<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Thu 29 Jun 2006</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<A href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</A>></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <A href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</A>]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</A> with first line reading:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:CAL Heritage Profile Project</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 29 Jun 2006</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:Theodore Jenkins <<A href="mailto:theodore@cal.org">theodore@cal.org</A>></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:CAL Heritage Profile Project</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Dear Language Colleagues:</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">My name is Ted Jenkins, and I am working with Dr. Joy Peyton at the Center for Applied Linguistics. As part of the Alliance for the Advancement of Heritage Languages, we are creating an online collection of heritage language schools and programs in the United States in order to provide information about program features.</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT> <BR><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">We are seeking to expand our collection of program profiles by asking programs to complete one of our surveys, which will provide basic information about a program’s student and teacher population, curricula, assessments, and support.</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT> <BR><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">I was wondering that if you knew of, or were involved in, any Heritage Language programs that could benefit from this survey? We have three ways in which they can complete a profile:</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT> <BR><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">--If you visit our Web site (</FONT><A href="http://www.cal.org/heritage/programs/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.cal.org/heritage/programs/</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">), you can view our program collection and complete the survey online. </FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">--I could mail a hard copy of the profile to the program that they would fill out and return to me.</FONT> <BR><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">--I would also be willing to interview you on the phone and complete the survey.</FONT> <BR><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT> <BR><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Can you please let me know if you have any suggestions or ideas? </FONT><BR><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT> <BR><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">I look forward to hearing from you soon. Thank you very much.</FONT> <BR><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT> <BR><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Sincerely yours,</FONT> <BR><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Ted Jenkins</FONT> <BR><A href="mailto:Theodore@cal.org"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD" face="Arial">Theodore@cal.org</FONT></A> <BR><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">202-362-0700, ext. 596</FONT> <BR><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 29 Jun 2006</DIV></BODY></HTML>