Dates

September 10, 2010

Plenary Topics

1. Census Bureau: "Sociolinguistics and U.S. Census Bureau Language Research"
2. "MLA-report-relevant USG initiatives: An update"

Venue

Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington,VA

October 29, 2010

Conference with East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT)

Georgetown University

November 12, 2010

National Foreign Language Center (NFLC): "STARTALK: Our mission, accomplishments and directions"

Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington,VA

December 17, 2010

Documentary video: "Speaking in Tongues"
(More information: http://speakingintonguesfilm.info/ )

Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington,VA

January 21, 2011

Center for Applied Linguistics: "Language Proficiency in Government Service: The English for Heritage Language Speakers Program"

Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington,VA

February 18, 2011

Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington,VA

March 18, 2011

Mr. Bill Castan, Program Director, NLCS: "National Language Service Corps Update;" Dr. Charles W. Stansfield, President, Second Language Testing, Inc.: "Evaluating the Validity of NLSC Self-Assessment Scores" Dr. Bill Rivers, Chief Linguist, NLSC: "ASTM Main Committee F43: Language Services and Products."

Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington,VA

April 1, 2011

Olga Kagan, Director, National Heritage Language Resource Center, UCLA: "Heritage Languages: At the Crossroads of Research and Teaching"

U.S. Department of Education
1990 K Street, NW, 8th Floor
Washington, DC

May 20, 2011

Dr. Allison Greene-Sands and Mr. Marc Robere Hill, Defense Language Office - Culture Team: "Culture in the DOD: Concepts, Initiatives and Applications.''

Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington,VA

June 10, 2011

Tammy Lindsley, General Services Administration: "Overview of GSA's Language Services - Schedule 738-II;" and
Joy Miller, National Virtual Translation Center: "Leveraging Language Resources in the Intelligence Community."

Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington,VA