Daltaí na Gaeilge will hold their Irish Language Immersion Weekend, February 15th - 17th, 2013 in Esopus, New York. Online registration and payment are available. Attendees who register by February 1st (Lá Fhéile Bríde) will receive a $10 discount.
General Information, Directions and a Registration Form are available at http://daltai.com/shop/products.php?product=Irish-Immersion-Weekend-%252d-February-15-to-17%2C-2013
January 19, 2013
Arabic and the Media Workshop
From http://arabicmediaworkshop.eventbrite.com/#
Arabic and the Media Workshop
Georgetown University Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Friday, February 22, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM (EST)
Washington, DC
This workshop is the second in a series of workshops that aims at bringing scholars from Arabic sociolinguistics with distinguished scholars on sociolinguistics more generally to exchange ideas and projects. This year the workshop will address essential issues such as the role of media in identity formation and conflicts as well as the impact of media on language variation and language ideologies.
Learn more about the workshop and sign up at http://arabicmediaworkshop.eventbrite.com/#
Arabic and the Media Workshop
Georgetown University Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Friday, February 22, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM (EST)
Washington, DC
This workshop is the second in a series of workshops that aims at bringing scholars from Arabic sociolinguistics with distinguished scholars on sociolinguistics more generally to exchange ideas and projects. This year the workshop will address essential issues such as the role of media in identity formation and conflicts as well as the impact of media on language variation and language ideologies.
Learn more about the workshop and sign up at http://arabicmediaworkshop.eventbrite.com/#
Video: The Benefits of Learning Arabic
Qatar Foundation International (QFI) has developed a short video on the reasons and advantages to learning Arabic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vf_Y_o1p3I&feature=g-user-u This video is freely available on YouTube for those who would like to learn about Arabic language education in K to 12 public schools. It is a great resource to inform parents, teachers, and educators. Please feel free to use this on your own websites, listservs, and publications if you feel this will be useful for your outreach efforts. If you have any comments or suggestions about the video please feel free to fill out this short comment form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEFSbk04Yl9BdURpVzl5TF9DczUteGc6MQ
Read a recent article about one of the programs featured in the video, at Lincoln High School in Oregon, at http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/01/lincoln_high_arabic_program_gr.html
Read a recent article about one of the programs featured in the video, at Lincoln High School in Oregon, at http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/01/lincoln_high_arabic_program_gr.html
Effort Ties Native Language Preservation to Boosting Academics
From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rural_education/2013/01/preserving_native_language_to_help_boost_academics.html
Effort Ties Native Language Preservation to Boosting Academics
By Diette Courrege
January 11, 2013
One of the 22 new federally funded comprehensive centers dedicated to helping struggling schools will be working to ensure Native languages and cultures are part of students' education in the same way as core academic subjects.
The National Indian Education Association, an advocacy group for the education of Native American students that serves a substantially rural population, will be assisting the University of Oklahoma's South Central Regional Comprehensive Center. It will serve students in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
Read the full article at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rural_education/2013/01/preserving_native_language_to_help_boost_academics.html
Effort Ties Native Language Preservation to Boosting Academics
By Diette Courrege
January 11, 2013
One of the 22 new federally funded comprehensive centers dedicated to helping struggling schools will be working to ensure Native languages and cultures are part of students' education in the same way as core academic subjects.
The National Indian Education Association, an advocacy group for the education of Native American students that serves a substantially rural population, will be assisting the University of Oklahoma's South Central Regional Comprehensive Center. It will serve students in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
Read the full article at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rural_education/2013/01/preserving_native_language_to_help_boost_academics.html
A New Way To Nurture the Inuit Language: Train the Instructors
From http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674a_new_way_to_spread_the_inuit_language_train_the_instructors
A new way to nurture the Inuit language: train the instructors
Pirurvik’s instructor trainees to head home with new skills
by SAMANTHA DAWSON
January 17, 2013
Pirurvik, Iqaluit’s Inuktitut language training centre, has a new goal: to train instructors from Nunavut communities to teach Inuktitut in different ways and in their own dialects when they return home.
The program, just introduced this year, is currently offered in Iqaluit but is intended to make language training available across the territory on a regular basis.
This includes communities such as Cambridge Bay, Rankin Inlet, Arviat and Pond Inlet.
“What we need to do is bring everybody up to speed so that all the dialects have an equal basis to start from,” said Gavin Nesbitt, the operations director of Pirurvik.
Read the full article at http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674a_new_way_to_spread_the_inuit_language_train_the_instructors
A new way to nurture the Inuit language: train the instructors
Pirurvik’s instructor trainees to head home with new skills
by SAMANTHA DAWSON
January 17, 2013
Pirurvik, Iqaluit’s Inuktitut language training centre, has a new goal: to train instructors from Nunavut communities to teach Inuktitut in different ways and in their own dialects when they return home.
The program, just introduced this year, is currently offered in Iqaluit but is intended to make language training available across the territory on a regular basis.
This includes communities such as Cambridge Bay, Rankin Inlet, Arviat and Pond Inlet.
“What we need to do is bring everybody up to speed so that all the dialects have an equal basis to start from,” said Gavin Nesbitt, the operations director of Pirurvik.
Read the full article at http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674a_new_way_to_spread_the_inuit_language_train_the_instructors
Article: Digital Language-learning Initiative To Benefit 30 Vermont Schools
From http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20130114/NEWS07/301140010/Digital-language-learning-initiative-benefit-30-Vermont-schools?nclick_check=1
Digital language-learning initiative to benefit 30 Vermont schools
Online courses will be available to 30 Vermont middle schools and high schools at discounted price
by Tim Johnson
January 15, 2013
Middlebury Interactive Languages, a joint venture of Middlebury College and K12 Inc., a for-profit digital education provider, announced that it would be making its new online courses in five languages available to up to 30 Vermont middle schools and high schools at a “significant discount.”
The special offer for 30 Vermont schools — first-come, first-served — will offer online courses in French, Spanish, German, Latin and/or Chinese at a cost of $6,000 per school. Middlebury Interactive and Middlebury College will subsidize the Vermont program over four years to the tune of about $2.6 million, an expenditure that will cover content and on-site professional development training for teachers, among other things.
Meanwhile, Middlebury Interactive already has programs up and running in schools in other states.
Ron Liebowitz, Middlebury College president, said the college eventually hopes to receive income from Middlebury Interactive to offset the costs of higher education, but he added the main motivation was not financial. He said the college saw the new digital enterprise as a way to maintain its long-standing leadership in foreign-language instruction. The college has run a summer immersion language school for adults on its Middlebury campus for nearly a century, and another relatively new entity, the Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy, has been holding residential summer academies for high school students at several sites around the country.
Read the full article at http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20130114/NEWS07/301140010/Digital-language-learning-initiative-benefit-30-Vermont-schools?nclick_check=1
Digital language-learning initiative to benefit 30 Vermont schools
Online courses will be available to 30 Vermont middle schools and high schools at discounted price
by Tim Johnson
January 15, 2013
Middlebury Interactive Languages, a joint venture of Middlebury College and K12 Inc., a for-profit digital education provider, announced that it would be making its new online courses in five languages available to up to 30 Vermont middle schools and high schools at a “significant discount.”
The special offer for 30 Vermont schools — first-come, first-served — will offer online courses in French, Spanish, German, Latin and/or Chinese at a cost of $6,000 per school. Middlebury Interactive and Middlebury College will subsidize the Vermont program over four years to the tune of about $2.6 million, an expenditure that will cover content and on-site professional development training for teachers, among other things.
Meanwhile, Middlebury Interactive already has programs up and running in schools in other states.
Ron Liebowitz, Middlebury College president, said the college eventually hopes to receive income from Middlebury Interactive to offset the costs of higher education, but he added the main motivation was not financial. He said the college saw the new digital enterprise as a way to maintain its long-standing leadership in foreign-language instruction. The college has run a summer immersion language school for adults on its Middlebury campus for nearly a century, and another relatively new entity, the Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy, has been holding residential summer academies for high school students at several sites around the country.
Read the full article at http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20130114/NEWS07/301140010/Digital-language-learning-initiative-benefit-30-Vermont-schools?nclick_check=1
Article: Saudi Students Flood U.S. Colleges for English Lessons
From http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/11/saudi-students-english-class/1827465
Saudi students flood U.S. colleges for English lessons
by Mary Beth Marklein
January 15, 2013
Meshari Albishi, 25, is one of thousands of international students arriving each year in the United States to study English as the first step toward a college degree. They come from all over the world, but Saudi Arabia, where the government has poured billions of dollars into a generous scholarship program, is driving the recent surge.
In just seven years, Saudi student enrollments have skyrocketed from 11,116 in 2006, to 71,026 last year, according to the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission to the United States, the Virginia-based agency that administers the scholarship. Nearly all recipients (95%) start with language training, which can take anywhere from a month to a year or more, officials say.
Read the full article at http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/11/saudi-students-english-class/1827465
Saudi students flood U.S. colleges for English lessons
by Mary Beth Marklein
January 15, 2013
Meshari Albishi, 25, is one of thousands of international students arriving each year in the United States to study English as the first step toward a college degree. They come from all over the world, but Saudi Arabia, where the government has poured billions of dollars into a generous scholarship program, is driving the recent surge.
In just seven years, Saudi student enrollments have skyrocketed from 11,116 in 2006, to 71,026 last year, according to the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission to the United States, the Virginia-based agency that administers the scholarship. Nearly all recipients (95%) start with language training, which can take anywhere from a month to a year or more, officials say.
Read the full article at http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/11/saudi-students-english-class/1827465
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