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The second DYLAN doctoral school, hosted by the Institut für Anglistik of the University of Vienna, offers doctoral students access to novel analytical perspectives on multilingualism and aims at enabling participants to position their own work with respect to various strands of research. Furthermore, it is designed to emphasise the“interdisciplinary ethos” of the DYLAN project. Date: 22-24 September 2010. Applications for financial support and (in the case of doctoral students presenting their research) for reserving a slot in the programme must be submitted by Friday 11 June 2010. Persons who are not applying for financial support and who are not requesting a slot to present their doctoral research are not required to apply and may proceed directly with registration. For further information visit http://www.dylan-project.org/Dylan_en/schools/ds10/ds10.php.

A podcast series to accompany the journal Language Testing has been launched by Sage Publications. Language Testing Bytes Podcast Number 1 is available for downloading at http://ltj.sagepub.com/misc/podcast/podcast_dir.dtl.

Registrations are now open for the Language Testing Research Centre 20th Anniversary Event at the University of Melbourne, to be held on the 15th and16th July, 2010. The event will host three half-day workshops on aspects of language testing research and development, with the rest devoted to papers and presentations.Closing date submitting registration forms: June 30, 2010. Registration forms and a draft program can be downloaded from: http://www.ltrc.unimelb.edu.au/anniversary.html.

The Department of English Language and Literature at Seoul National University invites applications for tenure-track foreign faculty positions, beginning in March 1, 2011. Applicants should have a Ph.D. on Linguistics, Applied Linguistics arelates fields at the time of application and should be non-Korean citizens. For more information on application procedures visit http://www.useoul.edu/ or contact Prof. Ki-Sun Hong at kshong@snu.ac.kr. Application deadline: June 30, 2010.

Registration is now open for the following ALTE Introductory Courses, which will take place in Bilbao, Spain in September 2010:

• ALTE Introductory Course in Language Testing

20th - 24th September, 2010, Royal Academy of the Basque Language, Bilbao. Cost: 850 Euro.  

• ALTE Introductory Course in Testing Reading

27th September- 1st October 2010, Royal Academy of the Basque Language, Bilbao. Cost: 850 Euro.
For further information visit http://www.alte.org/news/newsitem.php?newsID=212 

Columbia University Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics on-line journal is currently accepting manuscripts for review for the Fall 2010 issue. The deadline for submission is September 5, 2010. E-mail submissions to: tcwebjournal@tc.columbia.edu. 
 
Submission Preparation Checklist is available at
http://journals.tc-library.org/index.php/tesol/about/submissions

Questions concerning submission can be directed to: Adrienne Wai Man Lew
wml2102@columbia.edu or visit http://www.tc.columbia.edu/tesolalwebjournal

Cornell University (Department of German Studies) offers a Lecturer in Swedish position authorized for a non‐tenure‐track appointment from July 2010 to December 2010 (or to June 2011 pending Department of Education funding approval). Application deadline: May 30, 2010. For more information contact mz17@cornell.edu.

The Journal of English for Academic Purposes proposes to publish a Special Issue in June 2011 featuring research and position papers on listening in academic contexts. Deadline for submiting abstracts (400-500 words) is June 7th, 2010. Authors will be asked to submit full
papers by September 30th. For more information contact guest editor John Field (Universities of Reading and Cambridge, UK) j.c.field@reading.ac.uk.