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Title: German Book Prize Nominees Announced
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The longlist for the German Book Prize was announced this week. The jury, which has been tirelessly debating the candidates for months now, nominated twenty novels for the prestigious list. … Over 100 novels were in consideration for the award.
See the long list of authors and works at http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/__pr/P__Wash/2014/08/14-book-prize.html
Source: Germany.info
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Title: 14th Annual GAIN Conference Boston and Talent-Fair
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This September 5-7 in Boston, the German Academic International Network (GAIN) will hold its annual meeting, the largest German science and research career fair in the US. More than 400 German scholars from all over the US will flock to the East Coast this fall to learn about funding and career opportunities from specialists from funding organizations. Officials from the German Federal Ministry for Research and Technology and a delegation of Members of Parliament have already agreed to participate to discuss science and educational policies.
For more information go to http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/__events/GKs/BOST/2014/09/05__GAIN__Conference__vs.html?archive=2010416 or to http://www.gain-network.org/
Source: Germany.info
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Title: Article Series: How Learning Works in the Greek and Latin Classroom
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T. H. M. Gellar-Goad is writing a seven-part series of articles in which he applies the 7 principles of research-based pedagogy described in the excellent book How Learning Works, by Susan Ambrose, et al. to the teaching and learning of Latin and Greek.
Here is part one (knowledge organization): http://apaclassics.org/blogs/t-h-m_gellar-goad/how-learning-works-greek-and-latin-classroom-part-1
Here is part two (motivating students): http://apaclassics.org/blogs/t-h-m_gellar-goad/how-learning-works-greek-and-latin-classroom-part-2
Stay tuned for more installments!
Source: Society for Classical Studies
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Title: New Image View at Dickinson College Commentaries
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From http://blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2014/08/09/image-viewer/
The new image viewer at Dickinson College Commentaries is complete. Each image is described by a set of fields that give 1) the basic information about the object or art work; 2) clear source credit and terms of use for the image itself; and 3) scholarly description and discussion. This information is divided into two tabs, “Properties” (for basic data), and “Annotation.”
The image view is available at http://dcc.dickinson.edu/images
Source: Dickinson College Commentaries
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Title: Article about Spoken Latin
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Spoken Latin: A modern remedy for the nation’s age-old reading problems?
By Frances Stead Sellers
August 8, 2014
Many forward-thinking educators, including several in Washington, are advocating “active Latin” — learning to converse in Latin, singing Latin songs and playing Latin games with students, and even designing immersion Latin curricula. They think kids should not only be able to read a dead language but also order lunch in it — including kids who are struggling to compose a grammatical sentence in English.
Here is a related article with US presidential quotations translated into Latin: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/08/13/some-people-still-speak-latin-what-if-u-s-presidents-did/
Source: Washington Post
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Title: Video-based Activity: ¿Qué tal tus primeros días de clase?
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Here is a video of Peruvian students talking about the beginning of the school year, with some suggestions for teaching activities to accompany it: http://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/que-tal-tus-primeros-dias-de-clase/
Source: Zambombazo
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Title: Interactive Atlas of Spanish Intonation
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From http://prosodia.upf.edu/atlasentonacion/index-english.html
The goal of the Interactive Atlas of Spanish Intonation is to systematically present a series of audio and video materials for the study of prosody and intonation, representing a number of Spanish dialects.
Using the interactive map, the user can easily access the following materials, which are available for each dialect represented here:
- a survey of situations, with examples of different intonation contours which are used to encode various semantic nuances
- a recording of semi-spontaneous speech using the Map-Task method
- a video interview containing a short clip of spontaneous speech.
This resource is available in Spanish and English at http://prosodia.upf.edu/atlasentonacion/index.html
Source: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Title: Duplik: Using the Game for Learning
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Duplik is a mass-market game that involves describing and drawing. Read this Spanish-language article about how you can use it in your Spanish class: http://www.profedeele.es/2014/08/duplik-juego-dibujar-describir-clase.html
Source: ProfeDeELE
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Title: Article: Tools for Achieving Oral Fluency
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From http://languagemagazine.com/?page_id=92395
Tools for Achieving Oral Fluency
by Marsha Appling-Nunez
“[T]eachers figure out, hopefully sooner rather than later, that not only do they need to differentiate every lesson plan and/or classroom activity based on a few previously identified students with exceptional needs but also to differentiate a lesson for each student by scaffolding every student, regardless of actual skill level and the one in which the student has been placed. This matter of differentiated instruction becomes even more critical when dealing in IELP or adult ELL programs, where no identification of exceptional students is conducted and ELL student placement is one size fits all. Program directors don’t want to hear complaints of misclassification or claims of student shortcomings, so what can be done?
“Maintaining a student-centered classroom where the instructor is a facilitator can become a tad more manageable when ELL teachers shift from Bloom’s original Taxonomy to the revised taxonomy by Anderson et al. and fire up the ol’ laptop. That’s when the real instructional fun begins.”
Read the full article at http://languagemagazine.com/?page_id=92395
Source: Language Magazine
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Title: Judge Rules that California Is Failing Its English Language Learners
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Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Chalfant has ruled that state education officials have failed more than 20,000 English language learners in the state.
Read articles about the ruling at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2014/08/california_judge_says_state_fa.html and at http://languagemagazine.com/?page_id=94603
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