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From: "CARLA"

The CARLA Update
News about Second Language Education and Research Activities
at the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)

website: http://carla.acad.umn.edu
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Fall 2003

The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at
the University of Minnesota is one of several Title VI National
Language Resource Centers (NLRC) funded by the U.S. Department of
Education to improve the nation's capacity to teach and learn foreign
languages effectively. CARLA supports a number of coordinated
programs of research, training, development and dissemination of
information relating to second language teaching and learning.

The CARLA Update is an electronic newsletter designed to give second
language teachers and researchers current information on the programs
and projects currently operating under the auspices of CARLA. You
are also invited to visit the CARLA website at
<http://carla.acad.umn.edu>. For more information about all the
National Language Resource Centers, visit our joint site at
<http://nflrc.msu.edu/>.

In this issue, you will find information about the following CARLA
research and action initiatives:

Announcements:

* Call for Papers for Conference on Immersion Education
* CARLA Summer Institutes 2004

Project Updates:

* Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Project

CARLA Publications:

* Maximizing Study Abroad: An Instructors' Guide to Strategies for
Language and Culture Learning and Use
* Culture as the Core: Perspectives on Culture in Second Language Learning
* American Council on Immersion Education Newsletter: Fall 2003 Issue

Conferences Coming Up:

* Presentations at ACTFL by CARLA and University of Minnesota colleagues
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Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
619 Heller Hall
271 19th Ave S.
Minneapolis, MN 55455

email: carla@umn.edu
ph: 612-626-8600
fax: 612-624-7514

website: http://carla.acad.umn.edu
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