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The Cornell Chronicle also wrote about the conference (read the article here): 

 

Instructors of the six major national languages of Southeast Asia – Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Filipino (Tagalog), Thai and Vietnamese – from across the U.S. will gather at Cornell Sept. 8-10 for the Southeast Asian Language Teaching: New Directions Conference. Organizers expect the conference to be the largest ever to address pedagogical developments and innovations in the teaching of these languages. The conference is being hosted by the Southeast Asia Program, in collaboration with the Department of Asian Studies and the Language Resource Center in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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“The conference showcases the College of Arts and Sciences’ commitment to innovative pedagogy and to the less commonly taught languages of Asia,” says Abigail C. Cohn, director of the Southeast Asia Program and professor of linguistics. “Cornell is the only place with regular multilevel instruction in all six of these languages, all offered through [the Department of Asian Studies] by full-time lecturers and senior lecturers.”

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The conference will include poster presentations and demonstrations on innovations in Southeast Asian teaching, pedagogy workshops and sessions on heritage languages. The conference will use a technological innovation that has made less commonly taught languages more accessible: A session on nontraditional teaching methods given by Amrih Widodo, Australian National University, will be delivered via teleconference from Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Read the rest of the article in the Cornell Chronicle (link here): 

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This conference is hosted by the Southeast Asia Program, and cosponsored by Asian Studies and the Language Resource Center, Cornell University, in collaboration with COTSEAL, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, and UC Berkeley-UCLA NRC for Southeast Asian Studies, with generous support from the Henry Luce Foundation and partial funding from Title VI NRC grants.

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If you have any questions, please contact us at: SEALangTeaching@gmail.com.

 

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