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Title: STARTALK Institute: Proficiency-Based Pedagogy for Russian
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From http://www.middlebury.edu/ls/russian/startalkrussian
The Davis School of Russian has been awarded a competitive grant to host a STARTALK Institute for Teachers of Russian in summer 2018. The Institute includes a week of online classes and a residential session on campus, both required. New for 2018, the institute will also offer an optional Online Russian Language Session, scheduled for the week preceding the residential session and designed to prepare non-native and heritage speakers for the immersion environment at the Davis School of Russian.
Online Session: June 25 - 29, 2018 (required)
Online Russian Language Session: July 9 - 13, 2018 (optional)
Residential Session on Middlebury Campus: July 17 - 29, 2018 (required)
The STARTALK Institute is for current and prospective teachers of Russian. The principles of second language acquisition, proficiency-based instruction, and the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century will serve as the foundation for this intensive pedagogy program.
During the program, participants will observe classes taught by Russian School faculty and interact with the instructors through formal and informal discussions. They will also be exposed to the teaching and linguistic expertise of Middlebury faculty who, as guest lecturers, will lead a series of workshops and seminars. Participants will incorporate everything they have learned by designing and implementing a number of classroom activities and mini-lessons. When not in the classroom during the evening and on weekends, participants will have access to the robust, immersive, co-curricular programs that are an important component in developing cultural competency at the Middlebury Language Schools. By living in the language, participants themselves will observe how a learning community of people who speak Russian with varying levels of fluency can be built and sustained.
For full details go to http://www.middlebury.edu/ls/russian/startalkrussian
Source: Middlebury Language Schools
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Title: Webinar: Techniques for Digital Social Reading
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From https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/social-reading-webinar
Webinar: Techniques for Digital Social Reading
March 28, 2018
To read socially, students and teachers access a text online using one of a variety of tools (including COERLL's eComma) and annotate the text with comments (reactions, questions, analyses), and tags, freely conversing about the text and building on the ideas of their peers. Readers' annotations become a record of the way they have experienced the text.
As silent private reading became a common practice with the prevalence of print media, social reading has emerged as a result of the new digital environment. This digital reading practice is not meant to replace print practices, but offers a new, more collaborative and participatory form of learning. As a result, it is particularly well-suited for foreign language teaching: students work together to crowdsource knowledge and to distribute the mental effort of interpreting a new target language text. Students who pick up on the reading quickly can share their knowledge with students who might be struggling, and all students receive new ideas from each other. The online reading space allows easy access to other online tools for research and creates a seamless pre-reading, reading, and post-reading experience. The students' annotations also bring out patterns in their reading that can offer insights into the process of interpreting a text.
Learn more about the webinar at https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/social-reading-webinar
Source: COERLL
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Title: Summer Workshop: STARTALK: Chinese Language Instruction in the Digital Age
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From https://www.colorado.edu/ptea/programs/teaching-east-asia-china/startalk
Summer 2018 Program
STARTALK: Chinese Language Instruction in the Digital Age
June 25-July 3, 2018
The University of Colorado Boulder's Program for Teaching East Asia will host a 2018 summer STARTALK program for 20 Chinese language teachers currently teaching in middle and high schools in the United States. This STARTALK program introduces the theory, standards, frameworks, knowledge, and practice necessary for incorporating into the curriculum, with comfort and ease, a range of learner-centered technology tools. Program participants will work with language technology specialists, experienced Chinese language curriculum designers, and master teachers from successful language programs to gain a clear understanding of and competency in a variety of technologies around which they can create effective and engaging lessons.
For more information and to apply go to https://www.colorado.edu/ptea/programs/teaching-east-asia-china/startalk
Source: University of Colorado Boulder
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Title: Multilingual Curriculum Development Institute: La Clave de Oaxaca
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From https://www.paridad.us/laclave
The LA CLAVE de Oaxaca 2018 Institute is designed for participants to understand and incorporate language-focused curricular components into units that build on the linguistic, cultural and cognitive assets of multicultural learners. The LA CLAVE Institute proposes a three-part modular program. First, participants will spend two days in Madison, Wisconsin, learning about principles, components, and framework for multilingual unit planning on July 18 and 20, 2018. Second, participants will be in Oaxaca, Mexico, July 22-30 for five full days of targeted field experiences. Third, participants will spend the 2018-2019 school year revising and delivering units through in-classroom coaching and feedback.
Participants are encouraged to come as curriculum development teams to take advantage of the time to collaborate with their colleagues on these important units of study.
For full details, go to https://www.paridad.us/laclave
Source: Paridad
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Title: List of Indigenous Language Apps and Online Dictionaries
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From http://www.ethnosproject.org/
Here is a short list of known indigenous language apps for mobile devices, along with a collection of links to online dictionaries of indigenous languages: http://www.ethnosproject.org/indigenous-language-apps-online-indigenous-language-dictionaries/
Source: Ethnos Project
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Title: Article: Icelandic Language Battles Threat of 'Digital Extinction'
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Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction'
Iceland's mother tongue and cultural identity is drowning in an online ocean of English
by Jon Henley
February 26, 2018
Unlike most languages, when Icelandic needs a new word it rarely imports one. Instead, enthusiasts coin a new term rooted in the tongue's ancient Norse past: a neologism that looks, sounds and behaves like Icelandic.
...But as old, pure and inventive as it may be, as much as it is key to Icelanders' sense of national and cultural identity, Icelandic is spoken today by barely 340,000 people - and Siri and Alexa are not among them.
In an age of Facebook, YouTube and Netflix, smartphones, voice recognition and digital personal assistants, the language of the Icelandic sagas - written on calfskin between AD1200 and 1300 - is sinking in an ocean of English.
"It's called 'digital minoritisation'," said Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, a professor of Icelandic language and linguistics at the University of Iceland. "When a majority language in the real world becomes a minority language in the digital world."
Read the full article at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/26/icelandic-language-battles-threat-of-digital-extinction
Source: The Guardian
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Title: Upcoming Italian Festivals
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Here are some upcoming Italian cultural and film festivals:
Italian Film and Culture Festival 2018
March 13-18, 2018
New Mexico
More information: http://www.italianfilmfest.org/about_ifcf.html
Italian Film Festival
April 20-22, 2018 - Santa Fe, New Mexico
April 24 - Los Angeles, California
More information: http://www.cinefestaitalia.org/
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Title: Committee on College and Pre-College Russian Call for Fall Enrollments
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From the SEELANGS listserv:
Dear Colleague-
The Fall 2017 census of college and university Russian programs is now in progress. We are requesting your final enrollments for the Fall semester. Please take a few minutes before the spring break to help us (and you!) follow the national enrollment trends in our discipline. Last year's data is available on the website (just click on the website address below to get to the home page and the College/University enrollment data). The fall 2017 data could reveal a continuation or change in the 2014-2016 trend described in the CCPCR report now on the CCPCR website at: http://fs2.american.edu/jschill/www/article2016.htm
The base of our data is large: 97 college and university programs responded with their enrollments in fall 2016j, and over 100 programs in Fall 2015.
As in the past, we are requesting your 1st and 2nd year enrollments in Russian. In addition to Russian, we are also listing any OTHER SLAVIC and EE LANGUAGES taught at your institution. Along with your Russian enrollments, we will list those additional languages; and if you have the data, the enrollments at the first and 2nd year levels in those languages.
You can easily access the CCPCR website to view past responses from your program and others around the country by clicking on the website address below. There you will find the display of last year's data and Russian enrollments dating back to 2002 by selecting the College Enrollment link on the home page. Other Slavic and EE language data is provided for the past two years.
Please respond with your information by selecting our e-mail address: ccpcr@american.edu. This link is also available on the home page in the College and University enrollments section.
If you do not have access to your Russian enrollment numbers but can provide a list of the Slavic and EE languages taught at the 1st and 2nd year levels, please send it. A national overview of the extent of our offerings in Slavic and EE languages, or at least a sense of the extent, will emerge from your responses to give the profession a better idea of the distribution and depth of such courses across the country.
Many thanks for providing your program's data!
John Schillinger, Emeritus Prof. of Russian
American University, Washington, DC
Chair, CCPCR
Committee on College and Pre-College Russian
e-mail: ccpcr@american.edu
[SEELANGS] CCPCR call for Fall Enrollments; Report on Enrollment trend 2014-2016. SEELANGS listserv (SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, 21 Feb 2018).
Source: SEELANGS
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Title: Article: Soviet Arcade Games during Khrushchev's Time
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Here is an English-language article about Soviet adaptations of American arcade games following Nikita Khrushchev's exposure to them in 1959: http://popkult.org/soviet-arcade-games/
Source: PopKult
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Title: North American Association of Teachers of Polish
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From https://www.naatpl.org/mission-objectives
The mission of the North American Association of Teachers of Polish is to create and maintain an active community of Polish language teachers in North America, and promote excellence in language teaching, learning and research.
Visit the NAATPL website to keep up with the latest events and opportunities, to access pedagogical and professional resources, to network with other Polish teachers, and to join the organization: https://www.naatpl.org/
Source: North American Association of Teachers of Polish
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