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Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

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糖心Vlog encourages members with shared interests to network and share information within the larger structure of the association. To facilitate these activities, we have established Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to provide continuous networking and information sharing on a specific topic or area of interest to a subset of our overall membership. SIGs operate under the aegis of 糖心Vlog and are a vital component of the member service activities.

SIGs operate year-round through the 糖心Vlog community, newsletters, webinars, and sessions at the 糖心Vlog Annual Convention & World Languages Expo. Your 糖心Vlog membership includes unlimited access to all SIG communities below. To join the SIGs, visit 糖心Vlog Central, and simply click on the join button on any of the available communities.

How to Form a New SIG

If you are interested in forming a SIG that is not listed below, review the guidelines for SIG formation here. You can click here to support a new SIG that has already been proposed (new SIGs must get 150 signatures to form).

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Full List of All Available SIGs

Provides a public forum for the discussion of issues relating to African American students and their needs as language learners.

Encourages thoughtful and informed integration of AI technologies into language teaching and learning and to develop a critical orientation to educational technologies which use AI in order to respect students and teachers intellectual property and digital privacy.

Serves as a network for and information sharing among Arabic language and culture instructors.

Seeks to respond to the increasing interest in and use of films in language instruction, acquisition and assessment.

Provides leadership and cohesiveness to the teaching of foreign languages at the community college level.

Seeks to foster among members a better understanding of the role of input and comprehension in the development of language proficiency.

Promotes and supports critical and social justice approaches in language instruction.

Provides a forum for the discussion of strategies, program models, and the many challenges facing distance learning educators.

To expand opportunities for dialogue, information exchange, professional development and research initiatives among 糖心Vlog鈥檚 dual language/immersion educators who work in and advocate for school-based, preK-16 language immersion programs throughout the U.S.

The German SIG provides a professional network for German-language educators, promotes the teaching and learning of the language and cultures of the German-speaking countries, promotes articulation between pre-collegiate and post-secondary German language programs, with issues that are of interest also to teachers in AP and IB programs, and represents the German-language teaching community within 糖心Vlog.

Represent the concerns of and provide a network for the heritage languages teaching community.

The purpose of the Indigenous Languages SIG is to provide a space for Indigenous language teachers, learners, and educators to share ideas, exchange information, promote dialogue, collaboration, etc. for the broad spectrum of Indigenous language work. Indigenous languages are unique in that the inclusion of Indigenous concepts and ways of knowing, tribal customs and practices, as well as traditional oral methods for maintaining beliefs naturally promote a different approach to teaching and learning language. It is important for Indigenous communities to have a space to share ideas or collaborate to engage in language restoration, maintenance or preservation.

Provides a forum for discussion of Korean teaching, a networking system and a voice for Korean teachers.

Unites educators from a range of disciplines to discuss and define goals and best practices to provide students with real-world, global perspectives and transferable skills aligned with skills employers seek.

The Language Learning for Children (LLC) SIG promotes and supports early language programs in the U.S. through advocacy, networking and articulation.

Promotes the learning, knowledge and needs of LCTLs and the development of policies and the sharing of best teaching practices.

Provides a forum for the Modern Greek language and culture teaching community.

Promotes and support Portuguese programs in the U.S.A. through advocacy, networking and articulation.

Provides leadership in conducting research to inform instructional practices and build theory, as well as demonstrate how research is shaped by knowledge and theory generated from instructional practices.

Provides a forum to emphasize the diverse sign language communities worldwide, promote cultural awareness when communicating with deaf individuals, acknowledge sign languages as legitimate and complete languages with their own grammar, syntax, and linguistic structures, and recognize that sign language offers an alternative mode of communication for those who are deaf or hard of hearing, emphasizing that spoken language is not the only means of expression.

Concerned with the teaching and learning of Spanish for individuals who have a home background in the language.

Provides a forum for the discussion of foreign language teacher preparation, both at the preservice and the inservice levels.

Encourages a better understanding of the teaching of culture and its place in the foreign language curriculum.

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