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Title: Schools Fuel Demand for High-Tech Language Labs
Body: From http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2010/01/08/02languagelabs.h03.html Schools Fuel Demand for High-Tech Language Labs By Michelle R. Davis January 11, 2010 Language labs have been around for decades. Early models were often some variation of a student with headphones hooked up to a tape recorder pressing pause and play. Today’s digital-language labs are different. At first glance, they may appear to be a standard computer lab, but students aren’t sitting in front of PCs. They have screens, a keypad, and a headset, which allow them to watch videos, read articles pushed out by the teacher, and record themselves speaking. Some products even have a digital graphing function that records students’ speech in the foreign language and graphs their pronunciation and inflection in comparison with a native speaker’s tone. Students can easily see how far off their speech is from the correct version in a graphic overlay. Read the full article at http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2010/01/08/02languagelabs.h03.html
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Title: Schools Fuel Demand for High-Tech Language Labs
Body: From http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2010/01/08/02languagelabs.h03.html Schools Fuel Demand for High-Tech Language Labs By Michelle R. Davis January 11, 2010 Language labs have been around for decades. Early models were often some variation of a student with headphones hooked up to a tape recorder pressing pause and play. Today’s digital-language labs are different. At first glance, they may appear to be a standard computer lab, but students aren’t sitting in front of PCs. They have screens, a keypad, and a headset, which allow them to watch videos, read articles pushed out by the teacher, and record themselves speaking. Some products even have a digital graphing function that records students’ speech in the foreign language and graphs their pronunciation and inflection in comparison with a native speaker’s tone. Students can easily see how far off their speech is from the correct version in a graphic overlay. Read the full article at http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2010/01/08/02languagelabs.h03.html
Source: Education Week
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Title: JNCL-NCLIS Legislative Summary and FY 2010 Appropriations
Body: The Joint National Committee for Languages and the National Council for Languages and International Studies have posted the latest JNCL-NCLIS Legislative Summary to their Google Group and also to the website at http://www.languagepolicy.org/legislation/leg_sum_111.html Please check out the summary to see updates and newly introduced legislation concerning languages and international education. Also, you can find our FY 2010 Appropriations Chart as a separate link on the website (http://www.languagepolicy.org ).
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Title: JNCL-NCLIS Legislative Summary and FY 2010 Appropriations
Body: The Joint National Committee for Languages and the National Council for Languages and International Studies have posted the latest JNCL-NCLIS Legislative Summary to their Google Group and also to the website at http://www.languagepolicy.org/legislation/leg_sum_111.html Please check out the summary to see updates and newly introduced legislation concerning languages and international education. Also, you can find our FY 2010 Appropriations Chart as a separate link on the website (http://www.languagepolicy.org ).
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Title: Charter school Focusing on Hmong Children Proposed in Sacramento
Body: From http://www.sacbee.com/ourregion/story/2427228.html Charter school focusing on Hmong children proposed in Sacramento By Diana Lambert December 30, 2009 A group of Sacramento parents, educators and business professionals wants to open a charter school that will focus on teaching Hmong children, who have largely fallen through the cracks at regular public schools. The Yav Pem Suab Academy would serve kindergartners through sixth-graders. It would focus on teaching methods tailored to helping Hmong students learn but, as a public school, will be open to all students. Students at the academy would attend school year-round, four days a week from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. – the equivalent of 100 more days than the average school. The school day would include Hmong language classes and three hours of enrichment – music, drama, dance, agriculture, quilting or drawing – as well as state-mandated courses. Read the full article at http://www.sacbee.com/ourregion/story/2427228.html
Source: Sacramento Bee
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Title: Charter school Focusing on Hmong Children Proposed in Sacramento
Body: From http://www.sacbee.com/ourregion/story/2427228.html Charter school focusing on Hmong children proposed in Sacramento By Diana Lambert December 30, 2009 A group of Sacramento parents, educators and business professionals wants to open a charter school that will focus on teaching Hmong children, who have largely fallen through the cracks at regular public schools. The Yav Pem Suab Academy would serve kindergartners through sixth-graders. It would focus on teaching methods tailored to helping Hmong students learn but, as a public school, will be open to all students. Students at the academy would attend school year-round, four days a week from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. – the equivalent of 100 more days than the average school. The school day would include Hmong language classes and three hours of enrichment – music, drama, dance, agriculture, quilting or drawing – as well as state-mandated courses. Read the full article at http://www.sacbee.com/ourregion/story/2427228.html
Source: Sacramento Bee
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Title: Professor Studies Ajami Script
Body: From http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/01/10/the_lost_script The lost script It’s a writing system called Ajami, it’s a thousand years old, and a Boston University professor thinks it could help unlock the story of a continent By Kenneth J. Cooper January 10, 2010 Senegal-born linguistics professor Fallou Ngom’s father was considered illiterate because he couldn’t read and write in the country’s official language, French. But like many Senegalese had for centuries, he wrote daily information in his native tongue using a modified form of Arabic script known as Ajami. Ajami script had been widely used across Africa for day-to-day writing in a dozen languages, and Ngom knew those writings had been largely overlooked in the official story of the continent - in part because so few historians could read them. Today Ngom is director of the African Languages Program at Boston University, and is training the first generation of American scholars capable of reading Ajami. What Ngom hopes is nothing less than to lay the groundwork for a reinterpretation of much of African history, using this widespread but little understood writing system to unearth new information about the daily life of Africans, the spread of Islam, the continent’s literary traditions, the Atlantic slave trade, and who knows what else. Read the full article at http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/01/10/the_lost_script
Source: Boston Globe
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Title: Professor Studies Ajami Script
Body: From http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/01/10/the_lost_script The lost script It’s a writing system called Ajami, it’s a thousand years old, and a Boston University professor thinks it could help unlock the story of a continent By Kenneth J. Cooper January 10, 2010 Senegal-born linguistics professor Fallou Ngom’s father was considered illiterate because he couldn’t read and write in the country’s official language, French. But like many Senegalese had for centuries, he wrote daily information in his native tongue using a modified form of Arabic script known as Ajami. Ajami script had been widely used across Africa for day-to-day writing in a dozen languages, and Ngom knew those writings had been largely overlooked in the official story of the continent - in part because so few historians could read them. Today Ngom is director of the African Languages Program at Boston University, and is training the first generation of American scholars capable of reading Ajami. What Ngom hopes is nothing less than to lay the groundwork for a reinterpretation of much of African history, using this widespread but little understood writing system to unearth new information about the daily life of Africans, the spread of Islam, the continent’s literary traditions, the Atlantic slave trade, and who knows what else. Read the full article at http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/01/10/the_lost_script
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Title: Seminar: The Arabic Novel in Translation
Body: Seminar: The Arabic Novel in Translation Director: Roger Allen, Professor of Arabic, Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Location: Swarthmore College, 500, College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081 Dates: July 5th – 30th, 2010 Living Stipend paid. You can find the information at the NEH web site: (start here) http://www.neh.gov/online/education/participants The seminar web site is: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/neh/index.html The information regarding application can be found under the Participant guideline link. Maloney, P. [FLTEACH] NEH Summer Program - ARABIC. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 8 Jan 2010).
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Title: Seminar: The Arabic Novel in Translation
Body: Seminar: The Arabic Novel in Translation Director: Roger Allen, Professor of Arabic, Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Location: Swarthmore College, 500, College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081 Dates: July 5th – 30th, 2010 Living Stipend paid. You can find the information at the NEH web site: (start here) http://www.neh.gov/online/education/participants The seminar web site is: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/neh/index.html The information regarding application can be found under the Participant guideline link. Maloney, P. [FLTEACH] NEH Summer Program - ARABIC. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 8 Jan 2010).
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Title: Journal of Lao Studies
Body: From http://laostudies.org The Journal of Lao Studies is a peer reviewed journal for articles in all fields related to Lao Studies. JLS is a publication of the Center for Lao Studies. Volume 1, Issue 1 now available at http://laostudies.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,141
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Title: Journal of Lao Studies
Body: From http://laostudies.org The Journal of Lao Studies is a peer reviewed journal for articles in all fields related to Lao Studies. JLS is a publication of the Center for Lao Studies. Volume 1, Issue 1 now available at http://laostudies.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,141
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Title: Immersion Weekend for German Teachers
Body: The Indiana Chapter of the AATG is having an immersion weekend for teachers on January 22-23 in Indianapolis at the historic downtown Athenaeum, das deutsche Haus and at the new Campus Center at IUPUI. This immersion is designed to further "arm" participants with information and ideas that could help bolster German language programs at all educational levels. The presenters will share data on the significant investment by German, Swiss, Austrian, and even Liechtensteiner corporations in Indiana ($9 Billion in central Indiana alone!) and on how to build connections to those business entities that you can turn into lessons – for your German classrooms and beyond your walls. To download a registration form go to http://www.bsu.edu/xtranet/IFLTA/german/imer2010.pdf Presenter: Herr Andreas Weber, Swiss Honorary Consul, Business Owner, and Prof. Pete Kastner, German Studies and Foreign Language Education, AATG Trainer. Friday, January 22, 2010 5-5:30 Arrival and Registration at the Athenaeum (map link below) 6:00 Dinner (prix fixe dinner ~$15.00) 7:30 Presentation by Herr Andreas Weber, Honorary Swiss Consul 8:30 Questions; Group Discussion 9:00 Gemütliches Beisammensein Overnight accommodations at University Place Conference Center and Hotel Saturday, January 23, 2010 9:00 Workshop: meet at IUPUI’s Campus Center, Rm. CE305 (map link below) 10:15 Coffee Break with snacks 10:30 Continue workshop 11:30 Discussion 12:00 Wrap-up Fees: Registration: AATG members $10, Non-members $ 20 Hotel: AATG members Non-members single room $ 100 $ Shared room $ 50 Questions about the program? Please contact: Beth Moller-Tank 1172 Huntington Woods Point Zionsville, IN 46077 (317) 733-8273 bmollertank@indy.rr.com Registration Deadline - Postmarked by January 18, 2010 Chapman, E. [AATG-L] Attn: German Teachers in Indiana (or nearby!). American Association of Teachers of German listserv (AATG@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU, 11 Jan 2010).
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Title: Immersion Weekend for German Teachers
Body: The Indiana Chapter of the AATG is having an immersion weekend for teachers on January 22-23 in Indianapolis at the historic downtown Athenaeum, das deutsche Haus and at the new Campus Center at IUPUI. This immersion is designed to further "arm" participants with information and ideas that could help bolster German language programs at all educational levels. The presenters will share data on the significant investment by German, Swiss, Austrian, and even Liechtensteiner corporations in Indiana ($9 Billion in central Indiana alone!) and on how to build connections to those business entities that you can turn into lessons – for your German classrooms and beyond your walls. To download a registration form go to http://www.bsu.edu/xtranet/IFLTA/german/imer2010.pdf Presenter: Herr Andreas Weber, Swiss Honorary Consul, Business Owner, and Prof. Pete Kastner, German Studies and Foreign Language Education, AATG Trainer. Friday, January 22, 2010 5-5:30 Arrival and Registration at the Athenaeum (map link below) 6:00 Dinner (prix fixe dinner ~$15.00) 7:30 Presentation by Herr Andreas Weber, Honorary Swiss Consul 8:30 Questions; Group Discussion 9:00 Gemütliches Beisammensein Overnight accommodations at University Place Conference Center and Hotel Saturday, January 23, 2010 9:00 Workshop: meet at IUPUI’s Campus Center, Rm. CE305 (map link below) 10:15 Coffee Break with snacks 10:30 Continue workshop 11:30 Discussion 12:00 Wrap-up Fees: Registration: AATG members $10, Non-members $ 20 Hotel: AATG members Non-members single room $ 100 $ Shared room $ 50 Questions about the program? Please contact: Beth Moller-Tank 1172 Huntington Woods Point Zionsville, IN 46077 (317) 733-8273 bmollertank@indy.rr.com Registration Deadline - Postmarked by January 18, 2010 Chapman, E. [AATG-L] Attn: German Teachers in Indiana (or nearby!). American Association of Teachers of German listserv (AATG@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU, 11 Jan 2010).
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Title: Maultaschen - A Swabian Delicacy
Body: From http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/Startseite.html Baden-Württemberg, with its rich array agricultural products, is known for offering a large selection of culinary delicacies. In particular, Swabian Maultaschen, sometimes also called Grüne Krapfen, noodles, or Herrgottsbscheisserle, are known as a delicacy of Swabian cuisine well beyond regional and German borders. Read the full article at http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/05__Culture/04/03/01/Feature__1.html
Source: German Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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Title: Maultaschen - A Swabian Delicacy
Body: From http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/Startseite.html Baden-Württemberg, with its rich array agricultural products, is known for offering a large selection of culinary delicacies. In particular, Swabian Maultaschen, sometimes also called Grüne Krapfen, noodles, or Herrgottsbscheisserle, are known as a delicacy of Swabian cuisine well beyond regional and German borders. Read the full article at http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/05__Culture/04/03/01/Feature__1.html
Source: German Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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Title: Online Beginning German Course
Body: The online Beginners' German course is designed by Paul Joyce of the University of Portsmouth. It currently contains twelve chapters of dialogue and exercises which have been designed to give the absolute beginner a grounding in the rudiments of the German language, as well as providing background information about life and culture in the German-speaking countries. It is available at http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~joyce1/abinitio
Source: Paul Joyce German Course
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Title: Online Beginning German Course
Body: The online Beginners' German course is designed by Paul Joyce of the University of Portsmouth. It currently contains twelve chapters of dialogue and exercises which have been designed to give the absolute beginner a grounding in the rudiments of the German language, as well as providing background information about life and culture in the German-speaking countries. It is available at http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~joyce1/abinitio
Source: Paul Joyce German Course
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Title: Ictibus Felicibus: Latin Fables for Reading Out Loud
Body: There are over 250 fables published on the Ictibus Felicibus blog now, with hopes to reach 1000 by August. Each fable is labeled by source and by length. For example, there are now over 100 fables which fall into the "very short prose" category, meaning the fables are 60 words or fewer in length. For each prose fable, there is an unmarked version, as well as a version marked with macrons, as well as a version marked for word stress. For the fables in verse, there is a version with macrons, plus a version with some metrical notations, as well as a version with the poem the poem restated in a more prose-like word order. Ictibus Felicibus is available at http://ictibus.blogspot.com
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Title: Ictibus Felicibus: Latin Fables for Reading Out Loud
Body: There are over 250 fables published on the Ictibus Felicibus blog now, with hopes to reach 1000 by August. Each fable is labeled by source and by length. For example, there are now over 100 fables which fall into the "very short prose" category, meaning the fables are 60 words or fewer in length. For each prose fable, there is an unmarked version, as well as a version marked with macrons, as well as a version marked for word stress. For the fables in verse, there is a version with macrons, plus a version with some metrical notations, as well as a version with the poem the poem restated in a more prose-like word order. Ictibus Felicibus is available at http://ictibus.blogspot.com
Source: Latinteach
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