heritage language teaching and research

[Kagan, Olga]

Dear SEELANGERS,

 

I hope these two announcements will be of interest to you or to your
graduate students.

 

The National Heritage Language Resource Center invites applications to
participate in the 2nd Summer Heritage Language Research Institute
directed by Professor Maria Polinsky and held at Harvard University June
23-27, 2008. The Institute will be of interest to linguists, applied
linguists, faculty in education and foreign languages. Graduate students
are encouraged to apply, and some financial support may be available for
them.  For details please see
http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/nhlrc/2008summer/

 

 

 

The National Heritage Language Resource Center invites applications to
participate in a Workshop Connecting your Classroom to the Heritage
Language Community: Tools and Resources. This workshop, to be held at
UCLA on May 16-17, 2008,  is aimed at language teachers in community ,
pre-college, and college programs. It demonstrates ongoing research on
language communities in the U.S. and offers approaches for understanding
the communities. The workshop also includes demonstrations of
community-based curricula as well as hands-on training in data
gathering. For details please see
http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/nhlrc/workshop/

 

 

Olga Kagan

Director

National Heritage language Resource Center, UCLA

 


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