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| What's New? | |
| LANGUAGE TEACHING WORKSHOP SERIES 2009-2010 | |
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During Fall and Spring 2009-2010, the Center for Language Acquisition at Penn State and CALPER will offer a series of workshops on current issues and topics in foreign language teaching and learning. We held two workshops this Fall and will resume our series in Spring 2010. Please consult this space or contact Meredith Doran at mcd15@psu.edu for updates. | |
| MEET US AT CONFERENCES | |
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ACTFL in San Diego, CA Friday, November 20 - 11:00am - 12:00noon Being Prepared for Heritage Learners: What Teachers Should Know Presenter: Joan Kelly Hall and Karen E. Johnson Location: Marriott Hotel - Torrey1 Friday, November 20 - 1:15pm - 2:15pm A Corpus-based Approach to Tracking L2 Development Presenter: Xiaofei Lu Location: Convention Center, Room 22 Saturday, November 21 - 10:00am- 11:00 am ACTFL Plenary Session: Effective Classroom Practice: What the Research Shows and What It Doesn't Panel Participant: Joan Kelly Hall Location: Convention Center, Ballroom 6A Saturday, November 21 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm Pedagogical Challenges Facing Post-secondary Novice Teachers of Russian and Arabic Presenter: Karen E. Johnson and Joan Kelly Hall Location: Convention Center, Room 27B Saturday, November 21 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm Discourse/Pragmatics and Chinese Language Education I Panel Organizer and Presenter: Hongyin Tao Location: Convention Center, Room 29B Saturday, November 21 - 3:00 pm - 4:00pm Discourse/Pragmatics and Chinese Language Education II Panel Organizer and Presenter: Hongyin Tao Location: Convention Center, Room 29D We are also exhibiting CALPER materials and resources in the Exhibition Hall! Come visit us at Booth 2244 and see what is new. | |
| RECENTLY PUBLISHED | |
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Advancing in Russian through Narration by Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University and Viktoria Driagina, now University of Georgia. View more information | |
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Working with Spoken Chinese by Hongyin Tao, UCLA One new student workbook each for the unit "Driving Cautiously" and the unit "Travel Adventures" has been uploaded to the site. Go to the front page of the project. | |
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Korean Culture and Media Series. Exploring culture through inquiry, observation, analysis. Guided activities. Units for intermediate and advanced learners of Korean. by Susan Strauss. Downloadable PDFs. More information. | |
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Teaching Heritage and Domestic Language Learners. An instructional resource for LCTL teacher preparation by Karen E. Johnson and Joan Kelly Hall is now available on CD. Find out more about the publication . | |
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Grant for Computerized Dynamic Assessment Project. Penn State's Center for Language Acquisition has received a $321,000 grant from the International Research and Studies Program, U.S. Department of Education, to produce Computerized Dynamic Assessment Language Proficiency Exams in French, Chinese, and Russian. James P. Lantolf and Matthew E. Poehner are the principal investigators of this three-year (2008-2011) project. Details are available on the Center for Language Acquisition's Projects page.
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Advanced Language Proficiency (ALP)Bibliography. We began to develop and compile a searchable bibliographic database that contains references on a wide variety of aspects and features addressing the development of advanced language proficiency. It is our hope that language professionals find the database a valuable tool when trying to locate research and non-commercial materials on ALP. If you have comments or would like to suggest a reference for potential inclusion in the database, please contact Gabriela Appel Go to CALPER's ALP Searchable Bibliography 10.29.07 | |







