The CLT hosts a variety of professional development events throughout the year, including the Summer months. In order to better customize and plan for these events, we strongly encourage early registration.
Upcoming events are listed below. To view past events, please click here.
REGISTER HERE (@hawaii.edu required)
Facilitators:
- Dr. Naiyi Xie Fincham, Assistant Faculty Specialist in Learning Design, CLT UH Mānoa
- Dr. Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, Assistant Faculty Specialist in Language Technology, CLT UH Mānoa
- Dr. Caroline Torres, Associate Professor of Second Language Teaching and Chair of the Languages, Literature, and Linguistics Department at Kapi‘olani Community College
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a research-based framework that aims to meet the needs of all learners. This three-part workshop series guides language educators in creating inclusive and engaging learning environments using the recently updated UDL 3.0 guidelines. Additionally, it will explore ways in which instructors can leverage technology to support language learners.
Participants should bring their own computer device to participate in these hands-on sessions.
- Jan. 21, 2025 (Tues): Enhancing Learner Engagement
- Jan, 28, 2025 (Tues): Supporting Learner Comprehension
- Feb. 4, 2025 (Tues): Empowering Learner Expression
Want to get your articles published in academic journals? This special Demos & Discussions series will feature panel discussions by the editors of four online refereed journals published by the National Foreign Language Resource Center: Language Learning & Technology (LL&T), Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL), Language Documentation & Conservation (LD&C), and Second Language Research & Practice (SLRP)
Panelists will discuss their journals and their submission & review process, while also providing strategies and tips for getting published in refereed journals in general. Bring your questions!vPanel sessions will be hybrid, allowing for in-person and online participation, and recorded.
SESSION 1: Publishing Success: Insights from Journal Editors – Language Documentation & Conservation (LD&C)
Panelist: LD&C editor Racquel-María Sapién
Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 1:00 – 1:45 pm Hawaii Standard Time
(3:00-3:45 pm Pacific, 4:00-4:45 pm Mountain, 5:00-5:45 pm Central, 6:00-6:45 pm Eastern)
In person: Moore Hall 257, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa campus
Online: Via Zoom (register to receive link)
This special series is organized by the Center for Language & Technology (CLT) and the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Want to get your articles published in academic journals? This special Demos & Discussions series will feature panel discussions by the editors of four online refereed journals published by the National Foreign Language Resource Center: Language Learning & Technology (LL&T), Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL), Language Documentation & Conservation (LD&C), and Second Language Research & Practice (SLRP)
Panelists will discuss their journals and their submission & review process, while also providing strategies and tips for getting published in refereed journals in general. Bring your questions!vPanel sessions will be hybrid, allowing for in-person and online participation, and recorded.
SESSION 2: Publishing Success: Insights from Journal Editors – Language Learning & Technology and Reading in a Foreign Language
Panelists: LL&T co-editor Dorothy M. Chun and RFL co-editors Greta Gorsuch and Jing Zhou
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 2:00-2:45 pm Hawaii Standard Time
(4:00-4:45 pm Pacific, 5:00-5:45 pm Mountain, 6:00-6:45 pm Central, 7:00-7:45 pm Eastern)
In person: Moore Hall 257, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa campus
Online: Via Zoom (register to receive link)
This special series is organized by the Center for Language & Technology (CLT) and the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Want to get your articles published in academic journals? This special Demos & Discussions series will feature panel discussions by the editors of four online refereed journals published by the National Foreign Language Resource Center: Language Learning & Technology (LL&T), Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL), Language Documentation & Conservation (LD&C), and Second Language Research & Practice (SLRP)
Panelists will discuss their journals and their submission & review process, while also providing strategies and tips for getting published in refereed journals in general. Bring your questions!vPanel sessions will be hybrid, allowing for in-person and online participation, and recorded.
SESSION 3: Publishing Success: Insights from Journal Editors – Second Language Research & Practice (SLRP)
Panelists: SLRP co-editors Jesse Gleason & Senta Goertler
Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 1:00-1:45 pm Hawaii Standard Time
(3:00-3:45 pm Pacific, 4:00-4:45 pm Mountain, 5:00-5:45 pm Central, 6:00-6:45 pm Eastern)
In person: Moore Hall 257, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa campus
Online: Via Zoom (register to receive link)
This special series is organized by the Center for Language & Technology (CLT) and the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
REGISTER HERE (@hawaii.edu required)
Facilitator: Dr. Richard Medina, Associate Faculty Specialist in Human-Computer Interaction, CLT, UH Mānoa
Utilize social media data for your research in this engaging one-hour workshop! This session will introduce you to essential techniques for accessing, collecting, and preparing data for research. Examples from YouTube comment threads and Reddit forums will be demonstrated. You’ll explore methods for using APIs, web scraping tools, and specialized tools for collecting data. Additional tips and best practices for using data APIs for other platforms will be discussed. Discussion will also include ethical considerations to ensure your data collection aligns with privacy and platform policies. With practical examples and hands-on guidance, you’ll leave equipped with the foundational skills to harness social media as a rich data source for academic or social research. No prior programming experience required!
REGISTER HERE (@hawaii.edu required)
Facilitator: Courtney Nomiyama, Librarian II, Humanities Librarian, Hamilton Library, UH Mānoa
What does it mean to take a bird’s eye view of reading and understanding text? This session introduces text mining, a digital humanities-based approach that combines digital and humanities thinking and methodologies to explore patterns, trends, and other ways of looking at texts that would otherwise not be possible manually. Using open-source software and web-based tools, participants will learn the basics of text mining, including important terms, limitations, sources of text, as well as possible applications for their own work with ample opportunity for hands-on practice – no prior experience or knowledge required.
*Participants should bring their own computer device to participate in these hands-on sessions.
9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation:
Navigating new realities in diaspora communities
March 6-9, 2025
Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA
** We are pleased to confirm that ICLDC 9 will be an in-person conference **
One notable achievement of the modern language documentation and conservation movement has been the (re)centering of community in language work. Rather than viewing language as an abstract system, documentary practice increasingly begins with the community, is guided by the community, and contributes to ongoing maintenance of language in the community. At the same time the nature of community is changing. Global forces of migration and urbanization have resulted in the displacement of language teachers and learners from their traditional communities, and in many cases these diaspora communities are now larger than the original communities from which they arose. And yet, whether intentionally or not, the practice of language documentation and conservation has largely ignored the diaspora in favor of more traditional undisplaced communities.
At ICLDC 2025 we propose to initiate a dialogue which will turn the attention of documentary linguistics to the unique needs of diaspora language communities. The challenges are manifold. Teaching methods designed for small monolingual rural communities may not be effective in large multilingual urban settings. Documentation techniques may need to be adapted to deal with contact scenarios and language shift. Moreover, displacement may take many forms, so solutions must be tailored to the unique context in each community. But the challenges are nevertheless real and pressing. As the pressure of conflict and climate change increasingly threaten our world, the future of the world’s Indigenous languages may well hinge on the ability of our field to engage effectively in diaspora settings.
The conference program will feature Keynote talks, Talk Story and Workshop sessions, papers, and posters. An optional Hilo Field Study (on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi) to visit Hawaiian language revitalization programs in action will take place immediately after the conference (March 10-11). The 8th Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages (ComputEL-8) will take place in Honolulu immediately preceding the conference (March 3-4).
For more information, visit our website.
It’s time to mark your calendar for June 25 – 28, 2025, for the FLEAT 8 conference in Hawaiʻi!
IALLT and the Japan Association for Language Education and Technology (LET) are excited to collaborate again on our 8th FLEAT (Foreign Language Education and Technology) conference. This event will be sponsored by IALLT, LET, the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) and the Center for Language and Technology (CLT) at The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
We are now accepting proposals until October 31, 2024.
For more information, visit our conference website: https://iallt.org/fleat-8/
