September 29, 2017 |
“To Thine Own Self Be True: A Five-Study Meta-Analysis on the Accuracy of Language-Learner Self-Assessment” |
Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington,VA
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October 20, 2017 |
ICW ECOLT 2017 |
Georgetown University |
December 8, 2017 |
Update on the activities of the Commission on Language Learning's Working Group William P. Rivers, Ph.D. Executive Director |
National Foreign Language Center (NFLC), College Park , MD |
January 19, 2018 |
Predicting Language Learning Success: FSI Pilots the Hi-LAB Marsha Kaplan, FSI |
Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington,VA |
February 16, 2018 |
Understanding foreign language use at U.S.DoS overseas posts: This presentation reports on a project conducted by the FSI School of Language Studies (SLS) investigating foreign language use by Department of State (DoS) employees at U.S. overseas posts. The project adopted a task-based needs analysis approach aiming to better understand the high-priority work and life-related tasks conducted by U.S. embassy and consulate staff in foreign languages. Information on key post activities and tasks was first collected via extensive documentation review and 62 phone interviews with DoS overseas employees. Tasks collected from document review and interviews were transferred into an online questionnaire and rated for importance and frequency by 761 DoS respondents currently working abroad. The presentation reports on implications of results as well as potential uses of the project by various SLS stakeholders toward development of assessment, instruction, and curriculum design. |
Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington,VA |
March 16, 2018 |
NFLC research on language learning and teaching: K-12,
university, and adult learners. |
National Foreign Language Center (NFLC), College Park , MD |
April 20, 2018 |
Jose A. Viana, Assistant Deputy Secretary and Director of the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), Department of Education Remarks will focus on the importance of foreign language proficiency for the 21st-centuey workforce. |
LBJ Department of Education Building at 400 Maryland Avenue SW |
May 18, 2018 |
"Neural machine translation: Should translators be nervous?" |
Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington,VA |
June 8, 2018 |
“Assessment Innovations: An Update on the Assessment of Performance toward Proficiency in Languages (AAPPL)” Leah Graham, Associate Director, Center for Assessment, Research and Development Meg Malone, Director, Center for Assessment, Research and Development Camelot Marshall, Principal Assessment Specialist, , Center for Assessment, Research and Development |
Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington,VA |
