News

Thursday November 12th, 6:30-9:30
 509 Knox Hall, 606 West 122nd Street

Evaluations are now available to all language instructors.

The Language Resource Center (LRC) at Columbia University has successfully completed the 2009 FLTA orientation between July 27th and July 31st. With funding from the Institute of International Education, the LRC developed and implemented the 4th annual five-day orientation program that introduced a group of 46 Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTA) to best practices in the field of language teaching and learning and provided them with a general overview of academic culture in the US.

Monday, March 2, 2009
4:00-9:00 p.m.
Deutsches Haus, Columbia University
420 W. 116th St.
(between Amsterdam Ave. and Morningside Dr.)

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in collaboration with the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies , the Center for African Studies, CIBER, and the European Union Center is pleased to host the Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim World (SILMW) in summer 2009 (June 15-August 6, 2009).

The National African Language Resource Center is pleased to announce the NALRC 2009 summer Institute.
Please find a fuller description at:  http://lang.nalrc.wisc.edu/nalrc/news/announcement/inst2009.html

Arizona State University offers eight-week, eight-credit intensive summer language courses in Albanian, Armenian, Bosnian/Croatian/ Serbian, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Tajik-Persian, Tatar and Uzbek through its Critical Languages Institute.

The CLI runs June 8 - July 31, 2009 on ASU's main campus in Tempe.
All courses are tuition-free. The only cost is a $500 non-refundable processing fee.

This summer workshop series provides professional development opportunities for k-16 language teachers. June 2-5, 15-16, University of Arizona in Tucson. For workshop and registration details, and to apply online see www.cercll.arizona.edu

June 2 and 3: Exploring Universals in the Reading Process (Korean, Japanese, Chinese).
Presenters: David Yaden, Yetta Goodman and Ken Goodman (University of Arizona)

June 3: Teaching Portuguese to Spanish-Speaking Learners (L1, L2 and Heritage): A Structured/Enhanced Input Approach.

      SUMMER 2009      

As of May 15th, 2009, the Language Resource Center facility in Lewisohn Hall is officially closed.

Registration for Spring 09 Language Maintenance Tutorials is open until February 2nd. For further information visit the LMT site.