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Title: New Heritage Briefs: Native American Language Policy and Arabic and Turkish Heritage Language Schools
Body: Heritage Briefs are short papers on topics of interest in the field of heritage language development. Here are the newest titles from the Heritage Language Alliance: • Native American Language Policy • Arabic Heritage Language Schools in the United States • Turkish Heritage Language Schools in the United States Browse the full collection of Heritage Briefs at http://www.cal.org/heritage/research/briefs.html
Source: Heritage Language Alliance
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Title: Speak Everywhere: An Online Service for Linguists and Language Teachers
Body: From http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-4346.html The Center for Technology-Enhanced Language Learning at Purdue University is pleased to announce the availability of Speak Everywhere, an online speaking practice/assessment platform. This service may be of interest to the following groups of people. - Language Instructors can use the service in their courses to dramatically increase speaking practice opportunities for their students. It can be used to deliver oral tests as well. - Language Laboratory Directors can use the system to provide an oral practice/assessment platform for language instructors. - Second Language Acquisition Researchers working on oral language development can use the service to collect oral data: e.g. an interlanguage pragmatics researcher can use a video clip as a cue to elicit an oral response. - Corpus Linguists can use the service to collect large amounts of oral productions to compile spoken language corpora. - Language Textbook Authors/Publishers can use the service to create a 'speaking program' (as opposed to an audio program) to accompany their textbooks. Pronunciation and phonetics textbooks should benefit greatly from it. Overview: Instructor prepares online oral exercises on SE Instructor assigns exercises to students Students access SE via internet and work on the exercises Instructor listens to students' oral submissions and grades them and gives feedback in audio/text Exercises can be used as oral tests (to be taken either in a computer lab or at home) Authoring requires no computer programming. If you can edit images and video clips, the rest is a matter of filling in online forms. The new service is available at http://speak-everywhere.com
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Rhyming Dictionaries
Body: A collection of online rhyming dictionaries for quite a few languages is available online at http://www.alcor.com.au/rhyming_dictionary.asp This resource may be especially helpful for you and your students when working on creative projects like songs and poems.
Source: ALCOR
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Title: Next Week is International Education Week
Body: U.S. Department of State From http://www.iew.state.gov/index.cfm International Education Week in 2012 is November 14-18. This week is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education is part of national efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States. See how you and your students can be involved at http://www.iew.state.gov/index.cfm
Source: U.S. Department of State
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Title: Book: Foreign Language Teaching in Asia and Beyond
Body: From http://www.degruyter.com/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9781614510000-1 Foreign Language Teaching in Asia and Beyond: Current Perspectives and Future Directions Edited by Wai Meng Chan, Kwee Nyet Chin, and Titima Suthiwan Published by de Gruyter This book, comprising two parts, is concerned with both the science and the art of foreign language teaching, with a particular, but not exclusive, focus on Asia. Under the theme of “Theoretical foundation and research”, Part 1 of this book informs the readers about recent efforts in theoretical and empirical research which have had an impact on foreign language teaching or promise to yield results that will shape its future. These studies, not just from the domain of foreign language teaching but also its primary feeder disciplines of linguistics and second language acquisition, offer the necessary theoretical and conceptual foundation for both current and future research and practice. As its theme “Classroom practice and evaluation studies” suggests, Part 2 focuses on new and innovative developments in curricular and classroom practice, all built upon insights from research in the above-mentioned disciplines and poised to become standard practices. These projects include qualitative and quantitative evaluation studies which have yielded insightful data for the refinement and continued development of the projects and their underlying theoretical concepts. Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.degruyter.com/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9781614510000-1
Source: de Gruyter
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Title: Book: Media in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
Body: From http://www.degruyter.com/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9781614510130-1 Media in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Edited by Wai Meng Chan, Kwee Nyet Chin, Masanori Nagami, and Titima Suthiwan Published by de Gruyter The book contains 16 papers which look at different forms of media and explore how these affect or can be used effectively in foreign language education. The first of three parts focuses on important theoretical and pedagogical issues in selecting and using media. In the second part, insightful empirical research findings are presented on the contributions of different forms of media in language teaching and learning, including their effect on learners' learning motivation. The third and concluding part of the book provides in-depth accounts of how media can be harnessed to drive innovative curricular practice as well as students' evaluations of these curricular projects. Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.degruyter.com/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9781614510130-1
Source: de Gruyter
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Title: New Issue of the IALLT Journal for Language Learning Technologies
Body: From http://www.iallt.org/iallt_journal The latest issue of the IALLT Journal for Language Learning Technologies is now available online. Articles include the following: Computer Assisted Instruction & the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines A Web-Based Tutorial for the Instruction of Spanish Pragmatics Realizing the Potential of Mobile Phone Technology for Language Assessing Student Oral Language Proficiency: Cost-Conscious Tools, Practices & Outcomes The Stanford Non-Native Rapper Contest: Fostering Transcultural Competences Using Social Media Access the latest issue to download the articles at http://www.iallt.org/iallt_journal
Source: IALLT
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Title: Call for Papers: Southwest Association of Language Learning Technology
Body: From http://silc-lss-dev.asu.edu/conf The Southwest Association of Language Learning Technology’s 2012 conference will take place March 23-24, 2012, at Arizona State University. The theme is “Language Learning Centers and Internationalization: Supporting Global Connections.” The organizers welcome proposals for presentations within the following topic areas as they relate to the globalization and internationalization of institutions and curricula: Presentation of original research - action research, CALL, SLA with a technology emphasis, ESL/EFL, etc. (30 min.) Presentation of technologies, processes, and approaches to international collaboration and outreach. (30 min.) Presentation of language learning center management, outreach, programs, etc. (30 min.) Panel discussion on any of the above topics (maximum of three respondents). (45 min.) Presentation by commercial entity (vendor, sponsor, etc.) (30 min.) Workshop including Q&A, hands-on practice, etc. (2 hours) Submit a proposal at http://silc-lss-dev.asu.edu/conf/?q=node/9
Source: SWALLT
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Title: 2011 Global Education Conference
Body: Global Education Conference From http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/2011-conference The 2011 Global Education Conference will be held November 14 - 18, online and free. Sessions will take place in multiple time zones and multiple languages over the five days. The conference is a collaborative, world-wide community initiative involving students, educators, and organizations at all levels. It is designed to significantly increase opportunities for building education-related connections around the globe while supporting cultural awareness and recognition of diversity. The conference seeks to present ideas, examples, and projects related to connecting educators and classrooms with a strong emphasis on promoting global awareness, fostering global competency, and inspiring action towards solving real–world problems. Through this event, it is our hope that attendees will challenge themselves and others to become more active citizens of the world. Visit the conference website at http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/2011-conference
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Title: Professional Development Opportunities from the American Councils for International Education
Body: From the NYSTESOL listserv: Dear New York TESOL, My name is Stephanie Heard and I work for American Councils for International Education in Washington DC. We implement three fully-funded programs for teachers and administrators that I believe might be of interest to you and to your colleagues. I appreciate your assistance distributing these announcements to anyone who you think is interested and I am happy to answer any questions you have about these programs. My contact information can be found at the bottom of this email. Thank you in advance for your collaboration! BRING THE WORLD TO YOUR SCHOOL! Explore these fully funded programs that are supported by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and implemented by American Councils for International Education! CONNECT INTERNATIONALLY The Educational Seminars Program provides short-term professional development opportunities to teachers and administrators from around the world, for 2-3 week reciprocal exchange programs and one-way professional development programs. Participating countries include Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, and Uruguay for reciprocal exchanges and Greece, India, and Italy for one-way programs. All Educational Seminars provide airfare, training, travel health care, and living costs. For more information, please visit http://www.americancouncils.org/es or email edseminars at americancouncils dot org. Upcoming Program Application Deadlines: January 6 and March 30, 2012 HOST A GUEST TEACHER The Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP) places EFL teachers from China and Egypt in U.S. K-12 host schools for an academic year where they teach Mandarin or Arabic language and culture. TCLP provides teachers’ salaries, healthcare, roundtrip airfare, training, professional development funds, and ongoing program support. To increase the number of Americans teaching and learning these critical languages, selected host schools also receive access to grant opportunities to support language learning projects. For more information, please visit http://www.tclprogram.org or email tclp at americancouncils dot org. Program Application Deadline: January 9, 2012 STUDY LANGUAGE IN EGYPT AND CHINA Intensive Summer Language Institutes (ISLI) provides fellowships for U.S. classroom teachers to spend six weeks overseas studying intermediate and advanced-level Arabic in Alexandria, Egypt, and Chinese in Changchun, China. Current K-12 teachers, community college instructors of Arabic and Mandarin Chinese, and students enrolled in education programs who intend to teach these languages can apply. Participants earn ten hours of graduate credit through Bryn Mawr College, and are provided wi th peer tutors and roundtrip airfare. All travel and study-related costs are fully covered. For more information, please visit http://www.americancouncils.org/isli or email isli at americancouncils dot org. Program Application Deadline: March 2, 2012 Sincerely, Stephanie Heard Program Officer, Teacher Programs American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS 1828 L Street, NW, Suite 1200 Washington, DC 20036 (202) 833-7522 (phone) / (202) 833-7523 (fax) [nystesol-l] Fully Funded Teacher Exchange Programs: Applications Available. NYSTESOL listserv (nystesol-l@nystesol.org, 6 Nov 2011).
Source: NYSTESOL
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