from "Catherine C. Baumann" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Dear Colleagues: We encourage you to submit a proposal for the annual Language Symposium 2013 co-sponsored by Northwestern University, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, and DePaul University. Language instructors at all levels (high school and college/university-level) as well as researchers are invited to submit proposals; all languages are welcome. This year's symposium topic is "World Languages and the Roles They Play in Academia" and will be hosted by Northwestern University (Evanston campus) on April 12-13, 2013. Our keynote speaker will be Rosemary Feal, Executive Director of the MLA. For more information, please check out our website: http://languagesymposium.northwestern.edu/ For a direct link to the submission info, please go to: http://languagesymposium.northwestern.edu/request-for-proposals/ Presentations will be twenty minutes long, plus ten minutes for discussion. Proposed topics may include/ be related to: The place of global languages across the science and liberal arts curriculum The link between foreign languages and the global citizen Multilingualism Multiculturalism Cultural competence Interdisciplinary approaches in language learning and teaching Promotion of team-taught courses with a foreign language component Service learning Language for special purposes Quantification of learning outcomes Deadline: February 14, 2013 at midnight. Early registration deadline: Sunday, March 31st, 2013 And please, do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ************************************************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning Technologies (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) **************************************************************************