• 2007 - 2008

  • 2006 - 2007

  • 2005 - 2006

Some Language Related Conferences 2007-2008

October 31- November 3, 2007
Annual Conference of the American Translators Association
Hyatt Regency Hotel, San Francisco , CA The ATA Annual Conference offers a multitude of features and events that allow attendees to connect with over 1,500 translators and interpreters from throughout the U.S. and around the world. 

November 2-3, 2007
East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT) George Washington University , Washington , DC.  ECOLT represents an East Coast group of professionals, scholars, and students who are involved in language testing projects and research. One of the organization's goals is to support connections among academia, government, and not-for-profit testing organizations.

November 2-3, 2007
National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs (NASILP) Annual Conference Hilton Crystal City at National Airport , Arlington , VA The Association's annual meeting will feature presentations reflecting current research on issues pertinent to academically-based self-accessed programs for LCTLs. The meeting provides access to nationally-recognized scholars in the fields of pedagogy, design, materials development, instructional technologies, program administration, and establishes channels through which the special concerns and expertise of NASILP's institutional members are shared.

November 15-18, 2007 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages 41st Annual Convention & World Languages Exposition “Bridging Cultures Through Languages” Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center , San Antonio , TX

November 17, 2007
American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages (AATT) annual business meeting Palais de congres de Montreal , Montreal , Canada It will be held in conjunction with the 2007 meeting of the Middle East Studies Association.

November 17-20, 2007
Annual Convention of the Middle East Studies Association Palais de congres de Montreal , Montreal , Canada

December 1-2, 2007
Eighth Conference on Distinguished Language Studies. Location TBA, Washington , DC .   Contact: Dr. Frederick Jackson, fhjackson@mac.com December 27-30 2007 Modern Language Association Annual Convention   Chicago , IL   The MLA's 123rd annual convention will be held in Chicago , Illinois . Most English sessions and the exhibits are in the Hyatt Regency. Most foreign language sessions are in the Sheraton Chicago.

December 27-30, 2007
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) AATSEEL Annual Conference
Hilton Chicago,
Chicago , IL AATSEEL 2007 will include sessions by the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR) and the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS).

2008

January 3-6, 2008
82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America Palmer House, Chicago , IL The American Dialect Society, the American Name Society, the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, and the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas will meet concurrently with the LSA.

January 22-24, 2008
ConnectEd: A Conference on Global Education Monterey Conference Center , California Middlebury College and the Monterey Institute of International Studies Conference themes include: Innovations in Education; Language and Cultural Competence; Educational Mobility; Transnational Issues; International Higher Education Competitiveness; and Educating the NextGen.

March 14-16, 2008
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) Washington , DC   The theme of this year’s conference is “Telling Stories: Building bridges among Language, Narrative, Identity, Interaction, Society and Culture.”

March 18-22, 2008 25th Annual Conference of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) University of San Francisco , CA The 2008 Conference will be held in conjunction with the International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT)

March 27-29, 2008
The 2008 Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL) New York Marriott Marquis, NY The theme of this year’s conference is “The iGeneration: Turning Instruction Inside Out.”

March 28- April 1, 2008 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2008 Annual Conference Omni Shoreham Hotel , Washington , DC

April 2-5, 2008 The 42nd Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibit (TESOL 2006) New York Hilton & Sheraton New York , NY The theme of this year’s conference is “Worlds of TESOL: Building Communities of Practice, Inquiry and Creativity.”

April 3-6, 2008
Annual Meeting of the Asian Studies Association Atlanta , GA

April 25-27, 2008
National Conference of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCLCTL) Madison , WI .

Some Language-Related Conferences 2006-2007

October 28-29, 2006
Fourth Annual Conference on the Teaching and Learning to Near-Native Levels of Second Language Proficiency. Washington, DC. Contact : Leaver@aol.com. http://www.distinguishedlanguagecenters.org/conferences.htm

October 12-13, 2006
East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT)
George Washington University
Washington, DC. http://nzo.williamhall.us/cal/webpage.htm
ECOLT represents an East Coast group of professionals, scholars, and students who are involved in language testing projects and research. One of the organization's goals is to support connections among academia, government, and not-for-profit testing organizations.

October 27 - 28, 2006
National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs (NASILP) Annual Conference

Arlington, VA http://www.nasilp.org/Conference.html
The Association's annual meeting will feature presentations reflecting current research on issues pertinent to academically-based self-accessed programs for LCTLs. The meeting provides access to nationally-recognized scholars in the fields of pedagogy, design, materials development, instructional technologies, program administration, and establishes channels through which the special concerns and expertise of NASILP's institutional members are shared.

November 1-4, 2006
Annual Conference of the American Translators Association

New Orleans, www.atanet.org
Join your colleagues for this rewarding experience featuring over 175 educational sessions, exhibits offering the latest services, opportunities to network with over 1200 translators and interpreters from around the world, and much more!

November 16-19, 2006
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages 39th Annual Meeting & Exposition "Discover the World—Discover Languages"

Nashville, TN www.actfl.org

November 18-21, 2006
Annual Convention of the Middle East Studies Association

Boston University, Boston, MA, November 18-21, 2006
http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/MESA05/mesa05.htm

December 27-30 2006
Modern Language Association Annual Convention

Philadelphia, PA http://www.mla.org/convention
The MLA's 122nd annual convention will be held in Philadelphia.


December 27-30, 2006
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) AATSEEL Annual Meeting

Philadelphia, PA http://aatseel.org/program/

2007

January 4-7, 2007
81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America

Anaheim, CA www.lsadc.org
The Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America will take place. The American Dialect Society, the American Name Society, the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, and the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas will meet concurrently with the LSA.

March 8-11 , 2007
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT)

Washington, DC http://www.georgetown.edu/events/gurt/

March 15-18, 2007
21st Conference on Spanish in the U.S. and 6th International Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages.

George Mason University and U. of Maryland.

March 21-24, 2007
The Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibit (TESOL 2007)

Seattle, WA www.tesol.org

March 22-25, 2007
Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association

Boston, MA http://www.aasianst.org/annmtg.htm

April 12-14, 2007
The 2007 Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL)

New York Marriott Marquis http://www.dickinson.edu/nectfl/conf.html

April 21-24, 2007
American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)

Costa Mesa, CA
http://www.aaal.org

April 26-29, 2007
National Conference of the Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCLCTL)

Madison, WI. http://www.councilnet.org/conf/announce.htm

May 10-11, 2007
SCOLA Annual Foreign Language Conference

Omaha, NE http://www.scola.org; Phone: 712-566-2202 ; email: scola@scola.org

May 22-26, 2007
Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)

Texas State University, San Marcos,TX www.calico.org

Dates to be Announced, 2007
International Conference on Hebrew Language and Literature (NAPH)

Australia; venue to be announced. http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/naph/ichll.html

June-July, 2007
National Foreign Language Resource Center Summer Institutes.
There are 16 National Language Resource Centers, all located at major universities. The list of summer institutes provided by the Centers in Summer 2006 is provided at http://nflrc.msu.edu/summer.html
Details of workshop topics and dates for 2007 will be announced later.

July 1-27, 2007
2007 Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America.
Stanford, CA
Theme: Empirical Foundations for Theories of Language. http://www.lsadc.org/info/inst-2007.cfm

Dates to be Announced, 2007
COTSEAL/SEASSI Conference on Southeast Asian Language Learning and Teaching.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. http://cotseal.siamwestdc.com/

Dates to be Announced 2007
South Asian Studies Languages Institute. University of Wisconsin and Madison.
http://www.wisc.edu/sasli.

November 17-20, 2007
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Meeting & Exposition (ACTFL)
San Antonio, TX www.actfl.org

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Language Conferences Worldwide: Upcoming events in language, linguistics, speech and hearing therapy, translation, TESOL and related fields.

Conference Schedules for for Linguists, Translators, Interpreters and Teachers of Languages.

Some guage Related Conferences 2005-2006

2005 October 7-9, 2005

Second Language Research Forum (SLRF 2005)

Teachers College, Columbia University New York, NY

http://www.tc.columbia.edu/academic/tesol/SLRF2005/index.htm
October 21-22, 2005

A National Colloquium on U.S. Language Educational Policy

University of California at Berkeley. http://uccllt.ucdavis.edu  

October 21-22, 2005

Third Annual Conference on the Teaching and Learning to Near-Native Levels of Second Language Proficiency. Washington, DC.  Contact : Leaver@aol.com. http://www.distinguishedlanguagecenters.org/conferences.htm

October 28, 2005

East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT)

George Washington University

Washington, DC.  http://nzo.williamhall.us/cal/webpage.htm

ECOLT represents an East Coast group of professionals, scholars, and students who are involved in language testing projects and research. One of the organization's goals is to support connections among academia, government, and not-for-profit testing organizations.

October 28 - 29, 2005 

National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs (NASILP) Annual Conference

Arlington, VA  www.nasilp.org

The Association's annual meeting will feature presentations reflecting current research on issues pertinent to academically-based self-accessed programs for LCTLs. The meeting provides access to nationally-recognized scholars in the fields of pedagogy, design, materials development, instructional technologies, program administration, and establishes channels through which the special concerns and expertise of NASILP's institutional members are shared.

October 28 – 29, 2005

Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium (GRAPHSY)

Washington, DC

http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/spanport/

GRAPHSY is the first Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Languages, Literature & Linguistics sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University.

November 8-9, 2005

Military Language Conference: Foreign Language & Culture Awareness: Force Multipliers

MITRE Building, Washington, DC,

http://www.universityofmilitaryintelligence.us/mifltc/default.asp

November 9-12, 2005

Annual Conference of the American Translators Association

Westin Hotel Seattle, Washington www.atanet.org

Join your colleagues for this rewarding experience featuring over 175 educational sessions, exhibits offering the latest services, opportunities to network with over 1200 translators and interpreters from around the world, and much more!

November 10-13, 2005

Joint meeting of The Hispanic Linguistics Symposium & The Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages 

The Nittany Lion Inn The Pennsylvania State University http://sip.la.psu.edu/conf/Ling.htm

November 18-20, 2005

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages 39th Annual Meeting & Exposition  "2005-2015: Realizing Our Vision of Languages for All"
Hyatt Regency & Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD  www.actfl.org

November 18-19, 2005

American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages (AATT) Pre-Conference Session Georgetown University, Washington, DC

This conference is being established to mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of AATT. The first Pre-Conference is co-sponsored by the Institute for Turkish Studies and Georgetown University. It will be held in conjunction with the 2005 meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. http://www.princeton.edu/~turkish/aatt/calendar.htm

November 19-22, 2005

Annual Convention of the Middle East Studies Association

Washington, DC  http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/MESA05/mesa05.htm

December 27-30 2005

Modern Language Association Annual Convention

Washington, DC http://www.mla.org/convention The MLA's 121st annual convention will be held in Washington, DC. Most English sessions and the exhibits are in the Marriott Wardman Park. Most foreign language sessions are in the Washington Hilton.

December 27-30, 2005

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) AATSEEL Annual Meeting
Washington, DC  http://aatseel.org/program/

ACTR and AATSEEL are pleased to announce that at the 2005 AATSEEL Conference, the annual president's reception will be held at the Embassy of the Russian Federation and hosted by Ambassador Ushakov.

2006

January 5-8, 2006

80th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America

Albuquerque, NM  www.lsadc.org

The 80th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America will take place at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and the Doubletree Hotel, Albuquerque, NM. The American Dialect Society, the American Name Society, the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, and the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas will meet concurrently with the LSA.

March 3-5, 2006

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT)
Washington, DC  http://www.georgetown.edu/events/gurt/

The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties: Defining, Documenting and Developing.’

March 15-19, 2006

The 40th Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibit (TESOL 2006) Daring to Lead”

Tampa, Florida  www.tesol.org

March 23-26, 2006

African Languages Teachers’ Association

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Conference Theme: African languages in the age of globalization: Prospects and challenges  http://lang.nalrc.wisc.edu/alta/call_paper.htm

March 30-April 2, 2006

The 2006 Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL)

New York Marriott Marquis  http://www.dickinson.edu/nectfl/conf.html

2006's NECTFL conference will continue to celebrate the Year of Languages on the stage in Times Square, and based on the 2005 theme will reinforce the need for cultural understanding.

April 6-9, 2006

CIBER 2006 Matters of Perspective: Culture, Communication and Commerce

Centers for International Business Education and research. Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, GA

http://www.modlangs.gatech.edu/

April 6-9, 2006

Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association

San Francisco, CA  http://www.aasianst.org/annmtg.htm

April 27-30, 2006

National Conference of the Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCLCTL)

Madison, WI.  http://www.councilnet.org/conf/announce.htm

May 16-20, 2006

Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)University of Hawaii www.calico.org

June 11-13, 2006

International Conference on Hebrew Language and Literature (NAPH)

University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/naph/ichll.html

June 17-20, 2006

Joint Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) and Association Canadienne de Linguistique Appliquée/Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (ACLA/ CAAL)

Hyatt Hotel Montreal Montreal, Canada

http://www.aaal.org/aaal2006/index.htm

June-July, 2006

National Foreign Language Resource Center Summer Institutes.  There are 14 National Language Resource Centers, all located at major universities.  The list of summer institutes provided by the Centers in Summer 2005 is provided at http://nflrc.msu.edu/summer.html

Details of workshop topics and dates for 2006 will be announced later.

July, 2006

COTSEAL/SEASSI Conference on Southeast Asian Language Learning and Teaching.  University of Wisconsin,  Madison, WI. http://cotseal.siamwestdc.com/

July-August 2006 South Asian Studies Languages Institute.  University of Wisconsin and Madison.  http://www.wisc.edu/sasli.

July-August 2006 Sixth Foreign Language Education And Technology Conference (FLEAT 6). Conference of the International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT). Location and exact date to be announced. http://www.iallt.org/conferences/index.html

August 5-6, 2006 International Conference on Japanese Language Education (ICJLE) Columbia University, New York City, U.S.A. http://www.japaneseteaching.org/icjle/

November 2-5, 2006  Annual Conference of the American Translator's Association Sheraton Hotel  New Orleans, Louisiana www.atanet.org

November 17-19, 2006 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages 40th Annual Meeting & Exposition (ACTFL)  San Antonio, TX  www.actfl.org