CALPER Newsblog http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:56:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 No More Cuts! Keep Foreign Languages in Schools http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=80 http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=80#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:52:16 +0000 Gabriela Appel http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=80 Editorial by Stacie Nevadomski Berdan, the author of “Get Ahead by Going Abroad” and an upcoming book on “Raising Global Children.”

Posted September 15, 2009 in the Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Go to article “No More Cuts! Keep Foreign Languages in Schools”

]]> http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?feed=rss2&p=80 2009 FLAP Grant Recipients Announced http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=76 http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=76#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:45:02 +0000 Gabriela Appel http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=76 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 a 2009 Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) grant:

  • Alabama: Montgomery County Public School System
  • Arizona: Dear Valley Unified School District
  • California: Alameda County Office of Education; Pasadena Unified School District; San Diego County Superintendent of Schools; Oak Park Unified School District; Shasta Union High School District; Glendale Unified School District
  • District of Columbia: Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School
  • Florida: Seminole County Public Schools
  • Illinois: Chicago Public Schools District 299; Woodstock Community Unit School District 200
  • Kansas: South Central Kansas Education Service Center
  • Michigan: The Dearborn Academy; Forest Hills Public Schools
  • Minnesota: Yinghua Academy
  • New Jersey: Englewood Public School District
  • New York: Binghamton City School District; Oneida-Herkimer-Madison BOCES; City School District of New Rochelle; South Orangetown Central School
  • North Carolina: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools; Cumberland County Schools
  • Ohio: Summit County Educational Service Center; Tuscarawas Carroll Harrison Education Service Center; Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District
  • Oklahoma: Independent School District No. 5 of Tulsa County
  • Oregon:  Southern Oregon Education Service District; Portland School District 1J
  • Pennsylvania: Young Scholars of Central Pennsylvania Charter School; Berks County Intermediate Unit; Northeastern Educational Intermediate Unit
  • Texas: Cosmos Foundation, Inc., Arlington Independent School District
  • Virginia: Henrico County Public Schools
]]> http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?feed=rss2&p=76 Advancing in Russian Through Narration http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=71 http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=71#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:11:30 +0000 Gabriela Appel http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=71 Advancing in Russian Through Through Narration by Aneta Pavlenko and Victoria Driagina is a new CALPER publication for teachers of Russian. The book focuses on two important aspects of advanced language proficiency, namely narrative and conceptual proficiency.

Narrative proficiency refers to the ability to tell narratives that are similar to those of native speakers of Russian. Conceptual proficiency refers to the ability of making the same conceptual distinctions as native speakers of Russian do.

The authors’ discussion singles out five areas of Russian language knowledge central to the acquisition of narrative and conceptual proficiency. These are “tense and aspect,” “the use of verbs of motion,” “aspects of narrative structure,”, “emotion vocabulary,” and “identity terms.”

The book is available on a CD in PDF format. More information is available at Advancing in Russian Through Narration.

]]> http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?feed=rss2&p=71 2009 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=68 http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=68#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 17:28:08 +0000 Gabriela Appel http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=68 NAFSA: Association of International Educators announced the 2009 recipients of the Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization. The institutions are: Boston University, Connecticut College, Pacific Lutheran University, Portland State University, and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

The colleges will be featured in the NAFSA report “Internationalizing the Campus 2009″, to be published in the fall.

NAFSA Award website

]]> http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?feed=rss2&p=68 S 1010: National Foreign Language Coordination Act http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=62 http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=62#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 16:50:56 +0000 Gabriela Appel http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=62 On May 7, 2009, U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) reintroduced the National Foreign Language Coordination Act, with Senators Thad Cochran (R-MS), Christopher J. Dodd (D-CT), and Richard Durbin (D-IL) as cosponsors. The bill would create a National Foreign Language Coordination Council, directed by a National Language Advisor appointed by the President to develop and oversee the implementation of a foreign language strategy.

Senator Akaka’s Press Release

]]> http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?feed=rss2&p=62 Rudgers Foreign Language Requirement for Honors Students http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=59 http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=59#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:53:52 +0000 Gabriela Appel http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=59 Beginning in fall 2009, incoming students accepted to the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University will have to take four semesters of a foreign language. The language requirement is a new requirement for honors students. Read the article by Justin Hoffer in The Daily Targum.

]]> http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?feed=rss2&p=59 FLAP Grants Applications http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=55 http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=55#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:13:59 +0000 Gabriela Appel http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=55 Foreign Language Assistance Program: The U.S. Department of Education’s Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) provides grants to local and state education agencies for innovative model programs providing for the establishment, improvement, or expansion of foreign language study for elementary and secondary school students. Federal Registry announcement for Local Education Agencies and for State Education Agencies.

]]> http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?feed=rss2&p=55 Early Launch for Language http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=50 http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=50#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:17:03 +0000 Gabriela Appel http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=50 Young Children have advantage, but linguists say lessons benefit all.
by Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post, February 16, 2009
Read the article

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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 Chinese Language Teaching: The CALPER Project and Beyond”

Presenter: Hongyin Tao

URL: http://www.cltac.org


Critical and Intercultural Theory and Language Pedagogy Symposium

University of California, Irvine

March 7, 2009: “Critical issues in language use and development.”

Presenter: Steven L. Thorne


 

Confucius Institute at San Francisco State University

San Francisco, CA

March 8: “Chinese Language Use and Language Teaching in the Context of Globalization”

Presenter: Hongyin Tao

URL: http://www.sfsu/edu/~ci/index.html


 

CALICO Conference

Arizona State University

March 10+11: Pre-Conference Workshop: “Automatic Analysis of Learner Language (AALL’09): From a Better Understanding of Annotation Needs to the Development and Standardization of Annotation Schemes”

Presenters: Detmar Meurers and Xiaofei Lu


March 12: “Corpus Linguistic Approaches to the Analysis of Formulaic Sequences in L2-Spanish Computer-Mediated Learner Language Use”

Presenters: Steven L. Thorne, Aziz Yuldashev, Julieta Fernandez


March 13: “Second Language Acquisition Theories, Technologies, and Language Learning”

Presenter: Steven. L. Thorne


 

March 13: “Developing Technology-Mediated Language Awareness Through Bridging Activities”

Presenters: Steven L. Thorne and Jonathon Reinhardt

URL: http://www.calico.org


 

American Association for Applied Linguistics

Denver, CO

 

March 21: Colloquium: “Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Second Language Learning: Experimental Evidence”

Presenter: Susan Strauss


 

March 21: “The Social Life of Private Speech”

Presenters: Steven L. Thorne and Fee Steinbach Kohler


 

March 22: “Group Dynamic Assessment in the L2 Classroom”

Presenter: Matthew E. Poehner


 

March 23: Colloquium: “Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition”

Paper: “Sociocultural Theory and Educational Praxis: A Dialectical Perspective on L2 Development”

Presenter: James P. Lantolf

 

March 23: “Profiling English in the real world: what learners and teachers can tell us about what they know” 

Presenters: Michael McCarthy and Nick Saville

URL: http://www.aaal.org


 

Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese

Wake Forest University, Salem, NC

 

March 23: “[Speaking vs. Conversing: Reconsideration of the Current State of Foreign Language Education from the Perspective of Conversation Analysis]”

Presenter: Junko Mori

URL: http://www.wfu.edu/eal/SEATJ2009/


 

University of Texas, Austin

Texas Language Technology Center

March 27, 2009: “Semiotic flows, bricolage, and critical language awareness.”

Presenter: Steven L. Thorne

URL: http://tltc.la.utexas.edu/tltc/events/lecture_series.html

]]> http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?feed=rss2&p=38 AATG summer 2009 seminar http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=36 http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=36#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:16:27 +0000 Gabriela Appel http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsblog/?p=36 Mündliche Kompetenz im Unterricht amerikanischer High-Schools: Theorie, Praxis, Evaluierung und Didaktik (MUTPED), June 13-July 11, Leipzig.

For high school teachers and graduate students planning on a career in K-12 teaching to improve German language skills, teaching methods, and assessment strategies. The deadline has been extended to February 23, 2009.

For more information:  http://www.aatg.org/content/view/443/34/

 

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