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Title: Arabic Language in the News
Body: Below are links to two recent articles about current Arabic language-related issues. Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Arabic-Kurdish Language Divide Both residents and visitors to Iraqi Kurdistan struggle to overcome linguistic difficulties in areas where few speak both Arabic and Kurdish. http://www.iwpr.net/?p=icr&s=f&o=322377&apc_state=henh Standard-Examiner: State Plans To Add More Chinese, Arabic Classes Utah state revamps its language programs, adding "critical languages" but maintaining the more commonly-taught Spanish, French, and German. http://kutv.com/local/local_story_197224516.html
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Title: New Book: Age and the Rate of Foreign Language Learning
Body: From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/display.asp?isb=1853598917 Age and the Rate of Foreign Language Learning Edited by: Carmen Munoz (Universitat de Barcelona) Key Features: - Covers foreign, rather than second, language acquisition - Researches low-proficiency learners who are already bilingual - Of interest to language teachers, language planners as well as graduate students Summary: This book examines the various ways in which age affects the process and the product of foreign language learning in a school setting. It presents studies that cover a wide range of topics, from phonetics to learning strategies. It will be of interest to students and researchers working in SLA research, language planning and language teaching. For more information, visit http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/display.asp?isb=1853598917 .
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Chinese in Basic Education in Canada: Moving Forward
Body: From http://www.clef-ca.com/ForumRationale.html “Chinese in Basic Education in Canada: Moving Forward” will bring together at the University of Alberta approximately 75 invited stakeholders from across Alberta, Canada and the world for a two-day forum from September 22-23, 2006. The goals of the forum are: - to provide an opportunity for educators, academics, community leaders and business leaders to meet and focus on the significance of Chinese language and cultural education in the internationalization of education and business in Alberta and across Canada - to critically examine the state of Chinese language education at the K-12 level in Alberta and across Canada - to identify interagency and cross sector strategies for the promotion and enhancement of Chinese language education in basic education For more information, visit http://www.clef-ca.com .
Source: CLEF
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Title: EXPOLINGUA Praha 2006
Body: From http://www.expolingua.cz/index.php?id=21 What is EXPOLINGUA Praha? Themed "Languages Connect", the 16th EXPOLINGUA Praha will take place 10 – 11 November 2006. EXPOLINGUA Praha is an annual international exhibition for languages, education, and cultures. Thousands of students, their parents, teachers and many others visit the exhibition each year. They obtain first hand information on language training, study and work abroad, foreign language publications and textbooks, e-learning and other education related products and services. Each year, more than 70 exhibitors from more than a dozen countries present themselves at EXPOLINGUA Praha. Exhibitors include: - Cultural institutes, ministries, and embassies - Language schools in the Czech Republic and abroad - Universities and colleges worldwide - Language travel and student recruitment agencies - Language testing centres - Organisers of au-pair, work experience, and student exchange programmes - Producers of software for computer-assisted language learning and translation - Publishers of language teaching materials and dictionaries - International media and journals Here you may find the list of exhibitors of EXPOLINGUA Praha 2005. In addition to the exhibition an accompanying seminar programme offers visitors a rich and varied programme of lectures, workshops and mini-language courses. Here visitors may gather further information on programmes, learning methodologies, language tests, etc. For more information, visit http://www.expolingua.cz/index.php?lang=en
Source: expolingua.cz
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Title: EXPOLINGUA Berlin 2006
Body: From http://www.expolingua.com/Berlin/eng/index2.htm Staged annually, EXPOLINGUA Berlin is Germany's only international fair for languages and cultures. The 19th EXPOLINGUA Berlin will take place from November 17 – 19, 2006! Each year more than 150 exhibitors from over 20 countries take the opportunity to present their products and services at EXPOLINGUA Berlin. Among the exhibitors are: - Embassies, cultural institutes and tourist offices - National and international educational organisations - Worldwide language schools - Language travel agencies - Exchange organisations - Language tests providers - Producers of software for computer-assisted language learning and translation - Publishers Each year more than 15.000 visitors appreciate the EXPOLINGUA Berlin as a unique possibility to receive first-hand information about foreign languages and cultures. They use the occasion to look for the exhibitors’ expert advice related to the wide-ranging opportunities for learning and teaching foreign languages. The visitors at EXPOLINGUA Berlin include secondary school students and their parents, graduate and undergraduate students, teachers in secondary schools and universi- ties, tutors, and professors, translators and interpreters, professionals, pensioners interested in expanding their language skills, language travel agents and visitors generally interested in foreign languages and cultures. For more information, visit http://www.expolingua.com/Berlin/eng/index2.htm .
Source: expolingua.com
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Title: Japanese Sound Effect Dictionary Online
Body: Manga fans can be found in almost any Japanese language class, but anyone who is serious about learning Japanese needs to learn a few words of 'giongo' -- sound effects, or onomatopoeia -- which appear not only in comics but also in conversational Japanese. This online dictionary describes a number of them clearly in English. While it is unfortunately written entirely in the roman alphabet, perhaps your beginning students could get some writing practice by putting them into kana form. http://www.oop-ack.com/manga/soundfx.html
Source: oop-ack.com
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Title: Call for Papers: TESOL Electronic Village Online 2007
Body: The CALL Interest Section of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL) offers language teachers world-wide the opportunity to participate in the Electronic Village Online (EVO), a professional development project and virtual extension of the TESOL 2007 Convention in Seattle, Washington, USA. The free 6-week sessions allow participants to engage in online discussion and/or short hands-on workshops on topics of professional interest in the field of ESL/EFL. TESOL member groups, in particular, are invited to sponsor sessions related to convention presentations. Deadline: September 15, 2006. Training session: Monday, October 9 - Sunday, November 12, 2006 (5 weeks) EVO Session registration: January 1 - 14, 2007 (2 weeks) EVO Sessions: Monday, January 15 - Sunday, February 25, 2007 (6 weeks) For further details, see http://dafnegonzalez.com/evo-07/index1.htm or the direct link to the CfP (including links to last year's sessions): http://dafnegonzalez.com/evo-07/Cfproposals.htm Bauer-Ramazani, C. [NETEACH-L] Call for Proposals for Electronic Village Online 2007. Neteach-L listserv. NETEACH-L@HUNTER.LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU (25 July 2006).
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Title: New Islamic Culture Videos Now Available
Body: From http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/accessislam/index.html Access Islam A Window into Islamic Holidays, Traditions, and Cultures for students in grades 4-8 These 19 video segments from the award-winning PBS series RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY are organized by topic. Use them in conjunction with our lesson plans, or adapt them for use in your own lessons. Holidays and Religious Observances - Muslim Prayer - Hajj - Part I - Hajj - Part II - Hajj - Part III - Zakaat - Eid al-Fitr - Islamic Celebrations - Ramadan - Ramadan Observance Islam in America - American Muslim Women - Muslim Divisions - Muslims in America - Somali Muslims in Maine - Halal-Kosher Dining at Dartmouth - Exploring Religious America Islamic Art - Islamic Art - Timbuktu Islam Science and Learning - Madrasahs - Timbuktu - Ramadan Moon Women in Islam - American Muslim Women - Eid al-Fitr For more information, visit http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/accessislam/index.html .
Source: Educational Broadcasting Corporation
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Title: More Ideas for Redecorating Your Lab or Classroom (Part 3)
Body: Here are a few more decorating ideas you might find interesting. This week’s installment focuses on recognition of students and staff. ---- We're going to go with pictures of our students overseas and blow up the best photographs into poster size. As we get a good collection, we'll start a photo contest and only keep the winning photograph(s) each year. This should give us a very nice collection that will keep changing with our student body. Bertrand, B. Re: #8271.3 (!) facility artwork. Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum. LLTI@LISTSERV.DARTMOUTH.EDU (28 June 2006). ---- We decorate our language lab walls with plaques of students who we honor each year for excellence in language study (in each of our 18 languages) and also with framed portraits of our language teachers of the year. The portraits are professionally done in the their classrooms, so they have a very candid, active feel to them. Students have commented that they like seeing their teachers recognized this way. Rodriguez, J. Re: #8271.5 (!) facility artwork. Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum. LLTI@LISTSERV.DARTMOUTH.EDU (28 June 2006).
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Title: More Oral Practice and Assessment Ideas (Part 3)
Body: Here a teacher describes how she uses a tape recorder to make the oral assessment process more efficient and less troubling for self-conscious learners. ---- I have 4 small recorders that I set up in different places in the room & while students are taking a written quiz or test, they go up individually to a recorder & do the oral. It might be a series of questions in the TL; it might be something in English that says, “Did you do these things last week? Finish your homework, make your bed, go to the movies, drink coffee?” It could be a picture they must describe, a poem they had to memorize & must recite, a single question such as “Describe your bedroom, tell me what you ate for dinner yesterday, tell me what you're wearing today”... whatever the oral work is that we have been practicing in the lesson. (They also do) dialogues in front of the class or with a partner into a recorder. I rarely do skits or dialogues in front of the whole class because many kids hate that, and it takes up a lot of time. I am the only French teacher, and I have the kids all four years. They get used to the recorder thing; they know they can whisper & be heard; they know to get up & do the job before the test is over. I then correct the tapes after class. I have a formal recorder oral with almost every chapter quiz. They might be as simple as answering 6 questions replacing the nouns with pronouns. Or they might be as long as describing a story in the imparfait/pc using a series of pictures. Howard, S. Oral evaluation. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (16 June 2006).
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