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Title: Job Posting: Korean professor, York Univ, Toronto, Canada
Body: From: http://linguistlist.org/issues/15/15-2228.html Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada seeks a three-year, contractually-limited position in Korean, at the Assistant Professor level, to commence July 1, 2005. Details at: http://www.yorku.ca/acadjobs/index.htm. York University is an Affirmative Action Employer. The Affirmative Action Program can be found on York's website at http://www.yorku.ca/acadjobs/ index.htm or a copy can be obtained by calling the affirmative action office at (416) 736-5713. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and Permanent Residents will be given priority. Temporary entry for citizens of the U.S.A. and Mexico may apply per the provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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Title: Book Review: Tuning up your French (and Spanish)
Body: I just got a new book that I'm finding really helpful. It's called "Tune Up Your French" by Natalie Schorr. Amazon has it (in Canada and the US. The ISBN is 0071432299). The CD that's included has three native speakers with a pleasant accent that doesn't interfere with understanding. It was also inexpensive, as language books go. I bought it at Chapters-Indigo here in Canada. This book lends itself well to quick, short readings -- snippets at a time. "Tune Up Your Spanish" will be out soon, but may be a bit simple for my Spanish, which is much stronger. I like "Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish" by Joseph J Keenan. It gets 5 stars on Amazon even after 57 reviews. Swayne, K. Upgrading from a brick to a hammer. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (4 Aug. 2004).
Source: FLTEACH
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Title: Advance notice: OR & WA Fall Conference
Body: From http://www.coflt.org SECOND LANGUAGES for ALL AGES and ALL STAGES Fall Conference of: Confederation in Oregon for Language Teaching (COFLT ) and Washington Association for Language Teaching (WAFLT) In cooperation with the Pacific Northwest Council for Languages (PNCFL) Friday-Saturday, October 8-9, 2004 Portland Airport Holiday Inn 8439 NE Columbia Blvd For more details, including keynote speakers, fees, registration forms, and information about the GALA CELEBRATION OF COFLT/WAFLT ANNIVERSARIES AND NATIONAL YEAR OF LANGUAGES, visit http://www.coflt.org and click on the link for COFLT/WAFLT FALL CONFERENCE.
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Title: 47th Benkyoukai (Study Forum): Student ePortfolios
Body: Please visit the Info Page for complete information and additional instructions: SenseiOnline presents 47th Benkyoukai (Study Forum) Emi Ochiai Ahn "Student ePortfolios for National Standards Using WebCT's Student Presentation Tool" August 19th (Thursday), 2004 at 1pm PDT How long? For about 50 minutes Who is the invited speaker? Emi Ochiai Ahn Emi Ochiai Ahn is a residential faculty of Japanese at Mesa Community College, Mesa, Arizona. She holds a B.A. in English from Japan Women's University in Tokyo and an M.A. in TESOL from Michigan State University. She develops and teaches both face-to-face and online Japanese courses. She is an active member of the Arizona Language Association and the Arizona Association of Teachers of Japanese. Her fields of interest include distance teaching and learning, critical thinking theory in language teaching, educational media, and Chinese and Korean studies. More information is available at her website: http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~emiahn/. Ochiai sensei's paper is at http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~emiahn/SenseiOnlinePaper.htm Short description of the presentation This presentation will first address the importance of an explicit presentation of the National Standards for Foreign Languages (5 C's) to students. Teachers should discuss the 5 C's with students, instead of just quietly implementing the 5 C's into their teaching. To assess student performance on the 5 C's, ePortfolios are ideal, so in the second part of the paper, the benefits of ePortfolios will be discussed. The portfolios include compositions, graphics, video clips, and sound files. WebCT's Student Presentation tool works well for students to create their ePortfolios. The presenter will also share students' reactions to the project. Schneider, K. [senseionline] 47th Benkyoukai (Study Forum) Emi Ochiai Ahn "Student ePortfolios for National Standards Using WebCT's Student Presentation Tool". SenseiOnline. Senseionline@yahoogroups.com (4 Aug. 2004).
Source: SenseiOnline
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Title: Call for Participation: Focus Group: Spanish & Technology
Body: I am writing to ask any K-12 teachers of Spanish who are interested in participating in a Focus Group on technology as part of an NEH Grant to contact me off-list. Below is a description of the "call". Call for Participation I am looking for participants for a small focus group of K-12 teachers who are interested in the use of technology in the classroom. I am in the process of working on a project in which authentic materials (audio, video, written texts, and photos) are being gathered and then (1) will be made available to all foreign language educators, (2) thematic activities with these authentic materials will be created as examples, and (3) an "ideas" booklet/brochure will be created and disseminated free of charge to all those interested. The time frame is three years. The group will get together twice a year (once at the beginning of the project year and once at the end of the project year) for a 2-to-3-day meeting. For participation in the group, you would be paid $150.00 per day, plus expenses (airfare, hotel, and meals). If you are interested, please contact me at djg25@psu.edu and in the Subject Line please put "Focus Group Grant Participation", as I get over 100 messages a day. I am looking for a good balance of levels (elementary, middle, and high school) as well as different parts of the United States as each level and each region has different needs. I look forward to hearing from some of you!! Best, Debbie Deborah Gill, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Spanish Pennsylvania State University-DuBois College Place DuBois, PA 15801 (814) 375-4783 Email: djg25@psu.edu Gill, D. Focus Group Participants wanted. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (4 Aug. 2004).
Source: Deborah Gill, Ph.D.
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Title: Job Posting: Part-time Elementary Spanish, IL
Body: Oak Terrace Elementary School in Highwood, Illinois, is looking for a part- time Spanish teacher: 8:40 am until 12 noon, Monday through Friday, grades 1 through 5. Please contact Art Abrego, Principal, at 847-433-0930 ASAP. Kotecki, J. Position available. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (2 Aug. 2004).
Source: Highwood, Illinois
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Title: Heinz Stuecke, most-traveled person, visits Eugene, OR
Body: World's most-traveled person makes stop in Eugene Heinz Stuecke, the German biker who holds the Guinness world record for "most-traveled person," made a stop in Eugene, Oregon, recently to pick up his new bike. A 64-year old native of Hoevelhof, Germany, Stuecke has been on the road for 42 years. What began as a challenge to make it to the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo turned into a lifetime on the bike, giving new face to the notion that Germans love two-wheel travel. He made it to Tokyo two years too late, but decided that the journey was the real event and hasn't stopped since. Altogether, Stuecke has biked 300,000 miles, roughly twelve times around the globe, and he's seen every country on earth. He funds his travels by selling pamphlets and booklets about his adventures. Stuecke doesn't have a favorite country, though. "Ach! You Americans and your superlatives. I hate it. Everything has pros and cons," he told the Portland Tribune. "I can say, though, that I do like India, because it's exotic and colorful and the food's delicious." Stuecke used to travel more or less constantly, trying to achieve his next title as "most-traveled man." But these days, he keeps Paris as his home base and is gone for around three to four months at a time. To meet the requirements set by Guinness, Stuecke needs to find ways to reach some of the most remote locations on earth, many of which are army bases. But he doesn't tempt himself into stagnancy by visiting the country of his birth. "I sneak around Germany like a cat around a bowl of cream," he said recently. Links: http://www.indienerlebnis.de/s06/s06.html
Source: This Week in Germany
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Title: Berlin Olympic Stadium unveiled
Body: Of interest to sports enthusiasts. Links at bottom of article. There will be music and fireworks at Berlin's newly refurbished Olympic Stadium this Saturday as the historic arena is officially unveiled after an extensive overhaul. Around 70,000 guests are expected to attend the huge reopening party at a venue with a singularly loaded history. The imposing grey granite and limestone stadium is remembered by many as the place where Jesse Owens made a mockery of Adolf Hitler's beliefs of Aryan supremacy by winning four track and field gold medals at the 1936 Olympics. Now home to the German capital's top soccer club, the 76,000-seat arena has undergone a four-year, 240-million-Eur ($290 million) renovation to prepare it to host the 2006 soccer World Cup finals. The refurbished stadium boasts a new state-of-the-art roof and lighting system, but still looks much the way it did when it was built for the 1936 Olympics. That is no accident, said German Interior Minister Otto Schily, whose portfolio covers sports. "The Berlin Olympic Stadium of today represents Germany's historical change, and at the same time maintains the necessary reminders of the dark side of its origin," Schily said in a statement. Contractors said that a sleek U-shaped roof extending out over the seats toward the pitch offsets the stadium's heavy granite walls, giving a lighter feel to rows of dark grey seats. Six extra rows of seats were added, along with 113 new VIP boxes. All of it is illuminated by floodlights capable of lighting the pitch as if it were daylight — with no glare or shadows. In a bid to explain the arena's dark past, there will now be a permanent museum at the main entrance and 35 historical plaques throughout the venue. Germany's federal government paid about 200 million Eur ($240 million) of the total costs for a refit that was not without a number of challenges. Renovation work proceeded at a snail's pace as workers painstakingly renovated one section of the stadium at a time while the rest stayed open for Hertha Berlin soccer matches and other events. Workers also discovered a huge Word World II bomb beneath a section of the stadium and had to halt work until the bomb squad could defuse it. Sports fans can get their first taste of the stadium's new atmosphere at a friendly soccer match between Germany and Brazil on September 8. But the stadium's real moment in the sun will come when it hosts the World Cup finals on July 9, 2006. "The world will again look at Berlin and its stadium," said Schily. "But in 2006 it will look at Germany as a modern, democratic country open to the world." Links: German Soccer Federation: http://www.dfb.de/ Deutsche Welle article: http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1441_A_1281375_1_A,00.html Grosvenor, E. & Borsare, B., Editors. The Week in Germany from July 30. (30 Jul. 2004).
Source: The Week in Germany
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Title: Job Posting: High School Spanish, AL
Body: We have an opening for a Spanish I & II teacher at Pleasant Grove High School in Pleasant Grove, Alabama. It's a Jefferson County school of about 975 students, 7th - 12th grade. Pleasant Grove is about 15 mins west of Birmingham. If interested, please contact Wayne Byram, principal, at 379-5250. Teacher workdays begin Aug. 5. Students return 9 Aug. Davis, L. Spanish post in AL. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (30 Jul. 2004).
Source: Pleasant Grove, AL
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Title: Website: Spanish Astronomy site
Body: If you are doing a unit on astronomy, this is just too cool! Cool Cosmos (California Institute of Technology) in Spanish http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/espanol/ Schneider, K. Cool Cosmos (California Institute of Technology) in Spanish. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (31 Aug. 2004).
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