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Title: Recursos de ELE Website Has Lots of Free Resources
Body: From http://www.recursosdele.com/content/qu%C3%A9-es-recursos-de-ele Recursos de ELE is a website offering free resources for Spanish learners (but teachers could make use of them in their classrooms). Visit this Spanish-language website and browse for helpful resources and supplementary materials at http://www.recursosdele.com
Source: Recursos de ELE
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Title: Recursos de ELE Website Has Lots of Free Resources
Body: From http://www.recursosdele.com/content/qu%C3%A9-es-recursos-de-ele Recursos de ELE is a website offering free resources for Spanish learners (but teachers could make use of them in their classrooms). Visit this Spanish-language website and browse for helpful resources and supplementary materials at http://www.recursosdele.com
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Title: English Language Learners in New York Schools Have a Wide Variety of Language Backgrounds
Body: From http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Schools-lift-the-language-barrier-4048788.php Schools lift the language barrier Growing number of native Arabic speakers excel locally thanks to English programs By Kenneth C. Crowe II November 18, 2012 The eight students came from Jordan, Algeria, Sudan, Yemen and Iraq to Troy High School. Whether it's Areeg Khalil, 17, who arrived from Jordan to eventually rank among the top five academic students in the senior class, or junior Akram Meza, 17, from Algeria, who played on the school's Section II champion soccer team, they're among the 17 native Arabic speakers who've learned and perfected their English in the district's English as a Second Language classes. While Spanish and French traditionally dominated as first languages for immigrant and refugee students, that's changing across the Capital Region's school districts. Arabic, Chinese, Karen — a language spoken in Burma — and Nepalese are among the growing languages in ESL programs, reflecting the growing diversity among students arriving to study in local classrooms. In the Albany City School District, ESL instructors work with students who speak one of 49 different languages. The number of students learning English has more than doubled in five years in the city district. Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Schools-lift-the-language-barrier-4048788.php#ixzz2DFviVITj
Source: Times Union, Albany, NY
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Title: English Language Learners in New York Schools Have a Wide Variety of Language Backgrounds
Body: From http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Schools-lift-the-language-barrier-4048788.php Schools lift the language barrier Growing number of native Arabic speakers excel locally thanks to English programs By Kenneth C. Crowe II November 18, 2012 The eight students came from Jordan, Algeria, Sudan, Yemen and Iraq to Troy High School. Whether it's Areeg Khalil, 17, who arrived from Jordan to eventually rank among the top five academic students in the senior class, or junior Akram Meza, 17, from Algeria, who played on the school's Section II champion soccer team, they're among the 17 native Arabic speakers who've learned and perfected their English in the district's English as a Second Language classes. While Spanish and French traditionally dominated as first languages for immigrant and refugee students, that's changing across the Capital Region's school districts. Arabic, Chinese, Karen — a language spoken in Burma — and Nepalese are among the growing languages in ESL programs, reflecting the growing diversity among students arriving to study in local classrooms. In the Albany City School District, ESL instructors work with students who speak one of 49 different languages. The number of students learning English has more than doubled in five years in the city district. Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Schools-lift-the-language-barrier-4048788.php#ixzz2DFviVITj
Source: Times Union, Albany, NY
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Title: Denver Public Schools Reach Agreement for Teaching English Language Learners
Body: From http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22005413/dps-plaintiffs-now-speak-same-language-modified-consent DPS, plaintiffs now speak same language on modified consent decree By Kevin Simpson November 15, 2012 The controversial, court-ordered plan for serving English-language learners in Denver Public Schools has undergone its first overhaul since 1999 — with what all parties call unprecedented cooperation. If approved by a federal judge, the modified consent decree will mandate several new standards for teaching more than 36,000 students as they work toward English proficiency while also mastering academic content. The proposed modifications, to be phased in over three years, include improvements to teacher training, student placement and exit procedures, parent communication and oversight — including a study of the program's effectiveness to be completed by 2015. Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22005413/dps-plaintiffs-now-speak-same-language-modified-consent
Source: Denver Post
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Title: Denver Public Schools Reach Agreement for Teaching English Language Learners
Body: From http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22005413/dps-plaintiffs-now-speak-same-language-modified-consent DPS, plaintiffs now speak same language on modified consent decree By Kevin Simpson November 15, 2012 The controversial, court-ordered plan for serving English-language learners in Denver Public Schools has undergone its first overhaul since 1999 — with what all parties call unprecedented cooperation. If approved by a federal judge, the modified consent decree will mandate several new standards for teaching more than 36,000 students as they work toward English proficiency while also mastering academic content. The proposed modifications, to be phased in over three years, include improvements to teacher training, student placement and exit procedures, parent communication and oversight — including a study of the program's effectiveness to be completed by 2015. Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22005413/dps-plaintiffs-now-speak-same-language-modified-consent
Source: Denver Post
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Title: California Board Adopts New English-Language Proficiency Standards
Body: From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2012/11/california_board_adopts_new_en.html California Board Adopts New English-Language Proficiency Standards By Lesli A. Maxwell November 20, 2012 The state board of education in California earlier this month gave its final stamp of approval to new English-language development standards that directly connect to the language demands in the Common Core State Standards. California—where roughly 25 percent of students in public schools are English-language learners—began the process of revamping its English-language proficiency standards late last year and may well provide the blueprint for other states that must also revise their standards to connect with the common core. This may be particularly true among a group of 13 states known as ELPA21 that are working together to develop a new English-language proficiency assessment. California, as well as Florida, are part of that group. In addition to the grade-by-grade standards, you can read California's "proficiency level descriptors," which give an overview of the phases of English-language development that ELLs are expected to go through as they learn the language. The descriptors detail the knowledge, skills, and abilities that ELLs need at all of the stages of development and exactly what they need to demonstrate as they exit each of three proficiency levels: emerging, expanding, and bridging.
Source: Education Week
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Title: California Board Adopts New English-Language Proficiency Standards
Body: From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2012/11/california_board_adopts_new_en.html California Board Adopts New English-Language Proficiency Standards By Lesli A. Maxwell November 20, 2012 The state board of education in California earlier this month gave its final stamp of approval to new English-language development standards that directly connect to the language demands in the Common Core State Standards. California—where roughly 25 percent of students in public schools are English-language learners—began the process of revamping its English-language proficiency standards late last year and may well provide the blueprint for other states that must also revise their standards to connect with the common core. This may be particularly true among a group of 13 states known as ELPA21 that are working together to develop a new English-language proficiency assessment. California, as well as Florida, are part of that group. In addition to the grade-by-grade standards, you can read California's "proficiency level descriptors," which give an overview of the phases of English-language development that ELLs are expected to go through as they learn the language. The descriptors detail the knowledge, skills, and abilities that ELLs need at all of the stages of development and exactly what they need to demonstrate as they exit each of three proficiency levels: emerging, expanding, and bridging.
Source: Education Week
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Title: Blog Post Urges Relevant Vocabulary for Students
Body: From http://spanishplans.org Here is a revealing quotation from a Spanish teacher’s recent blog post: “I realized something important this week while going over our unit’s vocabulary. The vocabulary is “household chores” going along with the House Unit. After the initial vocab introduction, we started talking about what chores my students do. I quickly realized that most of my students don’t do any chores at all. So it’s difficult to “say what chores my siblings and I have to do” and “how often” as our objectives would require. “During one oral activity … I made a comment that left me questioning the purpose of the unit. I said ‘Do you really care if Johnny washes the dishes and how often he does it? No, of course not. That’s not the point. The point is to be communicating.’ “But how can we expect children to want to speak in the target language if they are talking about something they have no interest in. Let’s be realistic; nobody cares about what chores their classmates do. How engaging is talking about chores? Why are we even teaching these words?! How often is Johnny going to encounter a Spanish speaker and tell them that he rarely vacuums the floor?” Read the rest of her post and her plans and resources for making learning more relevant to her students’ lives at http://spanishplans.org/2012/11/19/connecting-vocabulary
Source: SpanishPlans.org
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Title: Blog Post Urges Relevant Vocabulary for Students
Body: From http://spanishplans.org Here is a revealing quotation from a Spanish teacher’s recent blog post: “I realized something important this week while going over our unit’s vocabulary. The vocabulary is “household chores” going along with the House Unit. After the initial vocab introduction, we started talking about what chores my students do. I quickly realized that most of my students don’t do any chores at all. So it’s difficult to “say what chores my siblings and I have to do” and “how often” as our objectives would require. “During one oral activity … I made a comment that left me questioning the purpose of the unit. I said ‘Do you really care if Johnny washes the dishes and how often he does it? No, of course not. That’s not the point. The point is to be communicating.’ “But how can we expect children to want to speak in the target language if they are talking about something they have no interest in. Let’s be realistic; nobody cares about what chores their classmates do. How engaging is talking about chores? Why are we even teaching these words?! How often is Johnny going to encounter a Spanish speaker and tell them that he rarely vacuums the floor?” Read the rest of her post and her plans and resources for making learning more relevant to her students’ lives at http://spanishplans.org/2012/11/19/connecting-vocabulary
Source: SpanishPlans.org
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Title: Good News about Language Study
Body: The Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages is collecting articles with good news about language learning on its website. Go to http://www.nectfl.org/good-news-world-languages to hear about new programs, restored programs, and growing programs.
Source: NECTFL
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Title: Good News about Language Study
Body: The Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages is collecting articles with good news about language learning on its website. Go to http://www.nectfl.org/good-news-world-languages to hear about new programs, restored programs, and growing programs.
Source: NECTFL
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Title: Wealth of Multimedia Resources in UNESCO’s Archive
Body: UNESCO’s online archives contain a wealth of multimedia resources dealing with the cultural richness of the world. Videos of notable painting and carving all over the world? Browse here: http://www.unesco.org/archives/multimedia/index.php?id_page=88&pattern=Painting%20and%20carving Information about historic sites and cities all over the world? Try this link: http://www.unesco.org/archives/multimedia/index.php?id_page=48&pattern=Historic%20sites%20and%20cities Start your search for multimedia resources here: http://www.unesco.org/archives/multimedia
Source: UNESCO
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Title: Wealth of Multimedia Resources in UNESCO’s Archive
Body: UNESCO’s online archives contain a wealth of multimedia resources dealing with the cultural richness of the world. Videos of notable painting and carving all over the world? Browse here: http://www.unesco.org/archives/multimedia/index.php?id_page=88&pattern=Painting%20and%20carving Information about historic sites and cities all over the world? Try this link: http://www.unesco.org/archives/multimedia/index.php?id_page=48&pattern=Historic%20sites%20and%20cities Start your search for multimedia resources here: http://www.unesco.org/archives/multimedia
Source: UNESCO
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Title: Book: Language Curriculum Design and Socialisation
Body: From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847698292 Language Curriculum Design and Socialisation By Peter Mickan Published by Multilingual Matters Summary This book applies social theory to curriculum design and sets out a program for language curriculum renewal for the 21st century. It includes many examples of text-based curricula and describes a plan for curriculum renewal based on texts as the unit of analysis for planning, for teaching and for assessment. Underpinned by Halliday’s semiotic theory of language, the book combines the theory of language as a resource for meaning-making with learning language as learning to mean. The curriculum design constructs curriculum around social practices and their texts rather than presenting language as grammatical and lexical objects. This work will provide teachers, teacher educators and curriculum planners with a curriculum model for teaching children and adults in different contexts from preschool to adult education as well as serving as a practical guide for students. Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847698292
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Book: Language Curriculum Design and Socialisation
Body: From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847698292 Language Curriculum Design and Socialisation By Peter Mickan Published by Multilingual Matters Summary This book applies social theory to curriculum design and sets out a program for language curriculum renewal for the 21st century. It includes many examples of text-based curricula and describes a plan for curriculum renewal based on texts as the unit of analysis for planning, for teaching and for assessment. Underpinned by Halliday’s semiotic theory of language, the book combines the theory of language as a resource for meaning-making with learning language as learning to mean. The curriculum design constructs curriculum around social practices and their texts rather than presenting language as grammatical and lexical objects. This work will provide teachers, teacher educators and curriculum planners with a curriculum model for teaching children and adults in different contexts from preschool to adult education as well as serving as a practical guide for students. Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847698292
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Call for Proposals: 2013 ACTFL Convention & World Languages Expo
Body: From http://www.actfl.org Whether or not you recently returned from the 2012 ACTFL Convention, it’s already time to start looking ahead to next year’s convention. The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention and World Languages Expo, where learning comes alive, features over 600 educational sessions covering a wide spectrum of the language profession addressing the theme New Spaces, New Realities: Learning Any Time, Any Place. More than 250 exhibiting companies will be showcasing the latest products and services for you and your students. The ACTFL Convention is an international event bringing together over 6,000 language educators from all languages, levels and assignments within the profession. The Call for Proposals is now open through Wednesday, January 9, 2013. Learn more and submit a proposal at http://www.actfl.org/convention-expo/2013-actfl-convention-world-languages-expo
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Title: Call for Proposals: 2013 ACTFL Convention & World Languages Expo
Body: From http://www.actfl.org Whether or not you recently returned from the 2012 ACTFL Convention, it’s already time to start looking ahead to next year’s convention. The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention and World Languages Expo, where learning comes alive, features over 600 educational sessions covering a wide spectrum of the language profession addressing the theme New Spaces, New Realities: Learning Any Time, Any Place. More than 250 exhibiting companies will be showcasing the latest products and services for you and your students. The ACTFL Convention is an international event bringing together over 6,000 language educators from all languages, levels and assignments within the profession. The Call for Proposals is now open through Wednesday, January 9, 2013. Learn more and submit a proposal at http://www.actfl.org/convention-expo/2013-actfl-convention-world-languages-expo
Source: ACTFL
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Title: Call for Proposals: Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Body: From http://www.aseees.org/convention/cfp2013.html The 45th Annual Convention of the Association will be held at the Boston Marriott Copley Place on November 21–24, 2013. The theme of the 2013 convention is "Revolution.” 2013 Convention Papers/Panels Wanted Board Do you have an idea for a panel that you would like to organize and are you looking for paper presenter(s), a chair or discussant(s)? Do you have a paper topic proposal and are you looking to join a panel? New this year, ASEEES is offering a dedicated space for Annual Convention attendees to find others to form panels. Individual paper submissions must be received by December 17, 2012. The online submission closes as 12:01 am PT on Dec. 18, 2012. Submissions for panels, roundtables and meetings must be received by January 15, 2013. The online submission closes at 12:01 am PT on Jan. 16, 2013. View the full call for proposals and access the Papers/Panels Wanted Board at http://www.aseees.org/convention/cfp.html
Source: ASEEES
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Title: Call for Proposals: Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Body: From http://www.aseees.org/convention/cfp2013.html The 45th Annual Convention of the Association will be held at the Boston Marriott Copley Place on November 21–24, 2013. The theme of the 2013 convention is "Revolution.” 2013 Convention Papers/Panels Wanted Board Do you have an idea for a panel that you would like to organize and are you looking for paper presenter(s), a chair or discussant(s)? Do you have a paper topic proposal and are you looking to join a panel? New this year, ASEEES is offering a dedicated space for Annual Convention attendees to find others to form panels. Individual paper submissions must be received by December 17, 2012. The online submission closes as 12:01 am PT on Dec. 18, 2012. Submissions for panels, roundtables and meetings must be received by January 15, 2013. The online submission closes at 12:01 am PT on Jan. 16, 2013. View the full call for proposals and access the Papers/Panels Wanted Board at http://www.aseees.org/convention/cfp.html
Source: ASEEES
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