{"id":223709,"date":"2025-10-14T15:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=223709"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:21:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:21:29","slug":"2025-southeast-asian-language-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/10\/14\/2025-southeast-asian-language-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholars gather at <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa for global symposium on Southeast Asian languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_223712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223712\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/manoa-cseas-se-asian-lang-symposium.jpg\" alt=\"people in a room looking at speaker\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-223712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/manoa-cseas-se-asian-lang-symposium.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/manoa-cseas-se-asian-lang-symposium-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/manoa-cseas-se-asian-lang-symposium-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-223712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 30 presentations explored topics from language assessment to project-based learning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa hosted the 2025 Southeast Asian Language Council (<abbr>SEALC<\/abbr>) Symposium on September 26 and 27, welcoming more than 100 educators and researchers from across the globe, both in person and online. The two-day gathering showcased innovative research and teaching practices in Southeast Asian language education.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our university\u2019s longstanding commitment to Southeast Asian language instruction and the expertise of our faculty and staff made our university an excellent venue for this workshop,&rdquo; Miriam Stark, director of <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cseashawaii.org\/\">Center for Southeast Asian Studies<\/a> (<abbr>CSEAS<\/abbr>). &ldquo;We were honored to host our <abbr>SEALC<\/abbr> colleagues at the event, and look forward to extending the collaborations that it launched.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Shared expertise<\/h2>\n<p>More than 30 paper and panel presentations explored a wide range of topics, from proficiency-based reading and listening assessments to project-based learning and curriculum innovations. Participants represented leading institutions such as <abbr title=\"\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles\">UCLA<\/abbr>, Harvard, and universities from across Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Since its founding, <abbr>SEALC<\/abbr> has been instrumental in strengthening Southeast Asian language teaching in the U.S. and abroad through professional development workshops, materials design, and assessment innovation. <\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s symposium was supported by funds from a Henry Luce Foundation grant awarded to <abbr>CSEAS<\/abbr>. The event was organized by Jayson Parba and Precious Arao (<abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cseashawaii.org\/countries\/philippines\/\">Filipino &#38; Philippine Culture Program<\/a>), in collaboration with Erlin Barnard of the <abbr>SEALC<\/abbr> Steering Committee and <abbr title=\"University of Wisconsin\">UW<\/abbr>\u2013Madison. Additional support was provided by Peter Arnade, dean of the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/call\/\">College of Arts, Languages &#38; Letters<\/a>, the <abbr>SEALC<\/abbr> Steering Committee and a dedicated team of volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;Jayson Parba and Precious Arao<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two-day gathering showcased innovative research and teaching practices in Southeast Asian language education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1562,1471,214,9],"class_list":["post-223709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-center-for-southeast-asian-studies","tag-college-of-arts-languages-and-letters","tag-language","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223709"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223717,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223709\/revisions\/223717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}