The CSL once again has some funds available to support professional development for faculty or graduate student language instructors who would like to pursue training in language teaching, assessment, and/or technology over the summer. These funds are available from the general CSL budget and especially from the generous support of the Center for International Studies.

At present, we would like to solicit proposals from those of you who would like to take advantage of summer 2008 programs. If you would like to apply, please send a cover letter describing your professional, linguistic, and scholarly interests and how the proposed program fits in with your overall academic plans or career goals to <languages@uchicago.edu>. Please provide a description of the program and a proposed budget. Applications should be turned in no later than Tuesday, April 15, 2008. We will try to expedite the review process through the Advisory Council to the CSL and make awards for Summer 2008 by early May.

For those of you looking for sample programs, here are some suggestions:

ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview training (4-day workshops)

http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3354

CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition)

http://www.carla.umn.edu/development.html

http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/index.html

CLEAR (Center for Language Education and Research)

http://clear.msu.edu/clear/professionaldev/summerworkshops.php

CALPER (Center for Advanced Language Proficiency and Research)

http://calper.la.psu.edu/profdev.php?page=workshops

The South Asia Language Resource Center also has a nice selection of links for programs:

http://salrc.uchicago.edu/workshops/pedagogy.shtml

Muhammad Eissa (NELC) also recommends the following:

General:

            Professional Development  NCLRC Presentations and Institutes

            http://nclrc.org/profdev/nclrc_inst_pres/summer_inst.html

For Arabic and some other less commonly taught languages:

TEACHING ARABIC TO UPPER HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS

Mahmoud Al-Batal and Kristin Brustad:  http://nclrc.org/profdev/nclrc_inst_pres/summer_inst.html#arabic_uhsc  

And:

UNDERSTANDING ASSESSMENT: APPLICATIONS FOR FL TEACHERS

Margaret Malone, Ph.D. (Center for Applied Linguistics)

http://nclrc.org/profdev/nclrc_inst_pres/summer_inst.html#understanding_assessment

Programs offered throughout the summer funded by STARTALK.

http://www.startalk.umd.edu/program-info/2008/ 

Please let the CSL know if you have any questions. We hope many of you will have ideas for taking advantage of this opportunity for professional development.

CSL Staff

http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/08/02/irispen.6/

http://www.oculture.com/2006/10/foreign_languag.html has a nice listing of some podcasts.

Also open iTunes on your computer and do a search for your languages in Podcasts at the iTunes store as well as new iTunesU offerings.

–Greetings from the University of Northern Iowa / Cedar Falls, Iowa (USA)

I have developed a series of websites for language students and their
instructors. I hope that you will share this information with interested persons and add this URL to your website and/or publication(s). Having taught in a private academy, public schools, the Ohio State University as well as a University Laboratory School, I learned to appreciate the many advantages that computers can play in helping to learn a second language. The many websites work well for students on all levels of instruction including elementary and are both educational and fun.

Each site receives hundreds of visits daily from all over the world. Enjoy.

HOMEPAGE: http://www.uni.edu/becker/

Sincerely,

Jim Becker
Webmaster and Professor Emeritus
Past President, Iowa World Language Association
UNI

ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview training (4-day workshops)
http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3632

CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition) professional development programs
http://www.carla.umn.edu/development.html

Workshops at CLEAR
http://clear.msu.edu/clear/professionaldev/summerworkshops.php

Advanced/Specialty workshops at the Penn State LRC (CALPER)
http://calper.la.psu.edu/profdev.php?page=workshops

The National Capital LRC
http://www.nclrc.org/profdev.html

Recommended by the SALRC:
http://salrc.uchicago.edu/workshops/pedagogy.shtml
http://nflrc.msu.edu/login/scripts/summer.php