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Title: San Mateo County's English Learners Outpace Peers Statewide
Body: From http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15137388?nclick_check=1 San Mateo County's English learners outpace peers statewide By Neil Gonzales May 24, 2010 San Mateo County's English-learning students have surpassed their peers statewide on a test measuring their command of the language after lagging behind in recent years, according to a report released Friday. The 2009-10 results of the California English Language Development Test showed that 41 percent of the county's English learners scored at an "early advanced" and "advanced" level of proficiency, according to the report from the state Department of Education. In contrast, about 40 percent of California's 1.3 million English learners reached at least the early-advanced level, according to the report. Programs targeting English learners may be helping. In Redwood City, Sequoia High School offers a program that puts English learners in small groups and has them go through exercises integrating their reading, writing and speaking skills. Read the full article at http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15137388?nclick_check=1
Source: San Mateo County Times
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Title: San Mateo County's English Learners Outpace Peers Statewide
Body: From http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15137388?nclick_check=1 San Mateo County's English learners outpace peers statewide By Neil Gonzales May 24, 2010 San Mateo County's English-learning students have surpassed their peers statewide on a test measuring their command of the language after lagging behind in recent years, according to a report released Friday. The 2009-10 results of the California English Language Development Test showed that 41 percent of the county's English learners scored at an "early advanced" and "advanced" level of proficiency, according to the report from the state Department of Education. In contrast, about 40 percent of California's 1.3 million English learners reached at least the early-advanced level, according to the report. Programs targeting English learners may be helping. In Redwood City, Sequoia High School offers a program that puts English learners in small groups and has them go through exercises integrating their reading, writing and speaking skills. Read the full article at http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15137388?nclick_check=1
Source: San Mateo County Times
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Title: Less Commonly Taught Languages Database Has Been Upgraded
Body: The LCTL project is happy to announce that the LCTL database of Less Commonly Taught Languages course offerings in North America has been upgraded to a new more reliable server and a new platform. The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition is happy to continue maintaining the database, which has been a part of CARLA since 1993. Not only have they made technical upgrades, they now have more fields that people can search on when they want to locate courses. In addition to the standard searchable items (language, state, institution, k-12, summer, post-secondary), they have added more search options: click on 'advanced options' and a larger page opens. From here, you can search for levels offered, availability, emphasis or focus of the course, degrees offered by the relevant department, whether there is a tightly integrated study abroad component, if the institution is part of a consortium like CIC, The U of California consortium, the Five Colleges in Massachusetts. Fields now have expanded 'help' explanations. The value of this database certainly depends on its completeness and accuracy. You are urged to look at the courses you know about or are involved in, and submit updates, corrections or deletions. The top of every page which gives details about a course, offers a link to the correction page and an option to check if the course no longer is being offered. After you submit new details, you will receive an email confirmation. As soon as the project verifies the submission, they will add it to the available records. For those interested in statistics, they currently have 9,287 college/university listings (from Acholi to Zulu) 2,853 listings k-12 for LCTLs 254 distance ed offerings 237 summer 2010 courses Have a look: http://www.carla.umn.edu/lctl/db/index.php
Source: CARLA
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Title: Less Commonly Taught Languages Database Has Been Upgraded
Body: The LCTL project is happy to announce that the LCTL database of Less Commonly Taught Languages course offerings in North America has been upgraded to a new more reliable server and a new platform. The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition is happy to continue maintaining the database, which has been a part of CARLA since 1993. Not only have they made technical upgrades, they now have more fields that people can search on when they want to locate courses. In addition to the standard searchable items (language, state, institution, k-12, summer, post-secondary), they have added more search options: click on 'advanced options' and a larger page opens. From here, you can search for levels offered, availability, emphasis or focus of the course, degrees offered by the relevant department, whether there is a tightly integrated study abroad component, if the institution is part of a consortium like CIC, The U of California consortium, the Five Colleges in Massachusetts. Fields now have expanded 'help' explanations. The value of this database certainly depends on its completeness and accuracy. You are urged to look at the courses you know about or are involved in, and submit updates, corrections or deletions. The top of every page which gives details about a course, offers a link to the correction page and an option to check if the course no longer is being offered. After you submit new details, you will receive an email confirmation. As soon as the project verifies the submission, they will add it to the available records. For those interested in statistics, they currently have 9,287 college/university listings (from Acholi to Zulu) 2,853 listings k-12 for LCTLs 254 distance ed offerings 237 summer 2010 courses Have a look: http://www.carla.umn.edu/lctl/db/index.php
Source: CARLA
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Title: Using Glogster for Creating Interactive Online Posters
Body: From http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try You can create attractive and colourful Glogster posters with your students on many different occasions: for celebrating festivals, for illustrating project work or for presenting a topic. Learn how at http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/activities/using-glogster-creating-interactive-online-posters
Source: British Council
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Title: Using Glogster for Creating Interactive Online Posters
Body: From http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try You can create attractive and colourful Glogster posters with your students on many different occasions: for celebrating festivals, for illustrating project work or for presenting a topic. Learn how at http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/activities/using-glogster-creating-interactive-online-posters
Source: British Council
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Title: SACODEYL: Interviews with British, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Rumanian and Spanish Pupils
Body: The SACODEYL project focuses on spoken interviews with British, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Rumanian and Spanish pupils between 13 and 18 years of age. The interview transcripts are stored in online corpora, which are pedagogically annotated and enriched for language learning and teaching purposes. SACODEYL adopts a “small pedagogic corpus” approach. Each of the seven corpora – English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Rumanian and Spanish – contains 20 to 25 video-recorded interviewsof about 10 minutes each. To ensure thematic comparability, a common set of interview questions was used, covering a wide range of topics including: personal information, home and family, present and past living routines, hobbies and interests, holidays, school and education, job experiences, plans for the future, open discussion topics. A SACODEYL corpus consists of orthographical interview transcripts in XML format. Each transcript is structured on the basis of short thematic sections and annotated with regard to pedagogically relevant characteristics, e.g. topic, grammatical and lexical properties, discourse markers and CEF level. For pedagogic support, access to various web-based enrichment resources is provided via direct links and resource sheets. This includes in particular * the interview sound & video files, * ready-made online learning modules created with Telos Language Partner, * suggestions for explorative & communicative activities in a classroom and/or Moodle-based e-learning environment. To view the SACODEYL corpora, please go to SEARCH at http://purl.org/sacodeyl/searchtool or visit SACODEYL website at htt://www.um.es/sacodeyl
Source: CALICO’s CALL Discussion List
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Title: SACODEYL: Interviews with British, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Rumanian and Spanish Pupils
Body: The SACODEYL project focuses on spoken interviews with British, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Rumanian and Spanish pupils between 13 and 18 years of age. The interview transcripts are stored in online corpora, which are pedagogically annotated and enriched for language learning and teaching purposes. SACODEYL adopts a “small pedagogic corpus” approach. Each of the seven corpora – English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Rumanian and Spanish – contains 20 to 25 video-recorded interviewsof about 10 minutes each. To ensure thematic comparability, a common set of interview questions was used, covering a wide range of topics including: personal information, home and family, present and past living routines, hobbies and interests, holidays, school and education, job experiences, plans for the future, open discussion topics. A SACODEYL corpus consists of orthographical interview transcripts in XML format. Each transcript is structured on the basis of short thematic sections and annotated with regard to pedagogically relevant characteristics, e.g. topic, grammatical and lexical properties, discourse markers and CEF level. For pedagogic support, access to various web-based enrichment resources is provided via direct links and resource sheets. This includes in particular * the interview sound & video files, * ready-made online learning modules created with Telos Language Partner, * suggestions for explorative & communicative activities in a classroom and/or Moodle-based e-learning environment. To view the SACODEYL corpora, please go to SEARCH at http://purl.org/sacodeyl/searchtool or visit SACODEYL website at htt://www.um.es/sacodeyl
Source: CALICO’s CALL Discussion List
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Title: Two Free Clipart Websites
Body: Here are two more free clipart websites: http://www.phillipmartin.info/clipart/homepage.htm http://www.wpclipart.com/browse.html
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Title: Two Free Clipart Websites
Body: Here are two more free clipart websites: http://www.phillipmartin.info/clipart/homepage.htm http://www.wpclipart.com/browse.html
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Title: Book: The Sounds of German
Body: From http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521694629 The Sounds of German Charles V. J. Russ Publisher: Cambridge How are the sounds of German produced? How do German speakers stress their words? How have the sounds of German developed over time? This book provides a clear introduction to the sounds of German, designed particularly for English-speaking students of the language. Topics covered include the role of the organs of speech, the state of the vocal cords and the differences between vowels and consonants. The articulation, distribution, spelling and the major variants of each sound are examined in detail. The book also discusses the regional differences between dialects and between the national standard varieties in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Students are encouraged to put theory into practice with end of chapter questions. Setting a solid foundation in the description and analysis of German sounds, The Sounds of German will help students improve their pronunciation of the language by introducing them to the basics of its sound system. Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521694629
Source: Cambridge University Press
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Title: Book: The Sounds of German
Body: From http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521694629 The Sounds of German Charles V. J. Russ Publisher: Cambridge How are the sounds of German produced? How do German speakers stress their words? How have the sounds of German developed over time? This book provides a clear introduction to the sounds of German, designed particularly for English-speaking students of the language. Topics covered include the role of the organs of speech, the state of the vocal cords and the differences between vowels and consonants. The articulation, distribution, spelling and the major variants of each sound are examined in detail. The book also discusses the regional differences between dialects and between the national standard varieties in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Students are encouraged to put theory into practice with end of chapter questions. Setting a solid foundation in the description and analysis of German sounds, The Sounds of German will help students improve their pronunciation of the language by introducing them to the basics of its sound system. Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521694629
Source: Cambridge University Press
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Title: Call for Papers: Humanities Conference
Body: From http://thehumanities.com/conference-2010 The Eighth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities is to be held at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA from 29 June to 2 July 2010. The Conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that make up the humanities today. Plenary speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the humanities, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by teachers and researchers. Participants are also welcome to submit a presentation proposal either for a 30-minute paper, 60-minute workshop, or jointly presented 90-minute colloquium session. Parallel sessions are loosely grouped into streams reflecting different perspectives or disciplines. Each stream also has its own talking circle, a forum for focused discussion of issues. The deadline for the current round in the Call for Papers is 10 June 2010. View the full call for papers at http://thehumanities.com/conference-2010/call-for-papers
Source: New Directions in the Humanities
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Title: Call for Papers: Humanities Conference
Body: From http://thehumanities.com/conference-2010 The Eighth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities is to be held at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA from 29 June to 2 July 2010. The Conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that make up the humanities today. Plenary speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the humanities, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by teachers and researchers. Participants are also welcome to submit a presentation proposal either for a 30-minute paper, 60-minute workshop, or jointly presented 90-minute colloquium session. Parallel sessions are loosely grouped into streams reflecting different perspectives or disciplines. Each stream also has its own talking circle, a forum for focused discussion of issues. The deadline for the current round in the Call for Papers is 10 June 2010. View the full call for papers at http://thehumanities.com/conference-2010/call-for-papers
Source: New Directions in the Humanities
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Title: Call for Papers: Language, Myth and Society in the Ancient World
Body: From http://apaclassics.org/Classics/calls.html The organizers invite participants to examine and reflect upon the interconnectedness of language, myth and society in the ancient world from any disciplinary perspective—art, archaeology, linguistics, philology, philosophy, anthropology or any other area of study within Classics—above all in ways that combine multiple such perspectives to bring innovative and fresh understandings to this theme. Papers that take an “emic” approach, to cast light on how the Romans and Greeks themselves conceived these categories and their interrelation, are particularly encouraged. The conference will take place at the University of Texas at San Antonio on Friday and Saturday, November 5-6, 2010. The keynote speaker will be Maurizio Bettini, Professor of Classics at the Università degli Studi di Siena (Italy) and Director of the Center for Anthropology of the Ancient World. Please send abstracts of no more than one page (bibliography may be added on a second page) to classics@utsa.edu by Tuesday, June 15th, 2010. For full details go to http://colfa.utsa.edu/pc/news/langmysoc
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Title: Call for Papers: Language, Myth and Society in the Ancient World
Body: From http://apaclassics.org/Classics/calls.html The organizers invite participants to examine and reflect upon the interconnectedness of language, myth and society in the ancient world from any disciplinary perspective—art, archaeology, linguistics, philology, philosophy, anthropology or any other area of study within Classics—above all in ways that combine multiple such perspectives to bring innovative and fresh understandings to this theme. Papers that take an “emic” approach, to cast light on how the Romans and Greeks themselves conceived these categories and their interrelation, are particularly encouraged. The conference will take place at the University of Texas at San Antonio on Friday and Saturday, November 5-6, 2010. The keynote speaker will be Maurizio Bettini, Professor of Classics at the Università degli Studi di Siena (Italy) and Director of the Center for Anthropology of the Ancient World. Please send abstracts of no more than one page (bibliography may be added on a second page) to classics@utsa.edu by Tuesday, June 15th, 2010. For full details go to http://colfa.utsa.edu/pc/news/langmysoc
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Title: Call for Proposals: Classical Commentary Writers’ Workshop
Body: From http://apaclassics.org Proposals are solicited for participation in the sixth annual Classical Commentary Writers’ Workshop, to be held on October 14–16, 2010 at Georgetown University in Washington DC. The 2010 workshop will be devoted to Latin texts. The deadline for proposals is June 15, 2010. The workshop will consist of five 3-hour sessions, each devoted to discussion of a single pre-circulated chunk of text and commentary. Learn more at http://apaclassics.org/Administration/announce.html
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Title: Call for Proposals: Classical Commentary Writers’ Workshop
Body: From http://apaclassics.org Proposals are solicited for participation in the sixth annual Classical Commentary Writers’ Workshop, to be held on October 14–16, 2010 at Georgetown University in Washington DC. The 2010 workshop will be devoted to Latin texts. The deadline for proposals is June 15, 2010. The workshop will consist of five 3-hour sessions, each devoted to discussion of a single pre-circulated chunk of text and commentary. Learn more at http://apaclassics.org/Administration/announce.html
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Title: Call for Papers: Heritage Language Journal Special Issue: Spanish Heritage Language Placement
Body: The Heritage Language Journal invites papers for its upcoming Special Issue, "Spanish Heritage Language Placement." The Editor seeks papers that examine Spanish heritage language placement issues, including but not limited to heritage learner identification procedures, self-assessment, placement test design and implementation, reliability and validity, computer-based exams, and proficiency-based exams. Papers that pass preliminary review by the Guest Editor will be sent for blind peer review. Please consult "Submission Guidelines" on the journal's website (www.heritagelanguages.org) while preparing your paper. The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2010. Submit proposals by email to the Guest Editor: Sara Beaudrie University of Arizona Department of Spanish & Portuguese email: beaudrie@email.arizona.edu The Heritage Language Journal (Olga Kagan and Kim Potowski, editors) is an on-line, peer reviewed journal published by the National Heritage Language Resource Center and the UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching. HLJ can be found at http://www.heritagelanguages.org Bauckus, S. [HERITAGE-LIST] Call for Papers: Heritage Language Journal, Special Issue on Spanish Heritage Placement. Heritage List (HERITAGE-LIST@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU, 4 May 2010).
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Title: Call for Papers: Heritage Language Journal Special Issue: Spanish Heritage Language Placement
Body: The Heritage Language Journal invites papers for its upcoming Special Issue, "Spanish Heritage Language Placement." The Editor seeks papers that examine Spanish heritage language placement issues, including but not limited to heritage learner identification procedures, self-assessment, placement test design and implementation, reliability and validity, computer-based exams, and proficiency-based exams. Papers that pass preliminary review by the Guest Editor will be sent for blind peer review. Please consult "Submission Guidelines" on the journal's website (www.heritagelanguages.org) while preparing your paper. The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2010. Submit proposals by email to the Guest Editor: Sara Beaudrie University of Arizona Department of Spanish & Portuguese email: beaudrie@email.arizona.edu The Heritage Language Journal (Olga Kagan and Kim Potowski, editors) is an on-line, peer reviewed journal published by the National Heritage Language Resource Center and the UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching. HLJ can be found at http://www.heritagelanguages.org Bauckus, S. [HERITAGE-LIST] Call for Papers: Heritage Language Journal, Special Issue on Spanish Heritage Placement. Heritage List (HERITAGE-LIST@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU, 4 May 2010).
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