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Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research
Language Resource Center at the Pennsylvania State University  
Issue: 6
April 2013
10th LARC/CALPER Webinar on Assessment is
coming up
Volker Hegelheimer will conduct our last webinar for this academic year in the LARC/CALPER Assessment series. Dr. Hegelheimer, associate professor in the Department of English at Iowa State University, will present on:

"Assessing Language Using Computer Technology"

Date: April 10, 2013
Time: 3:30pm Eastern Time (2:30pm Central, 12:30pm Pacific)

Register for the webinar on this page (yellow highlight "Sign up here")

Past Webinars on Vimeo
If you missed one of our webinars, you can still watch the presentation and download the materials our presenters made available.

On the newly created Vimeo Channel:
The webinars are also still available on the LARC website:
Simply go to the webinar list at LARC, scroll to "past webinars" and access "Play Recording." The URL is:
http://larc.sdsu.edu/events/webinars


Are you using recorded webinars in your course or otherwise for training purposes? If yes, drop us a quick note and tell us. Email Gabi Appel gxa9@psu.edu at CALPER or Chris Brown cbrown@projects.sdsu.edu
at LARC.

2013 CALPER Summer Worskhops
Registration is now open
June 3 -4, 2013 at Penn State University Park  
Discourse Analysis and L2 Teaching and Materials Development
Presenter: Susan Strauss

June 6-7, 2013 at Penn State University Park 
The Interface of Language and Culture
Presenter: James P. Lantolf

June 17-19, 2013 at Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Language e-Portfolios
Presenters: Gabi Appel and Mary Toulouse 

Link to our Workshop Pages for descriptions and registration information.
  
CALPER's Corpus Project Update 
CALPERLEX - Russian 
CALPERLEX is a space in the Corpus Portal that is dedicated to the exploration of language through corpus analysis. Teachers can find single lexical items or contrasting lexical pairs or routine expressions presented in form of concordance lines. The "problem sets" can be printed out and used as worksheets in the classroom. They can also be used by individual learners for self-study.

Newly added is a worksheet for learning about Russian interjections "da ty chto", created by Edie Furniss, Penn State. 

Corpus Community Report - Spanish
We also added a narrative to our Corpus Community Reports. Dr. Carlos Benavides, Associate Professor of Spanish language, literature, and linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, tells us how he used corpus activities with his students in an advanced grammar course.

No. 4: Using a Corpus Effectively in a Spanish Grammar Course
by Carlos Benavides, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (2013) is available as a free download.

Go to the Corpus Community Reports

Searchable Bibliography
Search through our database of publications relevant to using corpora in language teaching.

Go to the Corpus Searchable Bibliography

Recent CALPER Materials
by Junko Mori. For your professional development library.

by Hongyin Tao. Workbook for high-intermediate/advanced learners of Chinese.

Dynamic Assessment: A Teacher's Guide 2nd edition.
by James P. Lantolf and Matthew E. Poehner   

Last word
Flowering tree

Well..... not yet in Central PA, but hopefully soon.

If you celebrate the holidays - Happy Easter and Passover to all.  
The Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research is one of fifteen national Language Resource Centers (LRCs) funded by the U.S. Department of Education.  We develop innovative teaching materials, offer high quality professional development events, conduct research that informs teaching and learning, and create valuable resources for teachers.

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Best wishes, 
Gabi Appel, Associate Director
Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research
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