Featured Conferences
Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquee (AILA) 2008 Annual Conference
August 24 - 29, 2008
Essen, Germany
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Immersion Education: Pathways to Bilingualism and Beyond
(A CAL co-sponsored conference)
October 16 - 18, 2008
St. Paul, Minnesota
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Upcoming Conferences and Institutes
Workshop Connecting your Classroom to the Heritage Language Community: Tools and Resources
May 16 & 17, 2008
UCLA
The National Heritage Language Resource Center invites applications to participate in a Workshop Connecting your Classroom to the Heritage Language Community: Tools and Resources. This workshop, to be held at UCLA on May 16-17, 2008, is aimed at language teachers in community , pre-college, and college programs. It demonstrates ongoing research on language communities in the U.S. and offers approaches for understanding the communities. The workshop also includes demonstrations of community-based curricula as well as hands-on training in data gathering.
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STARTALK
Summer 2008
The National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland is happy to announce the 2008 STARTALK Programs. Launched in 2007, STARTALK is part of the president’s National Security Language Initiative, jointly funded by the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Defense to promote the teaching of less commonly taught critical languages. Participating institutions and organizations offer intensive language programs for middle school and high school students and professional development programs for teachers. Participating institutions and organizations offer intensive language programs for middle school and high school students and professional development programs for teachers. This summer there will be a total of 81 programs in 32 states and the District of Columbia offered in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Persian and Urdu.
Learn more about the 2008 STARTALK courses available. Please direct questions to the individual programs in which you may be interested.
29th Annual American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)
Creating Spaces for Indigenous Languages in Everyday Life
June 4 – July 2, 2008
The University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ
AILDI 2008 will have a special focus on Native teachers in the classroom and language. Special topics will include NCLB & Native students, language immersion methods in the classroom and Native children's literature & writing.
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Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Languages
Bloomington, Indiana University
June 13 - August 8, 2008
The Summer Workshop provides up to 230 participants in Slavic, East European and Central Asian languages the opportunity tocomplete a full year of college language instruction during an eight-week summer session.
Utilizing the resources of Indiana University's own specialists as well as native speakers from other universities and abroad, the Summer Workshop has developed and maintained a national program of the highest quality. Allowing all participants to pay IN-STATE TUITION, the program has as its goal the enhancement of speaking, reading, listening and writing skills through classroom instruction and a full range of extra-curricular activities.
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2nd Summer Heritage Language Research Institute
June 22 – 27, 2008
Harvard University
The National Heritage Language Resource Center invites applications to participate in the 2nd Summer Heritage Language Research Institute directed by Professor Maria Polinsky and held at Harvard University June 22-27, 2008. The Institute will be of interest to linguists, applied linguists, faculty in education and foreign languages. Graduate students are encouraged to apply, and some financial support may be available for them.
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Conference on Language Development, Language Revitalization and Multilingual Education in Ethnolinguistic Communities
July 1 – 3, 2008
Twin Towers Hotel,
Bangkok, Thailand
The purposes of this conference are to:
- Raise awareness about the purposes and benefits of mother tongue-based multilingual education (MT-Based MLE) programs,
- Share information about good practices in language development, language revitalization and MT-Based MLE in ethnolinguistic communities, especially from the people who are actively engaged in such programs,
- Develop and expand networks of individuals and organizations engaged in these efforts.
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Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute
(CILLDI)
July 7 – 25, 2008
Education North Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
The University of Alberta is pleased to present the ninth annual Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute over the course of three weeks in July 2008. This program provides a unique opportunity to earn university credit while learning about selected Indigenous languages and culture.
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French Heritage Language Program
Summer Camp 2008
July 7 – 26, 2008
New York, NY
Geared for French-speaking teenagers aged 13-19, the Summer Camp is organized by the French Heritage Language Program in partnership with the French Embassy and the French-speaking communities of New York. During two weeks in New York and one week in Quebec, the participants are immersed in the francophone cultures. Activities: art, dance, writing workshops, films, visits to museums and political institutions, games in the parks –all in French!
Learn more about this summer camp.
Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquee (AILA) 2008 Annual Conference - The 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics
August 24 – 29, 2008
Essen, Germany
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Immersion Education: Pathways to Bilingualism and Beyond
October 16 – 18, 2008
Crowne Plaza Hotel - St Paul Riverfront
St Paul, Minnesota
Under the leadership of two national centers in the U.S., CARLA at the University of Minnesota and CAL (Center for Applied Linguistics), this conference brings a variety of different immersion pathways together to engage in meaningful dialogue and professional exchange across languages, levels, learner audiences, program models and sociopolitical contexts.
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