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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