From http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6469788/A%20Student%20Grammar%20of%20German/?site_locale=en_US
A Student Grammar of German
By Paul Stocker
Published by Cambridge University Press
Description: A Student Grammar of German is an invaluable reference guide for undergraduates and other intermediate and advanced students. Written with the needs of the learner very much in mind, it sets out the grammar of the language in as clear and jargon-free way as possible. Each chapter starts with an overview of the main grammatical terminology and concepts; these terms are also cross-referenced in the glossary at the end of the book. To provide a visual guide through each chapter, the main points in each section are highlighted, and tables summarize important patterns. 'Tip' boxes, which help the student to master particular points, are scattered through the text. Every point has numerous illustrative examples, each with its translation, carefully chosen from a wide range of printed and electronic media – books, newspapers, magazines, film, and chat-rooms – to reflect contemporary usage across a range of registers.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6469788/A%20Student%20Grammar%20of%20German/?site_locale=en_US
December 9, 2012
Webinar: Students on the Spectrum in the German Classroom
From http://aatgstore.aatg.org/webinar-students-on-the-spectrum-in-the-german-classroom
Webinar: Students on the Spectrum in the German Classroom
Join AATG Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 6:00 pm (EST) / 5:00 pm (CST) / 4:00 pm (MST) / 3:00 pm (PST)
The focus on language instruction for all students provides challenges for many teachers as they work to provide the best experiences for students with special needs. Gain practical tips and strategies on how to include students on the autism spectrum in the German classroom. Information will focus not only on teaching content, but also on setting students up for behavioral success.
Not available for the live webinar? You can order it on demand starting Wednesday, December 12.
Learn more and sign up at http://aatgstore.aatg.org/webinar-students-on-the-spectrum-in-the-german-classroom
Webinar: Students on the Spectrum in the German Classroom
Join AATG Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 6:00 pm (EST) / 5:00 pm (CST) / 4:00 pm (MST) / 3:00 pm (PST)
The focus on language instruction for all students provides challenges for many teachers as they work to provide the best experiences for students with special needs. Gain practical tips and strategies on how to include students on the autism spectrum in the German classroom. Information will focus not only on teaching content, but also on setting students up for behavioral success.
Not available for the live webinar? You can order it on demand starting Wednesday, December 12.
Learn more and sign up at http://aatgstore.aatg.org/webinar-students-on-the-spectrum-in-the-german-classroom
Contest: Your Advent Calendar for 2012
From http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/prj/toa/mit/wtb/en10198649.htm
From the Todo Alemán website:
In Germany, the Advent calendar is a typical custom of the pre-Christmas season. Starting on December 1, it sweetens the wait for Christmas with 24 little doors or packets. It is available in various formats and sizes, for children and adults, with pictures, little gifts, or chocolate.
What does an Advent calendar look like in your homeland – the USA, Canada or Mexico? Have you gotten an Advent calendar in 2012, or even made one yourself? We’d love to know what it looks like.
Send us a photo of your 2012 Advent calendar before December 24, 2012 and win an iPad or a Kindle Paperwhite. You don’t have your own Advent calendar but have seen a nice one somewhere? You can also take a photo of one in your surroundings (on buildings, in your school/college, at friends’ etc.).
For full details of the contest go to http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/prj/toa/mit/wtb/en10198649.htm
From the Todo Alemán website:
In Germany, the Advent calendar is a typical custom of the pre-Christmas season. Starting on December 1, it sweetens the wait for Christmas with 24 little doors or packets. It is available in various formats and sizes, for children and adults, with pictures, little gifts, or chocolate.
What does an Advent calendar look like in your homeland – the USA, Canada or Mexico? Have you gotten an Advent calendar in 2012, or even made one yourself? We’d love to know what it looks like.
Send us a photo of your 2012 Advent calendar before December 24, 2012 and win an iPad or a Kindle Paperwhite. You don’t have your own Advent calendar but have seen a nice one somewhere? You can also take a photo of one in your surroundings (on buildings, in your school/college, at friends’ etc.).
For full details of the contest go to http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/prj/toa/mit/wtb/en10198649.htm
Opportunity for High School Students of Japanese: JET Memorial Invitation Program
From http://www.jflalc.org/jle-jet-mip.html
The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles(JFLA) is pleased to announce the 2013 JET Memorial Invitation Program for U.S. High School Students. This program is open to high school students in 11th or 12th grade during the 2012/2013 school year. Applicants must also be currently taking Japanese as a foreign language and have taken at least two years of Japanese at the high school level.
There are two important dates for this program:
1. February 8th, 2013 (5pm Eastern Time): Applicants, through their Japanese language teacher, must sign up for the 2013 National Japanese Exam (NJE) organized by AATJ. The 2013 test is required for applying to JET-MIP.
2. April 17th, 2013: JET-MIP applications must be mailed by the applicant's Japanese language teacher so it arrives at JFLA by this date (NO FAXES or EMAILS).
For more information, please visit the 2013 JET-MIP page at http://www.jflalc.org/jle-jet-mip.html
Lin, T. (USA Only) JFLA Announcement: 2013 JET Memorial Invitation Program. JTIT-L listserv (JTIT-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU, 6 Dec 2012).
The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles(JFLA) is pleased to announce the 2013 JET Memorial Invitation Program for U.S. High School Students. This program is open to high school students in 11th or 12th grade during the 2012/2013 school year. Applicants must also be currently taking Japanese as a foreign language and have taken at least two years of Japanese at the high school level.
There are two important dates for this program:
1. February 8th, 2013 (5pm Eastern Time): Applicants, through their Japanese language teacher, must sign up for the 2013 National Japanese Exam (NJE) organized by AATJ. The 2013 test is required for applying to JET-MIP.
2. April 17th, 2013: JET-MIP applications must be mailed by the applicant's Japanese language teacher so it arrives at JFLA by this date (NO FAXES or EMAILS).
For more information, please visit the 2013 JET-MIP page at http://www.jflalc.org/jle-jet-mip.html
Lin, T. (USA Only) JFLA Announcement: 2013 JET Memorial Invitation Program. JTIT-L listserv (JTIT-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU, 6 Dec 2012).
Oklahoma Schools Push to Keep Native Languages Alive
From http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/article/oklahoma-schools-push-keep-native-languages-alive-146133
Oklahoma Schools Push to Keep Native Languages Alive
by Lynn Armitage
December 6, 2012
On September 13, the U.S. House and Senate introduced bipartisan legislation to continue funding that will help keep Native American languages alive and spoken throughout our country’s tribal communities. The Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act, first funded in 2008 and set to expire at the end of this year, has funneled more than $50 million into tribal language programs.
According to the Tulsa World, six Native languages once spoken in Oklahoma have disappeared and 14 are endangered. In this state with numerous tribes and languages, there is a strong effort in public schools and some universities to keep Native languages thriving.
One survey says nine different Native languages are taught in up to 34 public schools, K-12, all over Oklahoma: Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Comanche, Kiowa, Osage, Pawnee and Ponca. Desa Dawson, director of World Language Education for the Oklahoma State Department of Education, says 1,355 elementary and high school students in Oklahoma are taking Native American language classes this year as their world language requirement.
Read the full article at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/article/oklahoma-schools-push-keep-native-languages-alive-146133
Oklahoma Schools Push to Keep Native Languages Alive
by Lynn Armitage
December 6, 2012
On September 13, the U.S. House and Senate introduced bipartisan legislation to continue funding that will help keep Native American languages alive and spoken throughout our country’s tribal communities. The Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act, first funded in 2008 and set to expire at the end of this year, has funneled more than $50 million into tribal language programs.
According to the Tulsa World, six Native languages once spoken in Oklahoma have disappeared and 14 are endangered. In this state with numerous tribes and languages, there is a strong effort in public schools and some universities to keep Native languages thriving.
One survey says nine different Native languages are taught in up to 34 public schools, K-12, all over Oklahoma: Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Comanche, Kiowa, Osage, Pawnee and Ponca. Desa Dawson, director of World Language Education for the Oklahoma State Department of Education, says 1,355 elementary and high school students in Oklahoma are taking Native American language classes this year as their world language requirement.
Read the full article at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/article/oklahoma-schools-push-keep-native-languages-alive-146133
Article: Pushing Science’s Limits in Sign Language Lexicon
From http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/science/sign-language-researchers-broaden-science-lexicon.html?_r=0
Pushing Science’s Limits in Sign Language Lexicon
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
December 3, 2012
Imagine trying to learn biology without ever using the word “organism.” Or studying to become a botanist when the only way of referring to photosynthesis is to spell the word out, letter by painstaking letter.
For deaf students, this game of scientific Password has long been the daily classroom and laboratory experience. Words like “organism” and “photosynthesis” — to say nothing of more obscure and harder-to-spell terms — have no single widely accepted equivalent in sign language.
Now thanks to the Internet — particularly the boom in online video — resources for deaf students seeking science-related signs are easier to find and share. Crowdsourcing projects in both American Sign Language and British Sign Language are under way at several universities, enabling people who are deaf to coalesce around signs for commonly used terms.
Read the full article at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/science/sign-language-researchers-broaden-science-lexicon.html?_r=0
Pushing Science’s Limits in Sign Language Lexicon
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
December 3, 2012
Imagine trying to learn biology without ever using the word “organism.” Or studying to become a botanist when the only way of referring to photosynthesis is to spell the word out, letter by painstaking letter.
For deaf students, this game of scientific Password has long been the daily classroom and laboratory experience. Words like “organism” and “photosynthesis” — to say nothing of more obscure and harder-to-spell terms — have no single widely accepted equivalent in sign language.
Now thanks to the Internet — particularly the boom in online video — resources for deaf students seeking science-related signs are easier to find and share. Crowdsourcing projects in both American Sign Language and British Sign Language are under way at several universities, enabling people who are deaf to coalesce around signs for commonly used terms.
Read the full article at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/science/sign-language-researchers-broaden-science-lexicon.html?_r=0
Through Skype, Wisconsin School Trades Teachers with Thailand
From http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/through-skype-lodi-school-trades-teachers-with-thailand-077qlgn-181639581.html
Through Skype, Lodi school trades teachers with Thailand
By Erin Richards and Jennifer Zahn
November 20, 3012
"Sawadee ka!" announced with palms together and a slight bow, was the most common greeting heard Monday morning in Lodi High School's Southeast Asia studies class.
The lead teacher in Thailand - where for her it was late Monday night - surveyed the room from an oversize Mac monitor on a rolling cart. Her floating visage and voice beaming to Lodi over Skype had, by this point in the semester, lost its novelty.
What's still unusual is this small rural high school's flourishing relationship with Sa-nguan Ying School, a public seven-12 school halfway around the world in Suphanburi, Thailand.
The partnership started as a student/teacher exchange and evolved into dual distance-learning classes that feature Wisconsin students taking an accredited Asian cultural studies course from a Thai teacher, and Thai students learning U.S. history from a retired Lodi teacher.
The Lodi-Thailand program is not the only example of innovative global learning projects in Wisconsin's schools, many of which use technology that makes it easier than ever to connect to other parts of the world. But it exemplifies how schools can fundamentally deepen and enrich the traditional American learning experience, with little financial cost, if educators persist in thinking beyond the boundaries of their community and country.
Read the full article at http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/through-skype-lodi-school-trades-teachers-with-thailand-077qlgn-181639581.html
Through Skype, Lodi school trades teachers with Thailand
By Erin Richards and Jennifer Zahn
November 20, 3012
"Sawadee ka!" announced with palms together and a slight bow, was the most common greeting heard Monday morning in Lodi High School's Southeast Asia studies class.
The lead teacher in Thailand - where for her it was late Monday night - surveyed the room from an oversize Mac monitor on a rolling cart. Her floating visage and voice beaming to Lodi over Skype had, by this point in the semester, lost its novelty.
What's still unusual is this small rural high school's flourishing relationship with Sa-nguan Ying School, a public seven-12 school halfway around the world in Suphanburi, Thailand.
The partnership started as a student/teacher exchange and evolved into dual distance-learning classes that feature Wisconsin students taking an accredited Asian cultural studies course from a Thai teacher, and Thai students learning U.S. history from a retired Lodi teacher.
The Lodi-Thailand program is not the only example of innovative global learning projects in Wisconsin's schools, many of which use technology that makes it easier than ever to connect to other parts of the world. But it exemplifies how schools can fundamentally deepen and enrich the traditional American learning experience, with little financial cost, if educators persist in thinking beyond the boundaries of their community and country.
Read the full article at http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/through-skype-lodi-school-trades-teachers-with-thailand-077qlgn-181639581.html
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