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University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC)
Less commonly taught languages, particularly those of Asia and the Pacific, are the focus of the University of Hawai`i National Foreign Language Resource Center, which engages in research and materials development projects and conducts Summer Institutes for language professionals among its many activities.
2002 NFLRC SUMMER INSTITUTES
Heritage Learners and National Language Needs (June 20 - 21, 2002) This two-day symposium provides practical information, theoretical considerations, and program/curriculum models for language education that utilizes existing heritage language resources. Recently, there has been expanding interest among language scholars in capitalizing on the linguistic resources of language minority students through developing their heritage language skills. Such a "language as resource" approach has numerous benefits. This symposium will offer a range of language, culture, literacy, and technology workshops by experts who have extensive knowledge and experience in developing innovative K-16 heritage language programs.
Ia Faalautele Lau Gagana - Samoan Pedagogy Workshop (June 24 - 28, 2002) Immediately following our Summer Institute symposium on heritage language, this 5-day workshop brings together experts in Samoan Language teaching, teacher training, materials development and Samoan Language content areas (e.g., oratory, grammar, literature) to share information and to discuss a range of Samoan Language curriculum development issues (e.g., community awareness, literacy education, resources, language structure and use)
Web-based Workshops for Advanced Reading & Writing Development & Maintenance (tentatively, July 22 - August 2, 2002) This workshop serves as an online professional development opportunity for non-native-speaking teachers of Chinese and Korean language at the K-16 level. As part of our mission to serve the development and enhancement of Asian language and area studies in the United States, we will offer 2 two-week intensive language courses in Chinese and Korean. The intensive courses, delivered entirely over the World Wide Web using a tested and proven pedagogic model, focus on the development and/or maintenance of communicative language skills at the advanced level, with strong emphasis on written communication meeting high standards of literacy.
For more information about the 2002 NFLRC Summer Institutes, visit http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev_home.cfm.
NEW PUBLICATIONS FROM THE UH NFLRC
Developing Korean Language Performance Assessments, by J. D. Brown, T. Hudson & Y. Kim. This Research Note reports on a task-based performance assessment development project for Korean as a foreign language through the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawai`i. It contains an overview of college-level Korean language teaching and testing in the United States as well as an introduction to task-based performance assessment in general and the design of performance assessment tasks using test and item specifications in particular. Questionnaire forms used and prototype tasks developed in English and Korean are presented in the appendices.
Community Language Resources: A Handbook for Teachers, by T. Menacker. The aim of the project described in this Research Note is to capitalize on community language resources in developing programs and products to improve foreign language education. Approaches were developed in Hawai'i schools to serve as a model for similar projects and programs that can be carried out elsewhere in the US.
Mind, Language, and Epistemology Toward a Language Socialization Paradigm for SLA, by K. Watson-Gegeo. Karen Watson-Gegeo's plenary talk, presented at the 4th Pacific Second Language Research Forum (PacSLRF) conference, lays out the issues involved and argues for a language socialization paradigm for second language acquisition that is consistent with and embraces new developments in second generation cognitive science, first language acquisition studies, cognitive anthropology, and human development research.
For more information or to order NFLRC publications online, visit the publications section of our Web site.
Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR)
CLEAR's mission is to promote foreign language education in the United States. To meet its goals, projects focus on foreign language research, materials development, and teacher training.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE RESEARCH
* Feedback and Interaction
* Longitudinal Analysis of Foreign Language Writing Development
MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT
Products
* Business Chinese (CD-ROM)
* Modules for Assessing Socio-Cultural Competence for German (CD-ROM)
* Pronunciacion y fonetica (CD-ROM)
* African Language Tutorial Guide (guide and video)
* Foreign Languages: Doors to Opportunity (video and discussion guide)
* Task-based Communicative Grammar Activities for Japanese and Thai (workbook)
* Test Development (workbook and video)
* The Internet Sourcebook for Business German
* The Internet Sourcebook for Business Spanish (online links from CLEAR's Web site)
* Business Language Packets for High School Classrooms (French, German, and Spanish; PDF files from CLEAR's Web site)
Coming Soon!
* Portuguese Pronunciation and Phonetics CD-ROM
* Modules for Assessing Socio-Cultural Competence for Russian (CD-ROM)
* Thai Tutorial Guide
* The Internet Sourcebook for Business French
Game-O-Matic
The Game-O-Matic is a suite of wizards that create Web-based activities for language learning and practice. Teachers can make original Game-O-Matic games by visiting http://clear.msu.edu/dennie/matic/. Have a new idea for a Game-O-Matic activity? Contact Dennie Hoopingarner at hooping4@msu.edu.
Newsletter
CLEAR News is a biyearly publication covering FL teaching techniques, research, and materials. Contact the CLEAR office to join the mailing list or see it on the Web at http://clear.msu.edu/clearnews/.
TEACHER TRAINING
2002 Summer Workshops
CLEAR is offering eight summer workshops in 2002 for foreign language educators to help strengthen and expand their teaching skills. CLEAR offers stipends to help defray the workshop fees and travel/accommodation expenses.
The 2002 Summer Workshop offerings are
* Teaching Writing in the Foreign Language Classroom - June 17-19, 2002
* Using Communicative Activities in a Grammar-Based Curriculum - June 20-22, 2002
* Promoting Motivation and Interest in Foreign Languages Inside and Outside of the Classroom - June 25-28, 2002
* Basic Web Pages for Late Bloomers - July 9-12, 2002
* Beyond Web Pages - July 15-19, 2002
* Putting Flash into Your Course - July 22-26, 2002
* Materials Development Marathon: Creating Online Communicative Activities from Start to Finish-July 29-August 2, 2002
* Developing and Managing a Tutorial-Based Language Program for LCTLs - August 5-6, 2002
For more information on the Summer Workshops, go to http://clear.msu.edu/institutes/02institutes/.
For more information about CLEAR, contact
Apprentissage des Langues et Systemes d'Information et de Communication (ALSIC)
ALSIC (Language Learning and Information and Communication Systems, http://alsic.org/) is an electronic journal in French for researchers and practitioners in fields related to applied linguistics, didactics, psycholinguistics, educational sciences, computational linguistics, and computer science. The journal gives priority to papers from the French-speaking community and/or in French, but it also regularly invites papers in other languages so as to strengthen scientific and technical exchanges between linguistic communities that too often remain separate. The editorial board of ALSIC invites you to contact them for any prospective contributions at the following electronic address: infos@alsic.org.
The Australian Technology Enhanced Language Learning Consortium (ATELL)
Contacts: Dr. Mike Levy, The University of Queensland (mlevy@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au) Prof. Roly Sussex, The University of Queensland (sussex@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au)
ATELL is an informal collaboration of Australian language teachers involved in technology-enhanced language learning and teaching. It has recently been moved to The University of Queensland, where Dr. Mike Levy and Professor Roly Sussex are developing the concept in collaboration with Mr. Greg Dabelstein, coordinator of the CALL special interest group of the Association of Modern Language Teachers' Associations of Australia (AFMTLA). We intend to establish a network of complementary and collaborating resources for teachers and learners in the TELL domain in schools and tertiary institutions. There will be a Web site, which will include information, collaboration, and resources such as
* a register of Australian TELL experts
* links to other sites with TELL-related information and materials
* links to reviews of hardware, software, courseware
* a section for FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
* what's new -- ideas, research, materials
* a register of projects, current and past, in TELL research, development, implementation
* software modules, libraries, and related resources for developers
* audio and video files for language learning support
* policies and discussion
* special interest groups
In addition, we are reviving the ATELL mailing list, whose e-mail location is atell@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au. ATELL is supported by the Language Laboratory at the University of Queensland.
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