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Title: French Dialectology Metasite
Body: A metasite of resources dealing with historical, geographic, and political dimensions of French dialectology is available at http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/dialects.html
Source: University of Tennessee-Martin
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Title: New Spanish Grammar Guidelines Unveiled
Body: From http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091210/ap_on_re_eu/eu_spain_watch_your_grammar Oye, new Spanish grammar guidelines unveiled By DANIEL WOOLLS December 10, 2009 Can a Barcelona truck driver be expected to speak like a Buenos Aires banker? Can rules be imposed on a language spoken by 400 million people stretching from Madrid to Manila? The academic overseers of the language of Cervantes have taken an ambitious stab at it, unveiling their first Spanish grammar guidelines in nearly 80 years. The fruit of their toil is a nearly 4,000-page tome in two volumes presented Thursday, with yet another to come out next year. It was produced by the Spanish Royal Academy and 21 sister organizations in Latin America and other countries where Spanish is spoken, such as the United States and the Philippines, and has taken them 11 years to compile. Read the full article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091210/ap_on_re_eu/eu_spain_watch_your_grammar
Source: Yahoo! News
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Title: English Activities at WordSpark
Body: From http://zachary-jones.com/english/about The WordSpark website has original, free and fun activities for learning in the ESL classroom and at home. Learn English with music, movies, art, reading, puzzles, cloze worksheets, English vocabulary words, and unique activities for ESOL teachers. WordSpark is your source for communicative English language learning through popular culture. Go to WordSpark at http://zachary-jones.com/english
Source: WordSpark
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Title: NCELA Newsletter: AccELLerate Winter 2010: Professional Development for Teachers of English Language Learners
Body: The winter issue of AccELLerate! focuses on professional development for teachers of English language learners. In this Issue: * Wilde: Guidelines for Professional Development: An Overview * Ryan & Garcia: The National Professional Development Program * Coady, de Jong, & Harper: Quality Teacher Preparation for ELLs: Preliminary Findings from Florida * Spezzini & Austin: Collaborative Mentoring Among K-12 Teachers: Professional Development on the Effective Instruction of ELLS * He & Prater: Collaboration in Professional Development for ELL Content Achievement * Truxaw & Staples Math ACCESS: Building Mathematical Proficiency in Linguistically Diverse Schools * Cervone: Excellence for Connecticut’s English Language Learners * Lier & Fregeau: Sixteen Fundamentals for Successful Teachers of ELLs Also in this issue: * Sharing Success: Christopher & Christenot and Garrison & Amaral ; * Information on: PD for Teachers of ELLs: Facts and Figures, OELA , new publications from the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, upcoming conferences, PD opportunities, NCELA staff; and * askNCELA‘s Inbox. You can read AccELLerate! 2.2 on the NCELA website in pdf or html format. For the pdf version: http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/files/accellerate/8/Accellerate_2_2_final.pdf For the html version: http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/accellerate/edition/8/
Source: NCELA
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Title: Hands-On Learning Activities for Specific Purposes
Body: How can you make academic material more hands-on and engaging for English language learners? Here are some websites that can help you: -Edheads has several virtual hands-on projects: Design a Cell Phone, Brain Surgery, Crash Scene, Hip Replacement, Knee Surgery, Simple Machines, Weather, and more. Access them at http://www.edheads.org -Play a game to fight flu pandemics at http://www.thegreatflu.com -Journey to a black hole online at the Hubble Telescope website at http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/black_holes/home.html -Learn the visual elements and principles that artists use at the Artist’s Toolkit website: http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/index.html -A. Pintura: Art Detective is an online game about art history and art composition. In the game, you play a 1940's noir detective with a degree in art history. A distraught woman asks you to identify the artist who made a painting she found in her grandfather's attic. To do so, you must examine paintings by famous artists from Gauguin to Van Gogh. Each example highlights an art concept such as composition, style or subject. Learn more about the game at http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/teacher.html and play it at http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/index.html -Eduweb has several interactive virtual experiences dealing with the Ituri Forest, international trade, marine reserves, and more at http://www.eduweb.com/portfolio/peopleculture.php
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Title: Christmas Resources
Body: Here are some Christmas resources that may be useful to language teachers: -Christmas Magazine has a variety of resources available in English, French, and German at http://www.christmasmagazine.com -A French Advent calendar is available from About.com at http://french.about.com/library/blxm-adventcalendar.htm?nl=1 -Some useful French links for Chanukah are available from the Canadian Parents for French website at http://members.shaw.ca/cpf99/CPF-FIAL-0040-07-Culture-Rel-Fr-Chanukah.html -Learn how to sing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” in Japanese from About.com at http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa121600.htm?nl=1 -A Christmas webquest for German students can be downloaded from http://www.ukgermanconnection.org/cms/domains/ukgc.org/local/media/multipliers/schools/_pdf/Christmas%20Special%20web%20quest_2009.pdf ; the website is at http://www.ukgermanconnection.org/cms/?location_id=660 -For French Santa Claus web sites see: For Primary students: http://members.shaw.ca/cpf99/annee2/culture/Pere-noel.html Related Parent volunteer helping notes at: http://www.geocities.com/qpac1999/FI2-Lab-Internet-Project-2.html For older students: http://members.shaw.ca/cpf99/CPF-FIAL-0040-08-Culture-Rel-Fr-Santa-Claus.html Wright, L. [LIM-A] CPF - French Santa Claus web sites. Language Immersion in the Americas Discussion list (LIM-A@LISTS.UMN.EDU, 7 Dec 2009). -The BBC has a website with Christmas information and activities for learners of French, German, Spanish, and Italian at http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/christmas -Access an index of links to popular Christmas carols in Spanish, where they are known as villancicos, alphabetized by their titles in both English and Spanish, from About.com at http://spanish.about.com/od/spanishchristmascarols/a/carols.htm -A “Christmas in Germany” lesson plan is available at http://www.okaloosa.k12.fl.us/technology/WOWLessons/MillerChristmasinGermany.htm -More Christmas activities for Spanish, Italian, and French are available at http://www.euroclubschools.org.uk/index.htm -Three more online German Advent calendars are available at http://www.studiofo.com/adventCalendar , http://www.adventskalender.net/mp3-adventskalender/adventskalender001.htm , and http://www.hueber.de/adventskalender2009 -An annotated list of Christmas resources, mostly for French students, is available at http://chilternedgemfl.typepad.com/chiltern-edge-mfl/no%C3%ABl.html -Here are two Christmas scavenger hunts. They are also on a Quia Scavenger hunt activity which is in the Activities section of each. If you have an account you can copy them and adapt them for your own usage. French site: http://www.quia.com/pages/mfreeman/page22 answer key: http://www.quia.com/pages/mfreeman/page23 Spanish site: http://www.quia.com/pages/mfreeman/page10 answer key: http://www.quia.com/pages/mfreeman/page43 Freeman, M. [FLTEACH] Christmas scavenger hunts. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 30 Nov 2009).
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Title: Publication: Helping ELLs Acquire Academic Content
Body: From http://www.ascd.org/ascd_express/vol5/505_toc.aspx The latest issue of ASCD Express has the them “Helping ELLs Acquire Academic Content.” In this issue, you'll learn how to embed academic language in any conversation, how language objectives strengthen lesson objectives, how to help ELLs understand figurative language, and how to use graphic organizers to scaffold content-specific vocabulary. Access the articles and videos of this latest issue at http://www.ascd.org/ascd_express/vol5/505_toc.aspx
Source: ASCD
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Title: Book: Lexical Inferencing in a First and Second Language
Body: From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847692221 Lexical Inferencing in a First and Second Language: Cross-linguistic Dimensions Authors: Marjorie Bingham Wesche and T. Sima Paribakht Publisher: Multilingual Matters Summary: This book presents a comprehensive review of previous research on lexical inferencing, co-authored by Kirsten Haastrup, and a major new trilingual study of lexical inferencing by both first (L1) and second language (L2) readers. Research since the 1970s on this apparently universal cognitive process in L2 reading and vocabulary learning is surveyed, including the kinds of knowledge and textual cues L2 readers use when inferring unknown word meanings, factors influencing their success and knowledge retention, and relevant theory. A comparative study of L1 and L2 lexical inferencing by Persian and French and English speakers is then presented, focusing on evidence of L1 transfer in the L2 inferencing process, its success and readers' gains in L2 word knowledge. Influences of the specific L1 are distinguished from those of native versus non-native proficiency, relative cultural familiarity of texts, readers' L2 proficiency, text language features and other factors. The relative typological distance between readers' L1 and L2 is reflected in systematic differences between L1 speakers of Persian and French in their L2 lexical inferencing. Implications are drawn for L2 instruction at advanced levels. Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847692221
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: January 2010 Issue of the CALICO Journal
Body: CALICO is pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 27, No. 2, of the CALICO Journal (January 2010) (https://calico.org). This issue contains 10 articles. CALICO members and CALICO Journal subscribers can see the complete text of the articles in the Journal, and nonmembers/nonsubscribers can see the abstracts of the articles. (The complete text of the software reviews are freely viewable by anyone in the software review section of the website.) TABLE OF CONTENTS Learning a Language with Web 2.0: Exploring the Use of Social Networking Features of Foreign Language Learning Websites. Megan P. Stevenson & Min Liu Exploring Wiki-Mediated Collaborative Writing: A Case Study in an Elementary Spanish Course. Lina Lee "Leveling the Playing Field:" The Effects of Online Second Language Instruction on Student Willingness to Communicate in French. Scott Kissau, Heather McCullough, & J. Garvey Pyke Effects of Self-Monitoring on Web-Based Language Learner's Performance and Motivation. Mei-Mei Chang Using Multimedia Vocabulary Annotations in L2 Reading and Listening Activities. Jing Xu The Influence of L2 Teachers' Use of CALL Modes on Language Learners' Reactions to Blended Learning. Kwang Hee Hong Keiko K. Samimy Projections: From a Graduate TELL Class to the Practical World of L2 Teachers. Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth, Alexis Jeong Kim, & Tristin J. Klein When They Talk About CALL: Discourse in a Required CALL Class? Greg Kessler A Study of Jordanian University Students' Perceptions of Using Email Exchanges with Native English Keypals for Improving Their Writing Competency. Safi Mahmoud Mahfouz Instructional Technology in International Teaching Assistant (ITA) Programs. Hugh Crumley
Source: CALICO’s CALL Discussion List
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Title: Call for Papers: 31st Annual NYS TESOL Applied Linguistics Winter Conference
Body: From https://sites.google.com/site/31nystesolalconference Call for Papers 31st Annual NYS TESOL Applied Linguistics Winter Conference Theme: Strengthening Classroom Practices: The Link Between Research and Application Date: April 17th, 2010 Location: Teachers College Columbia University, New York City, NY Submissions are currently being accepted. The deadline for proposal submission is February 14th, 2010 (Sunday). View the full call for Papers at https://sites.google.com/site/31nystesolalconference/Home/registration/call-for-papers
Source: NYSTESOL
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