GUAVA e-Newsletter

Announcements

• Bich-Ngoc Turner will be presenting her paper titled "From 'Tố Tâm' to "Thiên Sứ": The Vietnamese novellas and Narratives of Individual and Intellectual Tragedies" at the AAS 2024 Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington. Her paper is part of a panel called "The Novellas in Modern Asian Culture". More info here
• An Sakach and her team will be presenting their paper titled "A Collaborative Venture in Crafting An Open, Task-Based Vietnamese Textbook" at the fourth annual Language OER Conference by the Open Language Resource Center at the University of Kansas.
• Chung Nguyen shared her insights about how the Vietnamese language has become a bridge to connect overseas Vietnamese with the homeland in the news report by Vietnam Plus (Wednesday, January 31, 2024)

Workshops & Conferences

• TBLT in Asia 2024: To be held from July 5 th to July 7 th , 2024, at Meijo University (Nagoya Dome-Mae Campus) in Nagoya, Japan. Call for Papers now open!
• COTSEAL 40th Annual Conference (hybrid): 26-27 April 2024 at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The theme of this conference is "Inclusive Southeast Asian Language Instruction: Addressing Diverse Teaching and Learning Needs". Submission Deadline: Feb 23, 2024
• “Advances in World Language Pedagogy-The CALPER Professional Development Webinars” will be taking place soon. View and register here
• Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes June 17-August 9, 2024, US
  Registration deadline: February 21, 2024

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