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Title: Job: Lector in Turkish
Body: YALE UNIVERSITY, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) announces an opening for a three-year renewable full-time position as Lector in modern Turkish Language and Culture beginning July 1, 2010. Primary duties will be to teach five courses per academic year including elementary (2 courses) and intermediate (2 courses) in four learning-skill areas: reading, writing, speaking and listening. The fifth course will focus advanced language skills drawing on modern literary, social, political, cultural and/or sociolinguistic topics related to the Turkish language appropriate to the appointee's qualifications and expertise. The Lector will participate in and help build the Turkish component of the NELC Department and the modern Middle East Studies program of the MacMillan Center. Applicants must have: 1) native or near-native fluency in modern Turkish; 2) strong English skills; 3) experience in teaching Turkish as a second language in a college or university environment; 4) a college degree in a relevant discipline. Send letter of application, curriculum vita and three letters of recommendation to: Professor Dimitri Gutas, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Yale University, PO Box 208236, New Haven CT 06520-8236 U.S.A. Letters of reference will be accepted via e-mail to maureen.draicchio@yale.edu. Referees should include full title, current employer/institution and contact information. Yale University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, applications from women and minorities are encouraged. Applications deadline: August 31, 2009. [LCTL-T] ISO Lector in Turkish (Yale U). Less Commonly Taught Language Teachers listserv (LCTL-T@LISTS.UMN.EDU, 6 Jun 2009).
Source: LCTL-T
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Title: Two Articles about the Role of Endangered Language Speakers in Academic Study
Body: Recently two articles about endangered languages and the role of academic were published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here are links to each of them: Languages on Life Support Linguists debate their role in saving the world's endangered tongues By PETER MONAGHAN June 1, 2009 Last year, when 89-year-old Marie Smith Jones died, a language died with her. Jones was the last speaker of a south-central Alaskan language called Eyak. Once used extensively along 350 miles of the Gulf of Alaska, Eyak had begun to die even before Jones's childhood, crowded out by other Alaska Native languages. Now, Eyak exists only in documentation, much of it compiled (with the help of Jones and other last speakers) by Michael E. Krauss, an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Preserving Eyak, at least in the form of a grammar, a dictionary, and other records, has occupied a large part of his career. Read the full article at http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i38/38linguistics.htm --- Another Kind of Language Expert: Speakers By PETER MONAGHAN June 1, 2009 As linguists search for ways to preserve at least a record of endangered languages, they increasingly are enlisting native speakers to help them in their work. Read the full article at http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i38/38linguisticsside.htm
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
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Title: CIA Seeks More Multilingual Staff
Body: Here are two recent articles from the Washington Post about the CIA’s quest to become more multilingual: CIA Announces Push to Improve Agency's Language Proficiency By Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, May 30, 2009 Five years after it was faulted by the 9/11 Commission for inadequate language skills among its employees, the CIA yesterday launched an ambitious program to double the number of analysts proficient in languages deemed critical in the fight against America's enemies. Read the full article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/29/AR2009052903054.html?referrer=emailarticle --- CIA seeks to broaden foreign language skills By PAMELA HESS The Associated Press Friday, May 29, 2009; 4:48 PM WASHINGTON -- The CIA is undertaking a five-year plan to boost the agency's fluency in foreign languages, Director Leon Panetta said Friday. Less than a third of CIA analysts and overseas spies are proficient in a foreign language and Panetta said he aims to raise foreign language proficiency inside the CIA to at least half of all analysts and intelligence operatives within the next five years. Read the full article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/29/AR2009052902509.html?referrer=emailarticle
Source: Washington Post
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Title: Supporting English Acquisition: Resource for Teachers of English to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students
Body: From http://www.rit.edu/ntid/rate/sea The purpose of the Supporting English Acquisition web site is to assist educators of hard-of-hearing students, of students of English as a second language (ESL), and of other students with limited English proficiency (LEP), whose English difficulties are often similar to the difficulties experienced by many deaf students. The Supporting English Acquisition web site consists of modules that address a variety of problematic English structures and processes. Most of these modules consist of the following components: Introduction, Grammatical Summary, Research Findings and Implications, Guided Practice, and Action Steps. Clicking on "Structures and Processes" on the top menu bar will take you to the menu of modules currently contained in this site. The components of each module contain a variety of linked subsections that cover the most essential aspects of the target structure or process. Visit the Supporting English Acquisition website at http://www.rit.edu/ntid/rate/sea .
Source: Rochester Institute of Technology
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Title: Slideshow: Go to School for a Day in Namibia!
Body: From http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws Through studying, working, eating, and living together—and through playing together as well—Namibian schoolchildren form new families as they grow and learn. Peace Corps Volunteer Elissa Milanowski provides a unique glimpse into this world in her narrated slide show, available at http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/slideshows/nmb_milanowski.cfm?cid=wwssldmilanowski .
Source: Peace Corps
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Title: Arabic Without Walls: Online Introductory Arabic Course
Body: ARABIC WITHOUT WALLS is an online Arabic course funded by FIPSE (P116B030526) and developed by the UC Consortium for Language Learning & Teaching, the National Middle East Language Resource Center at Brigham Young University, and the Near Eastern Studies Department at UC Berkeley and sponsored by the UC Irvine Humanities Language Learning Program. The intensive summer course covers the first full year of introductory Arabic in two 5 1/2 week sessions. Arabic Without Walls introduces students to Modern Standard Arabic and emphasizes communicative competence in four language skills: listening, reading, speaking, and writing. The course is ideal for students who are self-motivated and prefer to manage their study schedule independently. Graduate students seeking to learn Arabic at the introductory level are especially encouraged to enroll. To enroll in the UC Irvine Summer Session courses (Arabic 1AB and 1BC), students should go to the Summer Session website: https://summer.uci.edu/courses/online.aspx . During the regular academic year 2009-2010, which begins September 24, UC Irvine students can enroll in course #31701 (http://websoc.reg.uci.edu/perl/WebSoc ). All other UC students in good standing may enroll in courses offered by another UC campus (UC Senate Regulation 544). To enroll in the fall quarter online Arabic course, UC students should contact their home campus Registrar’s Office and ask to enroll in UC Irvine course #31701 via Simultaneous Enrollment. Students in good standing in the California State University and Community Colleges can enroll in UC courses via Concurrent Enrollment and should consult with the Registrar’s office on your home campus. Students and community members from outside the UC may register on a space available basis through UC Irvine Extension. For detailed information, see http://unex.uci.edu . For information about this exciting online course, please contact the UCI Humanities Language Learning Program at hllp@uci.edu or (949)824-3961. Yassine, A. Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Without Walls Summer 09. Arabic-l listserv (ARABIC-L@LISTSERV.BYU.EDU, 4 Jun 2009).
Source: Arabic-L
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Title: Accepting Applications for the MyChina Village Virtual Chinese Immersion Camp
Body: The Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS), in collaboration with Soochow University's Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language Program, Avant Assessment, and Centric, announces MyChina Village Virtual Chinese Immersion Camp 2009. CASLS is still accepting applications. There are seven slots available out of fifteen slots. Date: August 3, 2009 - August 28, 2009, Monday-Friday Time: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm United States Pacific Standard Time Place: MyChina Village in Adult Grid Second Life (under construction) Eligibility: * At least 18 years old * Intermediate-level learner of Mandarin Chinese * Available throughout the camp * Access to a computer with high-speed Internet Preference: College students or incoming college students Apply at http://casls.uoregon.edu/mychinainfo.php .
Source: CASLS
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Title: The Ramayana Told Through Art
Body: From http://www.learnnc.org The Ramayana, the great epic of South and Southeast Asia, is here retold through the art forms of various cultures. You will see murals from the Emerald Buddha Temple in Thailand, paintings from India and Bali, and dance, puppetry, and stone carvings from Java. The story is divided into seven parts, and an introduction provides historical, cultural, and literary background. Access the online slideshow at http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/ramayana .
Source: LearnNC
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Title: SACODEYL: Free Online Multimodal Corpus of European Teen Language
Body: This is an invitation to try SACODEYL, a free online multimodal corpus of European teen language which includes video interviews of speakers of English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Romanian, and Spanish. You can visit the search tool at http://sacodeyl.inf.um.es/sacodeyl-search2 and start browsing and searching right now. It is necessary to have Real Player on your computer. There are guidelines for teachers here http://www.um.es/sacodeyl/data/publications/SACODEYL_guidelines_for_teachers.pdf And for more information visit our project website, where you’ll find interesting tools for researchers: http://www.um.es/sacodeyl Pérez-Paredes, P. free online multimodal corpus of European teen language. Calico Discussion List (CALICO-L@mail.MODLANG.TXSTATE.EDU, 3 Jun 2009).
Source: CALICO Discussion List
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Title: Italian Calendar of Proverbs
Body: From http://italian.about.com The Italian proverbs listed here were compiled from Italian almanacs and religious calendars and are arranged by date with the saint's name or religious observance listed. http://italian.about.com/od/vocabulary/a/aa010709a.htm?nl=1
Source: About.com
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