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Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence

First National Conference for Educators of Newcomer Students
Washington, DC
September 2002
The conference is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA, formerly OBEMLA); the Center for Applied Linguistics; and CREDE.

Practitioner Brief #3, Some Program Alternatives for English Language Learners
This brief highlights specific features and conditions of newcomer programs, transitional bilingual education, developmental bilingual education, and two-way immersion.
202-362-0700 x218

Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

NECTFL Annual Conference
New York, New York
April 18-21, 2002
For more information, contact
nectfl@dickinson.edu
717-245-1977

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

TESOL's 36th Annual Convention and Exposition
Salt Lake City, Utah
April 9-13, 2002
514-228-3074

The National Capital Language Resource Center

NCLRC has recently added two new resources to its Web site:

• Russian for Russians provides Russian heritage speakers with materials and training to assist them in developing literacy in Russian.
• Portfolio Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom, a Web-based tutorial, guides teachers in creating and implementing a standards-based foreign language portfolio assessment system tied to their own curricula.

NCLRC will hold the following Summer 2002 Institutes in the Washington, DC area:

• June 24-25 Foreign Language Teacher Education
• June 25 Oral Proficiency Assessment
• June 26-27 Teaching Learning Strategies in the Foreign Language Classroom
• June 28-29 Teaching with Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom
• July 1 Teaching and Learning Strategies-Arabic K–12

For details on NCLRC resources or institutes, visit the NCLRC Web site or email nclrc@gwu.edu.