Arabic-L:PEDA:NCLRC Summer Teacher Training Institutes
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1) Subject:NCLRC Summer Teacher Training Institutes
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Date: 05 Mar 2004
From:shawngsjunk at hotmail.com
Subject:NCLRC Summer Teacher Training Institutes
The National Capital Language Resource Center is continuing its annual
teacher training seminars in 2004. These eighteen Summer Institutes
will be held in Washington D.C. during May 24th through July 8th. Three
of the Institutes have Arabic language content including “Computer
Training for Teachers of Arabic,” “Teaching Arabic K-12: Materials and
Methods,” and “Iraqi for Speakers of Modern Standard Arabic.” Many of
the other Institutes are also applicable to the teaching of Arabic.
For more information see our website: http://nclrc.org/Suin04main.htm
Sincerely,
Shawn Greenstreet
Research Assistant
The National Capital Language Resource Center
2011 Eye St. NW Suite 200
Washington D.C. 20006
202.973.1086
Fax: 202.973.1075
www.nclrc.org
shawng at gwu.edu
NCLRC SUMMER INSTITUTES, WASHINGTON, D.C. MAY 24TH - JULY 8TH 2004
Georgetown University, The George Washington University, Center for
Applied Linguistics
Saturday Institutes are half-day institutes and run from 9am-1pm.
Institutes on all other days run from 9am- 4pm with a one hour lunch
break at 12 noon.
To register, visit www.nclrc.org/suin04registration.pdf
For more information, Email nclrc at gwu.edu or call 202-973-1086
1. Iraqi for Speakers of Modern Standard Arabic
2. Effective Practices for Teaching Language at the College Level
3. Making Videos for the Foreign Language Classroom
4. Teaching Toward Advanced (Professional-level) L2 Performance
5. Teaching Culture in University-level Language Classrooms
6. Mind & Language: Psychology of Memory and Language Learning
7. Teaching Learning Strategies for Reading and Writing in a Foreign
Language
8. Teaching Culture in the Language Classroom
9. Oral Proficiency Assessment
10. Teaching with Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom
11. Teaching Reading and Writing in the Elementary Immersion Classroom
12. Multiple Intelligences and Language Learners of the 21st Century
13. Foreign Language Teacher Education
14. Teaching Diverse Students: Strategies for Foreign Language Teachers
15. Cultures of Francophone West Africa
16. Francophone Cultures: NCLRC/Embassy of France 3-Day Immersion
Program
17. Teaching Arabic K-12: Materials and Methods
18. Computer Training for Teachers of Arabic
1. IRAQI FOR SPEAKERS OF MODERN STANDARD ARABIC
Presenters: Dr. Kawther Hakim, Dr. Margaret Nydell, Georgetown
University.
Dates: May 24-June 18, 2004 3 Credits
For more information, contact Jennifer Beveridge: 202-687-5743, Email:
jlb69 at georgetown.edu
The National Capital Language Resource Center invites students of
Arabic (intermediate or higher) to attend this intensive 3-week,
3-credit course in spoken Iraqi Arabic. This course will introduce the
feature of Iraqi dialect and contrast them with Modern Standards Arabic
(MSA). It is geared primarily toward comprehension of spoken Iraqi
Arabic, as a basis for building interactive skills. It runs as a
pre-session course from May 24 - June 18 with students in class 3 hours
daily Monday through Friday and with an equal amount of work assigned
outside of class. This course if offered for undergraduate credit only.
2. EFFECTIVE PRACTICES FOR TEACHING LANGUAGE AT THE COLLEGE LEVEL
Presenters: Drs. Anna Uhl Chamot and Margaret Gonglewski, The George
Washington University, Deborah Kennedy, Independent Consultant.
Date: Monday, May 24 - Tuesday, May 25 Cost: $150.00
This institute is designed for university-level language instructors
and supervisors who are interested in keeping abreast with current
language teaching methodology. Participants and presenters will discuss
and share effective teaching strategies for encouraging communicative
competence, integrating cultural content into basic level language
classes, teaching grammar as a component of communication, organizing a
learner-centered classroom, and more. Presenters will also discuss how
modeling these successful practices in the adult-level FL classroom can
be used to educate new or potential teachers about effective language
teaching methodology. Participants will receive free print copies of
the NCLRC's online resource guide, "The Essentials of Foreign Language
Teaching for University Instructors".
3. MAKING VIDEOS FOR THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
Presenter: Richard Robin, The George Washington University
Date: Tuesday, May 25 - Friday, May 28. Cost: $250.00 Limited to 10
participants.
Every language teacher can learn to make foreign language videos for
his/her own classroom. Videos of interviews with native speakers
talking about themselves and their world are easy to produce and bring
a piece of the language and the culture into the classroom, and even to
the student's computer desktop. But easy to produce does not mean
"point and shoot." Videography, like writing, is a craft. Once you know
the basics, you can create wonderful materials for teaching any
language. You can also teach your colleagues, and even your students,
how to make videos for instruction. The Instructional Web-video
Workshop provides hands-on instruction in producing interviews with
native speakers of the target language. Participants will learn basic
camera and sound techniques, simple post-production procedures, and the
process of placing the final video on a cassette, on disk, or on the
web. Participants will produce and show their own 3-5 minute
instructional video. Participants must provide their own MiniDV or DV8
cameras. The workshop will make editing facilities available on
Thursday and Friday. After this workshop, you will be able to produce
FL videos for your classes with ease, and your vacation videos will be
fantastic!
4. TEACHING TOWARD ADVANCED (PROFESSIONAL-LEVEL) L2 PERFORMANCE
Presenter: Dr. Heidi Byrnes, Georgetown University
Date: Wednesday, May 26 - Thursday, May 27 Cost: $150.00
This workshop is intended for teachers and program directors whose goal
is to facilitate their learners' acquisition of advanced L2 abilities.
Taking a cultural literacy approach that organizes programs, courses,
pedagogies, and assessment around the construct of oral and written
textual genre, we will address the following topics: specifying the
nature of language use abilities commonly referred to as "advanced";
profiling the advanced learner from the perspective of L2 development;
selecting pedagogies; making curricular and programmatic decisions;
selecting materials; creating criteria and forms of assessment.
5. TEACHING CULTURE IN UNIVERSITY-LEVEL LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS
Presenters: Dr. Christine Foster Meloni and Abigail Bartoshesky, NCLRC
Date: Wednesday, May 26 - Thursday, May 27 Cost: $150.00
Join us in a hands-on, activity-based workshop designed to outline and
model a wide range of lesson-planning ideas for teaching culture in
your FL classroom. Presenters and participants will discuss and
demonstrate explicit culture such as food, festivals, sports and arts,
and implicit culture such as beliefs, social norms and societal roles.
Presenters will demonstrate how to incorporate both types of culture
into your curriculum using language texts, authentic target culture
materials and technological tools. Participants will work together to
create and share lesson plans designed to teach culture. Finally, we
will tour the NCLRC Culture Club, an online environment that provides a
wealth of free culture resources and materials for teachers of French,
Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, and Arabic. This institute is
specifically designed for university language instructors.
6. MIND & LANGUAGE: PSYCHOLOGY OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE LEARNING
Presenter: Dr Catharine Keatley, NCLRC
Date: Friday, May 28 Cost: $75.00
Participants will consider how we perceive language, how language and
ideas are represented in our minds and brains, and how two or more
languages might be stored in our memories. The presenter and
participants will explore the conditions and activities that make
information "memorable." We will then discuss the question of what
helps students remember different aspects of foreign language.
Participants will receive a packet of materials on foreign language and
memory.
7. TEACHING LEARNING STRATEGIES FOR READING AND WRITING IN A FOREIGN
LANGUAGE
Presenter: Dr. Anna Uhl Chamot and NCLRC Staff
Date: Monday, June 21 -- Tuesday, June 22 Cost: $150.00
Consider the variety of challenges your learners face when trying to
read and write in the target language. Would you like to help them
break down these learning barriers? This workshop is for K-16 language
educators who would like help their students use learning strategies to
develop target language reading and writing skills. Teaching your
students learning strategies - the thoughts and actions that learners
use to help them complete a task - will give them autonomy in reading
and confidence in written communication. Participants will practice
teaching learning strategies, and create and share lessons for their
own classes that include strategies to help learners read and write in
the target language.
8. TEACHING CULTURE IN THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
Presenters: Dr. Christine F. Meloni, Abigail Bartoshesky, Dr. Margaret
Gonglewski, GWU
Date: Wednesday, June 23 -- Thursday, June 24 Cost: $150.00
This institute is for educators of all levels of FL instruction.
Participants will explore innovative ways to present the culture of
their target language to their students. Presenters will introduce
guidelines for the teaching of culture and how it can be integrated
into the basic foreign language curriculum. Participants will then be
divided into target language groups to create lessons for use in their
classrooms. For this activity authentic target culture materials will
be provided including literary texts, newspapers, films, music, photos,
food, and currency. Finally, participants will tour the NCLRC Culture
Club, an online environment that provides a wealth of free culture
resources and materials for teachers. Elementary, Secondary, and
University FL teachers are welcome.
9. ORAL PROFICIENCY ASSESSMENT
Presenters: Dr. Meg Malone and Center for Applied Linguistics Staff
Date: Wednesday, June 23 - Thursday, June 24 Cost: $150.00
How can foreign language teachers assess students' oral performance? In
this workshop, we will introduce the proficiency criteria of the ACTFL
Guidelines. Presenters will use multimedia software produced by the
Center for Applied Linguistics to provide training in rating oral
proficiency. Activities will be based on tasks taken from the Simulated
Oral Proficiency Interview (SOPI). Participants will be trained to
understand and apply the recently revised ACTFL Guidelines for speaking
to evaluate student speech in a foreign language.
10. TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
Presenter: Gorky A. Cruz and Annette Durr, Georgetown University
Date: Friday, June 25 - Saturday, June 26 (1/2 day) Cost: $150.00
Participants will explore and evaluate a variety of technology-based
materials and programs available to enhance language learning. This is
an "all-levels" institute designed to assist the technology novice
increase competence and confidence, while simultaneously engaging the
more experienced user. Warm-up activities include the breakdown of
intimidating computer terminology, lost document recovery, and the use
of email. Participants will also be taught to conduct effective Web
Searches to locate useful language-teaching resources quickly and
efficiently. Additionally, participants will be taught how to develop
instructional materials with PowerPoint for interactive classroom
presentations, Front Page for Web pages and Blackboard for management
of course materials over the Web. Participants will leave with a guide
to free, authentic online materials for teaching and testing
appropriate for various languages, ages and proficiency levels.
11. TEACHING READING AND WRITING IN THE ELEMENTARY IMMERION CLASSROOM
Presenters: Dr. Catharine Keatley and invited foreign language
immersion teachers
Dates: Friday, June 25 and Saturday, June 26 (1/2 day) Cost: $150.00
Children in elementary language immersion programs learn to read and
write through the medium of a second language. This institute will
explore how teachers can best introduce and develop reading and writing
skills for these special circumstances. The presenter will give an
overview of current theories and methods for teaching initial reading
and writing in L1, and report on the highlights of a study on the
development of reading and writing strategies of FL immersion students
in Grades 1-4. Experienced foreign language immersion teachers will be
invited to model and explain their methods and materials for teaching
reading and writing in French and Spanish. Participants will be invited
to comment, discuss, and share their own successful methods and
materials. Participants will receive free copies of the NCLRC on-line
publication, "Learning Strategies Resource Guide for Elementary
Language Immersion Teachers."
12. MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES AND LANGUAGE LEARNERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Presenter: Dr. Marjorie Hall Haley, George Mason University
Date: Friday, June 25 Cost: $75.00
This institute is specially designed for all teachers who face the
everyday challenge of teaching to students' diverse learning strengths
and weaknesses. This lively hands-on interactive session includes a lot
of activities to identify and utilize students' multiple intelligences.
Participants receive practical ways to adequately teach and accommodate
all eight intelligences.
13. FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION
Presenter: Dr. Ron Leow, Georgetown University
Date: Monday, June 28 - Tuesday, June 29 Cost: $150.00
This workshop is designed for coordinators and teachers of all levels,
and all those interested in FL teacher education. Participants will
update their knowledge of current theories of language learning. Topics
include models of attention and awareness, research on listening,
reading, speaking, writing, and the roles of input, instruction, and
testing. We will have a hands-on session on materials preparation based
on information gleaned from Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research.
14. TEACHING DIVERSE STUDENTS: STRATEGIES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Presenters: Anne Biggins, The George Washington University, and NCLRC
Staff
Date: Wednesday, June 30 - Thursday, July 1 Cost: $150.00
Foreign language classrooms include students with different backgrounds
and learning styles, a variety of first languages, and diverse levels
of literacy in English and/or other languages. They also include
students with special needs, such as students with learning
disabilities and attention and/or emotional issues. In this institute,
presenters will identify a number of general strategies and
case-specific accommodations for addressing diversity in an FL
classroom. Teaching techniques for diverse classrooms, including ways
to address multiple intelligences, will be described and modeled and
then participants and presenters will discuss their experiences with
diverse classrooms and share successful classroom behavior modification
and instructional strategies. Participants will analyze hypothetical
classroom case studies and then design accommodations that promote
inclusive practices.
15. CULTURES OF FRANCOPHONE WEST AFRICA
Presenters: NCLRC Staff, Selected Specialists in African Culture, and
Embassy Officials
Date: Monday, June 28 -- Tuesday, June 29 Cost: $150.00
Join us on a two-day adventure into the cultures of francophone West
Africa. This institute is designed for French teachers of all levels,
and will be conducted in French. The institute will include: readings
and talks on the literature of francophone West Africa, a guided tour
of the National Museum of African Art (in French), authentic African
meals, music and dance of francophone West Africa, visits to the D.C.
embassies of francophone African countries, and more. Participants will
receive materials about francophone Africa and learn how they can
integrate this cultural content into the French curriculum. Presenters
will provide further resources and materials so that participants can
share their ideas and experiences with their students and colleagues.
16. FRANCOPHONE CULTURES: NCLRC/EMBASSY OF FRANCE 3-DAY IMMERSION
PROGRAM
Presenters: The NCLRC and the Embassy of France
Dates: Wednesday, June 30 - Friday, July 3 Cost: $225
This institute is presented jointly by the NCLRC and the Embassy of
France in Washington, D.C. The entire institute will be conducted in
French. While some participants may want to attend the day sessions
only, those who would like a three-day full-immersion experience will
be able to stay as a group at a George Washington University dormitory,
where only French will be spoken.
Day Sessions: The goal of the institute is to provide French teachers
in the U.S. with an enjoyable, informative, seminar on francophone
culture, and how to teach it. The first two days of the Institute will
take place mainly at the French Embassy. The embassy staff will provide
hands-on, interactive discussions, demonstrations, and experiences
related to the French language and francophone culture around the
world. The embassy staff will discuss and demonstrate educational
practices, materials, and resources available in the U.S. for teachers
of French culture. We will have a guided tour of the National Gallery
French painting collection in French, take a cooking class from the
embassy chef, and discuss current social and cultural issues with
embassy staff. We will lunch in the French embassy dining room with the
staff. On the third day we will focus on francophone culture around the
world. We will meet representatives of an African and a Caribbean
francophone country. We will learn about the customs, culture, and
literature of those countries, and how their representatives feel their
cultures have been influenced by francophone culture.
Full-Immersion: For participants who opt for the full-immersion
experience and spend the nights with the "French" group in the
dormitory, we will provide French newspapers and a French breakfast
each morning, and French magazines, and novels to read at night. We
will eat two French meals, one at a home and one at a French-speaking
restaurant. We will watch French films and television news in French.
This experience should be enjoyable for both native French-speakers and
teachers who speak French as a second language.
17. TEACHING ARABIC K-12: MATERIALS AND METHODS
Presenters: Wafa Hassan - NCLRC/GWU, Dora Johnson - Center for Applied
Linguistics
Date: Thursday and Friday, July 8-9. Cost: $75.00
Limited Scholarships Available. For more information call: 202-973-1086
This presentation will focus on methods and materials for teaching
Arabic K-12. There are few age appropriate materials in Arabic and
often a clash of cultures between traditional approaches of teaching
Arabic and the more proficiency-oriented approaches used in language
teaching in the U.S. Presenters will provide examples of how materials
have been created and adapted, and curricula developed, to meet the
needs of students of Arabic K-12. They will describe their experiences
and provide participants with examples of materials and curricula they,
and others, have developed and used successfully in the schools.
Presenters will also discuss a current NCLRC project with the American
Association of Teachers of Arabic, to develop Standards for Learning
for students of Arabic. They will describe the general principles of
the Standards, and then ask participants for their reactions, comments,
and advice.
18. COMPUTER TRAINING FOR TEACHERS OF ARABIC
Presenter: Dr. al-Husein N. Madhany - The University of Chicago and
Georgetown University
Date: Tuesday and Wednesday, July 6-7. Cost: $75.00.
Limited Scholarships Available. For more information call: 202-973-1086
This hands-on institute will instruct teachers of the Arabic language
how to use the Arabic language on their computers. The presentation
will cover how to add Arabic language capabilities onto your computer,
how to use Arabic Enabled programs including Windows, the Internet,
e-mail, and Microsoft Office including Word and Power Point. Teachers
will leave the institute with the ability to effectively use Arabic on
their computers, to do research on the internet, send e-mails, and make
computer presentations all in Arabic.
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