Call for Paper 19 November 2008
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International Seminar in Assessment in Language Learning and Teaching
(complete brochure fbsltc-2009-brochure | 6 Mb)
Submit your abstract online here.
22-23 January 2009
Faculty of Language and Literature & Language Training Center
Satya Wacana Christian University
Salatiga, Indonesia
CALL for Paper/Workshop Proposals
A 250-300 word abstract with a title not exceeding twelve words and a fifty-word bio-data
Deadline : 19 December 2008
Notification: 26 December 2008
Selected full paper deadline: 15 January 2009 (for inclusion in the Proceedings)
Topics
· Faculty in Language Program Assessment
· Students in Language Program Assessment
· Technology in Language Program Assessment
· Appropriate Ways to Assess the Mastery of Language Skills
· How to Align Learning Objectives and Learning Outcomes
· Evaluation Models for Data from Testing
· Other related subtopics
Criteria for Acceptance
All abstracts will be evaluated by the Seminar Planning Committee. Relevance to the theme of the Seminar and freshness and originality of approach are among the major considerations in the acceptance of papers. The Committee reserves the right to decline paper/workshop proposals without assigning reasons.
Proposals are encouraged within the sub-themes, but are not limited to the topic areas.
Invited Speakers
Prof. Lyle Bachman, UCLA, California, USA
Prof. Hiromi Otaka, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
RELO Jakarta, Indonesia
Conference Fee
Public : Rp 550.000,-
Local Teachers : Rp 300.000,- (for Salatiga primary and secondary school teachers with a letter from the schools)
The fee includes a certificate of attendance, conference materials, refreshments, lunches, and a conference dinner.
More info and brochure download:
email: fbsltc@gmail.com
web : www.uksw.edu/ltc/events or http://neny.edublogs.org (temporary)
Contact persons:
ANISIA BUDI PRABAWANI
Phone & Fax: +62 298 313859
TRI SUNARTI
Phone & Fax: +62 298 312120
Registration closes on Monday, 19 January 2009
New Way for Finding References 20 July 2008
Posted by neny in ESL/EFL Info, For my students, Internet/Blogging/Computer.Tags: finding references, google book search
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For someone who lives in Indonesia, it’s quite difficult to find adequate references for research. Most of the times, my students and I find it very difficult to get latest journal articles. Searching in google usually brings many hits of results. The problem is, not all of them can be downloaded freely, unless your university subscribed to the journals or you pay. Getting them from university libraries is also possible, but due to the price of the books, the library simply didn’t buy them.
Today, I came across one of Google’s search engine: Google Book Search. What so wonderful about this facility is not only the search facility, but also the ability of it to display some pages of the book! Some books are available for previewing some pages only, and some even provide full book preview. It is just awesome for me! With Microsoft Office OneNote, I can always do a screen clipping of the pages for later reading and it will be a tremendous help for my research.
Round applause for Google, please!
Plans of 2008 8 February 2008
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Conferences to attend:
WorldCALL 2008 (Fukuoka, Japan; 5-9 August)
I’ve been shortlisted to become the recipient of a scholarship to attend this conference. It will be super duper exciting as there are some possibilities to meet interesting CALL practitioners to make a network and to learn what has been going on in different continents. I might meet my former professors and some of my old classmates as this is the ‘Olympic’ of CALL. I’ve sent my abstracts too and I hope that they can be accepted to be presented.
GloCALL 2008 (Jakarta & Yogyakarta, Indonesia; November)
This year, Indonesia becomes the host for GloCALL conference. As one of few CALL practitioners in Indonesia, I serve as a committee member. I’m still not sure what will my responsibilities be, but from what I discussed with Indra Charismiadji of Higher Learning, it seems that I will deal with PR-ing especially among the universities. I still don’t know whether I will submit abstracts or not (since the call for paper is not circulated yet), but well, I can always pull something at the very last minute (so typical of me!).
Projects to do:
The website provides a service for teachers if they want to do online assessments through tests or portfolios. A week ago, the director sent me an email, asking if my students and I will be interested in developing the ‘Indonesian skin’ for the website. Basically, the skin will be a version of yacapaca in Indonesian. There is no money involved in this project, but nevertheless I’m so excited because it will give my students some experiences in translating. We will receive full credits of the translation (another reason: simply narcissistic of me!) and I manage to secure my students reference letters for their future employment.
Fun English with YSKI students
YSKI is a private Christian school in Semarang and they develop a cooperation with my faculty to improve the quality of the English teachers and to provide a fun English learning club for their students. As the words ‘fun’ and ‘technology’ are dubbed by the school, the faculty turned into the one and only Neny whose reputation of being fun lover and technogeek is widely known (ha!). So, I created a blog site, which will be used along the semester and hope the students will like it. Along with me, Andrew and Rudi are going to teach too, so let’s see how it goes next week when it starts.
*long-ignored* sustainable CALL project with Van Deventer Maas Stichting
Hmmm, I still don’t know what to do with this and thus, I have not had the guts to email the director. Need to send him email!!!!
Publications to spread:
July 2008 has been decided by IGI Global as the time for launching the “Handbook of Research on E-Learning Methodologies for Language Acquisition” and one of the chapters in the book about Interaction Modifications in Internet Chatting was contributed by yours truly. I’m so excited to get my hands on the book!
Hilarious Collaborative Classwork for Writing 20 October 2006
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The other day, I was so confused looking for a method to engage my students in a writing activity in my IC class. Writing is usually painstaking both for students and teachers. It’s painful for students because it requires more efforts and energy to come up with ideas, check the spelling, think about the content, etc. in such a limited time like 20-30 minute slot of an IC class meeting. It’s also painful for teachers because once the essays are submitted, we have to struggle to correct and edit them. My IC class has at least 27 students and on top of other tasks that I have, correcting papers is not a task I’m excited about.
So, that morning as usual I came across Fenny Kristianti, one of my colleagues, and check the answers of the that day’s IC textbook exercise. We usually do this before the class, just to make sure that we give the same answers to students. We also discuss some techniques and methodology for teaching that day. When I talked to her about the problem of writing classwork that day, she came up with a brilliant idea, which she had applied it the week before.
For the purpose of naming, I will call the method as ’round-robin’ writing. Students form a group of 3-4 people and each group is given a piece of paper and a topic to write. The group then discusses the first sentence of the essay/story for 3-5 minutes and write the first sentence. When the time is up, the group transfers their paper to the next group. And the process is repeated again. It goes until the paper returns to the original group. The class then reads together the story/essay. Together, they correct the grammar/spelling and evaluate the content.
So I used the method for two of my IC sessions: news and tips writing. And the results are wonderful. The students came up with very funny fake news and some tips “essential “for the life of a college student in our campus. The most important thing from the perspective of language learning is the students are very motivated in doing the writing task because the success of the essay depends on their collaborative efforts and they particularly like how the essay/paper turned out to be very hillarious. They also learn to evaluate their own piece of essay in terms of mechanics and content. Please read their work and give your comments!
CALL for papers: TEFLIN 2006 7 September 2006
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Hello all,
If you’re interested to present your ideas and research results in an international conference, TEFLIN 2006 may be the perfect place!
This annual conference is a meeting place where teachers of English for speakers of Indonesian and others who are interested with the issues of teaching English in Indonesia gather and share their thoughts. This year conference will be hosted by my department and held between 5-7 December 2006 in Salatiga.
The call for papers is on until 30 September 2006! So hurry up! Details on the whats and the hows of sending your summary is available at their website.
Hope to see you all here! And now, I have to get back to my data because I will submit a presentation too! Hopefully they will accept it or else I will quit my position at the conference organizing committee 
CALL course 4 September 2006
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This morning I started my 13 weeks of CALL course teaching. There are so many idealistic topics that I want to share to my students, but of course due to time and technology limit, some of those remains as idealism.
If you’re interested to see how the course goes, you can check in our class blog. I put the syllabus, some materials and class activities there. My students are going to build their professional websites where they put their portfolio. So I’m going to put links to my students’ websites once they’re ready.
If you are around Salatiga, Central Java, and would like to join the course (for FREE!), please come every Tuesday. 9-11 AM to the computer lab at the Library of Satya Wacana Christian University. Depending on the class capacity, you may get a seat with a computer hooked up to the Internet. If you’re a bit lucky, still you can sit comfortably.
Also, I welcome your comments and criticism to the course. Feel free to email me or to use the contact page in this portal to let me know what you think of the course.
Free Online Reading and Writing Class 29 August 2006
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I just got this email from a professional mailing list that I join. This sounds very interesting and useful for learners of ESL, especially because it’s FREE!
Read on…
