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Envisioning Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) (2018 Online Symposium)
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Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) offers a framework for designing powerful, culturally contextualized experiences that create opportunities for learners to use their language to address real world needs that are personally meaningful to them. The PBLL Symposium brought together language educators, researchers, and innovators to explore the potential of PBLL to enhance and transform language education and provides an excellent introduction to this topic. This unique, FREE online event provided attendees with a broad overview of PBLL, engaging interactions with world language teachers who have implemented PBLL in their classrooms, and the chance to network with professionals who are passionate about this topic. Four interactive sessions were distributed across two days (i.e., two sessions per day) and recorded. The videos and presentation slides are available as open educational resources (OERs).

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The Power of Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) (2017 Online Symposium)
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Project-based Language Learning (PBLL) means much more than having students create an advertisement, develop a review game, make a poster, or give a presentation. Rigorous PBLL requires a deep understanding of Gold Standard PBL (Buck Institute for Education, 2015), with special attention to the principles of Sustained Inquiry, Authenticity, Reflection, and A Public Audience. In the world language classroom, PBLL offers a framework for designing powerful, culturally contextualized language learning experiences that support learners in using their language to address “real world” needs/purposes that are personally meaningful to them. PBLL also presents unique challenges when compared to project-based learning (PBL) in other disciplines because the very means by which learners engage in project work--the target language--is also the object of their learning. On January 11-12, 2017, the Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Symposium brought together language educators, policymakers, researchers, and innovators for conversations regarding the potential of PBLL to enhance and transform language education. This unique, FREE online event provided attendees with a broad overview of PBLL, engaging interactions with world language teachers who have implemented PBLL in their classrooms, and the chance to network with professionals who are passionate about this topic. Four interactive sessions were distributed across two days (i.e., two sessions per day) and recorded. The video and presentation slides are available as open educational resources (OERs).

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Project-Based Language Learning: Inspiring Teachers, Transforming Learning (2016 Online Symposium)
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On January 12-15, 2016, the Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Symposium brought together experts, educational leaders, and world language teachers to foster the conversation on the potential for PBLL to transform and enhance language education. PBLL's intersections with content-based instruction, task-based language learning, and performance assessment make it an ideal conduit to ground language learning on real needs and measurable outcomes. We invited language educators, policymakers, researchers, and innovators to join the conversation and help further refine the PBLL framework by anchoring it to issues and ideas that are relevant to language education. This unique FREE online event provided attendees not only invaluable opportunities to access expertise in PBLL and engage in thought-provoking and constructive dialogues, but also a chance to network with professionals who are passionate about this topic. Eight engaging presentations were distributed across four days (i.e., two sessions per day) and recorded. The videos and presentation slides are available below as open educational resources (OERs).

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2022 Pragmatics & Language Learning Conference

The National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the Center for Applied Second Language Studies at the University of Oregon are pleased to announce the 2022 Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference (PLL 2022) which will take place online on September 12-14, 2022. The conference main theme will be Teaching and Learning Interactional Pragmatics in a Digital World, but we welcome a broad range of topics in pragmatics, discourse, interaction, and sociolinguistics in their relation to second and foreign language learning, education, and use, approached from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. We hope this conference brings together scholars and educators from all around the world who are interested in discussing both established and innovative approaches to teaching and learning pragmatics to strengthen our understanding of principles and practices in PLL and push the field to new and exciting directions in research and practice. Plenary talks will be live and we have tried to schedule them so that a large part of our audience can access at least half of them. The rest of the presentations will be simulive (pre-recorded 20 minute presentation with live interaction by the presenters) or poster sessions (5-7 minute-pre-recorded presentation within Zoom breakout rooms for interaction). CALL FOR PROPOSALS The conference main theme will be Teaching and Learning Interactional Pragmatics in a Digital World, but we welcome a broad range of topics in pragmatics, discourse, interaction, and sociolinguistics in their relation to second and foreign language learning, education, and use, approached from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. ONLINE ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS: DEADLINE: March 1, 2022 via EasyChair Visit our website [ https://bit.ly/PLL2022 ] for more information and instruction on how to prepare your abstract proposal.

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