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South Asian Languages in the Diaspora (SALD) 2022 Conference A hybrid mode conference hosted at the University of Texas at Austin Julius Glickman Conference Center – RLP 1.302B Saturday, October 1st, 9:30am-6pm CDT (10:30-7:00pm EDT; 8:00-4:30am IST/7:30-4:00am PST) Sunday, October 2nd 9:30am-1pm CDT (10:30-2:00pm EDT; 8:00-11:30pm IST/7:30-11:00pmPST)   Co-sponsored by: South Asia Institute, University of Texas at AustinContinue reading “SALD Conference 2022”

Dear SALTA Community, Welcome to the 2022-23 Academic Year! Last Fall, SALTA was able to offer a variety of successful language pedagogy and professional development workshops to our community. We appreciate your involvement and participation! Together, we all advance our passions and purpose. The SALTA Board seeks your input for fall programming and working groups.Continue reading “SALTA Fall Programming and Business Meeting September 10”

We would like to inform you that Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) in association with Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Central Hindi Directorate (CHD) will conduct a 3-month online Hindi Awareness Course from September 1, 2022, remotely with a view to enhance learning opportunities in Hindi language to foreign nationals. 24 onlineContinue reading “ICCR Hindi Awareness Course”

Yuva Hindi Sansthan needs to immediately recruit a couple of candidates (college students or faculty members) for 2022 YHS FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA SHORT TERM FOR CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT. If you are a US citizen, national, or permanent resident,  willing to go on a study tour to India (Oct 29-Nov 26m 2022), and your career goal is teaching language, culture, social sciences,Continue reading “YHS Seeking Program Participants”

Dear SALTA community. Marijana Janjic is researching Hindi Teaching for a publication. She needs to collect data from students who have learned Hindi in universities. She has prepared a survey for students and former students to answer. Would you please kindly distribute the link to the survey to your students and other individuals as youContinue reading “Student Survey Request”

Via Ashok Ojha You will be happy to know that Yuva Hindi Sansthan, INC. has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Hays GPA Short-Term Project 2022 by the US Dept of Education. We are soliciting applications from suitable candidates and need your support disseminating the information to Institutions of Higher Education and community schools. The attached brochure provides details about the YHS Fulbright-HaysContinue reading “Yuva Hindi Sansthan – Climate Change Training Initiative”

Please see the following link for more information about the upcoming World Languages Seminar: (Link to Page)

We are excited to have so many of you, familiar and new, join us this year as we gather to learn and share from each other our research and practices in teaching South Asian languages! On this website, you may find the conference schedule converted into different time zones for your convenience since many ofContinue reading “24 Hours Until SALTA 2022”

Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are less than one week away from our annual conference! As you know this year we will be employing a hybrid format with some of us in person and some of us online. In order to get the Zoom links in a timely manner, you will need to be registered.Continue reading “Six Days Until SALTA 2022!”

Sonia Sharma is doing a research study on the successes and challenges of learning Hindi in the US. I am recruiting adults who have previously taken one or more Hindi courses at a US university or college. The study includes a short email questionnaire and a virtual (Zoom) interview. Participants who complete the email questionnaireContinue reading “Research Participants Sought”