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Title: WIDA 2014 National Conference
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From http://www.widaconference.us/
The World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment Consortium (WIDA) National Conference will take place October 23-25 in Atlanta, Georgia. The theme is “Creating Language-Rich Academic Learning Environments.”
Visit the conference website to learn more: http://www.widaconference.us/
Learn more about WIDA at http://www.wida.us/
Source: WIDA
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Title: 2014 Annual Conference of Chinese Language Teachers Association of Texas
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2014 Annual Conference of Chinese Language Teachers Association of Texas
September 27th, Saturday, 2014
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Theme: Practical and Effective Use of Technology in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
Visit the conference website to learn more and to register: http://clta-texas.org/?page_id=511
Source: CLTA-TEXAS
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Title: Blog Series: Building a Professional Development Hub for your School
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Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano writes,
“If education for the ‘now’ and for the future demands that schools and educators prepare our citizens
- to be avid (digital) readers or writers, they should be modeling being a (digital) reader and writer
- to learn to collaborate and work on a (global) team, their teachers should have the skills to work on a (global) team
- to be online learners, their teachers need to be comfortable learning online
- to share their learning with peers, their teachers should be openly sharing their own learning with colleagues
- to become network literate , teachers need experiences with “a basic understanding of network technology, crafting a network identity, understanding of network intelligence and network capabilities”
- to leverage the power of a learning network to solve problems and answer beyond “googleable” questions, then their teachers should be connected to a learning network
- to own their own learning by actively participating and contributing, then their teachers need to be doing the same and modeling life long learning
Building an online professional development hub/community for your school as a platform will give your faculty the opportunity to experience exactly this type of learning.”
Read the full series about professional development hubs:
Building a Professional Development Hub for your School- Part 1: Why? (http://langwitches.org/blog/2014/08/26/building-a-professional-development-hub-for-your-school-part-1-why/)
Building a Professional Development Hub for your School- Part 2: Characteristics (http://langwitches.org/blog/2014/08/26/building-a-professional-development-hub-for-your-school-part-2-characteristics/)
Building a Professional Development Hub for your School- Part 3: Challenges (http://langwitches.org/blog/2014/08/26/building-a-professional-development-hub-for-your-school-part-3-challenges/)
Building a Professional Development Hub for your School- Part 4: Steps (http://langwitches.org/blog/2014/08/26/building-a-professional-development-hub-for-your-school-part-4-steps/)
Source: LangWitches
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Title: Scholarship Opportunities for ACTFL Members
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Nine scholarships for language study will be offered to ACTFL members in 2015. Study in Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Cairo, Chile, Nice or online, and enrich your summer by learning a language! The deadline to apply is March 31, 2015. One can apply for multiple scholarships.
For more information go to http://www.actfl.org/professional-development/scholarships-and-grants
If you are not a member of the American Council on Foreign Language Teaching you can learn more about becoming a member at http://www.actfl.org/membership
Source: ACTFL
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Title: Register Now for ACTFL Pre-Convention Workshops
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Each year on the day prior to the opening of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Convention, several excellent pre-convention workshops are offered for those looking to participate in a more in-depth professional development opportunity on the most current and cutting-edge topics. Come a day early and enhance your ACTFL Convention experience by attending one of these pre-convention workshops, held Thursday, November 20 from 9 AM to 4:30 PM in San Antonio, Texas. Get the advance rate of $150 each by October 29.
For more information go to http://www.actfl.org/conventions/pre-convention-workshops
For more information on the ACTFL Convention, which will take place November 21-23, go to http://www.actfl.org/convention-expo
Source: ACTFL
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Title: Seeking Applications to Organize Study Abroad for High School Students – NSLI-Y
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American Councils for International Education is seeking non-profit organizations and educational institutions to implement short-term overseas language programs for high school and recently-graduated students (ages 15-18) as part of the U.S. Department of State's National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) Program. Funding is available for Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi, Korean, Russian, and Turkish summer language immersion programs.
Sub-grantee applicants may apply for either local or partner sub-grants. Local sub-grantees will recruit and select their own program participants. Partner sub-grantees will be assigned a group of students recruited and selected through the national NSLI-Y application and selection process administered by American Councils.
Proposals are due no later than October 16, 2014, 4:30 PM Eastern Time. Please visit http://www.nsliforyouth.org or http://exchanges.state.gov/us/program/national-security-language-initiative-youth-nsli-y for more information about NSLI-Y. You can view the RFP at http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1110562081496-223/NSLI-Y++RFGP+for+2015+Subgrantee+Competition+-+FINAL.pdf. Inform NSLI-Y staff at nsliy@americancouncils.org if you are interested in receiving updates or announcements related to the sub-grant competition.
Source: JNCL-NCLIS
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Title: Apply Now for a Boren Fellowship
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From http://www.borenawards.org/boren_fellowship/
Boren Fellowships provide up to $30,000 to U.S. graduate students to add an important international and language component to their graduate education through specialization in area study, language study, or increased language proficiency. Boren Fellowships support study and research in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests, including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The countries of Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are excluded.
Application Deadline is January 27, 2015.
For full details go to http://www.borenawards.org/boren_fellowship/
Source: Boren Awards for International Study
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Title: Experiential Learning and the Foreign Language Classroom
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Benefits of Learning by Doing and Doing While Learning: Manos a la Obra
by Kaitlin Thomas
August 23, 2014
“Perhaps of all the challenges unique to the teaching of foreign language and culture, most enigmatic is trying to identify ways to make grammar and vocabulary relevant to the daily life and real-world experiences of teenagers and adults. It's incredible to realize how universal this challenge is (from Pashtu to Spanish and everything in between), though such solidarity certainly does not make it easier to bridge the gap between language in practice and language in life, particularly when making what is often a secondary pursuit one of primary interest.
“… In a rural area of the country, where there is an untapped interest and immense need, it was possible to bridge the gap between classroom and life. As a dual-role professor and Latino community liaison, fully aware of where both sides were falling short, it wasn't enough to merely simulate real-world scenarios in the classroom, replicating situations that were readily available right out our door. No, the answer instead lay in bringing the classroom out into the world so that students could quite literally dirty their hands while pushing themselves to new linguistic frontiers and cultural understandings that could not be reached in a classroom alone.”
Read the full article at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2014/08/the_benefits_of_learning_by_doing_and_doing_while_learning_manos_a_la_obra.html
Source: Education Week
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Title: Article: Can Late Learners Really Have a Perfect Accent?
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From http://languagemagazine.com/?page_id=94626
“The Americans tells the story of two Soviet KGB spies living undercover, as an all-American couple. In flashbacks to their late adolescent years in the USSR, we can hear them speak English with heavy Russian accents. Yet the Jenningses, the perfect couple, are somehow able to switch to flawless American English in the U.S. Could the language training they received as young adults in the USSR and the years spent in America be enough to rid them of any traces of a Russian accent, which does not slip out even in emotional moments? Common observation will probably tell you otherwise. Think of your own acquaintances, friends, or family. You might know someone who was immersed in another language from childhood and now can pass for a native. However, you probably also know many people who started learning a language at a later stage and never mastered a foreign accent, even after years spent in the target country. Is there any science behind this observation?”
Read the full article at http://languagemagazine.com/?page_id=94626
Source: Language Magazine
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Title: New Website: Art and Life in Africa
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From http://africa.uima.uiowa.edu/about/
The Art & Life in Africa website, hosted by the University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA), is a freely accessible educational resource that is the product of the collaborative efforts of more than fifty scholars, technicians, collectors and institutions around the world.
According to David Riep, the website “offers thirty-seven essays by prominent scholars on their research in Africa, eleven lengthy chapters on the ways Africans use art in their daily lives, very useful statistics and links for African countries from Morocco to Tanzania to South Africa, images, data, interactive maps on African peoples from Akan to Zulu, thousands of photos of African art in museums and photos of art being used in Africa, and finally twenty-seven videos by numerous scholars over the past thirty years.”
Art & Life in Africa is available at http://africa.uima.uiowa.edu/
Read more about this resource at https://networks.h-net.org/node/28765/discussions/39042/africa-teaching-resources-online-roy
Source: University of Iowa
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