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Title: Expressing Desire in Japanese
Body: About.com's Japanese language site this week features a simple, concise explanation of two ways to express desire: "hoshii" and "-tai". The explanation covers particle usage, basic formality rules, and the use of "-(ta)garu" for describing the desires of a third person. A short quiz is also included. Access the page at: http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa112500.htm?nl=1
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Title: Expressing Desire in Japanese
Body: About.com's Japanese language site this week features a simple, concise explanation of two ways to express desire: "hoshii" and "-tai". The explanation covers particle usage, basic formality rules, and the use of "-(ta)garu" for describing the desires of a third person. A short quiz is also included. Access the page at: http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa112500.htm?nl=1
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Title: Summer Opportunities for Teachers of French and Spanish
Body: Dear French and Spanish Teachers, Here are two ideas for spending part of your summer improving your language and teaching skills in two wonderful places. The University of Washington through UW Educational Outreach will offer two intensive summer institutes for French and Spanish teachers in July and August. Both offer 6 credits of French or Spanish at the 400 level. Here are the web sites: http://www.outreach.washington.edu/k12/spanish For Guatemala. You'll be interested to know that fares to Latin America this year are very good--around $450 for a round trip. In fact, Council Travel in Seattle now has a round-trip Seattle-Guatemala City fare for $200. Be sure to check cancellation policies. http://www.outreach.washington.edu/k12/quebec/default.asp Scholarship money is available through the generosity of the Quebec government. For more information or to get a print brochure, please contact Lynn Klausenburger at lhk@u.washington.edu or 206 685-6421. Klausenburger, L. Would you please forward this information...... (25 Feb. 2005).
Source: University of Washington
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Title: Summer Opportunities for Teachers of French and Spanish
Body: Dear French and Spanish Teachers, Here are two ideas for spending part of your summer improving your language and teaching skills in two wonderful places. The University of Washington through UW Educational Outreach will offer two intensive summer institutes for French and Spanish teachers in July and August. Both offer 6 credits of French or Spanish at the 400 level. Here are the web sites: http://www.outreach.washington.edu/k12/spanish For Guatemala. You'll be interested to know that fares to Latin America this year are very good--around $450 for a round trip. In fact, Council Travel in Seattle now has a round-trip Seattle-Guatemala City fare for $200. Be sure to check cancellation policies. http://www.outreach.washington.edu/k12/quebec/default.asp Scholarship money is available through the generosity of the Quebec government. For more information or to get a print brochure, please contact Lynn Klausenburger at lhk@u.washington.edu or 206 685-6421. Klausenburger, L. Would you please forward this information...... (25 Feb. 2005).
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Title: Job Posting - MS Spanish Sub, PA
Body: Souderton Area School District, located 20 miles north of Phila., is seeking a LTS in Spanish. The position is at Indian Crest Jr. High and involves teaching six classes; three Sp I and three Sp II. Starting date- April 4- until the end of the year- June 14. Interested candidates should contact Mr. R. Bradley Clemens, Director of Human Resources. email- bclemens@soudertonsd.org or phone- 215-723-6061 Thank you! Arlene Buchman World Language Coordinator Souderton Area School District abuchman@soudertonsd.org Buchman, M. Spanish Teacher- S.E. Pa. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (28 Mar. 2005).
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Title: Job Posting - MS Spanish Sub, PA
Body: Souderton Area School District, located 20 miles north of Phila., is seeking a LTS in Spanish. The position is at Indian Crest Jr. High and involves teaching six classes; three Sp I and three Sp II. Starting date- April 4- until the end of the year- June 14. Interested candidates should contact Mr. R. Bradley Clemens, Director of Human Resources. email- bclemens@soudertonsd.org or phone- 215-723-6061 Thank you! Arlene Buchman World Language Coordinator Souderton Area School District abuchman@soudertonsd.org Buchman, M. Spanish Teacher- S.E. Pa. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (28 Mar. 2005).
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Title: Suggestions for Teaching Homepage/Web Design
Body: A recent request on the NETEACH listserv for recommended Web design teaching resources received the following suggestions. These may be useful for teachers who want to create a homepage or have their students create their own. How to build a Web site using Geocities http://alothman-b.tripod.com/website_building-new.htm Making Web pages http://alothman-b.tripod.com/handout_creatingwebpages.htm Accessible site design guide http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/abdesign.html Two common web design myths http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/myths.shtml Under Construction: Building Web Sites as a Project-based Learning Activity for ABE/ESOL Classes (PDF for free download) http://tech.worlded.org/wei_under.pdf To download Netscape Composer http://sillydog.org/narchive HTML Goodies - provides a selection of tutorials for beginning and intermediate designers http://www.htmlgoodies.com Nvu - The complete Web authoring system for Windows, Mac & Linux http://www.nvu.com
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Title: Suggestions for Teaching Homepage/Web Design
Body: A recent request on the NETEACH listserv for recommended Web design teaching resources received the following suggestions. These may be useful for teachers who want to create a homepage or have their students create their own. How to build a Web site using Geocities http://alothman-b.tripod.com/website_building-new.htm Making Web pages http://alothman-b.tripod.com/handout_creatingwebpages.htm Accessible site design guide http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/abdesign.html Two common web design myths http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/myths.shtml Under Construction: Building Web Sites as a Project-based Learning Activity for ABE/ESOL Classes (PDF for free download) http://tech.worlded.org/wei_under.pdf To download Netscape Composer http://sillydog.org/narchive HTML Goodies - provides a selection of tutorials for beginning and intermediate designers http://www.htmlgoodies.com Nvu - The complete Web authoring system for Windows, Mac & Linux http://www.nvu.com
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Title: East Asia Writing Project Summer Institute
Body: From: http://www.eawp.com/information.html Writing for Second Language Learners: An East Asia Writing Project Summer Institute Course July 17 - July 28, 2005 Pattaya, Thailand This course offers the opportunity to: * Develop personal writing * Become acquainted with current theories and practices in literacy instruction * Use writing as a tool for learning and teaching * Enhance second language learning through writing * Incorporate technology into writing * Learn more about second language acquisition * Share ideas with teachers from many countries * Explore and expand the potential of learning in a multicultural classroom * Earn 3 semester-hour graduate credits through California State University Northridge For more information, visit: http://www.eawp.com/information.html
Source: California State University, Northridge
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Title: East Asia Writing Project Summer Institute
Body: From: http://www.eawp.com/information.html Writing for Second Language Learners: An East Asia Writing Project Summer Institute Course July 17 - July 28, 2005 Pattaya, Thailand This course offers the opportunity to: * Develop personal writing * Become acquainted with current theories and practices in literacy instruction * Use writing as a tool for learning and teaching * Enhance second language learning through writing * Incorporate technology into writing * Learn more about second language acquisition * Share ideas with teachers from many countries * Explore and expand the potential of learning in a multicultural classroom * Earn 3 semester-hour graduate credits through California State University Northridge For more information, visit: http://www.eawp.com/information.html
Source: California State University, Northridge
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Title: Online Text-to-Voice Demonstration
Body: There is a demonstration text-to-speech generator at: http://vhost.oddcast.com/vhost_minisite/demos/tts/tts_example.html Users may choose characters with either gender and a variety of voices in Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
Source: Oddcast
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Title: Online Text-to-Voice Demonstration
Body: There is a demonstration text-to-speech generator at: http://vhost.oddcast.com/vhost_minisite/demos/tts/tts_example.html Users may choose characters with either gender and a variety of voices in Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
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Title: New Report Shows Hope of Narrowing the Achievement Gap
Body: A report entitled "Beating the Odds: A City-by-City Analysis of Student Performance and Achievement Gaps on State Assessments" was recently released by the Council of the Great City Schools. It includes information on methodology, trends in math and reading, and student demographics, with several references to English language learners. Download the press release about the report (PDF) from: http://www.cgcs.org/pdfs/Beating%20the%20Odds%20V--News.pdf Download the report from: http://www.cgcs.org/pdfs/Beating%20the%20Odds%20V.pdf
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Title: New Report Shows Hope of Narrowing the Achievement Gap
Body: A report entitled "Beating the Odds: A City-by-City Analysis of Student Performance and Achievement Gaps on State Assessments" was recently released by the Council of the Great City Schools. It includes information on methodology, trends in math and reading, and student demographics, with several references to English language learners. Download the press release about the report (PDF) from: http://www.cgcs.org/pdfs/Beating%20the%20Odds%20V--News.pdf Download the report from: http://www.cgcs.org/pdfs/Beating%20the%20Odds%20V.pdf
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Title: New Book: Assessing Speaking
Body: From: http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/enews/2005/0329.htm#ResearchPractice The description of Assessing Speaking (2004), by Sari Luoma, states that it is designed for teachers and language testers. Divided into the following seven chapters, the book includes Luoma's findings from research, and approaches to developing valid speaking assessments. 1. Introduction 2. The nature of speaking 3. Speaking tasks 4. Speaking scales 5. Models 6. Developing test specifications 7. Examples of speaking tasks 8. Ensuring reliable and valid speaking assessment Developing valid assessments, Luoma argues, requires developers who "define the kind of speaking they want to test in a particular context; develop tasks and rating criteria that test this; inform the examinees about what they test; and make sure that the testing and rating processes actually follow the stated plans" (p. 28). This book is one of a series of language assessment texts published by Cambridge University Press. Information is available online at: http://uk.cambridge.org/elt/appliedlinguistics/clas
Source: OELA Newsline - March 29, 2005 edition
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Title: New Book: Assessing Speaking
Body: From: http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/enews/2005/0329.htm#ResearchPractice The description of Assessing Speaking (2004), by Sari Luoma, states that it is designed for teachers and language testers. Divided into the following seven chapters, the book includes Luoma's findings from research, and approaches to developing valid speaking assessments. 1. Introduction 2. The nature of speaking 3. Speaking tasks 4. Speaking scales 5. Models 6. Developing test specifications 7. Examples of speaking tasks 8. Ensuring reliable and valid speaking assessment Developing valid assessments, Luoma argues, requires developers who "define the kind of speaking they want to test in a particular context; develop tasks and rating criteria that test this; inform the examinees about what they test; and make sure that the testing and rating processes actually follow the stated plans" (p. 28). This book is one of a series of language assessment texts published by Cambridge University Press. Information is available online at: http://uk.cambridge.org/elt/appliedlinguistics/clas
Source: OELA Newsline - March 29, 2005 edition
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Title: School Builds International Library
Body: A South Philadelphia elementary school is seeking to expand its small library and build international connections by writing letters to embassies in about 200 countries. The letters request books about each nation's culture and language as well as the country's flag. Read more about the project in the Philadelphia Inquirer article (free subscription required) at: http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/education/11204956.htm
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
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Title: School Builds International Library
Body: A South Philadelphia elementary school is seeking to expand its small library and build international connections by writing letters to embassies in about 200 countries. The letters request books about each nation's culture and language as well as the country's flag. Read more about the project in the Philadelphia Inquirer article (free subscription required) at: http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/education/11204956.htm
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Title: 11th National Association of Teachers of English Conference
Body: English in a Multi-Cultural Community May 31 - June 3, 2005 Izhevsk, Russia Preliminary topics: - Cultural studies - Communicative Teaching and Professional Training - Teaching English to Multi-Lingual Students - Teaching English to Young Learners in a Multi-Cultural Community - New Educational Technologies in the Language Classroom - Foreign Languages as a Support for Life-Long Development - Translation and Interpretation as an Interaction of Cultures Download information on registration and other details from: http://www.itlt.edu.nstu.ru/conference/nate_2005.doc
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Title: 11th National Association of Teachers of English Conference
Body: English in a Multi-Cultural Community May 31 - June 3, 2005 Izhevsk, Russia Preliminary topics: - Cultural studies - Communicative Teaching and Professional Training - Teaching English to Multi-Lingual Students - Teaching English to Young Learners in a Multi-Cultural Community - New Educational Technologies in the Language Classroom - Foreign Languages as a Support for Life-Long Development - Translation and Interpretation as an Interaction of Cultures Download information on registration and other details from: http://www.itlt.edu.nstu.ru/conference/nate_2005.doc
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