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2009 FLAP Grant Recipients Announced

The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) funds foreign language instruction in elementary and secondary schools under Title V of the No Child Left Behind Act (2001).  FLAP provides 3-year grants to states and local school districts to establish, improve, or expand innovative kindergarten through grade twelve modal programs.
The following Local Education Agencies received [...]

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CALPER at Conferences and Events

Duke University
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department
February 20, 2009: “Computer-mediated Interaction and the New Frontiers of Language Learning”
Presenter: Steven L. Thorne

National Standards for Korean Task Force Meeting
University of Rhode Island
February 27-28, 2009
Task Force Member: Susan Strauss

Chinese Language Teachers Association of California
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA,
March 7, 2009: “Discourse and Corpus Approaches to [...]

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SCOLA offers foreign language TV clips, supplemental instructional materials

Penn State language instructors can now use clips of television programming in a variety of languages from around the world supplemented with instructional materials offered by SCOLA, a nonprofit educational organization. By taking short five-minute clips from broadcast news programs from around the world and adding transcripts, translations, vocabulary lists, and [...]

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CALPER at PSMLA

CALPER will exhibit its materials and resources at the 2008 PSMLA annual meeting to be held October 17 & 18 at the Radisson Greentree Hotel in Pittsburgh.
We are looking forward to meeting you and invite you to see what is new at CALPER. Conference website

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