, 2006 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages 40th Annual Meeting & Exposition (ACTFL) San Antonio, TX www.actfl.org |