FLTEACH Bulletin Board

Add Chinese To Your Foreign Language Offerings

Jim Burke — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:20:48 GMT

Beida Jade Bird International Educaiton (BJBIE) was founded by and is affiliated with China's #1 university, Peking University. BJBIE is working in the US to facilitate substantial China-related programming with US institutions and believe adding Chinese language courses to school's foreign language offerings is the best first step.

BJBIE helps schools by adapting our tested language curriculum, Business in Chinese, a full curriculum created by leaders in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language faculty at PKU. The curriculum is adapted to school's desired learning outcomes, includes all the assessments, lesson plans, and in-class activities, and provides faculty training upon request.

The curriculum is offered at the Beginners, Intermediate, and Advanced levels, and includes more business vocabulary and topics as students progress through the levels. If you are considering adding subject-specific Chinese language courses to your offerings or are beginning from scratch - contact our Outreach Manager, Jim Burke at 202-400-2907 for more information.

New Summer On-line Methods Course for Elementary School World

Dr. Lori Langer de Ramirez — Thu, 10 May 2012 22:42:55 GMT

New Summer On-line Methods Course for Elementary School World Languages
Iowa State University will offer =93Methods in Elementary School World Lang=
uage Instruction,=94 as an online course in Summer 2012 for practicing teac=
hers and pre-service teachers who have studied a world language extensively=
. Lori Langer de Ramirez, Ed.D., Chair of the ESL and World Language Depart=
ment at Herricks Public Schools, NY, will serve as the instructor for the c=
ourse, which will begin June 11 and end August 3, 2012, pending enrollment =
of 18 pre-service and/or in-service teachers. Marcia H. Rosenbusch, Ph.D., =
Adjunct Associate Professor, Iowa State University, who conceptualized this=
unique online course, invited a team of 14 leading national experts in ele=
mentary school world language education, including Dr. Ramirez, to teach co=
urse components in their areas of expertise. The collaborators, who include=
practicing teachers and teacher trainers, represent both the commonly and =
the less commonly taught languages. The course is available for three credi=
ts of undergraduate or graduate credit and meets requirements for the Iowa =
Endorsement in K-8 World Language Education. Check with your State Departme=
nt of Education to see if this course meets requirements for endorsement or=
certification in your state. For more information visit http://courses.elo=
.iastate.edu/wlc/486/XW/overview or contact Marcia H. Rosenbusch: Email: mr=
osenbu@iastate.edu; Office: 515-294-6454. This course will be taught Fall 2=
012 and Spring 2013.

--
Dr. Lori Langer de Ramirez
Chair, ESL and World Language Department
Herricks Public Schools
100 Shelter Rock Road
New Hyde Park, NY 11040
(516) 305-8719
lramirez@herricks.org

Suhut Teen Movie Clip

Suhutses — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:36:46 GMT

Şuhut Movie Teen Clip

Study Abroad - summer in Costa Rica

Jean LeLoup — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:10:03 GMT

Join us in Costa Rica in 2012!

SUNY Cortland, in affiliation with the Universidad VERITAS, is pleased to offer its summer institute for teachers of Spanish in San Jose, Costa Rica. Participants will spend two weeks living with Costa Rican families, attending classes and visiting sites of cultural and historic significance.

Participants earn six credits at the graduate level from SUNY Cortland. Three credits are earned during the component of the course that takes place in San Jose. Students earn an additional three credits after returning to the U.S. upon satisfactory completion of the second half of the course, conducted via the internet using Blackboard software.

Instructors:
Dr. Jean W. LeLoup, USAFA (SUNY Cortland Emerita)
Dr. Barbara Schmidt-Rinehart, Ashland University

For more information, please see the website:

http://www2.cortland.edu/studyabroad/study-abroad/programs/costa-rica-summer-teacher-institute.dot

Hope you can join us!

French texts for sale

Judi Crenshaw — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:07:10 GMT

Our school is selling the textbooks S=E9quences and En Bonne Forme 8th edit=
ion.=A0 Some of these texts have never been used.=A0 If your school might b=
e interested, please contact Ms. Patti Siemers at siemersp@capetigers.com

use of iPads in the classroom

Peter Smith — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:06:03 GMT

Schoolshape Lang Lab Student App now available for iPad.

Peter

CERCLL (University of Arizona) Summer Professional Development Workshops: Registration and scholarship deadline is May 8

COH cercll — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:41:38 GMT

Dear Colleague

CERCLL is a national language resource center funded by a Title VI grant from the State Department of Education. We would like to submit this posting regarding our upcoming summer professional development workshops. There are scholarships as well as group registration discounts and discounts available for faculty, staff and students affiliated with the University of Arizona, Arizona State University or Northern Arizona University as well as discounts for group registration. We appreciate your assistance in forwarding this message or direction on how to post to the listserv.

Sincerely,

CERCLL Staff

Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy

University of Arizona

Modern Languages, Room 561

Tucson, AZ 85721

Email: coh-cercll@email.arizona.edu

Phone: (520) 626-8071

Fax: (520) 626-3313

CERCLL Summer Workshop Series
May 29 � June 8, 2012
Registration is open!

The Early Bird registration rate ends on May 9!

Scholarship application deadline is May 9!

Sponsored in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry at the University of Arizona, CERCLL offers a professional development series each summer in which research and theory are linked with practical applications for the language classroom. Each workshop includes discussion, hands-on activities, and opportunities for networking with colleagues. Workshop participants include foreign and second language teachers at all levels, as well as language program directors and language teacher educators. K-12 Teachers can receive 6 hours AZ Continuing Education per workshop day. The workshops take place at the University of Arizona, but online attendance options are available for some of them.

Faculty, staff and students affiliated with the University of Arizona,
Arizona State University or Northern Arizona University should visit the
registration information page and contact CERCLL at
coh-cercll@email.arizona.edu for special rates and registration
instructions.

There is a group discount of 20% for three or more people registering from
the same institution.

Students and K-12 teachers are eligible for registration scholarships.
Application deadline is May 9. For details, see the scholarships page.

May 29-30, 2012
Speaking of Grants: Funding Possibilities for Language Educators (remote attendance available)
Presenter: Susan Penfield (CERCLL, University of Arizona)

May 31-June 1, 2012
Becoming Multilingual: Fostering Symbolic Awareness in the Language Classroom
Presenter: Chantelle Warner (University of Arizona)

June 4-5, 2012
Implementing Literacy-Based Instruction in Collegiate FL Programs
Presenters: Beatrice Dupuy (CERCLL, University of Arizona), Heather Willis Allen (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Kate Paesani (Wayne State University) and Karen Johnson (Pennsylvania State University)

June 6, 2012
Developing Intercultural Competence: An Expanded Role for Foreign Language Educators
Presenter: Alvino Fantini (SIT Graduate Institute)

June 7-8, 2012
Designing Digital Game-Mediated L2 Learning Environments (remote attendance available)
Presenters: Jonathon Reinhardt (University of Arizona) and Julie Sykes (University of New Mexico)

For information regarding registration and scholarships please visit:

http://www.cercll.arizona.edu/doku.php/development/workshops/2012/scholarships

http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1075477

Please visit the professional development workshop website for full details:

http://www.cercll.arizona.edu/doku.php/development/workshops/2012

Language Perfect World Championships 2012 (21-31 May) Launch!

Brad-Marcy Riegg — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:50:46 GMT

Dear Fellow Teachers-

Language Perfect (11 languages) is having their World Championships
beginning in a few weeks: http://www.languageperfect.com/ About 1000
schools participated in this last year.

You can sign up 50 students for free to the World Championships by
mentioning Living Water Spanish.
There is no money in this for me.

Brad

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From:
Date: Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:49 PM
Subject: Language Perfect World Championships 2012 (21-31 May) Launch! -
Living Waters Spanish
To: bradriegg@gmail.com

[image: Language Perfect World Championships 2012
Stamp]

Thursday 19 April 2012

Dear Sir/Madam,
RE: Language Perfect World Championships 2012 (21-31 May)

Unity. Competition. National pride. Excitement. Languages.

As a member of Language Perfect your students are all set to represent
their class, school and country in the largest online languages competition
in the world.

1. Check out the $20K Prize
Pool
2. Put up postersaround
your school
3. Book out the computer labs for 21st to 31st May
4. Visit the official website - www.languageperfect.com/worldchamps
5. Watch video
tributesincluding
a message from the Australian Minister of Education

Learn, Compete, Win. Let the Championships begin!

- LPWC Committee

Official Website | $20K Prize
Pool |
Resources|
Register
More Students

summer homestays

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:45:28 GMT

I have launched a program with a colleague in France and we are
sending our first students to and from France this summer!

Ours is a homestay program of 1 week to 1 year. Most families that we
have heard from want to send their children during vacation breaks, in
order to not lose course time/credit.

My high school, Wallkill Senior High School in Wallkill, NY is
thrilled to enroll French students whose host families wish for them to
do so. We are looking into a reciprocal agreement in Vannes, France,
for those who wish to stay longer than summer break.

Consider GlobalTeens for your students. For more information, please
contact me.

Patricia Long

--

"Every person of learning is finally his own teacher."
~ Thomas Paine THE AGE OF REASON

Mme Patricia LONG
French Teacher
Wallkill Senior High School
845 895 7150

GEEO Summer Travel Professional Development Programs

Natasha Weisz — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:41:00 GMT

Hello Educators!

Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO) is a non-profit
organization that runs summer professional development travel programs
designed for teachers.

GEEO is offering 13 different travel programs for the summer of 2012:
India/Nepal, Vietnam, Thailand/Laos/Cambodia, Russia/Mongolia/China,
Turkey, South Africa/Mozambique/Zimbabwe/Botswana, Morocco, Peru, Ecuador,
the Galapagos Islands and Costa Rica. Space is limited!

Educators have the option to earn graduate school credit and professional
development credit while seeing the world. The trips are 8 to 24 days in
length and are designed and discounted to be interesting and affordable for
teachers. GEEO provides teachers educational materials and the structure to
help them bring their experiences into the classroom. The trips are open to
all nationalities of K-12 and university educators and administrators, as
well as retired educators. Educators are also permitted to bring along a
non-educator guest.

Detailed information about each trip, including itineraries, costs, travel
dates, and more can be found at www.geeo.org. GEEO can be reached 7 days a
week, toll free at
1-877-600-0105 between 9AM-9PM EST.

Please check us out by visiting our website, www.geeo.org, and if possible,
please share with your faculty.

--
Natasha Weisz
Outreach Coordinator
Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO)

Call us toll-free at 1-877-600-0105
natasha@geeo.org
www.geeo.org
Click hereto
follow GEEO on Facebook
Check out our resource boards on Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/geeo/

Spanish classics / Free downloads

miraflores — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:31:41 GMT

LA TRADUCCI�N AL INGL�S VIENE AL FINAL
Miraflores le propone libros y audio libros gratuitos para profesores y estudiantes. El Libro Total cuenta con obras en el dominio p�blico, cedidos por el titular de su derecho de autor o porque su copyright ha expirado. Esto es v�lido internacionalmente. Encontrar� los cl�sicos de la lengua, novelas, poes�a, teatro y m�s, como tambi�n otros mucho m�s recientes. Son miles de libros gratuitos, como tambi�n much�simos audio libros. Todos son libros con el derecho de autor caducado. Todos los libros pueden ser descargados desde nuestro sitio web www.miraflores.org. Pulse en Sharing / Compartiendo. Los libros est�n organizados por pa�s, por autor y por t�tulo.

Miraflores offers you free books and audio books. Under the title El Libro Total, professionals and students will find works that are in the public domain, either because the author has decided to cede the copyright, or because the copyright has expired. This is valid internationally. You will find all the Spanish classics, novels, poetry, theater and more, and a many more recent books. The copyright has expired for all of these books. You can download them from our website at www.miraflores.org. Please go to Sharing / Compartiendo. The books are organized by country, by author and by title.

Webinar on "Assessing Speaking"

CALPER_PennState — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:55:37 GMT

CALPER at Penn State and LARC, the LRC at San Diego State University, both national Language Resource Centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education created a webinar series on language assessment.

For our last webinar in the 2011/2012 series, we invited Dr. Glenn Fulcher (University of Leicester, UK) to talk to us on "Assessing Speaking."

East Coast teachers should tune in on Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 12:00noon. Before the webinar, please register, so you can receive instructions about how to login. The webinar is free!

Register at LARC at http://larc.sdsu.edu/webinar-glenn-fulcher/

CALPER Summer Workshops

CALPER_PennState — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:42:47 GMT

The Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER) at the Pennsylvania State University is offering six workshops for language educators this summer. CALPER is one of 15 Language Resource Centers (LRC) in the US.

July 16-18, 2012 - Compiling and Analyzing Your Own Learner Corpus
Look at the language of your students and assess their development! This workshop is designed to provide language educators with an accessible and hands-on introduction to setting up a student data (written compositions, e.g.) and analyzing it. participants will have the opportunity to use CALPER's online tool to create their own files for student language.
Xiaofei Lu, Penn State

July 16-18, 2012 - Language e-Portfolios
Have you been interested in using e-portfolios with your students? In this workshop, we will discuss key elements of portfolios and portfolio assessment, how portfolios can be integrated into existing courses and how they can be maintained. Further, we will link portfolios to project-based learning or student conducted projects and explore how students projects can be carried out and evaluated through portfolios. Participants will be able to develop blueprints for e-portfolios for their own situations. Examples to guide discussion and hands-on activities from "LaFolio", an initiative by the Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures at Lafayette College (PA) will be presented.
Gabi Appel, Penn State & Mary Toulouse, Lafayette College

July 19-20, 2012 - The Interface of Language and Culture
Focus of the workshop is on the interface of language and culture manifested in the conceptual features of metaphor. We will consider how metaphors (and related forms of figurative language) are constructed; discuss cross-cultural differences in metaphors; explore some recent pedagogical approaches on teaching and learning metaphors in second language classrooms and create a lesson for the teaching of metaphors.
Jim Lantolf, Penn state

July 19-20, 2012 - Language Socialization in Study Abroad
Study Abroad (SA) 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. We will examine effects of SA on language proficiency, and issues relating to language socialization in concrete communicative settings (e.g. home stay, classroom, and informal peer-to-peer contexts). This workshop is also appropriate for study abroad administrators.
Celeste kinginger, Penn State

July 23-24, 2012 - 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 provide opportunity for teachers to hone their own sensitivities to the target language(s) as well as to guide their students in discovering how language works�at a level beyond traditional textbook-based explanations. In the first half of the workshop, we will answer the following questions.

- What is discourse analysis?
- How can the analysis of naturally occurring language (both spoken and written) enhance our own understanding of language?
- How can teachers of language (L2 and Heritage) use authentic discourse more effectively in classroom practice?

We will introduce basic concepts within discourse analysis:

- Modality (spoken, written, technology-mediated)
- Genre (e.g., conversation, lecture, narrative, how-to, expository writing, essay, letter to the editor, journal writing)
- Innovative approaches to the teaching of "grammar" within discourse.

The workshop will also provide hands-on practice in designing innovative, discourse-based lessons and teaching materials that reflect the 5 Cs of ACTFL�s National Standards (Communication, Cultures, Comparisons, Connections, and Communities). From this perspective, the materials that we design will naturally integrate the so-called four skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening, in addition to naturally integrating discussions of culture.

We will work with language samples using English as the primary language for discussion, in addition to snippets from Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Persian to further illustrate. Participants are free to work with any language(s) they choose for any level of proficiency, from elementary to advanced. The presenter has some knowledge of these and other languages and served on the task force for the creation of the Korean National Standards.
Susan Strauss, Penn State

July 23-25, 2012 - 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 completing a standardized test or responding to questions during an oral interview. According to DA, this type of solo performance reveals only a part of an individual�s capabilities; the rest can only be captured by providing support when s/he struggles with tasks and then carefully tracing how much support the individual required and how responsive s/he was to the support. What looks like a simple idea has far-reaching implications for how we understand the role of assessment in education. In the L2 field, the last several years have seen a number of projects carried out with classroom teachers documenting how DA principles allow them to integrate teaching and assessment during their interactions with individual learners and groups. More recently, DA was used as the basis for designing computerized measures of listening and reading comprehension here at CALPER.
In this workshop, participants will gain familiarity with the theories and models associated with DA and engage in discussion and collaborative analysis of a number of video-clips showing teachers using DA with learners, and will have the opportunity to experience DA themselves as we explore items from the CALPER online DA comprehension tests. Lastly, participants will get insights into ongoing projects involving L2 teachers� uses of DA in a range of educational contexts and will be invited to design their own applications of DA in consultation with the presenter.
Note: This interactive workshop is organized in a way to accommodate those new to Dynamic Assessment as well as those who are already familiar with this framework (and may have participated in past CALPER workshops addressing the topic). The first day of the workshop will provide the theoretical background of DA and will serve as either an introduction or review, depending upon the background of individual participants. The second and third days of the workshop will be devoted to recent and ongoing DA projects in L2 educational settings.
Matt Poehner, Penn State

Full workshop descriptions are online at:
http://calper.la.psu.edu/profdev.php?page=workshops
All workshops will be held at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. We hope to be able to welcome you at Penn State.

We are also on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/CALPERPA

New Spanish Store for teaching resources

SpanishPlans — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:47:49 GMT

SpanishPlans.org/store

-Posters
-Bulletin Board Materials
-Jokes
-Mousepads
-T-shirts

Curriculum materials for teaching:
-Verbs
-Food Unit
-Speaking Activities
-Conversation Cards
-Spanish Projects
-50 Bell Ringers
-Spanish Teacher Resource Book
and more!!

Makes great gifts for Spanish cooperating teachers and student teachers! You can also use your classroom budget to purchase classroom supplies and Spanish resources!

Newly published collection of German short stories (German/English publication)

Charlotte Wolf — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:25:26 GMT

Dear fellow German teachers and instructors,

I would like to introduce you to a newly published anthology of German short stories with translations provided by me, Great German Short Stories of the Twentieth Century: A Dual Language Book, (Dover Publications, Inc.).Here is what the publisher says about the book: "Ideal for students, this affordable anthology features expert new translations of a dozen works previously unavailable in English. The translations appear alongside the original German text of such stories as�Beauty and the Beast� by Irmtraud Morgner, Gabriele Wohmann's �Good Luck and Bad Luck,� and tales by other modern authors,�including early scifi-writers Kurd Laβwitz and Carl Grunert, Luise Rinser, Elisabeth Langg�sser, Georg Britting, Klabund, Peter Bichsel, Henry Bienek, Michael Inneberger, and Iris Klockmann.
If this short introduction piques your curiosity, feel free to order a copy directly from the publisher, at http://store.doverpublications.com/0486476324.html.
Should you decide to use (any of) the stories in the anthology for a discussion within the context of a literature, translation, cultural studies or interdisciplinary class, I would be happy to answer any questions you might have. If you know of any colleagues who might be interested in using the book, I would appreciate a recommendation.
If so desired, I could also make myself available for a presentation to/Q & A session for your students, either in person or in a virtual setting (Skype, videoconferencing, etc.).
The link below to my website allows you to find out more about my background and experience.
I am looking forward to hearing from you.
With my very best regards,
M. Charlotte Wolf, Ph.D.
TransGerman, LLC
www.transgermanllc.com

M. Charlotte Wolf, Ph.D.
TransGerman, LLC
www.transgermanllc.com
transgermanllc@gmail.com

Online English Course for Spanish Speakers

sofiaderomano — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:18:08 GMT

If you are a Spanish Speaker and you want to learn English try My Oxford English. It is an incredible Online English learning Course designed for Spanish speakers by Oxford University Press. It has been designed and it is directed towards students of all levels. It is a high quality and comfortable Online Course that allows everyone to study English from home or from work while choosing the best moment and the best place to do it.

Various texts etc.

Fran Lambert — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:07:32 GMT

If you need some of these, or some resources for these titles, I'm
selling everything very cheap plus shipping.

Avancemos

En Espanol

Ven Conmigo

Descubre

Realidades

Buen Viaje

Expresate

There are cds, dvds, resource and workbooks with most.

lamberte@marktwain.net

Study Abroad - summer in Costa Rica

Jean LeLoup — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:23:19 GMT

Standardizes Chinese Language Program

Jim Burke — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:08:55 GMT

Whether you have part-time adjuncts, visiting professors, or graduate students teaching courses, evaluation and assessment can be a major hurdle for Departments of Modern Languages. The steady rotation of instructors often concerns deans and chairmen, therefore Beida Jade Bird International Education seeks to standardize the instruction for those schools looking to develop Chinese language offerings for beginners, intermediate learners, and advanced students.

Our adaptation team has a tested and comprehensive Business in Chinese language curriculum from Peking University that focuses students' language instruction in the practical scenario of doing business in today's China. The assessments, lesson plans, and discussion points are all adapted to your institution's requirements and prepares students for work and study in China.

There is a growing demand for this kind of instruction, which we hope to discuss more in-depth with you. Call 202-400-2907 or email contact@jbiedu-us.com for more information.

CSCTFL 2012 Milwaukee - AIM Session

editesammons — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:58:25 GMT

Accelerative Integrated Method (AIM) is giving a session "AIMing for Fluency in the Target Language" on Sat. March 10 (Session at 9:30 a.m. See how the AIM has revolutionized French language education in Canada. This session is for French AND Spanish educators. Hope to see you there.

Yale Summer Institute - Maya Cultures Across Time

peabody.westcampusprograms@yale.edu — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:07:52 GMT

The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History invites secondary school educators to apply for a unique and interdisciplinary summer experience. The 2012 Summer Institute meets July 9-13, 2012 in New Haven, Connecticut and will study Maya cultures across time, from the ancient Maya of the first millennium A.D. to the diverse Maya people living in Mexico, Central America, and elsewhere in the world today. A field study trip to Chiapas, Mexico (July 14-22) is optional. Travel stipends are available. Visit peabody.yale.edu/Maya-inst for more information and an on-line application.

Spanish teachers: study in Costa Rica this summer!

Jean LeLoup — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:07:14 GMT

Re: French Materials

jannaberry101 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:23:43 GMT

I'm kinda interested for that items you offered, I will contact you soon if I'm gonna get some items.

French Materials

Salgal — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:37:43 GMT

Our school, sadly, has eliminated French. A former teacher has asked me to find interested buyers for the many items that she left here. Such items include methodology books, readers, and many CDs from France. If you are interested, I am in the Cleveland area and also the Medina area. She is looking for a lump sum grab bag sort of purchase! This is a wonderful opportunity for a new or barely new teacher! Please contact me at salgalb4@aol.com.

NBPTS

Rosa — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:28:26 GMT

Is there anybody interested in collaborating o advising for NBPTS? I'm looking for some help with entry 2 and the language acquisition assessment. Thanks!