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.
The institutes for summer 2009 are:
Meeting the Challenges of Immersion Education: Language and Learning Disorders and the Struggling Immersion Learner
July 13-17, 2009
Instructor: Tara Fortune
Culture as the Core in the Second Language Classroom
July 13-17, 2009
Instructors: Francine Klein and Wendy Allen
Developing Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs)
July 20-24, 2009
Instructors: Bill Johnston and Louis Janus
Improving Language Learning: Styles- and Strategies-Based Instruction
July 20-24, 2009
Instructor: Martha Nyikos with guest presenter Andrew Cohen
Content-Based Language Instruction and Curriculum Development
July 20-24, 2009
Instructor: Laurent Cammarata
Immersion 101: An Introduction to Immersion Teaching
July 20-24, 2009 (Session 1) -or- July 27-31, 2009 (Session 2)
Instructors: Diane Tedick, Tara Fortune, Maureen Curran Dorsano, and Mandy Menke
Focusing on Learner Language: Second Language Acquisition Basics for Teachers
July 27-31, 2009
Instructors: Elaine Tarone and Maggie Broner
Developing Assessments for the Second Language Classroom
July 27-31, 2009
Instructor: Ursula Lentz with guest presenter Donna Clementi
Language and Culture in Sync: Teaching the Pragmatics of a Second Language
July 27-31, 2009
Instructor: Noriko Ishihara with guest presenter Andrew Cohen
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.
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