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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

Job: Instructor (Vietnamese Language & Culture) at UHM

Title: Instructor (Vietnamese Language & Culture)Hiring Unit: College of Arts, Languages & Letters, Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and LiteraturesLocation: Manoa CampusDate Posted: 09/15/2023Closing Date: 09/29/2023Salary Information: Instructor, commensurate with qualifications and experienceMonthly Type: 9 MonthTenure Track: N on-tenure-tr ack, annually renewableFull Time/Part Time: Full timeTemporary/Permanent: Temporary Funding: General Funds Other Conditions: To begin Fall 2024, rank I-2, non-tenure track and annually renewable, dependent on satisfactory performance and need. Duties and Responsibilities: Teach undergraduate …

Collaborative Virtual Vietnamese Language Table: Connecting Learners*

The Vietnamese Language Table (VLT) was initially formed in response to the challenges posed by the pandemic, which prevented students from participating in conversation hours or language tables in person. It was also a collaborative effort to overcome the lack of resources and personnel that hindered the organization of such extracurricular activities. Organized and facilitated by a dedicated group of …

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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