From http://foreignlanguagefun.com
Here are blogger and language teacher Diane’s favorite iPad apps for recording speech and encouraging oral skills in any language: http://foreignlanguagefun.com/2012/01/ipad-apps-to-record-voices-and-encourage-language-acquisition-in-kids
January 29, 2012
Promote Language Learning: What Careers Require Language Skills?
From http://thelanguageflagship.org
Are you recruiting more students for your and your colleagues’ language programs? Advocating for language learning to school administrators or community leaders? For a short article about the sorts of careers that require language skills, see this page on the Language Flagship website: http://thelanguageflagship.org/students-a-parents/careers
Are you recruiting more students for your and your colleagues’ language programs? Advocating for language learning to school administrators or community leaders? For a short article about the sorts of careers that require language skills, see this page on the Language Flagship website: http://thelanguageflagship.org/students-a-parents/careers
Websites for English Language Learners To Explore Art
Here are several Web sites that can be used to explore art as well as the language of the art in an ESL context: http://langcanada.ca/blog/index.php/2012/01/18/exploring-the-world-and-language-of-art
Football Vocabulary in Spanish
From http://spanish.about.com
The Superbowl is coming up! Here is a list of football vocabulary in Spanish: http://spanish.about.com/od/wordlists/a/football.htm?nl=1
The Superbowl is coming up! Here is a list of football vocabulary in Spanish: http://spanish.about.com/od/wordlists/a/football.htm?nl=1
Free French Crepe Lesson for la Chandeleur
From http://foreignlanguagefun.com
February is la Chandeleur, Crepe Day in France. Here is a recent post on the Foreign Language Fun blog with a few links and a lesson plan: http://foreignlanguagefun.com/2012/01/free-french-crepe-lesson-for-la-chandeleur
February is la Chandeleur, Crepe Day in France. Here is a recent post on the Foreign Language Fun blog with a few links and a lesson plan: http://foreignlanguagefun.com/2012/01/free-french-crepe-lesson-for-la-chandeleur
Siege of the 'Iliad': Article about Multiple Translations
From http://chronicle.com/article/Siege-of-the-Iliad/130381
Siege of the 'Iliad'
By Willis G. Regier
January 22, 2012
According to The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation, the Iliad is among the most translated works in English, and English has more versions than any other language.
In the depths of digital libraries lie dead Iliads. Who remembers the English translations of William Sotheby (1831), J. Henry Dart (1865), or Charles Bagot Cayley (1876)? And I doubt we will ever see another like The Iliad of Homer in the Spenserian stanza by Philip Stanhope Worsley and John Conington (1866-68). Samuel Butler's prose Iliad (1898) still gains praise, and T.E. Lawrence's Iliad (1932) has its following, while the couplets of Edgar Alfred Tibbetts (1907) and hexameters of George Ernle (1922) gather dust. For those that fall, new Iliads rush in.
Three Iliads have recently appeared. Stephen Mitchell's (Free Press) and Anthony Verity's (Oxford University Press) are new to the battle for market share. The late Richmond Lattimore's (University of Chicago Press) Iliad first stepped onto the field in 1951 and now returns with a storied shield and dazzling armor, provided by Richard P. Martin of Stanford University: a longer, stronger, updated introduction and a vastly improved set of notes.
Read the full article at http://chronicle.com/article/Siege-of-the-Iliad/130381
Siege of the 'Iliad'
By Willis G. Regier
January 22, 2012
According to The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation, the Iliad is among the most translated works in English, and English has more versions than any other language.
In the depths of digital libraries lie dead Iliads. Who remembers the English translations of William Sotheby (1831), J. Henry Dart (1865), or Charles Bagot Cayley (1876)? And I doubt we will ever see another like The Iliad of Homer in the Spenserian stanza by Philip Stanhope Worsley and John Conington (1866-68). Samuel Butler's prose Iliad (1898) still gains praise, and T.E. Lawrence's Iliad (1932) has its following, while the couplets of Edgar Alfred Tibbetts (1907) and hexameters of George Ernle (1922) gather dust. For those that fall, new Iliads rush in.
Three Iliads have recently appeared. Stephen Mitchell's (Free Press) and Anthony Verity's (Oxford University Press) are new to the battle for market share. The late Richmond Lattimore's (University of Chicago Press) Iliad first stepped onto the field in 1951 and now returns with a storied shield and dazzling armor, provided by Richard P. Martin of Stanford University: a longer, stronger, updated introduction and a vastly improved set of notes.
Read the full article at http://chronicle.com/article/Siege-of-the-Iliad/130381
CARLA Seeks Teachers to Pilot Online Rater Training Modules
The CARLA Assessment Project is recruiting teachers to use and provide feedback on the new online Rater Training for Proficiency Modules. The modules, developed to provide teachers online access to professional development on rating for proficiency, are in the second phase of piloting and will be available to all teachers once the piloting has been completed.
Teachers of French, German, and Spanish are invited to:
participate in rater training using the online rater training modules;
provide feedback on the modules for the FAQ page; and
participate in a short pre- and post use survey.
Special bonus!! Each participating teacher will have free use of all components of the online Minnesota Language Proficiency Assessments to assess their students’ proficiency. Detailed information about the MLPA can be found at: http://www.carla.umn.edu/assessment/MLPA.html
To sign up, please email Ursula Lentz at lentz003 at umn dot edu
CARLA Update - Winter 2012 (carla@umn.edu, 13 Jan 2012).
Teachers of French, German, and Spanish are invited to:
participate in rater training using the online rater training modules;
provide feedback on the modules for the FAQ page; and
participate in a short pre- and post use survey.
Special bonus!! Each participating teacher will have free use of all components of the online Minnesota Language Proficiency Assessments to assess their students’ proficiency. Detailed information about the MLPA can be found at: http://www.carla.umn.edu/assessment/MLPA.html
To sign up, please email Ursula Lentz at lentz003 at umn dot edu
CARLA Update - Winter 2012 (carla@umn.edu, 13 Jan 2012).
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