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Language Acquisition Resource Center | Summer Intensive Courses - Session1: Arabic, Persian, Russian
These intensive 8- 10 unit courses will help students develop beginner, intermediate and advanced level skills in Arabic, Persian and Russian speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Through the use .. (more) | May 24 - Jun 29, 2012 |
Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language & Literacy | Speaking of Grants: Funding Possibilities for Language Educators
This workshop focuses specifically on grants that support language education (very broadly). While it is targeted for beginning grant writers, it also moves toward specific guidelines for educators wh .. (more) | May 29 - May 30, 2012 |
Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language & Literacy | Becoming Multilingual: Fostering Symbolic Awareness in the Language Classroom
A growing number of practitioners and scholars in fields of second language acquisition and teaching have argued that symbolic awareness is central to advanced language proficiency; however, it is som .. (more) | May 31 - Jun 1, 2012 |
Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language & Literacy | Implementing Literacy-Based Instruction in Collegiate FL Programs
This workshop is an outreach activity related to CERCLL’s PErCOLATE project which is developing online, open-source modules for teacher professional development in literacy-based foreign language in .. (more) | Jun 4 - Jun 5, 2012 |
Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language & Literacy | Developing Intercultural Competence: An Expanded Role for Foreign Language Educators
Language proficiency alone is inadequate for appropriate and effective communication across cultures. Additional competencies are needed. This workshop explores the notion of intercultural competence .. (more) | Jun 6 - Jun 6, 2012 |
Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language & Literacy | Designing Digital Game-Mediated L2 Learning Environments
This two-day workshop on designing game-mediated L2 learning activities introduces digital games in L2 teaching and learning to newcomers, and offers more experienced practitioners an opportunity to a .. (more) | Jun 7 - Jun 8, 2012 |
Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning | On Tolstoy and Toilets: Teaching High and Low Culture in Russian
This workshop examines the place of both "high" (formal) and "low" (everyday) culture in the teaching of Russian from the beginning level. Emphasis is placed on the use of authentic texts, media, and .. (more) | Jun 9 - Jun 9, 2012 |
National Heritage Language Resource Center | Sixth Summer Heritage Research Institute: Heritage Speakers: Linguistics and Pedagogy
June 25–29, 2012.
Place: UCLA
Directed by: Professor Maria Polinsky (Harvard).
The focus of this institute is on current linguistic research and the implications for heritage language ins .. (more) | Jun 18 - Jun 22, 2012 |
Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning | Texas Spanish in Texas Schools: Do you speak your students' language?
Texas leads the nation in the percentage of residents who speak Spanish at home, but not everyone in Texas speaks Spanish the same way. This workshop will help educators to understand the origins of s .. (more) | Jun 23 - Jun 23, 2012 |
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 25 - Jun 29, 2012 |
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition | Using Social Networking Technology--online course
Technology is constantly changing and it is a challenge to keep abreast of all the new and exciting ways to use technology in the classroom. Participants in this online institute will develop personal .. (more) | Jul 9 - Aug 12, 2012 |
National Foreign Language Resource Center | Assessments for Japanese Language Instruction
This four-day NFLRC summer institute (July 10-13, 2012) is intended for postsecondary Japanese language educators who wish to promote good assessment practices in their home institutions. It consists .. (more) | Jul 10 - Jul 13, 2012 |
Language Acquisition Resource Center | Summer Intensive Courses - Session2: Arabic, Persian, Russian
These intensive 6-10 unit courses will help students develop beginner, intermediate and advanced level skills in Arabic, Persian and Russian speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Through the use .. (more) | Jul 10 - Aug 14, 2012 |
Center for Language Education and Research | Teaching Language in a Blended Environment: Tools and Best Practices (Section 1)
When applied appropriately, technology can enhance language teaching and improve learning outcomes. Blended learning – a mix of online and conventional instruction – has been shown to be more effe .. (more) | Jul 13 - Jul 15, 2012 |
Center for Language Education and Research | Integrating Communicative Speaking Activities into Your Other Lessons
Teachers and students are often concerned that students do not get enough talking time in class. Furthermore, many researchers have argued for the importance of language production in the development .. (more) | Jul 16 - Jul 18, 2012 |
Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research | Compiling and Analyzing Your Own Learner Corpus
Look at the language of your students and assess your students' language development! This workshop is designed to provide language teachers with an accessible and hands-on introduction on how to comp .. (more) | Jul 16 - Jul 18, 2012 |
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 16 - Jul 20, 2012 |
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition | Developing Assessments for the Second Language Classroom
Effective assessments support teaching and learning and are essential to helping students achieve higher levels of proficiency. Assessments should be aligned with standards and benchmarks, engage stud .. (more) | Jul 16 - Jul 20, 2012 |
Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research | Language e-Portfolios
Have you been interested in using e-portfolios with your students? In this workshops, we will discuss key elements of portfolios & portfolio assessment, how e-portfolios can be integrated into an exis .. (more) | Jul 16 - Jul 18, 2012 |
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 16 - Jul 20, 2012 |
National Heritage Language Resource Center | Heritage Language Teacher Workshop
A five-day workshop, July 15-20, 2012.
Co-Sponsored by STARTALK.
STARTALK sponsored languages are:
Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Persian, Russian, Swahili, Turkish and Urdu
Additional spaces are .. (more) | Jul 16 - Jul 20, 2012 |
Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research | The Interface of Language and Culture
Focus of the workshop is on the interface of language and culture as manifested in the conceptual features of metaphor. Metaphors are not merely ways of speaking but represent the ways in which a comm .. (more) | Jul 19 - Jul 20, 2012 |
Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research | Language Socialization in Study Abroad
Study abroad can have a positive impact in every domain of learners' ability to use their new language; but its potential is especially important for the development of social-interactive abilities. F .. (more) | Jul 19 - Jul 20, 2012 |
Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning | The Yin and Yang of Learning: Chinese In and Out of the Classroom
This workshop aims to provide Chinese language teachers with ideas on how to create instructional and learning materials to supplement their textbooks. Chinese materials from Gateway to Chinese, a COE .. (more) | Jul 21 - Jul 21, 2012 |
Language Acquisition Resource Center | Online Passage Rating Workshop
This completely online 5-day workshop looks at various types of text (print and media) to determine how they map onto the various levels of proficiency, from the ACTFL Novice (ILR 0) to the ACTFL Adva .. (more) | Jul 23 - Jul 27, 2012 |
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 23 - Jul 27, 2012 |
Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research | Dynamic Assessment
Dynamic Assessment (DA) offers a fundamentally different perspective on what constitutes assessment and how assessments should be carried out and interpreted than the image of the lone individual comp .. (more) | Jul 23 - Jul 25, 2012 |
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 an introduction to the challenges, options, and issues in the unique world of immersion education (K- 12). The institute i .. (more) | Jul 23 - Jul 27, 2012 |
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition | Using Technology in Second Language Teaching
The three communication modes described in the National Standards (interpretive, presentational, interpersonal) form the basis for implementing technology in the foreign language curriculum. Incorpora .. (more) | Jul 23 - Jul 27, 2012 |
Center for Language Education and Research | Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning: Introductory Techniques (Section 2)
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 23 - Jul 25, 2012 |
Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research | Discourse Analysis and L2 Teaching and Materials Development
The workshop is designed to address the concept of discourse analysis and demonstrate the wealth of its applicability to language teaching (L2 and Heritage). There will be step-by-step activities that .. (more) | Jul 23 - Jul 24, 2012 |
Center for Language Education and Research | Teaching Language in a Blended Environment: Tools and Best Practices (Section 2)
When applied appropriately, technology can enhance language teaching and improve learning outcomes. Blended learning – a mix of online and conventional instruction – has been shown to be more effe .. (more) | Jul 26 - Jul 28, 2012 |
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 30 - Aug 3, 2012 |
Language Acquisition Resource Center | LARC 2012 Social Media Workshop
Online social media tools inherently mediate communication, community building, publishing, and sharing in a plethora of languages and medias, which makes social media well-suited for second language .. (more) | Jul 30 - Aug 3, 2012 |
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 30 - Aug 3, 2012 |
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition | Meeting the Challenges of Immersion Education: Counterbalanced Instruction
This institute aims to provide a fresh perspective on integrating language and content in ways that engage learners with language across the curriculum. The underlying premise is that there is still r .. (more) | Jul 30 - Aug 3, 2012 |
Language Acquisition Resource Center | Intermediate CAST Workshop
We will use the intermediate level of the CAST framework developed by the Center for Applied Linguistics. We will populate a grid that has columns of function types and rows of content areas with test .. (more) | Aug 8 - Aug 10, 2012 |
