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GUAVA e-Newsletter

January 2025
Happy New Year 2025
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Announcements

  • GUAVA Newsletter December 2024 is now available on the website. This issue highlights several GUAVA new initiatives and key policies and features three teaching articles by GUAVA Members (An Sakach, Trang Tran, and Jennie Tran)
  • GUAVA Innovation Awards Now Open! These awards, offered by GUAVA, recognize outstanding, innovative, and transformative teaching of Vietnamese Language Education. Three prizes ranging between $150 and $300 will be awarded this year. The award winners will be featured on our website.
  • The Southeast Asian Language Council (SEALC) proudly announces the Fall 2025 Hybrid Symposium: Piloting the Proficiency-Based Instructional Materials and Assessments Tools: Insights and Lessons learned hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) University of Hawai‘i at Mnoa, Honolulu, HI Dates: September 26-27, 2025; Venue: University of Hawai`i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
  • The National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC) is hosting a VIRTUAL summer workshop to help language teachers meet the challenges of teaching heritage language students, whether in mixed or heritage-specific classes. Dates: June 23 - July 17, 2025; Location: Online via Zoom. Application deadline is January 31, 2025.

Workshops & Conferences (CFPs)

    GUAVA in Blog

    Celebrating Innovation in Vietnamese Language Education: The 2025–2026 GUAVA Innovation Awards Showcase

    On May 16, 2026, the Vietnamese language teaching community came together for the GUAVA Innovation Awards Showcase — an annual celebration of the most creative, impactful, and forward-thinking approaches to teaching Vietnamese in U.S. higher education. Now in its second year, the GUAVA Innovation Awards were established by the GUAVA Board in 2024–2025 to recognize outstanding contributions to Vietnamese language education. Each …
    Celebrating Innovation in Vietnamese Language Education: The 2025–2026 GUAVA Innovation Awards Showcase

    A New Home for Vietnamese Language Teaching Resources: Introducing the Vietnamese Language Teaching Hub

    A New Home for Vietnamese Language Teaching Resources: Introducing the Vietnamese Language Teaching Hub
    We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Vietnamese Language Teaching Hub, a collaboration between GUAVA and the Digitizing Vietnam team. The hub was officially launched at the full-day workshop "Digitizing Vietnam: Vietnamese Studies in the Age of Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence" at Columbia University, where GUAVA President Chung Nguyen introduced the hub to the broader Vietnamese Studies …
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