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National Capital Language Resource Center | Backward Design and Standards-Based Instruction
How do I design a curriculum based on the Standards with performance as the goal? What does performance assessment look like? Participants are guided through a model protocol, aligning backward design .. (more) | May 24 - May 25, 2010 |
National Capital Language Resource Center | Language Program Evaluation
Learn about different approaches to language program evaluation and the basic steps to designing an evaluation. Topics covered include basic principles of planning for an evaluation, including definin .. (more) | May 26 - May 27, 2010 |
National Capital Language Resource Center | Developing Listening Comprehension Skills
Through interactive, experiential demonstrations, participants experience and identify listening comprehension strategies and learn how to teach them to language learners. Participants apply these con .. (more) | Jun 3 - Jun 4, 2010 |
National Capital Language Resource Center | Understanding Assessment
This institute focuses on differences between assessment and testing, distinguishing between various kinds of tests, learning to interpret results, and becoming familiar with choosing tests to fit a p .. (more) | Jun 8 - Jun 8, 2010 |
National Capital Language Resource Center | Writing Proposals for Language Education Projects
This institute is designed to give participants information and practice in writing proposals for language education projects. It includes information about funding sources and organizing and writing .. (more) | Jun 9 - Jun 10, 2010 |
National Capital Language Resource Center | Brain, Language and Bilingualism
Dr. Ullman is a leading researcher in bilingualism, language learning, and the brain. In this institute for language teachers and instructors, participants first learn about basic brain anatomy and ho .. (more) | Jun 14 - Jun 15, 2010 |
National Capital Language Resource Center | Spain: Language and Culture: Embassy of Spain/NCLRC 3-day Immersion Summer Institute for Teachers of Spanish
An enjoyable, informative, immersion experience for teachers on Spanish language and culture, and how to teach it. All participants and presenters speak only Spanish for the duration of the Institute. .. (more) | Jun 21 - Jun 24, 2010 |
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition | Immersion 101: Intro to Immersion Teaching for Chinese and Japanese
A must for new Chinese or Japanese immersion teachers and administrators, this institute provides a research-based introduction to the challenges, options, and issues in the unique world of immersion .. (more) | Jun 21 - Jun 25, 2010 |
National Capital Language Resource Center | Teaching Spanish to Heritage Speakers
Secondary heritage Spanish speakers are fluent in oral Spanish, but vary greatly in their level of literacy. Those with educational gaps need help in developing their reading and writing proficiency a .. (more) | Jun 23 - Jun 24, 2010 |
National Capital Language Resource Center | Arts Integration in the Foreign Language Classroom
In this workshop, language teachers will learn to build a framework for incorporating the arts into their teaching. Arts integration helps teachers draw the intellectual and creative potential from al .. (more) | Jun 28 - Jun 28, 2010 |
National Capital Language Resource Center | An Ivory Coast Cultural Immersion in French
Participants will stay in a dormitory on the campus of The George Washington University and share meals, speaking French together and participating in sessions held entirely in French at the Embassy o .. (more) | Jun 28 - Jul 1, 2010 |
National Capital Language Resource Center | STARTALK Learner-Centered Arabic Instruction (*Pending funding*)
This institute provides Arabic teachers at the middle and high school levels the opportunity to develop learner-centered, communicative language teaching strategies, become familiar with the National .. (more) | Jul 6 - Jul 16, 2010 |
Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research | Meeting the Challenges of Teaching Heritage and Domestic Language Learners
.. (more) | Jul 12 - Jul 14, 2010 |
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition | Meeting the Challenges of Immersion Education: Struggling Learners
Over the course of two week-long summer institutes more than seventy professionals with experience in language immersion education gathered to engage issues relevant to educating the struggling immers .. (more) | Jul 12 - Jul 16, 2010 |
Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research | Language Focused Tasks for Communicative and Content-based Classrooms
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Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition | Second Language Acquisition Basics for Teachers
Knowing the basics of second language acquisition can help language teachers better meet the needs of their students. This summer institute will focus on the analysis of learners' language output with .. (more) | Jul 12 - Jul 16, 2010 |
Center for Language Education and Research | Using Video to Promote Language Development in the Classroom
Teachers and researchers agree that video materials can enhance the learning environment in foreign language classrooms by providing rich, contextualized input. The combination of aural and visual cue .. (more) | Jul 12 - Jul 14, 2010 |
Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research | Developing Content-based Thematic Units to Enhance Curricula
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Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research | Making the Most of a Corpus
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Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition | Using Technology in Second Language Teaching
Intended for experienced and new teachers alike, this institute will help participants examine, evaluate, and apply the use of technology in teaching second languages. Through hands-on exploration, de .. (more) | Jul 12 - Jul 16, 2010 |
Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research | Tracking Language Development with Learner Corpora
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Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research | Grammar Meaning a Grammar of Meanings: Teaching Concepts in the FL Classroom
.. (more) | Jul 15 - Jul 17, 2010 |
Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research | Language and Culture
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Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research | Discourse Analysis and L2 Teaching
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Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research | Assessment for Learning in the L2 Classroom
.. (more) | Jul 15 - Jul 17, 2010 |
Center for Language Education and Research | Blending Language Classes 101
In light of continuing budget cuts, many schools and universities are re-evaluating foreign language programs and some language programs face elimination. Particularly in urban districts, foreign lang .. (more) | Jul 15 - Jul 17, 2010 |
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition | Developing Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs)
Instructors of less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) are often challenged by the lack of quality instructional materials. This institute will provide LCTL teachers with practical tools and hands-on e .. (more) | Jul 19 - Jul 23, 2010 |
Center for Language Education and Research | Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning: Introductory Techniques
This workshop is for language teachers who want to learn how to use CLEAR's free tools for creating interactive web-based multimedia language materials. The only computer skills that these tools requi .. (more) | Jul 19 - Jul 21, 2010 |
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition | Styles- and Strategies-Based Instruction
Enhancing students' ability to learn a foreign language/second language through styles- and strategies based instruction (SSBI) is the focus of this institute. SSBI is a learner-focused approach to te .. (more) | Jul 19 - Jul 23, 2010 |
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition | Immersion 101: An Introduction to Immersion Teaching
A must for new immersion teachers and administrators, this institute provides a research-based introduction to the challenges, options, and issues in the unique world of immerison education (K-12). Ta .. (more) | Jul 19 - Jul 23, 2010 |
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition | Developing Assessments for the Second Language Classroom
Assessment aligned with standards and curriculum is essential to supporting teaching and learning. In this timely institute, participants will use the national Standards for Foreign Language Learning .. (more) | Jul 19 - Jul 23, 2010 |
Center for Language Education and Research | Rich Internet Applications for Language Assessment
This workshop is intended for teachers who are already familiar with and are actively using CLEAR's Rich Internet Applications tools and are interested in using the tools for formative (i.e. portfolio .. (more) | Jul 22 - Jul 24, 2010 |
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition | Teaching the Pragmatics of a Second Language
One of the most challenging and important aspects of learning another language includes handling functional language appropriately in different sociocultural contexts. Acquiring acceptable ways to dea .. (more) | Jul 26 - Jul 30, 2010 |
Center for Language Education and Research | The Second “C”: Culture Teaching in the Language Classroom
This workshop is intended to assist language teachers at all levels in integrating culture into the language classroom. We will discuss pedagogical principles for teaching culture. First, we will lay .. (more) | Jul 26 - Jul 28, 2010 |
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition | Content-Based Language Instruction and Curriculum Development
This institute has been specifically designed for K-16 foreign language teachers desiring to familiarize themselves with and implement Content-Based Instruction (CBI) in the second language classroom. .. (more) | Jul 26 - Jul 30, 2010 |
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition | Culture as the Core in the Second Language Classroom
The national "Standards for Foreign Language Learning" state that students "cannot truly master...language until they have also mastered the cultural context in which the language occurs". Cultural le .. (more) | Jul 26 - Jul 30, 2010 |
Language Acquisition Resource Center | ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview Training
The Full OPI Workshop is an intensive four-day introduction to the techniques of administering and rating the Oral Proficiency Interview. The rating scale and techniques for eliciting a ratable sample .. (more) | Aug 2 - Aug 5, 2010 |
Language Acquisition Resource Center | Social Media Workshop
What’s happening with blogs, wikis, podcasts and social networking? How can we use the tools our students use to connect, share, and inform in the language classroom? We’ll answer those question .. (more) | Aug 9 - Aug 13, 2010 |
Language Acquisition Resource Center | Testing and Assessment Workshop
The spoken test can be a vehicle for better understanding the learner language and shaping the curriculum. Come join us as we write test items for intermediate and advanced tests using CAST, Skype rec .. (more) | Aug 16 - Aug 19, 2010 |
Language Acquisition Resource Center | Passage Rating Workshop
Participants will come away from these seminar/ workshops with clear guidelines about how textual properties contribute to the definition of language difficulty. They will then be able to select among .. (more) | Aug 16 - Aug 20, 2010 |
