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Title: U.S. Officials Fail to Allay Concerns Over Accreditation Rules for Language Programs
Body: From http://chronicle.com/article/US-Officials-Fail-to-Allay/132058 U.S. Officials Fail to Allay Concerns Over Accreditation Rules for Language Programs By Karin Fischer May 31, 2012 U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials, speaking at an international-education conference here, did little on Thursday to clarify the confusion surrounding new requirements for the accreditation of university-run English-language programs. Indeed, they even suggested that the department's unexpected demand that campus programs produce evidence of accreditation during certification reviews or lose their ability to enroll foreign students was "nothing to get upset about." Judging by the reaction of the program directors who crowded an auditorium for an early-morning session at the annual meeting of Nafsa: Association for International Educators, that's unlikely. The controversy arose two weeks ago, when the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, or SEVP, the arm of the department that oversees and enforces the student-visa system, sent a memorandum to colleges and language schools, notifying them that they must show proof of accreditation during spot certification checks. The bulletin took university-run language institutes by surprise because they believed they were exempt from a 2010 law requiring accreditation since they are parts of institutions in good standing with accreditors. Many worried that they would have to obtain separate accreditation, as independent language schools do. Read the full article at http://chronicle.com/article/US-Officials-Fail-to-Allay/132058
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
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Title: U.S. Officials Fail to Allay Concerns Over Accreditation Rules for Language Programs
Body: From http://chronicle.com/article/US-Officials-Fail-to-Allay/132058 U.S. Officials Fail to Allay Concerns Over Accreditation Rules for Language Programs By Karin Fischer May 31, 2012 U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials, speaking at an international-education conference here, did little on Thursday to clarify the confusion surrounding new requirements for the accreditation of university-run English-language programs. Indeed, they even suggested that the department's unexpected demand that campus programs produce evidence of accreditation during certification reviews or lose their ability to enroll foreign students was "nothing to get upset about." Judging by the reaction of the program directors who crowded an auditorium for an early-morning session at the annual meeting of Nafsa: Association for International Educators, that's unlikely. The controversy arose two weeks ago, when the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, or SEVP, the arm of the department that oversees and enforces the student-visa system, sent a memorandum to colleges and language schools, notifying them that they must show proof of accreditation during spot certification checks. The bulletin took university-run language institutes by surprise because they believed they were exempt from a 2010 law requiring accreditation since they are parts of institutions in good standing with accreditors. Many worried that they would have to obtain separate accreditation, as independent language schools do. Read the full article at http://chronicle.com/article/US-Officials-Fail-to-Allay/132058
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
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Title: State Department Revises Policy on Confucius Institutes
Body: From http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/largely-reversing-itself-state-dept-revises-policy-on-confucius-institutes/43612 Largely Reversing Itself, State Dept. Revises Policy on Confucius Institutes May 25, 2012 Seeking to quell controversy on campuses and in China, the U.S. Department of State has reissued a policy directive on Confucius Institutes, largely reversing guidance it put out last week. The department had reaped criticism and confusion after it said that all Chinese schoolteachers sponsored by the university-based language and cultural centers would have to leave the United States by the end of June because of visa problems, a move that Chinese officials said would “harm” Sino-American exchanges. The original directive, first reported in The Chronicle, also stated that the institutes would have to be associated with university foreign-language departments or gain separate accreditation. The revised memorandum states that university accreditation is sufficient and that the precollege teachers will not have to leave the country. It asks host universities to contact the State Department with information about their instructors and says that transition time will be provided to find appropriate groups to sponsor teacher visas. Read related articles at http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/us-clampdown-on-visas-1445995.html , http://chronicle.com/article/US-Hopes-to-Fix-Visa/132017 , and http://chronicle.com/blogs/worldwise/confucius-institutes-need-middle-way/29657
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
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Title: State Department Revises Policy on Confucius Institutes
Body: From http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/largely-reversing-itself-state-dept-revises-policy-on-confucius-institutes/43612 Largely Reversing Itself, State Dept. Revises Policy on Confucius Institutes May 25, 2012 Seeking to quell controversy on campuses and in China, the U.S. Department of State has reissued a policy directive on Confucius Institutes, largely reversing guidance it put out last week. The department had reaped criticism and confusion after it said that all Chinese schoolteachers sponsored by the university-based language and cultural centers would have to leave the United States by the end of June because of visa problems, a move that Chinese officials said would “harm” Sino-American exchanges. The original directive, first reported in The Chronicle, also stated that the institutes would have to be associated with university foreign-language departments or gain separate accreditation. The revised memorandum states that university accreditation is sufficient and that the precollege teachers will not have to leave the country. It asks host universities to contact the State Department with information about their instructors and says that transition time will be provided to find appropriate groups to sponsor teacher visas. Read related articles at http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/us-clampdown-on-visas-1445995.html , http://chronicle.com/article/US-Hopes-to-Fix-Visa/132017 , and http://chronicle.com/blogs/worldwise/confucius-institutes-need-middle-way/29657
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
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Title: Radio Broadcast: Saving the Siletz Language
Body: From http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-2525.html Oregon Public Broadcasting recently aired a radio interview with Alfred 'Bud' Lane III about efforts to preserve the Athabaskan language of the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians (Siletz Tribal Language Project, http://www.siletzlanguage.org ). The interview focused on the Siletz Talking Dictionary, an online collection of recorded words and phrases (http://siletz.swarthmore.edu ), and on the role of technology in preserving endangered languages. The interview is available at http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/shows/saving-siletz-language and can be either streamed or downloaded in mp3 format. The interview itself is about 13 minutes long, and it begins about 30 seconds into the segment.
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Title: Radio Broadcast: Saving the Siletz Language
Body: From http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-2525.html Oregon Public Broadcasting recently aired a radio interview with Alfred 'Bud' Lane III about efforts to preserve the Athabaskan language of the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians (Siletz Tribal Language Project, http://www.siletzlanguage.org ). The interview focused on the Siletz Talking Dictionary, an online collection of recorded words and phrases (http://siletz.swarthmore.edu ), and on the role of technology in preserving endangered languages. The interview is available at http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/shows/saving-siletz-language and can be either streamed or downloaded in mp3 format. The interview itself is about 13 minutes long, and it begins about 30 seconds into the segment.
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Title: A Harlem Elementary School Offers Arabic Lessons
Body: From http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/05/24/a-harlem-elementary-school-makes-arabic-mandatory A Harlem Elementary School Offers Arabic Lessons By Elbert Chu May 24, 2012 The Department of Education shut the Gibran middle school after poor performance and failure to attract enough students. But the principal, parents and staff at Hamilton Heights, a K-5 public school on Amsterdam Avenue started by parents, say their Arabic program will succeed because of parents’ support, financial backing and a broader perspective. “We’re not just about one language or culture,” said Nicky Kram Rosen, principal of the school, also known as P.S. 368. “I’m teaching children how to engage with other cultures.” The principal wanted to offer Arabic to all students partly to help the school earn an International Baccalaureate designation, a set of global education standards. Currently, the 239 students at P.S. 368 can learn Spanish or Mandarin after school. This year, 35 students studied Spanish and 42 studied Mandarin. In March, a small pilot group of 12 students took Arabic classes instead of recess. Starting in the next school year, about 200 P.S. 368 students in second through fifth grade will be able to take Arabic language and culture classes twice a week in 45-minute sessions. They will cover a variety of subjects, including math, science and social studies as well as food, music and art. School administrators said if there was interest and enough resources, the program could be offered to all students. Read the full article at http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/05/24/a-harlem-elementary-school-makes-arabic-mandatory
Source: New York Times
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Title: A Harlem Elementary School Offers Arabic Lessons
Body: From http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/05/24/a-harlem-elementary-school-makes-arabic-mandatory A Harlem Elementary School Offers Arabic Lessons By Elbert Chu May 24, 2012 The Department of Education shut the Gibran middle school after poor performance and failure to attract enough students. But the principal, parents and staff at Hamilton Heights, a K-5 public school on Amsterdam Avenue started by parents, say their Arabic program will succeed because of parents’ support, financial backing and a broader perspective. “We’re not just about one language or culture,” said Nicky Kram Rosen, principal of the school, also known as P.S. 368. “I’m teaching children how to engage with other cultures.” The principal wanted to offer Arabic to all students partly to help the school earn an International Baccalaureate designation, a set of global education standards. Currently, the 239 students at P.S. 368 can learn Spanish or Mandarin after school. This year, 35 students studied Spanish and 42 studied Mandarin. In March, a small pilot group of 12 students took Arabic classes instead of recess. Starting in the next school year, about 200 P.S. 368 students in second through fifth grade will be able to take Arabic language and culture classes twice a week in 45-minute sessions. They will cover a variety of subjects, including math, science and social studies as well as food, music and art. School administrators said if there was interest and enough resources, the program could be offered to all students. Read the full article at http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/05/24/a-harlem-elementary-school-makes-arabic-mandatory
Source: New York Times
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Title: Arabic4US: Website for Kids
Body: Arabic4US is a website dedicated to teaching Arabic to children. It is available at http://arabicrescue.com/KIDS/INDEX.HTM or at http://arabicrescue.com/AR/RESOURCES/INDEX.HTM
Source: Arabic4US
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Title: Arabic4US: Website for Kids
Body: Arabic4US is a website dedicated to teaching Arabic to children. It is available at http://arabicrescue.com/KIDS/INDEX.HTM or at http://arabicrescue.com/AR/RESOURCES/INDEX.HTM
Source: Arabic4US
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Title: Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
Body: From http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries The South Asia Language and Area Center at University of Chicago, Columbia University, and the Triangle South Asia Consortium in North Carolina are creating and disseminating electronic dictionaries. For each of the twenty-six modern literary languages of South Asia, a panel of language experts identified key dictionaries currently in print and selected at least one multilingual dictionary for each language. For the more frequently taught languages, a monolingual dictionary also has been chosen. After identifying the best available resources, the chosen dictionaries have been converted to digital formats. Languages in the project are the following: Assamese, Baluchi, Bengali, Divehi, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Khowar, Konkani, Lushai, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Newari, Oriya, Pali, Panjabi, Pashto, Persian, Prakrit, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Torwali, Urdu Access the dictionaries at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries
Source: Digital South Asia Library
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Title: Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
Body: From http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries The South Asia Language and Area Center at University of Chicago, Columbia University, and the Triangle South Asia Consortium in North Carolina are creating and disseminating electronic dictionaries. For each of the twenty-six modern literary languages of South Asia, a panel of language experts identified key dictionaries currently in print and selected at least one multilingual dictionary for each language. For the more frequently taught languages, a monolingual dictionary also has been chosen. After identifying the best available resources, the chosen dictionaries have been converted to digital formats. Languages in the project are the following: Assamese, Baluchi, Bengali, Divehi, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Khowar, Konkani, Lushai, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Newari, Oriya, Pali, Panjabi, Pashto, Persian, Prakrit, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Torwali, Urdu Access the dictionaries at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries
Source: Digital South Asia Library
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Title: Upcoming Events at the Goethe-Institut in Boston
Body: The Goethe-Institut in Boston is hosting several fun and kid-friendly events and contests in the next few weeks. --- German Games Night Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 6:00–8:00 pm Open for all language levels (A1-C2, native speakers) and all ages. Snacks and light refreshments will be provided. For full details visit http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/ver/en9369593v.htm?code=bos1205 --- Kinderfest Sunday, June 10, 2012, 1:00–4:00 pm Expect plenty of surprises, all under the theme fairy tales. Look forward to an exciting treasure hunt, colorful face painting, a magical storytime, fabulous prizes and much more! For full details visit http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/ver/en9370137v.htm?code=bos1205 --- Photo Contest "Märchenhaft" Prize Competition Deadline 6/15/2012 Calling all kids (6-11), teenagers (12-17) and adults (18+) from New England to participate in the Goethe-Institut Boston's photo contest! The participant must EITHER dress him- or herself as a fairy tale character OR take a picture inspired by a fairytale theme and include a short description in German (max. 100 words). For full details visit http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/ver/en9333708v.htm
Source: Goethe-Institut Boston
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Title: Upcoming Events at the Goethe-Institut in Boston
Body: The Goethe-Institut in Boston is hosting several fun and kid-friendly events and contests in the next few weeks. --- German Games Night Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 6:00–8:00 pm Open for all language levels (A1-C2, native speakers) and all ages. Snacks and light refreshments will be provided. For full details visit http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/ver/en9369593v.htm?code=bos1205 --- Kinderfest Sunday, June 10, 2012, 1:00–4:00 pm Expect plenty of surprises, all under the theme fairy tales. Look forward to an exciting treasure hunt, colorful face painting, a magical storytime, fabulous prizes and much more! For full details visit http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/ver/en9370137v.htm?code=bos1205 --- Photo Contest "Märchenhaft" Prize Competition Deadline 6/15/2012 Calling all kids (6-11), teenagers (12-17) and adults (18+) from New England to participate in the Goethe-Institut Boston's photo contest! The participant must EITHER dress him- or herself as a fairy tale character OR take a picture inspired by a fairytale theme and include a short description in German (max. 100 words). For full details visit http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/ver/en9333708v.htm
Source: Goethe-Institut Boston
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Title: German Proverbs That Are Similar in English
Body: From http://german.about.com Here is a short list of German proverbs that are similar to existing English proverbs: http://german.about.com/od/idiomsandproverbs/a/German-Proverbs.htm?nl=1
Source: About.com
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Title: German Proverbs That Are Similar in English
Body: From http://german.about.com Here is a short list of German proverbs that are similar to existing English proverbs: http://german.about.com/od/idiomsandproverbs/a/German-Proverbs.htm?nl=1
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Title: Cool German: Guide to Young People’s Slang
Body: A guide to young people’s slang in German is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/cool The expressions are organized by topic. Teachers beware: there is some vulgar language.
Source: BBC
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Title: Cool German: Guide to Young People’s Slang
Body: A guide to young people’s slang in German is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/cool The expressions are organized by topic. Teachers beware: there is some vulgar language.
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Title: Classical Association of New England Summer Institute 2012
Body: From https://sites.google.com/site/cane2012si/home CANE Summer Institute 2012 Bestowing Fame: Renown and Infamy in the Ancient World July 16-21, 2012 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH The 30th Classical Association of New England Summer Institute will consider the writings and works of the ancients not merely as history, but also as literature and art. Tacitus says in the opening to his Agricola, "To bequeath to posterity a record of the deeds and characters of distinguished men is an ancient practice . . ." And so this year the lecturers and course instructors will look at that "ancient practice." For full details go to https://sites.google.com/site/cane2012si/home
Source: CANE
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Title: Classical Association of New England Summer Institute 2012
Body: From https://sites.google.com/site/cane2012si/home CANE Summer Institute 2012 Bestowing Fame: Renown and Infamy in the Ancient World July 16-21, 2012 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH The 30th Classical Association of New England Summer Institute will consider the writings and works of the ancients not merely as history, but also as literature and art. Tacitus says in the opening to his Agricola, "To bequeath to posterity a record of the deeds and characters of distinguished men is an ancient practice . . ." And so this year the lecturers and course instructors will look at that "ancient practice." For full details go to https://sites.google.com/site/cane2012si/home
Source: CANE
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