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Title: Training Sessions for Oral Proficiency Interview
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ACTFL invites qualified individuals to apply to become proficiency testers. In your training, you will be learning to administer and rate Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) according to the ILR scale, which is typically used by the US government. Certified Testers conduct tests as independent contractors for the ACTFL Testing Office, and are paid on a per test basis. As a certified ILR OPI tester, you may be eligible for other freelance/consulting assignments with ACTFL.
Who's eligible: Native speakers of the following languages: Afrikaans, Assyrian, Bambara, Belarusian, Burmese, Catalan, Chechen, Danish, Dhivehi, Estonian, Ewe, Finnish, Fon, Fula-Peul, Fula-Toucouleur, Hiligaynon, Hmong, Icelandic, Kashmiri, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luganda, Marathi, Mongolian, Mossi, Norwegian, Pahari, Quechua, Sindhi, Slovenian, Swedish, Tamazight, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Zulu
For more information go to https://www.actfl.org/professional-development/training-certification/ilr-opi-candidate-application
Source: ACTFL
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Title: New York May Reinstate Foreign Language Regents Exams
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New York ed officials may ask for $35 million to revamp state tests — and bring back foreign-language Regents exams
by Monica Disare
October 18, 2016
New York’s top education policymakers may ask legislators for roughly $34.9 million to help redesign state assessments, according to draft budget priorities discussed at a Board of Regents meeting on Monday.
The potential funding request, which was unveiled with a host of other possible priorities for the legislature, would go towards translating grades 3-8 math exams into different languages, reinstating foreign-language Regents exams, and preparing for “project-based assessments,” which evaluate students based on a series of tasks or projects.
Read the full article at http://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2016/10/18/new-york-ed-officials-may-ask-for-35-million-to-revamp-state-tests-and-bring-back-foreign-language-regents-exams/#.WBKMFtzHs5R
Source: Chalkbeat
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Title: #LanguageMatters Campaign
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American Councils’ #LanguageMatters campaign is focusing attention on the importance of learning critical languages in the United States. Go to https://www.languagematters.world/ to learn more about the campaign and find out how you can be involved.
Source: American Councils
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Title: Alexander Hamilton in ASL
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Watch Sarah Tubert sign the song “Alexander Hamilton” from the musical Hamilton in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvbJb8Oi_ig
Source: YouTube
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Title: Online Resource for Modern Standard Arabic: Majid.ae
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From http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=d82d3f97985fc0799a5b2299e&id=59d4eece62&e=feb2c9cab6
The Emirati website Majid.ae hosts electronic editions of Majid magazines and the Majid cartoon TV series. The Majid series is aimed at and features Arab children characters, and is produced in Modern Standard Arabic. Access issues of the magazine (http://majid.ae/magazines/) as well as four TV series (http://majid.ae/video/), all shared openly.
Source: NCLRC Arabic K-12 Bulletin
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Title: 2017-2018 Teachers of Critical Languages Program Applications Now Available
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The Teachers of Critical Languages Program, a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, is designed to increase the study and acquisition of important world languages in U.S. schools. This program enables primary and secondary schools to strengthen their teaching of Mandarin and Arabic by bringing Chinese, Egyptian, and Moroccan teachers to the U.S. to teach their native languages and culture for an academic year. The exchange teachers receive on-going methodological observation and training opportunities, live and work in an immersive English environment, and receive a certificate of participation following their exchange.
To learn more and to apply as a host school, Chinese teacher, or Arabic teacher, go to http://tclprogram.org/
Source: Teachers of Critical Languages Program
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Title: Editorial: Mandarin Learning Is a Must
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Mandarin Learning Is a Must
Learning Mandarin is critical to the educational and economic success of American students.
By Jack Markell and Gary R. Herbert
October 25, 2016
The U.S. Department of Education reported that after Spanish, Mandarin was the most popular dual-language education program implemented by individual states in 2013.
Still, we have a lot of ground to make up if we are to equip our students with the necessary language tools to engage with the world's second-largest economy. While China boasts more than 300 million English-language learners, there are only 200,000 K-12 Mandarin language learners here in the U.S. Further, English classes are mandatory for Chinese K-12 students, but less than 0.4 percent of American K-12 students are currently studying Mandarin.
Read the full article at http://www.usnews.com/opinion/knowledge-bank/articles/2016-10-25/teaching-mandarin-chinese-should-be-a-priority-for-american-schools
Source: U.S. News & World Report
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Title: Facebook Pages about China
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Here is an annotated list of helpful Facebook pages dealing with China or Chinese: http://www.saporedicina.com/english/best-facebook-pages-china/
Source: Sapore de Cina
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Title: Article: Universities Prepare for a Cold War Redux
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From http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/universities-prepare-for-a-cold-war-redux/71979
Universities Prepare for a Cold War Redux
by Nick Fouriezos
October 21, 2016
In Rhode Island, the U.S. Naval War College has launched the Russia Maritime Studies Institute, created partially “in response to a resurgent Russian military that has enabled Moscow to assert itself in Ukraine.” Meanwhile, undergrad interest in Russian courses is on the rise, especially in feeder schools for the American intelligence community. Georgetown University, for one, has added programs over the past two years, and enrollment in one Russian foreign policy class has increased by at least a third. The stakes are high, says Angela Stent, who served as an adviser on Russia to both George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and is now director of Georgetown’s Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies. “We’re not in a Cold War,” she adds, “but we’re certainly in a Cold War 2.0.”
The shift follows decades of relative indifference from the West, which began after the collapse of the Soviet Union as a world power. Slavic departments suffered severe cuts through the turn of the century, the Berlin Wall came down and the aftermath of 9/11 combined with the economic ascent of China pushed the next generation of global affairs students toward Arabic and Chinese studies instead. At the same time, fewer students went on to earn graduate degrees focused on Russia. During the height of the Ukraine crisis and Crimea takeover in 2014, federal lawmakers stopped funding Title VIII, the program that supported much of the postgrad research and language training in Eastern Europe.
Read the full article at http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/universities-prepare-for-a-cold-war-redux/71979
Source: OZY
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Title: Blog Dedicated to Old Church Slavonic
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Here is a blog dedicated to Old Church Slavonic: http://fornkyrkoslaviska.blogg.gu.se/
Source: Fornkyrkoslaviska
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