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Title: Upcoming CAL Fall Institutes
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From http://www.cal.org/enews/cal-news-september-2016.html
Here are some upcoming fall institutes from the Center for Applied Linguistics:
Teaching Reading to Students Learning English: Direct Strategies
October 17-19, 2016
Leading Dual Language Programs for Student Success: A CAL Leadership Institute
October 25-26, 2016
SIOP Training of Trainers I: Foundations
November 14-17, 2016
SIOP Training of Trainers II: Advanced Strategies
November 14-17, 2016
Spanish Literacy Institute: Fostering Spanish Language and Literacy Development
November 15-16, 2016
Newcomers in Your School: Cultural Connections and Instructional Strategies
December 6-7, 2016
Promoting Cultural Proficiency to Boost Outcomes for All Students
December 8-9, 2016
Learn more and register at http://www.cal.org/solutions/institutes/index.html
Source: CAL
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Title: Transparent Language’s Work with Endangered and Indigenous Languages
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Here are some of the less widely spoken languages that Transparent Language has developed resources for, including Balinese, Kurdish, Ojibwe, Kituba, and Koasati: http://blogs.transparent.com/language-news/2016/09/26/learn-an-indigenous-or-endangered-language-with-transparent-language/
Source: Transparent Language
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Title: Two Resources on Gestures in Arabic
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From http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=d82d3f97985fc0799a5b2299e&id=97395ab939&e=feb2c9cab6
Here are two resources for studying gestures in the Arab world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ull0GSzY24w and http://www.albawaba.com/slideshow/speak-arabic-arabs-do-our-guide-using-more-hand-less-tongue-838074
Source: Arabic K-12 Bulletin
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Title: Arabic K-16 Forum in Conjunction with MESA/ACTFL
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From http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=d82d3f97985fc0799a5b2299e&id=97395ab939&e=feb2c9cab6
Headed to ACTFL or MESA this year? Qatar Foundation International is pleased to announce its first Arabic K-16 Forum to be held at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, MA on November 17, 2016. QFI's Arabic K-16 Forum is a first of its kind event to bring together K-12 teachers and university professors and instructors of Arabic to discuss "speed bumps" students encounter when building their Arabic proficiency, and to better understand each other's contexts. The event is free though advanced registration is required. Learn more and register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEgm_v38OH20LK8mXY561b_ObY2__vey2vOzjpHKHHRJn20w/viewform?c=0&w=1
Source: Arabic K-12 Bulletin
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Title: New Chinese Grammar Videos on YouTube
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The Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning has released some new grammar videos on its Gateway to Chinese YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvtF4wftYqKxW5cKJMLU7Wg
Learn more about Gateway to Chinese, which offers a collection of free interactive language learning resources for beginning Mandarin Chinese learners, here: http://sites.la.utexas.edu/chinese/
Source: COERLL
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Title: More Content on Reality Czech
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Last spring we noted that our sister LRC, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning, had created the first semester of a new open-access Czech language course.
Work continues - you can see a recently-added video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7B0b36FXJY
Keep up to date with the Reality Czech course here: https://realityczech.org/
Source: COERLL
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Title: Russian Virginia Website
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From http://russianvirginia.com
The broader goal of the Russian Virginia project is to create, and continue to build and enhance, an authoritative but user-friendly Web resource on all things Russian in the state of Virginia—colleges and universities, restaurants and stores, churches, libraries, cultural sites, museums, clubs and organizations, high schools, and other locations and Russian-related events, to be considered as opportunities arise. In addition, an archive on this page offers you useful, well-written research completed by undergraduate students across Virginia.
Explore the Russian Virginia website at http://russianvirginia.com/
Source: Russian Virginia
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Title: Avancemos: New Activity Type Based on Movie Previews
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The people at Zambombazo have created a new culture-based activity type: Avancemos. The first one includes a video preview of a movie about Pelé, and a link to conversation prompt cards that can be used with any movie preview.
Access the first Avancemos activity here: http://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/avancemos-pele-el-nacimiento-de-una-leyenda/
Source: Zambombazo
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Title: Choose Your Own Adventure: Homework Options
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From the Aventuras Nuevas blog, here is a wonderful list of enrichment activities that advanced Spanish students can do outside of class: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Iyol2TTh7IQXJPMVl2SUpvQkU/view
Read how this Spanish teacher uses these tasks as homework here: https://aventurasnuevas.wordpress.com/2016/09/18/choose-your-own-adventurein/
Source: Aventuras Nuevas
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Title: Immigrants in Spain
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Here is a Spanish-language article about 1st-generation Spanish citizens; it could serve as an interesting point of departure for discussion immigration in the United States, or simply for discussing immigration to Spain.
Read the article here: http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2016/09/13/actualidad/1473758176_296143.html?id_externo_rsoc=TW_CC
Source: El País
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