Arabic-L:PEDA:Special Funding Support for LCTL Teachers

Dilworth Parkinson dilworth_parkinson at BYU.EDU
Fri Mar 30 18:42:29 UTC 2007 

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1) Subject:Special Funding Support for LCTL Teachers

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Date: 30 Mar 2007
From:lctl at umn.edu
Subject:Special Funding Support for LCTL Teachers

Dear teacher (or administrator of a program)   of a less commonly  
taught language (LCTL)

I am writing to you with several purposes:

1. CARLA offers summer institutes, which are described below. There  
are some scholarship opportunities for LCTL teachers, which I hope  
you will consider for this summer.

2. I have your email from the LCTL project's database of LCTL  
offerings in North America, which I administer. This database is  
searchable from this page: http://carla.umn.edu/lctl/db . The  
database is the most visited page of all the very popular CARLA  
pages. So people find this resource very helpful. I would appreciate  
it if you checked the listings for you and your institution and let  
the project know of any updates, additions or corrections. We have  
made the updating easy, so if you see a mistake, just click on  
'submit a correction' on the page that contains the information that  
needs updating. If you have a new course, click on "Add a new LCTL  
course" on the main search page, and fill out the information.

3. As all of us know, email addresses change constantly. I will go  
through our database and eliminate all emails that bounce, but if you  
have a better address for yourself, let me know.

Special Funding Support for LCTL Teachers
for Professional Development at the CARLA Summer Institutes
The University's National Resource Centers Institute for Global  
Studies (IGS) and the European Studies Consortium (ESC) are pleased  
to provide a limited number of $600 scholarships for teachers of less  
commonly taught languages (LCTLs) to attend any of the CARLA summer  
institutes. Applications are due by April 16, 2007.
See the following for more information and application materials:
European LCTLs
If you teach a European LCTL, you should use the ESC scholarship  
application at: http://www.esc.umn.edu/CARLA.htm
For more information, contact Laura Seifert at esc at umn.edu.

Non-European LCTLs
If you teach a LCTL from any country outside of Europe, you should  
use the IGS scholarship application at:
http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/language.html
For more information, contact Klaas van der Sanden at vande001 at umn.edu.

CARLA Summer Institutes 2007
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at  
the University of Minnesota has sponsored a summer institute program  
for second language teachers since 1996. These internationally-known  
institutes reflect CARLA's commitment to link research and theory  
with practical applications for the classroom.

Each institute is highly interactive and includes discussion, theory- 
building, hands-on activities, and plenty of networking  
opportunities. Participants at the CARLA summer institutes have come  
from all over the world. They have included foreign language and ESL  
teachers at all levels of instruction, program administrators, and  
curriculum specialists. Over 2,000 language teachers have  
participated in the summer institute program since it began in 1996.
The institutes for summer 2007 are:
Immersion 101: An Introduction to Immersion Teaching for Chinese/ 
Japanese
June 25-29, 2007 (Session 1)
Focusing on Learner Language:
Second Language Acquisition Basics for Teachers
July 16-20, 2007
Teaching and Learning Pragmatics:
Enhancing Learners' Ability to Use Second Language in Culturally  
Appropriate Ways
July 16-20, 2007

Meeting the Challenges of Immersion Education:
"How well do students speak the immersion language?"
July 16-20, 2007

Developing Assessments for the Second Language Classroom
July 23-27, 2007

Improving Language Learning:
Styles- and Strategies-Based Instruction
July 23-27, 2007

Developing Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs)
July 23-27, 2007

Immersion 101: An Introduction to Immersion Teaching
June 23-27, 2007 (Session 1) -or- July 30-August 3, 2007 (Session 2)

Maximizing Study Abroad:
Teaching Strategies for Language and Culture Learning and Use
July 30-August 3, 2007

Culture as the Core in the Second Language Classroom
July 30-August 3, 2007
Using Technology in Second Language Teaching
July 30-August 3, 2007
The cost of each of the CARLA summer institutes is $300 if  
registration is received by May 31, 2007 and $350 after that date.  
More information and registration forms are available on the CARLA  
website at: http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/ or you can request a  
print copy of the brochure by contacting the CARLA office at:  
carla at umn.edu.

Note: The summer institutes were developed and are supported, in  
part, by the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI Language  
Resource Center program and by the University of Minnesota's College  
of Education and Human Development and College of Liberal Arts. The  
LCTL stipends are supported by the University of Minnesota's Title VI  
National Resource Centers.
**our apologies for cross-posting**

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Louis Janus
  Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Project
  Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)
  University of Minnesota
  619 Heller Hall (mail)
674 Heller Hall (visiting)
  271 19th Avenue So.
  Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
  phone: 612/624-9016; fax: 612/624-7514
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LCTL at umn.edu  or  janus005 at umn.edu
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http://www.carla.umn.edu/LCTL
http://www.carla.umn.edu/about/profiles/janus.html
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