Archive for the 'professional development' Category

Professional Development Grants for UofC Language Faculty and Graduate Student Instructors

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, […]

Corpus Methods in Linguistics and Language Pedagogy

The CSL is happy to announce that we will host a masterclass in corpus linguistics during UofC’s Spring Break week, Wed-Sun, March 26-30, 2008. Full information and application information may be found at the CMLLP-2008 website at: http://languages.uchicago.edu/corpuslinguistics/Registration/Application forms are available for download here. The workshop will cover corpus methods in linguistic research and the […]

Workshops for language teachers

For those of you looking for workshops for language teachers…
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