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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LSL Global English on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Katherine S. Flowers started the topic Call for Abstracts on Global Englishes for MLA 2024 in the discussion
LSL Global English on MLA Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to share a CFP for an upcoming MLA panel sponsored by the Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Global English. This forum has a guaranteed panel for the next MLA Convention, which will be January 4–7, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 250-word abstracts are due by March 15 and we will respond before April 1. <…[Read more]
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Katherine S. Flowers started the topic Nominations for the Executive Committee of LSL Global English in the discussion
LSL Global English on MLA Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Dear Colleagues,
It’s that time of year, when MLA forums collect nominations (including self-nominations) for future Executive Committee members. If you would be interested in being on the LSL Global English forum’s Executive Committee from January 2024-January 2029, or if you know someone who could be a good fit, please email me with any…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LSL Global English on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Katherine S. Flowers started the topic Executive Committee Nomination – Katherine Flowers in the discussion
LSL Global English on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Dear colleagues,
I am happy to have been nominated to be on the executive committee for the LSL Global English forum. In this post I’ll introduce myself and what I would to do if given this opportunity.
I am currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and most of my work focuses on language policy and w…[Read more]
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Jennifer Maloy started the topic MLA Forum Panel Presentation: Exploring the Reaches of Translingual Approaches in the discussion
LSL Global English on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
Please join us at the 2020 MLA Annual Convention:
297 – Exploring the Reaches of Translingual Approaches to Writing Studies
Friday, 10 January 2020 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM WSCC – Skagit 1
When Translingual Theory Meets Language Policy
Katherine S. Flowers, Mississippi State University
Research on translingual writing and on language policy both…[Read more]
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Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion
LSL Global English on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
Dear LSL Global English members,
My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing instructors in higher…[Read more]
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Global English on MLA Commons 6 years ago
Dear Members of the MLA Global English Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
710. Cash Bar Arranged by the Language Studies and Linguistics Forums
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Tanya K. Zhelezcheva started the topic Candidate Statement in the discussion
Present-Day English Language on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago
Dear Colleagues,
I am honored to be nominated for the LSL Global English Executive Committee. I am an Assistant Professor of English at Queensborough Community College where I teach College Writing courses and Contemporary Literature. My vision for contributing to the Executive Committee and its endeavors is to seek to broaden the conversation on…[Read more]
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John Lihani posted an update in the group
LSL Global English on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
PLAN FOR HUMANITY’S AUXILIARY UNIVERSAL SPEECH
A common second language for humanity has long been in coming, but now it appears that its time has arrived. With globalization incessantly on the rise, humanity needs a new attempt to assure its future well-being. As indicated earlier, simplified Transitional English (TE) is the e…[Read more]
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Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Present-Day English Language on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
I hope you can join us at the two sessions sponsored by the RCWS Literacy Studies Forum at MLA 17:
491. Situated Literacy Practices
Saturday, January 7
10:15–11:30 a.m
Room 303, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding:
Peggy D. Otto, Western Kentucky University
Panelists:
Steven Alvarez, University of Kentucky
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Peter J. Kalliney deposited Modernism in a Global Context (introduction) in the group
LSL Global English on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
Exploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the ‘global turn’ in contemporary Modernist Studies.
Topics covered include:
– Transnational literary exchange
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Dennis Baron uploaded the file: Speak the Language of Your Flag to
Present-Day English Language on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago
Here is a summary of my presentation for Present-Day English. Apparently the pdf of the presentation, even in reduced format, is too large to upload, because graphics. (#woty13, because x)
“Speak the language of your flag”: American policy responses to nonanglophone immigrants
Dennis Baron
Prof. of English and linguistics
Univ. of Illinois at Urb…[Read more]