LINGUIST List 22.3675 Wed Sep 21 2011 Calls: Germanic, Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition/USA Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Jane Grabowski , Not Your Grandma's German(ic Language) Class: Language, Literature, and Culture in Collegiate Foreign Language Education Message 1: Not Your Grandma's German(ic Language) Class: Language, Literature, and Culture in Collegiate Foreign Language Education Date: 20-Sep-2011 From: Jane Grabowski <jgrabow1asu.edu> Subject: Not Your Grandma's German(ic Language) Class: Language, Literature, and Culture in Collegiate Foreign Language Education E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Not Your Grandma's German(ic Language) Class: Language, Literature, and Culture in Collegiate Foreign Language Education Date: 02-Mar-2012 - 02-Mar-2012 Location: Austin, Texas, USA Contact Person: Holly Brining Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics Language Family(ies): Germanic Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2011 Meeting Description: The Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin announces its 4th biennial Graduate Student Conference on Friday, March 2, 2012. We invite graduate students from all sub-disciplines in Germanic language departments to submit papers on ongoing research activities or pedagogical practices. Call for Papers: We encourage proposals from a variety of fields that contribute to understandings of language use, language teaching and/or language learning, including foreign languages, education, communications, sociolinguistics, psychology, speech and hearing sciences, anthropology and sociology. Joint papers and cross-disciplinary proposals are welcome. Possible topics include: - The role of conversation analysis, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and dialectology in FL learning - Innovative practices and course design in FLE - Didacticization of literary texts for FL learners - Development of inter/transcultural competence - Changing professional roles and demands upon graduate students - Second Language Acquisition research - Impact of ACTFL proficiency guidelines and standards and 2007 MLA report on profession - Using linguistics/literature/cultural studies in the FL classroom - Teaching/learning reading, writing, listening and speaking in FLE - Incorporating technology into the FL classroom - Assessment in FLE Proposals for 20 minute presentations should be submitted as an e-mail attachment (PDF or Word DOC) to GerGradConference2012gmail.com no later than November 1, 2011. Submissions should include: - The title of the paper - Names and affiliations of all authors - Mailing address and phone number of the primary author - E-mail addresses of all authors - An abstract no more than 250 words in length - Any multi-media equipment needs Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 21-Sep-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.