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Title: 34th Annual National Junior Classical League Creative Writing Contest
Body: From http://www.njcl.org/pages/njcl-creative-writing-contest 34th Annual NJCL Creative Writing Contest Topic: Tell the story of a fictional ancient hero/heroine. The story may be set in ancient Greek or Roman history or mythology (or not). Make sure to research reliable information and cite all sources. This contest is open to all members of the National Junior Classical League. All students who submit stories must be registered members of the NJCL in order to win. The names of any winners in attendance at the 2012 NJCL Convention will be announced, although a student does not need to attend the convention in order to enter this contest. Deadline for entries is Friday, February 10, 2012. For full details, go to http://www.njcl.org/pages/njcl-creative-writing-contest
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Title: Toutes les Chansons: French Songs, Lyrics, and Activity Suggestions
Body: TV5’s Toutes les Chansons section of their website features lyrics from over 800 French songs, videoclips and suggested activities to learn French from artists' songs and biographical and professional records. Available at http://www.tv5.org/cms/chaine-francophone/Musique/p-14242-Toutes-les-chansons.htm
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Title: New Online Vocabulary Practice: Wordplay
Body: Wordplay is a new flashcard program that tracks student progress on mastery and retention, scheduling regular reviews of previously mastered words. The sight owners will also work with teachers to design lessons customized to teachers’ curriculum. Learn more at http://www.wordplay.com/index/home
Source: Wordplay
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Title: ELL Group Files Brief in Alabama Immigration Case
Body: From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language ELL Group Files Brief in Ala. Immigration Case By Mary Ann Zehr August 8, 2011 An advocacy group for English-language learners has filed a "friend of the court" brief backing a class action that challenges Alabama's new law requiring educators to record the immigration status of students in schools. The Somerville, Mass.-based Multicultural Education, Training, and Advocacy, Inc., has filed the brief on its own behalf as well as for the League of United Latin American Citizens, the Hispanic College Fund, and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. The new Alabama law, believed to be the first of its kind signed by a state governor, requires educators to report to Alabama's board of education whether students are undocumented or not. The law, known informally as H.B. 56, also requires police officers to make "a reasonable attempt" to determine the immigration status of any person while making a "lawful stop, detention, or arrest." Meanwhile, Alabama's department of education has released guidance for schools on how to respond to the new law by coding students whose parents produce a U.S. birth certificate with a "1" and students whose parents can't or refuse to show documents proving their children are legally in the country with a "0" beginning Sept. 1. Read the full article at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2011/08/ell_group_files_brief_in_case.html
Source: Education Week
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Title: Proposed Somerville Charter School To Focus on ESL
Body: From http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/somerville/2011/08/in_a_city_of_immigrants_propos.html Proposed Somerville charter school to focus on ESL By Matt Byrne August 4, 2011 Drawing on the needs of a deeply multicultural student population, a proposal to bring a 425-seat charter school to Somerville will focus largely on teaching youngsters who grapple with learning English as a second language, according to documentation submitted to the state. The Somerville Progressive Charter School would serve kindergartners through eighth grade, according to the 168-page prospectus. The document is the first step toward winning approval from education officials, who will meet in February to decide the school's future. If all goes to plan, the school would start classes in the fall of next year. The proposal comes from the Somerville Group for Progressive Education, a group with ties to the International Charter School in Pawtucket, R.I., which has a similar focus on language skills in a community heavily populated by Spanish and Portuguese speakers. To achieve its goals, the school plans to implement for some students all-day English instruction, after school programs conducted in speakers' native languages of Haitian Creole, Portuguese, and Spanish, and a two-way immersion program that will see youngsters engaged in classroom work in both their native language and English. Read the full article at http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/somerville/2011/08/in_a_city_of_immigrants_propos.html
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Title: Survey of Digital Instructional Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages
Body: LCTL Materials in the Digital Age With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the UCLA Language Materials Project (LMP) has launched a survey of digital instructional materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages. Do you have a favorite website or DVD for audios, videos, interactive lessons, or an online dictionary? Do you use any language apps or RSS feeds? Have you created your own digital materials? Tell the LMP about them. The Survey covers any curricular material created by a language teacher or pedagogical team that is available for purchase, subscription, or free use through an institutional website with open access. The material can be of any scope, from a video clip or app to a complete course. Survey results will be published in pedagogical and policy journals, and disseminated through the national Language Resource Centers. Here are some examples of the kinds of materials the surveyors are eager to hear about. Arabic Webcasts. National Capitol Language Resource Center. On-line authentic news in simplified Arabic with pre-listening background information, vocabulary support, and post-listening activities. Interactive multiple-choice or blank-filling exercises. Audios can be heard online, or downloaded to an iPod through RSS feed. (Also Russian Webcasts.) http://nclrc.org/webcasts/arabic Hindi - A Trip to the Market. Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA). On-line digital video with .doc or .pdf downloadable exercises. High intermediate to Advanced level. (Other “shareable material” from Arabic and Azeri to Urdu and Vietnamese.) http://www.carla.umn.edu/LCTL Mongolian Intermediate Readings. Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR). On-line video & audio files with reading/listening components. http://www.indiana.edu/~celcar/intermediate/mongolinter.html Pashto Writing Tutorial. Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR) An app for iPad, Playbook, or Android phone, providing interactive exercises and games for learning to write Pashto script. Turkish Tutor. UCLA Center for Near Eastern Languages. Complete lessons based on dialogues from a popular television program. Each video clip comes with a glossary and exercises. http://languagetutors.ucla.edu/turkishtutor/pages/home/blackborder-fs.html Ukrainian. University of Arizona Critical Languages Series. Interactive lessons on DVD-ROM or by online subscription. (Other complete lessons for Cantonese, Chinese, Kazakh, Korean, and Kurmanji Turkish, etc.) http://clp.arizona.edu/cls LangMedia. Five Colleges Center for the Study of World Languages Videos, with transcripts, of short conversations in a large number of languages. Conversations are grouped thematically. The can be downloaded or viewed on the web. http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu Please send your digital material suggestions to Barbara Blankenship blankens at humnet dot ucla dot edu, (310-267-4720) or to the feedback page of the LMP website at http://lmp.ucla.edu/feedback.aspx?menu=006 The UCLA Language Materials Project (LMP) has been in existence for nearly 20 years. Its web site offers a searchable bibliography of over 7000 teaching materials for 150 languages. See the new K-12 portal with over 100 free lesson plans at http://lmp.ucla.edu/k-12. Horn, E. UCLA Language Materials Project Survey. CALICO-L listserv (CALICO-L@LISTSERV.CALICO.ORG, 17 Aug 2011).
Source: CALICO’s CALL Discussion List
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Title: New e-Tools Database on LangCanada Website
Body: Visit the E-tools database on the LangCanada.ca Web site and explore the listing of over 180 online applications that can be useful in a language learning environment: audio, video, animation recording and editing tools; blogging platforms; material builders; collaboration applications; and much more. Available at http://www.langcanada.ca/resources/pedagogical-tools_en.php
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Title: Book: Corpora, Language, Teaching, and Resources: From Theory to Practice
Body: From http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=54412&concordeid=430054 Corpora, Language, Teaching, and Resources: From Theory to Practice Edited by Natalie Kübler Published by Peter Lang International Academic Publishers Summary: This volume brings together a selection of papers originally presented at the 7th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference, which was held in Paris in 2006. The volume is divided into four parts and deals with the practice of corpus use, learner corpora, the creation of resources and tools, and the evaluation of resources. This book follows the TaLC tradition which takes into account the great vitality and huge increase in computer facilities for using corpora and creating resources in language teaching. Also, the book deals with the teaching of language-related fields, such as translation, linguistics, terminology, or even literature and cultural studies. Moreover, some articles in this volume tackle the more theoretical concepts of corpus linguistics that can be introduced in language teaching. Other articles deal with the more and more user-friendly tools that are created to help linguists compile resources appropriate to language teaching. By showing the diversity of the proposed approaches, of corpus types, and corpus analyses that can be used in teaching, this volume allows readers to follow the extremely dynamic evolution of the domain. Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=54412&concordeid=430054
Source: Peter Lang Publishing Group
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Title: Call for Papers and Participation: Cornell-Yale Northeastern Conference on Indonesia
Body: Call for Papers and Participation Cornell-Yale Northeastern Conference on Indonesia Saturday, October 22, 2011 Kahin Center, Cornell University Ithaca, New York The Cornell University Indonesian Association (CIA) and the Yale Indonesia Forum (YIF) invite you to participate in their seventh biannual Northeast conference on Indonesia. We are honored to have Professor Emeritus Benedict Anderson returning as our keynote speaker. This conference was inspired by the 80th anniversary of the Second Youth Congress, where Indonesian intellectuals from diverse cultures and language groups declared their unity with the Indonesian national identity that constitutes “one land, one people, and a unifying language of Indonesia.” The Cornell-Yale conference continues this aspiration by serving as a forum for the exchange of knowledge about today’s Indonesia with the Indonesian language as its main medium of communication. It brings together seasoned professors, and up-and-coming researchers, students from the physical and social sciences and humanities to share and learn each other’s studies, research, and novel ideas for the advancement of today’s Indonesia. For those who would like to present, please submit an abstract and short biography, both in Bahasa Indonesia and English, to Danny Adiwibowo (dha37 at cornell dot edu) by September 24, 2011. Those who are selected must submit full papers and presentation materials by October 8, 2011. Paper presenters and moderators: please contact the 2011-2012 CIA president, Wiratama Ramanto (whr39 at cornell dot edu) for logistical details; for conference transportation from Yale, contact the YIF advisor, Indriyo Sukmono (indriyo_sukmono at yale dot edu).
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Title: Call for Papers: Southeast Asia: Between the Lines
Body: Call for Papers Southeast Asia: Between the Lines The University of Michigan December 9-10 2011 In 2010, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at the University of Michigan celebrated its 50th anniversary with an interdisciplinary conference on the state of Southeast Asian Studies. CSEAS is now hosting Southeast Asia: Between the Lines, a graduate student conference and workshop. The conference aims to continue conversations on Southeast Asia across disciplinary lines, build connections between graduate students at different institutions, and facilitate intensive interactions between participants, both faculty and students. Support for this event comes from the Henry Luce Foundation and U-M’s Rackham Graduate School. Southeast Asia: Between the Lines invites submissions from graduate students to participate in the two-day conference. The first day features presentations in four moderated panels. The second day features discipline-focused workshops facilitated by invited moderators. Graduate students submitting papers will be expected to attend both days and prepare for the workshop according to the facilitator’s request. Invited moderators/workshop facilitators are: Ian Baird, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Vicente Rafael, University of Washington; Dan Slater, University of Chicago; and Anna Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz. Graduate students are asked to submit original work that falls under one of the following categories: • Anthropology and Culture, Sociology (Ian Baird) • History and Pre-Modern Legacies, (Vicente Rafael) • Politics and the State (Dan Slater) • Environmental Sustainability and Local Resources. (Anna Tsing) Please submit abstracts (500 words or less) to Kate Wright at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies: katemw at umich dot edu. The deadline for abstract submissions is Friday, October 28, 2011. If accepted, graduate students will receive a modest travel subvention and meals during the conference. There are a number of hotels in the Ann Arbor area, and students can arrange to stay for free at the homes of local graduate students. Notification of acceptance will be on or before Friday, November 4, 2011, and the organizers request that participants confirm their attendance by Wednesday, November 9, 2011. Papers will be due to the organizers by Monday, November 28, 2011. Please direct questions to Kate Wright at katemw at umich dot edu or 734-764-5261.
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