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Annual Award Winners
Three awards are presented each year: Access to Language Education, Outstanding Graduate Student and Best Article This year’s Access to Language Education Award, in association with the Esperantic Studies Foundation, was awarded to Qing Ma Angel and team for their website The Corpus-Aided Platform for Language Teachers (CAP) This year’s Robert A. Fischer Outstanding Graduate Student Award was given to Margherita Berti of the University of Arizona. And last but not least, an award was given for Best Article in the CALICO Journal for Volume 36 to Lara Lomicka Anderson and Fabrizio Fornara: Using Visual Social Media in Language Learning to Investigate the Role of Social Presence
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Annual Business Meeting
This year’s award ceremony and member business meeting took place on June 2nd. It lasted one hour and if you didn’t get a chance to attend, you can view the meeting here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eo9E2RrhABHOooGlDhojFxdFRlI1BlxB/view
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Call for Proposals, Journal Special Issue
Call for proposals: CALICO Journal special issue We are inviting proposals for the special issue 39.1 of the CALICO Journal to be published in February 2022. With this call for proposals we are looking for (a) guest editor(s). If you are interested in becoming guest editor, please submit a proposal that should have the following rubrics: (1) name(s) and affiliation(s) of the guest editor(s) (2) topic of the special issue (3) rationale for the topic (4) production timeline (containing such dates as deadlines for CfPs, authors, reviewers, revisions. All revisions to accepted manuscripts must be completed by 8/15/2021). (5) short CV of each guest editor (with particular…
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President Message Conference Cancellation
Dear CALICO colleagues, On behalf of the CALICO Board, it is with regret that we notify our membership and other potential conference goers that we must cancel our 2020 conference (May 25-29, 2020) at the Renaissance Downtown Seattle. We are sad to miss the community networking, sharing of knowledge, and camaraderie that the conference normally offers every year. We are planning next year’s conference already and will have more information to share soon regarding guaranteed presentation slots for those invited to present this year. If you have made reservations at the hotel, you can cancel directly with them, and if you have already registered for the conference, we will refund your registration. On a…
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Election Results 2020
Thank you to everyone who took a moment to cast your vote over the last few weeks to elect two new members of our executive board and our new vice president. The nominees receiving the most votes this year are: Lisa Frumkes and Liudmila Klimanova for the two open executive board positions and Randall Sadler for Vice President. They will all officially take their positions at the conclusion of this year’s conference and serve three-year terms. Feel free to contact them or anyone else on the board or in a presidential position if you should have any questions or concerns. See our boards and staff page for historical and current…
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ALE Award 2020
Nominations are open for CALICO’s annual Access to Language Education Award. See the Awards Page for more detailed information about submitting a nomination as well as the past winners. Deadline March 16 to nominate for this year’s award.
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Publication Change, CALICO Journal
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Fall 2019 President Letter
CALICO’s current president, Jon Reinhardt, would like to update you on some things going on with CALICO right now. pdf version: President Letter Fall 2019 November 6, 2019 Dear CALICO members, With most of us at least halfway through our Fall semesters, this letter is a bit later than usual, but better late than never. We were all very saddened a few weeks ago to learn of the passing of Dr. Robert Fischer, the Executive Director of CALICO from 1997 to 2011. Bob’s legacy as a key player in the early years of CALL and his gift to us of this organization is something for which we will all be…
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Call for Nominations
Nomination period open for electing new executive board members and vice president. The deadline for submitting nominations for either position is December 6th. Please send all nominations to Esther Horn at ec06@txstate.edu. We will be electing two new board positions and one vice president. Guidelines for Executive Board nominations: * Nominee must be nominated by a CALICO member, including self-nomination. * Nominee must have been a member of CALICO at least two years (consecutive years not required). * Nominee should submit a 100-word biographical sketch and 300-word professional statement to be used on the ballot during the election. * Nominee must agree to attend all executive board meetings taking place…
