CARLA Summer Institutes and Special Funding Support

Special Funding Support for LCTL Teachers for Professional Development at the CARLA Summer Institutes

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To support the improvement of instruction of Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs), the University of Minnesota’s National Resource Centers offer a limited number of $600 stipends for LCTL teachers to help defray the cost of attending any of the CARLA summer institutes. The University NRCs–the Consortium for the Study of the Asias (CSA), the European Studies Consortium (ESC) and the Institute for Global Studies (IGS)–are funded by the U.S. Department of Education and sponsor this program as part of their mission to support LCTL teachers. Applications are due by April 10, 2009.

See the following for more information and application materials:

European LCTL teachers see: http://www.esc.umn.edu/CARLA.htm

Asian LCTL teachers see: http://asias.umn.edu/funding/k16.html

All other LCTLs see: http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/language.html
For more details about the stipend program
see:http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/scholarships.html

CARLA Summer Institutes 2009

The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota has sponsored a summer institute program for second language teachers since 1996. These internationally-known institutes reflect CARLA’s commitment to link research and theory with practical applications for the classroom.

Each institute is highly interactive and includes discussion, theory-building, hands-on activities, and plenty of networking opportunities. Participants at the CARLA summer institutes have come from all over the world. They have included foreign language and ESL teachers at all levels of instruction, program administrators, and curriculum specialists. Over 2,000 language teachers have participated in the summer institute program since it began in 1996.

More information about each institute is available on the CARLA website at: http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/

The cost of each of the CARLA summer institutes is $350 if registration is received by May 31, 2009 and $400 after that date. More information and registration forms are available on the CARLA website at: http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/ or you can request a print copy of the brochure by contacting the CARLA office at: carla@umn.edu.

Note: The summer institutes were developed and are supported, in part, by the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI Language Resource Center program and by the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development and College of Liberal Arts. The LCTL stipends are supported by the University of Minnesota’s Title VI National Resource Centers.