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The Center for Applied Linguistics is recruiting for an experienced psychometrician (CAL Classification:  Research/Program Associate II,Division/Program: Language Testing Division/WIDA ACCESS for ELLs®) to work as a member of various multi-disciplinary teams to create and maintain large datasets, conduct psychometric and statistical analyses on data from a variety of language assessments and other instruments, and conduct research on psychometric issues related to language testing. For more information visit  http://www.cal.org/about/jobs/psychometrician-05-2010.html or jobs@cal.org

The University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL) is seeking to expand its research team in Second Language Acquisition (SLA). CASL invites applications for three Research Faculty positions in its interdisciplinary research program on foreign/second language acquisition, maintenance, and assessment.

• Second Language Acquisition - Asst/Assoc/Senior Research Faculty

https://careers.casl.umd.edu/jobdetail.aspx?jid=200 

• Language Assessment - Asst/Assoc/Senior Research Faculty Position

https://careers.casl.umd.edu/jobdetail.aspx?jid=193 

• L2 Pedagogy and SLA - Asst/Assoc/Senior Research Faculty

https://careers.casl.umd.edu/jobdetail.aspx?jid=201

The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is now accepting applications for Research Grants. Individuals and educational institutions with relevant experience are invited to apply for funding to conduct applied research related to English language proficiency testing. Funding up to $22,000 (15,000 GBP) per research project will be awarded to a select number of proposals this year. Identified areas for research are: 
• test development and validation
• investigations into the use of IELTS by institutions
• case studies on the impact of IELTS on candidates and users.
 
Applications must be submitted on or before June 30, 2010. For more information visit www.ielts.org/researchers/grants_and_awards.aspx

The National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) at the University of Maryland is currently working on a project that provides adult language learners with interactive online tools to reinforce their foreign language skills and recruites educated native speakers of the following languages (or individuals with equivalent proficiency levels) to create online activities in their native languages using provided software and/or to find authentic reading and audio passages, to record audio files, and to perform various editing tasks in these languages: 

• African French, including Sub-Saharan African French
• Chinese Min
• Chinese Wu
• Dari
• Iraqi Arabic
• North Korean
• Pashto (Afghani and Pakistani)
• Persian Farsi
• Sorani
• Urdu
• Western Punjabi (Shahmukhi script)

To send your current CV please contact the NFLC via email at recruitment@nflc.org.

The University of Luxembourg invites applications for a research associate (post doc) vacancy in the Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education within the national project “Development of English in Plurilingual settings”(M/F). Application date: May 30, 2010. For more information visit
http://wwwen.uni.lu/university/jobs/flshase/personnel_scientifique/
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The Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) at Michigan State University is offering several low-cost summer professional development workshops in July for foreign language teachers as well as ESL teachers. The early bird deadline is May 7, but applications will be accepted through June 1, 2010.

• Using Video to Promote Language Development in the Classroom
• Blending Language Classes 101
• Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning: Introductory Techniques
• Rich Internet Applications for Language Assessment 
• The Second ?C?: Culture Teaching in the Language Classroom

For more informations visit http://clear.msu.edu or  http://clear.msu.edu/clear/professionaldev/summerworkshops.php. 

The University of Oxford, Department for Continuing Education, offers a vacancy for the part-time post of Chief Examiner for the new Oxford University English Language Test (OUELT) which will be launched in 2011. Closing date for applications is Friday, 28 May 2010. Full details of the post can be found on the University's website: www.conted.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

CARLA Summer Institute "Language and Culture in Sync: Teaching the Pragmatics of a Second Language", July 26-30, 2010, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. For more information 
visit http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/2010/SI_Pragmatics.pdf