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GUAVA e-Newsletter

October 2023

Announcements

[Member Highlight] GUAVA Members An Sakach, ThuyAnh Nguyen, Chung Nguyen, and Huy Phung received a grant from the Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages Partnership at MSU for the project "Collaborative Project to Develop Vietnamese Open Textbook and Lesson Plans".
[Job] Instructor (Vietnamese Language & Culture) at University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Bàn tròn Tiếng Việt (The Vietnamese Language Table – VLT) is back this Fall 2023. VLT will continue to facilitate conversation hours for three levels Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced. This is the virtual conversation space for all learners of Vietnamese from institutions across North America and all over the world. Meetings schedules and registration link are available on the website https://sites.google.com/view/vietnameselanguagetable/home

[New Book] Designing Effective Language Learning Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages: A Research-Based Guide by Öner Özçelik and Amber Kennedy Kent
[New Book] Literacies in language education : a guide for teachers and teacher educators ; Kate Paesani and Mandy Menke. Paesani, Kate, author.; Menke, Mandy R., author.Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press; 2023

Workshops & Conferences

Call for Proposals: 58th RELC International Conference: Re-humanizing, Re-conceptualizing and Re-imagining Language Teaching and Learning for Education 5.0 March 11-13, 2024, SG
Extended deadline: Oct 15, 2023
Call for Proposals - 7th International Symposium on Languages for Specific Purposes (ISLSP). The conference will be held May 2-3, 2024, on the campus of the George Washington University in the heart of Washington, DC. Deadline for submissions is October 15, 2023
Call for Proposals - CALICO Conference 2024.

The conference will take place at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh from May 21-25, 2024
Proposal Submission Deadline: Friday, October 27, 2023
Call for Proposals: 18th Annual Colloquium on Language Teaching February 10, 2024, US; Michigan State University via Zoom
Call deadline: October 31, 2023
Call for Proposals: The 2024 AAS-in-Asia Conference to be held between the 9th and 11th of July 2024 at Universitas of Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Call deadline: October 31, 2023

Events

[UPCOMING] 2023 Community-Based Heritage Language Schools Conference, Friday, October 13, 2023 to Saturday, October 14, 2023

GUAVA Members and friends attended the SEALC Reading Materials Demonstration & Critique Workshop September 22~23, 2023 • University of California, Los Angeles

Latest GUAVA in Blog

Celebrating Excellence: GUAVA President Chung Nguyen Named 2026 Vietnamese Language Ambassador Abroad

The Group of Universities for the Advancement of Vietnamese in America (GUAVA) is delighted to share groundbreaking news with our community of educators, scholars, and language advocates worldwide. Our current GUAVA President, Ms. Chung Nguyen—Director and Senior Lecturer of the Vietnamese Language Program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University—has been officially named a 2026 …

Elevate Your Teaching: Join VietTBLT’s 2026 Public Workshop Series on Developing Task-Based Curricula

As educators, we are constantly seeking ways to make language learning more meaningful, engaging, and directly applicable to the real world. Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) offers a powerful framework to achieve this, moving beyond mechanical drills to put authentic communication at the center of the classroom.To help educators navigate the transition from theory to practice, VietTBLT—an initiative dedicated to advancing task-based …

To share forthcoming notifications, news, and updates, kindly direct them to our editor Huy Phung at phunghuy@hawaii.edu and guavamerica@gmail.com

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