Our newly elected executive board members are Julio Rodriguez and Ruslan Suvorov, both of the University of Hawaii.  They will take office at the end of this year’s conference and serve a three-year term.  Rotating out of office this year will be Helene Ossipov and Lawrence Williams and continuing are Merica McNeil, Sébastien Dubreil, Nina Vyatkina and Joseph Cunningham.  If you should happen to be in touch with any of these, please congratulate them or thank them for their service. Thank you to everyone who took the time to participate in the election!

CALICO sponsors an annual award through ACTFL’s Distance Learning Special Interest Group.  This year’s winners are: Penny Causarano for the k-12 category                           and Jennifer Quinlan for the university level category

Fall 2018 President Letter

Announcement on CALICO Journal site: click here Title: Exploring the Interface of Interlanguage (L2) Pragmatics and Digital Spaces Co-editors: Julie Sykes (University of Oregon) and Marta Gonzalez-Lloret (University of Hawaii) Description: This special issue of the CALICO journal is intended to explore the interface of Interlanguage (L2) Pragmatics and digital technologies. Specifically, it seeks to expand theoretical horizons, report on targeted empirical research, and explore innovative approaches to L2 pragmatics in formal instructional contexts and informal learning in digitally-mediated spaces. The editors encourage authors to take a micro- and/or macro-level approach to L2 pragmatics in their analyses and encourage the expansion of research populations beyond traditional, university-level classrooms. Empirical studies…

Esperantic Studies Foundation’s Access to Language Education Award: Catherine Ryu, Tone Perfect a Mandarin Chinese Audio Database. See Dr. Ryu’s Presentation on Tone Perfect.  Visit Tone Perfect online.                   Outstanding CALICO Journal Article Award for Volume 34:  Signe Hannibal Jensen, Gaming as an English Language Learning Resource Among Young Children in Denmark   Read article   Robert A. Fischer Outstanding Graduate Student Award 2018: Joan Bajorek, University of Arizona         Lifetime Achievement Award: Nina Garrett At Bryn Mawr College I majored in French and German, and then I spent a year in Vienna.  I took a Master of Arts in…

ACTFL/DL SIG and CALICO Award DL SIG members may apply for one of two awards for excellence in online language teaching (K-12 or Higher Education) that are sponsored by the ACTFL DL SIG and the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO). The prizes include a plaque and free one-year memberships in both ACTFL and CALICO. In addition, the awardees receive a spot in CALICO’s Technology Showcase and Poster Session and waived conference registration if they can attend the annual conference in the late spring (May or June). In order to be eligible, individuals must be members of ACTFL and the DL SIG and must have taught a language online for…