Past Events
Here are some of LARC's recent events.
2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002
2008 Events
Expanding Language Teaching & Learning Capacity through Technology
An innovative one-day forum for college world language instructors
Date: March 14, 2008
Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter
401 K Street, San Diego, CA 92101
Tel: (619) 231-4040
Presenter(s):
Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, Director of the Language
Acquisition Resource Center (LARC) and Professor of French at San Diego
State University since 1997
Title:
Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL): A New Paradigm for a New Generation of Language Learners
Presenter(s):
Amorette Sherwood and Tim Cannon, University of Utah
Title:
Building Enrollment & Outreach Capacity: Effective Strategies in the Design & Implementation of Hybrid Language Courses
Presenter(s):
Facilitated Round - Robin Discussion Groups
Title:
Heritage Learners: Challenges and Strategies
Presenter(s):
Dr LeeAnn Stone, World Language Specialist, Houghton Mifflin
Title:
Practical Strategies for Integrating Technology into the Language Teaching Practice
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THERE IS NO REGISTRATION FEE; however, pre-registration is required and seating is limited, so you are strongly encouraged to sign up as soon as possible.
Breakfast, lunch, and reception are complimentary.
Lodging & transportation costs are the responsibility of the participants. Parking validation provided.
Council for Teaching Filipino Language and Culture (CTFLC)
Date: Saturday, January 26, 2008
San Diego State University
San Diego, California
Revilatizing the Filipino Language: Focus on Teacher Recruitment
CTFLC Registration Form
Beta Omicron Distinguished Alumni Visitor Lecture by Mary Ann Lyman-Hager '68
Date: Friday, January 18, 2008
Time: 11:15 am
Cornell College
Presenter(s):
Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, Director, Language Acquisition Resource Center, San Diego State University
Title:
Strategic Languages and Language Policy: The "Language du Jour" Phenomenon
Abstract
Mary Ann Lyman-Hager '68 is Director of the Language Acquisition Resource Center, a National Language Resource Center, and Professor of French at San Diego State University. She is an expert in the emerging field of language acquisition and technology. In addition to her extensive publication record, Dr. Lyman-Hager has directed or co-directed grants totaling over $11 million. Sponsored by the Beta Omicron Distinguished Alumni Visitors Program.
Event Link: http://webapps.cornellcollege.edu/events/2008/01/18/1372/
2007 Events
Teacher to Teacher
Date: July 26 - 27, 2007
San Diego State University
San Diego, California
San Diego State University and the US Department of Education's Title VI office join the Teacher-
to-Teacher Initiative to offer a free, two-day workshop on the University's campus. Foreign
Language teachers in grades K-12 are invited to come and learn from some of the nation's best
teachers as they share strategies for raising student achievement in the classroom. Teachers may
be able to earn professional development credit through their district or state for participating.
Registration is free of charge for participants.
LARC's Digital Poetry Workshop
Date: May 12, 2007
Time: 9 am to 1 pm
Cost: $30.00
Location: SDSU - Business Administration - Rm 410
San Diego State University
San Diego, California
Presenters:
Dr. Teresa Gonzalez-Lee, Professor of Spanish, MiraCosta College
John Vitaglione, LARC's Director of Digital Media Development, San Diego State University
Title:
LARC's Digital Poetry Workshop
Abstract
Professor and Poet, Dr. Teresa Gonzalez-Lee, and LARC's Director of Digital Media Development, John Vitaglione, will interweave poetic magic and digital media to create enticing language
learning materials that still hold strong pedagogical value. As a poet you will be able to make your
words dance through a combination of oral interpretation, musical accompaniment and animated visualization. As a language teacher you will be able to add methodological innovation to your lesson repertoire for both reading and listening comprehension, and for teaching oral proficiency.
Please join us in the LARC digital media production lab to learn how you can design and develop digital poetry such as iMovies and Podcasting as language learning activities for your students. Learn how you can make the resources you create accessible online, and to mobile devices such as iPods, PDAs and cell phones. Your students will soon be reciting rap-poetry in Arabic, Chinese, Filipino, Spanish and other languages as they skateboard to class.
Please return registration form and payment to:
LARC - LARC's Digital Poetry Workshop
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego CA 92182-8305
For more information please contact us:
Tel: (619) 594-6177
Email: nlrcsd@mail.sdsu.edu
State-wide Conference on Arabic and Persian Issues in California Education
Event flyer
Date: May 4, 2007
California State University Long Beach
Long Beach, California
Conference Inauguration:
Dr Karen Gould, Provost and Senior Vice President, CSU Long Beach
Presenters:
Dr Atefeh Oliai, San Diego State University
Dr Hanada Taha-Thomure, San Diego State University
Dr Jean-Jacques Jura, California State University Long Beach
Ms Iman Hashem, California State University Long Beach
Title:
State-wide Conference on Arabic Issues in California Education
Abstract
Professional Development model of teaching and opportunities and resources for teaching Arabic and Persian.
Cost:
$25.00 (if registered before April 20, 2007)
$40.00 (if registered after April 20, 2007)
$50.00 (On-site registration)
Please send registration information and payment to:
LARC - State-wide Conference on Arabic and Persian Issues in California Education
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego CA 92182-8305
For more information please contact us:
Tel: (619) 594-6177
Email: nlrcsd@mail.sdsu.edu
Registration Deadline April 30, 2007
NCOLCTL 2007
Date: April 27, 2007
Time: 2:45 - 3:15 p.m.
Madison Concourse Hotel
1 West Dayton Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53703
Presenter(s):
Norman Léonard, Adjunct Professor, Director of Outreach, Language Acquisition Resource Center, San Diego State University
Eleonor Castillo, Instructor, Heritage Elementary School in Chula Vista CA, 2006 "Woman of the Year" award sponsored by Assemblywoman Shirley Horton
Title:
Bridging Cultures Through Languages: Strategies to Improve Access to LCTL in Public Education
Abstract
A great number of opportunities and challenges related to offering less commonly taught language in public K-12 schools are seldom addressed. We will examine the need for collaborative efforts among universities, legislators, and the Departments of Education at the state level. We will highlight the 30-year effort of Filipinos and of other LCTL communities in California.
Advocacy for a national and state policy that bridges our diverse cultures through languages requires that many constituencies collaboratively find build the linguistic proficiency and the cultural competency our nation needs. A great number of opportunities and challenges related to offering less commonly taught language in public K-12 schools are seldom addressed. These include the scarcity of full majors and teacher preparation programs for LCTLs at universities, requirements of No Child Left Behind legislation and National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, the paucity of adoptable age-appropriate instructional materials, scarcity of Subject Matter Examinations, lack of attention given to LCTLs in most regional professional development, the need for collaborative efforts among universities and systems and the Teacher Credentialing process. Presenters will highlight the efforts of Filipinos in California to provide language instruction in public schools and demonstrate how we are building on the Filipino success story to advance the teaching of other LCTLs in the future.
Method: Presentations and discussion of various multifaceted approaches to the critical needs of the nation, various states' teacher credential programs, advocacy, university and other teacher preparation models, as well as community activism.
Benefit: Demonstration of a strategic planning model that other states, educational institutions and language communities might adopt.
Date: April 29, 2007
Time: 9:45 - 10:15 a.m.
Madison Concourse Hotel
1 West Dayton Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53703
Presenter(s):
Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, Director, Language Acquisition Resource Center, San Diego State University
Atefeh Oliai, Persian Program Director, Language Acquisition Resource Center, San Diego State University
Title:
The CAST Project: Online Oral Proficiency Diagnostic Assessment
Abstract
Performance standards are an integral part of the Final Learning Objectives for Basic Language Programs. In order to assess progress toward this goal, measures of performance are needed at various levels. Students must be able to deal with real life situations and to cope with the unpredictable nature of natural interchanges as they develop in conversation. To advance along the scale, students also need more knowledge of the world and of regional cultures.
The CAST project will allow testers to conduct on-line assessments of oral speaking ability in a variety of languages (Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, and Persian) from Intermediate to Distinguished levels.
Another goal of the CAST project is to encourage use of the official oral proficiency interview (OPI) as an entrance or an exit exam, or as an indication of a candidate's speaking ability for potential employers. This project proposes researching the efficiency, validity, and reliability of the test and would anticipate the following activities:
- Analyze linguistic data to determine the nature of speech performance at various levels of proficiency;
- Use these data to train in-service and pre-service teachers to recognize differences among levels of proficiency;
- Help language users at advanced levels develop advanced, superior, and distinguished (native-like) speech by offering models of what is expected;
- Develop on-line diagnostic screening tests to evaluate program efficiency and performance outcomes; and
- Create on-site and on-line teaching materials to help bring students to higher levels of language proficiency.
Rendezvous with Cultura
Date: April 16, 2007
Time: 4:45 Dinner hors d'oeuvre
Lecture: 5:30 PM
Location: GMCS (Geography, Mathematics and Computer Science Building) Room 301
San Diego State University
San Diego, California
The Language Acquisition Resource Center cordially invites you to a Rendezvous with Cultura by MIT Professor Gilberte Furstenberg on Monday evening, April 16th, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. in GMCS 301.
Gilberte Furstenberg, a senior lecturer in foreign languages and literatures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a pioneer in the design and development of interactive foreign language learning multimedia. She is the author of the well-known A la Rencontre de Philippe interactive videodisc, and coauthor of Dans un quartier de Paris, a cd-rom that engages learners in the exploration of French culture through interactive discovery of a Parisian neighborhood.
Professor Furstenberg will discuss and demonstrate her new breakthrough method of instruction that helps students learn where the Pont Neuf meets the Brooklyn Bridge. In her talk entitled Pedagogy of Intercultural Understanding she says that Learning entails not just facts and knowledge but building understanding of another culture, a journey of exploration and discovery." Please join us for Gilbertes perspective on how students use the Internet to explore cultural differences that lie deep beneath the surface of language.
CATESOL 2007 SAN DIEGO
Date: April 13, 2007
Town and Country Resort Hotel and Spa
San Diego, California
Presenter:
Dr Trevor Shanklin, San Diego State University
Title:
TRASCENDING BORDERS
CATESOL 2007 Submission Deadline extended to November 22, 2006
CLTA Conference 2007
Date: March 29 - April 1, 2007
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Santa Clara, California
Presenters:
Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, San Diego State University
Terri Nelson, CSUSB
Title:
Plugging In: iPods in the FL Classroom
CLTA Conference 2007 Submission Deadline February 26, 2007
Registration Form, CLTA Conference 2007
Hotel Reservation Form, CLTA Conference 2007
Digital Stream Conference Submission Deadline December 16, 2006
DIGITAL STREAM
Date: March 22 - 24, 2007
California State University Monterey Bay
Monterey Bay, California
Presenter:
John Vitaglione, San Diego State University
Title:
Born in a Digital World: Effective Integration of Language Learning Resources Through Web II Technologies
Abstract
Digital convergence enables integration of virtual language learning environments that bridge the gap between teaching language through culture and teaching culture through language. "MashUp" and "Moodle" Web II technologies enable teachers to develop and post lesson content that simultaneously engages students in interactive cultural exploration and language learning environments. Although "Moodled-Mashups" sounds like a recipe for Hungarian Goulash, technical indigestion is not a factor here. Non-programming toolsets dovetail applications and resources to "seamlessly (by Wikipedia's definition of Mashup) combine content from more than one source into an integrated experience." SCORM complaint resources from Title VI National Language Resource Centers (LARC & CLEAR), and from SCOLA, can be "mashed, zipped and unzipped" for Moodle-based learning management systems, and linked to virtual environments (Second Life) for cultural exploration while speaking. Template-driven applications maintain simplicity and accessibility so teachers can repurpose and customize existing resources, and contribute their own materials and lesson plans.
Technology-Assisted Assessment
Date: Wed, February 21, 2007
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 PM. Refreshments at 3:30 PM
Location: SDSU LARC BA 410
San Diego State University, San Diego CA
Classroom assessment can improve learning. Come learn different tools to assess student language proficiency using rifts rate technology!
Workshop information contact: Norman Léonard
Workshop fee: $25.00 + parking in Parkingg lot 5 only
For parking information: http://police.sdsu.edu/parkinginfo.htm#Q15
Or Park and Ride (No workshop fee for FLCSD members) USE THE TROLLEY it's easier and more fun!
Passage Rating Workshop
Date: Feb 16, 2007
Time: 9:00-12:00
Location: Business Administration Building Room 338 (map)
San Diego State University, San Diego CA
Presenter(s):
Dr. Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, San Diego State University
Dr. Atefeh Oliai, Language Acquisition resource Center, San Diego State University
Workshop on how to assign levels to texts according to the U.S. government’s Interagency Language Roundtable criteria. Assigning a rating to a text ( written or audio) is the very first and crucial step to be taken for an effective language training, testing, and assessment. In this workshop, attendees shall learn how to distinguish between diff. level passages and chose the appropriate educational material for a given level.
2006 Events
Faculty use of Language Labs, 08/25/2006 (Brownbag LARC Conference)
Faculty use of language labs: from viewing the DVD of your choice to live recordings.
Digital Recording, 09/08/2006 (Brownbag LARC Conference)
Making digital recordings to track student progress. (09/08/2006)
- Link to pictures
- Play and record at the same time
- Students save recordings to one common folder for instructor
- Facilities in both labs as well as LARCStar
Oral Proficiency, 09/15/2006 (Brownbag LARC Conference)
Oral proficiency guidelines
- Constructing a rubric, presented by Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, LARC Director
Keynote Presentation Software, 09/22/2006 (Brownbag LARC Conference)
Using Keynote presentation software to prepare class material and student projects that incorporate digital media.(09/22/06)
Ken Burns Effect, 09/27/2006 (Brownbag LARC Conference)
creating a narrated slide show with Ken Burns effect (panning)
- Presented by John Vitaglione, LARC Director of Multimedia
Podcasts, 10/06/2006 (Brownbag LARC Conference)
Podcasts for education
- RSS feed vs. Downloading vs. Streaming
On-Line Surveys, 10/13/2006 (Brownbag LARC Conference)
Creating on-line surveys with the EdCenter tool.
- Presented by Kirsten Barber, tool creator
- Leave workshop with skills to get an on-line survey up and running
Podcasts and Garageband, 10/20/2006 (Brownbag LARC Conference)
Creating podcasts with garageband for the LARC servers
- Presented by John Vitaglione, LARC Director of Multimedia
- Have students subscribe in language of their choice
- Record lectures
Using Skype, 10/27/2006 (Brownbag LARC Conference)
Using Skype for education, business and pleasure.
- Presented by Norman Léonard, LARC Director of Outreach
Horizon/Wimba, 11/17/2006 (Brownbag LARC Conference)
Incorporating Horizon/Wimba and Blackboard in your institution
- Presented by John Vitaglione, LARC Director of Multimedia
Placement and Proficiency Tests, 12/01/2006 (Brownbag LARC Conference)
Placement and Proficiency tests: from VOCI to DVOCI
- Presented by Trevor Shanklin, LARC Lab Director
Multi-user Virtual Environments for Language Learners, 12/08/2006 (Brownbag LARC Conference)
Using Linden Lab's Second Life software for practicing new language skills and online collaboration in the language
- Presented by Sabine Reljic. more...
ACTFL 2006 40th Annual Meeting & Exposition
Date: Nov 16 - 19, 2006
Downtown Nashville, TN
Abstract: A great number of opportunities and challenges related to offering less commonly taught language in public K-12 schools are seldom addressed. These include the scarcity of full majors and teacher preparation programs for LCTLs at universities, requirements of No Child Left Behind legislation and National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, the paucity of adoptable age-appropriate instructional materials, scarcity of Subject Matter Examinations, lack of attention given to LCTLs in most regional professional development, the need for collaborative efforts among universities and systems and the Teacher Credentialing process. Presenters will highlight the efforts of Filipinos in California to provide language instruction in public schools and demonstrate how we are building on the Filipino success story to advance the teaching of other LCTLs in the future.
Presenter(s):
Dr. Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, San Diego State University
Norman Léonard, Language Acquisition resource Center, San Diego State University
Dr. Duarte Silva Stanford University
Eleonor Castillo, Filipino Language Movement (FILM)
GUAVA Conference
Date: Aug 12 - 15, 2006
Time: 9 AM to 12 PM and 1 PM to 5 PM
San Diego, CA
Download GUAVA Conference Information
Title of Presentation: General Membership Meeting and Technological Training
Abstract: Group of Universities for the Advancement of Vietnamese Studies Abroad (GUAVA) is the professional organization currently serving professors at four-year educational institutions. This conference will outreach to community college and public school teachers of Vietnamese in Southern California.
Presenter:
John Vitaglione, Director of Multimedia, Language Acquisition Center, San Diego State University
CALICO 2006 At A Glance
Date: May 18, 2006
Time: TBD
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center
Title of Presentation: Creating online Diagnostic Tests and feedbacks
Abstract: This presentation will address an innovative federally-funded project that creates online Diagnostic Tests and feedback vignettes for speakers of Iraqi and Egyptian dialects of Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, and Persian Farsi. These online tests will function as Computer-Assisted Screening Tools, to help test takers self-assess their oral language proficiencies and to better prepare for the ACTFL oral proficiency tests. I will focus on the creation of the Chinese tests, and also discuss related research issues.
Presenter(s):
Minjuan Wang, Education Technology, San Diego State University
Date: May 20, 2006
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:45 PM
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center
Title of Presentation: Voices for the Unheard Community: Implications of Online Communicative Language Learning
Abstract: The golden silence of Internet instruction is awakening to online voice communications that extend communicative teaching beyond the classroom context to enable students to learn a language by actually speaking it. This presentation will demonstrate how LARC is integrating archived digital resources that provide the learning situation with online voice communication tools and techniques to engage students in communicative activities that involve the use of language in real life situations. Discussion includes online collaboration/language learning via real-time voice conferencing and archived voice threads using a triptych toolset of BlackBoard, Horizon Wimba and LARC's Digital Media Archive.
Presenter(s):
John Vitaglione, Director of Multimedia, Language Acquisition Center, San Diego State University
9th NCOLCTL Conference
Date: April 28-30, 2006
Time: 11:45:00 AM - 12:15:00 PM
University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI
Title of Presentation: Teaching and learning strategies toward the Distinguished level: Persian - Arabic
Abstract: Content: The purpose of the presentation is to present the work done, within the framework of the Center for the Advancement of Distinguished Language Proficiency (ADLP). The ADLP Center has received a grant from the National Security Education Program for the purpose of building national capacity in developing near-native foreign language proficiency in Arabic and Persian/Farsi. Some lessons learnt from teaching the first summer courses will be presented, with specific examples in Persian.
Presenter(s):
Dr. Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, San Diego State University
Prof. Christian Degueldre, Language Acquisition resource Center, San Diego State University
Dr. Atefeh Oliai, University of Wisconsin at Madison
LARC: Open Door to Language and Culture
Summer Programs
Community-Based After-School Language Programs
Date: March 24, 2006
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Fresno Convention Center and Radison Hotel Fresno, California
Title of Presentation: G16 Community-Based After-School Language Programs
Abstract: Less Commonly Taught Languages are vital to our nation but are poorly integrated into schools and universities. The Language Acquisition Resource Center has worked with community members to develop and implement replicable programs in Arabic, Kiswahili, Kurdish, Mixtec, Punjabi, Somali and Vietnamese. This interest session will outline the needs and how they are addressed in order to foster the linguistic and cultural maintenance of our communities. This session will be most appropriate for teachers of less commonly taught languages, administrators, and those whose students are of diverse backgrounds.
Appropriate Level(s): General
Language Focus: Less commonly taught languages
Major Focus: Community-Based After-School Language Programs
Presenter(s):
Norman Léonard, Language Acquisition resource Center, San Diego State University
Sumaiyah Vedder, Charter School of San Diego
2005 Events
46th Annual Conference Of American Translators Association, Seattle
Date: 9-13 November 2005
Title of Presentation: 3rd Research Forum: High School Heritage Learners Studying Translation and Interpreting - Opportunities and challenges. Focus: T&I Competence: Development and Assessment.
Presenter(s):
Dr. Claudia Angelelli, SDSU
Title of Presentation: An analysis of political speeches - the use of metaphoric language (distinguished level).
Presenter(s):
Professor Christian Degueldre, LARC SDSU
ACTFL 2005: Annual Meeting and Exposition, Baltimore MD
Date: 18 November 2005
Time: 10:15:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM
346 Convention Center
Title of Presentation: New Strides, New Directions in LCTL Education
Abstract: Innovative approaches by two National Language Resource Centers for developing LCTL education: LARC (SDSU) presents an initiative to develop Filipino programs across California's two public university systems. The NFLRC at Iowa State examines the impact of technology-integrated instruction on high school heritage learners enrolled in intermediate level college Chinese.
Presenter(s):
Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, San Diego State University
Norman Léonard, Language Acquisition resource Center, San Diego State University
Marcia Harmon Rosenbusch, National K-2 Foreign Language Resource Center, Iowa State University
De Zhang, Iowa State University
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Sponsor(s): Exhibitor:
Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC)
Applicable Language(s): Filipino, Chinese
Applicable Level(s): Community College, High School, Higher Ed, Teacher Ed.
Date: 18 November 2005
Time: 03:15:00 PM - 04:15:00 PM
343 Convention Center
Title of Presentation: Developing Effective Foreign Language Placement Tests
Abstract: A presentation and discussion of testing concept and placement testing development process that include test design, item development, test construction, and test result analysis for foreign languages in general with focus on uncommonly taught languages. The actual Vietnamese placement testing development process will be presented as an example.
Presenter(s):
Thuy-Kim Le, Arizona State University
Norman Léonard, Language Acquisition resource Center, San Diego State University
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Assessment Sponsor(s): Exhibitor:
ACTFL
Applicable Language(s): All
Applicable Level(s): All
Date: 19 November 2005
Time: 08:15:00 AM - 09:15:00 AM
340 Convention Center
Title of Presentation: Online Approaches for Assessing LCTL Oral and Pragmatic Skills.
Abstract: How are Language Resource Centers addressing the need of proficiency assessment for LCTLs? CLEAR will present its web-based assessment tool, Multimedia Interactive Modules for Education and Assessment (MIMEA). LARC will demonstrate its Computer-Assisted Screening Tool (CAST) to screen oral proficiency at the Advanced Level and deliver online feedback on performance.
Presenter(s):
F. Scoot Walters, Michigan State University
Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, San Diego State University
Lynn Eddy-Zambrano, Language Acquisition Resource Center, (LARC)
De Zhang, Iowa State University
Sponsor(s): Exhibitor:
Center for Language Education And Research (CLEAR)
Applicable Language(s): Arabic (3 dialects, MSA), Mandarinese, Persian, Vietnamese
Applicable Level(s): Govt/Adult Ed, High School, Higher Ed.
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) information can be found at http://www.actfl.org//
CDLC: Third Annual Conference on the Teaching and Learning to Near-Native Levels of Second Language Proficiency
Date: October 22, 2005
Time: 5:30-7:00 PM
Location:
American Councils for International Education
1771 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, DC
Sponsored: Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers & American Councils for International Education
Keynote Address: Prince Firas of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Presenter: Christian Degueldre, LARC-ADLP
Title of presentation: Update on the Center for the Advancement of Distinguished Language Proficiency.
Abstract: The ADLP Center is currently conducting research into a number of issues concerning high-level language acquisition, testing, and teaching at these higher levels.
XVII FIT World Congress (Fédération internationale des traducteurs) Tampere, Finland
Date: 4-7 August 2005
Christian Degueldre, LARC-ADLP
Title of presentation: The level of language proficiency required for professional translation and interpreting: Experience of the Center for the Advancement of Distinguished Language Proficiency.
Abstract: The language level required to face the challenges of the twenty-first century is what the US government calls Advanced Professional Proficiency (ILR Level 4), informally referred to in the language field as Distinguished Level, "native like," or "near-native" proficiency. Diplomats, journalists, interpreters/translators, international business people, negotiators, and other international specialists find that full cultural understanding, job performance, translation, interpreting, negotiation, and diplomacy suffer, if not fail, at less sophisticated levels of language ability. This research examines what are the characteristics of language at the near-native level by analyzing nuances, subtleties, and hidden meanings in source texts.
The International Federation of Translators holds its World Congress every three years when about 500 translators, interpreters and terminologists from all over the globe and from all walks of life meet to discuss the latest topics.
The Program of FIT 2005 can be found at http://www.fit2005.org/
Symposium on Filipino Language Issues in California Education
June 8-11, 2005
LARC is responding to a call of almost 2,000,000 Filipino-Americans in the state by hosting a Filipino Summit on Educational Issues to devise a course of study that would able current and future teachers of the language to become authorized according to state guidelines for teacher preparation.
ADLP
Date: July 2-3, 2005
Location: Washington
Presenter: Christian Degueldre, LARC-ADLP
Title of presentation: ADLP and Distinguished Level at Private Sector meeting of the International Association of Conference Interpreters.
7th Annual Graduate Student Conference in Lusophone and Hispanic Literature and Culture - University of California, Santa Barbara - May 13-14, 2005
La literatura de Baja California: expresión multicultural a través de una experiencia hipertextual
Date: May 13, 2005
Time: 2:30-5:00 PM
Room: Loberos Room
Hernán Manuel García and Roy Segovia
Abstract: Parting from the theoretical assumption that all lands are borders, the cultural output of Baja California is the most vigorous, abundant, complex, diverse and valuable. This website project is a collection of literature, photography, graphics, and music produced by Baja Californian artists and is integrated as a cultural studies resource as well as a multimedia experience.
Lusophone and Hispanic Literature and Culture conference website
2005 Latin American eLCTL Conference
April 21 - 23, 2005, San Diego State University
The purpose of The Latin American eLCTL Project Conference is to convene national discussions among specialists in Latin American Less-Commonly-Taught-Languages who have projects that may be better served via electronic distance/distributed learning. Assessing the language learner and emerging technologies for LCTLs will be addressed from a perspective of building quality electronic language programs for Latin American LCTLs.
California Language Teachers Association - The Empire Strikes Back - Ontario, California, April 14-17, 2005
Workshop & Presentation of ADLP and Distinguished Level
Date: April 15, 2005
Christian Degueldre, LARC-ADLP
On-line Placement Testing
Date: April 15, 2005
Norman Léonard, LARC
Abstract: The Language Acquisition Resource Center together with faculty from other universities and public schools created On-line Placement test for Filipino, Japanese and Vietnamese language students. These tests are currently available for field testing by San Diego County teachers. They will be studied for validity and reliability by a SDSU researcher and later revised. This workshop will demonstrate the necessary steps in the creation of such tests including item writing theory. Participants will see this fully functioning program that permits audio and video prompts, multiple choice items that are automatically graded, and automatic sending of student responses to the appropriate teacher.
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2005- Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities: Constructs, Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment - Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., March 10-13, 2005
In representation of ADLP Center
Date: March 10-13, 2005
Christian Degueldre, LARC-ADLP
The Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) is an annual conference that has been held on the campus of Georgetown University since 1949. It began as a gathering for discussion of issues in all fields of linguistics. Over time it has developed into a nationally and internationally known forum for in-depth treatment of special topics. The conference theme, chosen by the faculty member(s) within the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics chairing the event, varies from year to year.
The GURT Conference Program can be found on the Georgetown University website at http://www.georgetown.edu/events/gurt/
HLAS 2005
LARC hosted 2005's Heritage Languages in America Symposium (HLAS).
2004 Events
ACTFL 2004 Celebrating our International Spirit - Chicago, Illinois, November 19-21, 2004
Refining and (Re)Assessing Advanced Language
Date: Friday, November 19, 2004
Time: 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Room: 4E
Session: 598
Elana Shohamy, CALPER
Christian Degueldre, LARC
Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, LARC
Abstract: This session will focus on the relevance of lexical and metaphorical knowledge for advanced proficiency, in particular at the ILR level 4 (Distinguished Language Proficiency) and will present techniques and strategies for teaching and assessing advanced proficiency with particular reference to interpreters and translators and learners in Distance Education Programs.
Integrating Language, Literature and Cultural Studies with Web-Technology
Date: Friday, November 19, 2004
Time: 6:00 - 7:15 pm
Room: PDR 5
Session: 185
Jose Mario Martín-Flores, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, SDSU
Nora Strejilevich, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, SDSU
Robin Martin, LARC
Abstract: This presentation shows how language, literature and cultural studies are integrated using web-technology. It exemplifies Spanish language learning at an intermediate-plus level using web-media for Mexico's Baja Literature and Argentina's Los Desaparecidos. Faculty demonstrate teaching with authentic digital materials for author interpretations, literary critiques, faculty lectures, and human rights testimonials.
Saving the Heritage Languages in America - What will it take?
Date: Sunday, November 21, 2004
Time: 8:15 - 9:30 am
Room: 4J
Session: 470
Norman Léonard, LARC
Abstract: There is a growing need to establish interim after school programs for the less commonly taught languages. The session will offer a forum to discuss various responses in the nation to the linguistic and cultural needs of their communities. We will highlight the necessary steps in creating an infra-structure that embraces multilingualism in public schools and universities. Then we will trace the steps taken to create effective after school Arabic programs in San Diego County. Finally, the need for professional development for teachers of less commonly taught languages will be expounded by an Arabic specialist who trains the teachers in our program.
Analyzing Tasks to Optimize Oral Proficiency Testing
Date: Sunday, November 21, 2004
Time: 10:00 am - 11:15 am
Room: Williford A
Session: 511
Margaret Malone, Center for Applied Linguistics
Alicia Rasmussen, Center for Applied Linguistics
Jerry Larson, Brigham Young University
Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, LARC
Abstract: This presentation focuses on the results of an analysis of three approaches to oral proficiency assessment. In the session, participants will learn about characteristics of successful language elicitation based on a study of over 60 student performances. Successes and limitations of each approach and classroom applications will be discussed.
The Power of Online Chat in Language and Methods Courses
Date: Saturday, November 20, 2004
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Room: 5E
Session: 437
De Zhang, Iowa State University
Julio Rodriguez, National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center
Marcia Rosenbusch, National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center
Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, LARC
Abstract: Chat activities in beginning heritage Chinese and foreign language methods courses, including dialogues and collaborative projects of students with peers and with practicing teachers, reveal the power of online Chat as a tool for enhancing teaching strategies and language learning.
Teaching and learning strategies at Level 4 (Distinguished) of Proficiency
Date: Sunday, November 21, 2004
Time: 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Room: 5F
Session: 555
Christian Degueldre, LARC
Peter Abboud, University of Texas at Austin
Abstract: The language proficiency scale used by the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) in the United States calls refers to Level 4 as the near-native or distinguished level. Very few people providing essential services as diplomats, translators and interpreters, and as linguists in the armed forces have reached that level of language proficiency. At San Diego State University, the Center for the Advancement of Distinguished Language Proficiency has been set up to bring students who are at level 2+/3 to level 4. What teaching and learning strategies are best to reach that level? What works and what does not? The purpose of this presentation is to start answering those questions on the basis of our experience in Arabic and French.
Web Video: Solutions for Language Teaching and Assessment
Date: Sunday, November 21, 2004
Time: 1:30 - 2:45 pm
Room: 5E
Session: 586
Dennie Hoopingarner, Center for Language Education And Research (CLEAR), Michigan State University
Robin Martin, LARC
Sachiko Kamioka, Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS), The University of Oregon
Abstract: Three U.S.D.E. Language Resource Centers demonstrate the use of web-based digital video for learning language and culture. CLEAR shows how digital video is used for teaching and assessing cultural competence. LARC discusses how content and digital media is used in interdisciplinary resources. CASLS focuses on online proficiency assessment.
Staff Development Days - Albert Einstein Academy, November 11-12, 2004
Integrating IB, Bavarian, California State and National Standards
Date: November 11-12, 2004
Time: 8:30-3:30
Norman Léonard, LARC
Magkaiasa: Filipino American High School Conference - Otay Ranch High School, October 30, 2004
Education and the Sleeping Giant - Emerging Efforts for Filipino Language and Cultural Education
Date: October 20, 2004
Norman Léonard, LARC
Wulfilda Galvante
Eleanor Castillo
Sally Idos
Ed Lim
Abstract: San Diego State University through its Language Acquisition Resource Center and the Linguistics Department have been establishing programs that preserve the language and culture of the Filipino people. This Fall Linguistics added Beginning Filipino and two Filipino cultural classes. Next semester the second language course will be added. The Language Acquisition Resource Center has challenged the state to create an authorization for current teachers to continue to teach despite NCLB restrictions and the CSU system to create a full major at one university to serve future language teachers. Currently seven exemplary teachers are working on creating new adoptable textbooks for the language. This presentation will challenge the community to advocate for and support these efforts.
Filipino American Educators Conference - Clarion Hotel, Daly City - Awake the Sleeping Giant, October 22-23, 2004
Date: October 22 - 23, 2004
Norman Léonard, LARC
Wulfilda Galvante
Eleanor Castillo
Sally Idos
Ed Lim
Abstract: San Diego State University through its Language Acquisition Resource Center and the Linguistics Department have been establishing programs that preserve the language and culture of the Filipino people. This Fall Linguistics added Beginning Filipino and two Filipino cultural classes. Next semester the second language course will be added. The Language Acquisition Resource Center has challenged the state to create an authorization for current teachers to continue to teach despite NCLB restrictions and the CSU system to create a full major at one university to serve future language teachers. Currently seven exemplary teachers are working on creating new adoptable textbooks for the language. This presentation will challenge the community to advocate for and support these efforts.
44th American Translators Association Meeting - Toronto, Canada, October 14, 2004
2nd Research Forum
Empirical Research on Translation and Interpreting Studies
Focus: T&I Competence: Development and Assessment
Organizer: Dr. Claudia Angelelli
Determining Adequate Language Proficiency Level for Professional Translation
Christian Degueldre, LARC
Abstract: The language level required to face the challenges of the twenty-first century is what the US government calls Advanced Professional Proficiency (ILR Level 4), informally referred to in the language field as Distinguished Level, "native like," or "near-native" proficiency. Diplomats, journalists, interpreters/translators, international business people, negotiators, and other international specialists find that full cultural understanding, job performance, translation, interpreting, negotiation, and diplomacy suffer, if not fail, at less sophisticated levels of language ability.
This research examines, through the collection of authentic linguistic data, what are the characteristics of language at the near-native level by analyzing nuances, subtleties, and hidden meanings in source texts.
Bridging SLA and Interpreting Studies to Assess Interpreting Skills: the case of Cantonese, Hmong and Spanish medical interpreters.
Dr. Claudia V. Angelelli
The end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first witnessed important changes affecting healthcare delivery to limited-English-speaking patients in the United States. As a result, we see an increasing need for professional interpreters in the medical setting. Based on the Practical Oral Language Ability (Johnson, 2001) and the Visible Interpreter (Angelelli, 2001 & 2003; Metzger 1999; Roy 2000; and Wadensjo, 1998), this paper reports on the design of an assessment instrument to measure the skills of medical interpreters. Authentic medical exchanges with Spanish/ Cantonese/Hmong-speaking patients were collected and analyzed to identify the basic linguistic and interpreting skills commonly used in interpreted encounters within healthcare settings. From a pool of 50 encounters, ten were randomly selected, transcribed and analyzed. The communicative events most frequent in the data and representative of a typical encounter are: 1) making appointments, 2) canceling appointments, 3) parents visiting with a child as patient, 4) first-time visit, 5) pre-operating visit, 6) admitting the patient, and 7) post-surgery/follow-up visit. These communicative events were used as the basis for a twenty-minute script pre-test and a forty-minute script post-test for an interpreter training program.
Latin American Studies Association 2004 - Las Vegas, Nevada, October 7-9, 2004
México "desde fuera": imaginación y producción cultural del "mexicano" desde los Estados Unidos/ Mexico "from Outside": "Mexican" Cultural Production and Imagination from the United States
Date: Saturday, October 9th
Time: 12:00 - 1:45 pm
Room: Top of the Riviera North
Jose Mario Martín-Flores, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, SDSU
Presentation Title: The Literary Diaspora: Performative Identities of the Last Millennia
4th Annual Educational Conference of the California Healthcare Interpreting Association
Better Understanding- Better Health
Date: October 2, 2004
Time: 4:00 - 4:40 PM
Room: Balboa Room, Handlery Hotel and Resort, San Diego
Prof. Christian Degueldre, LARC
Abstract: Participants in this 40-minute session on interpreting skills will have the opportunity to learn about active listening, cognitive skills (memory, selective attention, mental conceptualization), sight translation, note taking, consecutive and simultaneous interpreting in an interactive, hands on presentation.
Háblenos de su Salud - UNTHSC School of Public Health
Introduction to Interpreting Skills in Health Care Settings Workshop
Date: September 23 - 24, 2004
Time: 11:30 AM - 4:00 PM
University of North Texas, Fort Worth
Prof. Christian Degueldre, LARC
Abstract: Interpreters' professional development is a major contributor to their professional success. This two-day workshop will discuss in a ninteractive way various aspects of interpretation. After a general review / introduction to the principles of interpreting, the settings where interpreting takes place, we will discuss in depth many aspects of the interpreting process. The participants will be actively involved and strategies for self-improvement will be suggested.
MERLOT Conference - Online Resources: Sharing the Future, Costa Mesa, California, August 3-6, 2004
On-line Oral Diagnostic Assessment for Foreign Languages
Date: August 4
Time: 2:30 - 3:30 PM
Room: Emerald I
Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, LARC
Kirsten Barber, SDSU EdCenter
Abstract: The Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC) at San Diego State University assembled a consortium of five institutions (three universities, one military language training unit, and one professional association) to create oral diagnostic screening instruments on a nationwide scale for Arabic, Spanish, and Persian. The project meets an increasing need for diagnostic evaluation of the language abilities of language professionals and relies on digital media stored in an efficient, sharable, MERLOT-compatible format.
Distance Education, Distributed Learning & Language Instruction: Reports from the Field - National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC), University of Hawaii at Manoa, July 27-30, 2004
A Web- and ACTFL-based Diagnostic Screening Tool for Oral Proficiency: The CAST Project
Date: July 28
Time: 1:15 - 2:00 PM
Room: ARCH 205
Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, LARC
Christian Degueldre, LARC
Kirsten Barber, SDSU EdCenter
Abstract: The goal of the CAST project (Computerized ACTFL-based Screening Tool) is to provide a low-stakes means of conducting on-site, standardized assessments of oral speaking ability in Arabic, Spanish and Persian from Novice to Distinguished levels. Another goal is to encourage use of the official oral proficiency interview (OPI) as a nentrance or exit exam, or as an indication of a candidate's speaking ability for potential employers. The 45-minute session will present an update on this project and offer a discussion about its advantages and possible uses.
NFLRC at UH Manoa conference website
Online Placement Testing
Workshop Series for K-12 Teachers: Online Placement Testing in Languages For San Diego Area K-12 Teachers and Schools
Creating and authoring online placement exams in languages. These tests would be used for placement of students who transfer between schools and between districts, ensuring that they are placed in language classes appropriate for their skills.
The Giving Gaze
LARC's latest publication, The Giving Gaze: An Intimate Topography of the Border/La mirada pródiga: una topografía íntima de la frontera, was recently featured in a two-page spread in the San Diego Union Tribune (April 25, 2004). In the five months since its release, the publication has been well received at each of its book signings and presentations. We are very proud of the publication and would like to invite you to share in the success of this extraordinary publication and its extraordinary authors.
Book Signing & Presentation
Bay Books - June 11, 2004 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm (All three authors will be present)
1029 Orange Ave.
Coronado, CA 92118-3405
Tel: 619-435-0070
Photos
Giving Gaze Presentation
Longfellow Elementary School - June 11, 2004 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am
5055 July Street
Clairemont CA 92110
Tel: 619-276-4206
Dr. Mario Martin Flores, the publication's poet, has been invited to speak at the promotion of Longfellow Elementary's 8th grade students. Dr. Martin Flores will be addressing the graduates and will be presenting them with a copy of the book. The presentation will take place at the elementary school.
CALICO 2004: CALL: Focusing on the Learner - Carnegie Mellon University, June 8-12, 2004
Learner Control: Online Digital Integration of Interactive Authentic Resources for Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
Wednesday June 10th
2:00 p.m.
Baker 125C
John Vitaglione, LARC
Abstract: Giving learners interactive control of the integrated online digital media they use for language learning has specific advantages. Authentic resources from LARC's Digital Media Archive (DMA) enable learners to access and play materials at specific points that draw on different language competencies. Interactive examples of digital video chapters, multiple language audio and text tracks, panoramic virtual reality and movie-in-a-movie techniques will be demonstrated using Apple Computer's cross-platform-compatible QuickTime player. Discussion will include how LARC incorporates these types of digital media within their DMA, their web pages and their online/distance education courses for language teaching and learning.
Visit us at booth #8 and see more of LARC's work!
Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey (California) May 16-18, 2004
Teaching and learning toward level 4: Organization of the ADLP Center at SDSU
Christian Degueldre, LARC
Session coordinated by Dr. Clive Roberts, DLI
American Association of Applied Linguistics - Portland, Oregon, May 1-4, 2004
The Relationship between Distinguished Language Proficiency level and Translation-Interpreting
Saturday May 1, 2004
10:50-11:20
Room: Medford
Christian Degueldre, LARC
Abstract: Effective professional translation and interpreting start at ILR L4-language proficiency (Interagency Language Roundtable). This research analyses the level of language proficiency required to perform translation and interpreting and presents its main conclusions from a linguistic, sociocultural and sociopragmatic point of view. It makes recommendations for strategies to teach at L4.
TICFIA Conference
LARC hosted 2004's Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) conference.
American Translation Studies Association - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March 26-28, 2004
Teaching Translation: Empirical and Applied Issues
Saturday March 27, 2004
9:00-9:30 am
Campus Center 804-808
Opening panel: Sonia Colina (Arizona State University); Claudia Angelelli (San Diego State University); Christian Degueldre (San Diego State University - Monterey Institute of International Studies
DigitalStream: Emerging Technologies in Teaching Languages and Culture - CSU Monterey Bay, March 25-27, 2004
Dynamic Digital Media Archive: Web Design That Makes Distance Collaboration Easy (90 min.)
Thursday March 25th
1:20 p.m.
Bldg. 46/103
Robin Martin, LARC, SDSU
Abstract: The Web is an enigma; sometimes you find too much information and sometimes none at all. How do you go about making your materials available online for class use and for sharing with others? LARC takes on both of these issues with the latest incarnation of their Digital Media Archive (DMA).
LARC has added dynamic functionality to their online archive of foreign language audio and video to make it a more powerful tool for teachers and students. Contributors from anywhere with a network connection are able to submit content for LARC to host and include with our ever-expanding database of language materials, using nothing more than their favorite web browser. Come see how our project can help you unravel the enigma and leverage the Web to its fullest for your language instruction needs.
DigitalStream conference website
Alfonoso X el Sabio Third Annual Translation & Interpreting Forum
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jerome Rothenberg
Title of Presentation: Translation as Composition/Composition as Translation
Date: March 22, 2004
SDSU Love Library
Room LL-2300
Time: 4:00 - 7:00 pm
Co-sponsored by: Department of Spanish & Portuguese, LARC, & SDSU Library
The Giving Gaze - Showcase
Please join us for an intimate look into this remarkable book and its authors.
Thursday, February 26th 2004
Scripps Cottage
6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Dynamic Digital Dexterity: Spanish Project Showcase To Inspire Collaborative Efforts
Most foreign language resources are usually designed for and accessed within just a single course lesson or activity. The Language Acquisition Resource Center's (LARC) blends the boundaries of traditional and online learning by extending digital resources across multiple disciplines and learning environments. This showcase demonstrates how authentic materials accessed from LARC's Digital Media Archive (DMA) can be distributed to students online, incorporated by teachers in the traditional classroom, and integrated in the design and delivery of distance education courses. Participants will benefit by seeing how content can be used with this innovative means of integrating technology with language teaching and learning. You will also learn how you can dynamically create and post your own digital media content for your students to use in your classes using the DMA.
Spanish content from Human Rights in Latin America and Baja Literature projects will be demonstrated and discussed by Spanish faculty members. Short instructional scenarios will also be presented concerning Machu Piccu, regional cooking and less-commonly-taught-language materials for Portuguese, Mayan and Mixtec. Most of LARC's growing collection of digital resources and web content are available to faculty, students and the general public at no cost.
This showcase will take place on Friday February 27th from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. in the LARC Computer Lab -- BAM 410. For more information please call 619-594-1223 or email jvitagli@mail.sdsu.edu.
Santa Fe IV: Conference of the Council of Directors of Title VI: National Resource Centers, Feb. 19-21, 2004
THE NRC MISSION: Challenges Past and Present
Eldorado Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, LARC, SDSU
This conference focused on the external challenges to Title VI, and the overall status of Higher Education Act Title VI Reauthorization, which should be taken up by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (Help) Committee very soon. There is no Senate Bill yet, although Republican staff would like to mark up a bill before Easter. In the House, HR 3077 has passed without significant dissent. This Bill contains provision for an Oversight Board to Title VI, which some find objectionable. The HELP Committee's Ranking Minority Member is Senator Edward Kennedy and its Chairman is Senator Judd Gregg. The American Council on Education (ACE) has some arguments to be made supporting the ranking minority member's position.
The e-LCTL project (electronic Less Commonly Taught Languages) also met several times, and we have agreed to host the Latin American area studies centers and to serve as a liaison for language training and resources for these centers.
Chilean Narrative before and after the Dictatorship - Roberto Rivera
Roberto Rivera is a Chilean writer and journalist, author of A fuego eterno condenados (Condemned to Eternal Fire, 1994), and La pradera ortopédica (The Orthopedic Prairie, 1986). His work is a brilliant, symbolic and at the same time realistic picture of the Pinochet era and its aftermath. His short stories have been published in Mexico, Sweden, Spain, Argentina, and Chile. He has been granted several literary awards, and the Fellowship of the National Board of the Book in 1998.
This event took place on Tuesday, January 27 from 5pm to 6pm in Love Library LL 430, and was co-sponsored by the Love Library, Spanish and Portuguese Department, and LARC.
2nd Annual Hawai'i International Conference on Arts & Humanities
January 8 - 11, 2004
Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel
The main goal of the 2004 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various arts and humanities related fields from all over the world to come together and learn from each other. An additional goal of the conference is to provide a place for academicians and professionals with cross-disciplinary interests related to arts and humanities to meet and interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.
January 8, 2004
Single-Consonant Submorphemes
Zev bar-Lev
Elima Room
2:40 - 4:10 p.m.
January 8, 2004
A Kabbalistic Theory of Theories
Zev bar-Lev
Ekolu Room
4:20 - 5:50 p.m.
2003 Events
Courses for language skill enhancement
Be Prepared to Meet the Job Market's Critical Language, Translator & Interpreter, Health Services, and Court/Legal System needs.
ACTFL 2003 - Building Our Strength through Languages: A National Priority
ACTFL's 37th annual meeting and exposition takes place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from November 21st to 23rd.
Summer 2003: Summer institutes and workshops
Learn "SILLy" ways to learn languages from Zev bar-Lev at the Learning Annex!
June 14 in Los Angeles and June 21 in San Diego
Zev bar-Lev will be one of the presenters in the Learning Annex's "Jump-Start Your Brain!" day of learning. He will show ways of expanding your English vocabulary, and give a sample (using ten languages) of his "SILLy" method (SILL = Sheltered Initiation Language Learning).
Seminar: Online Language Placement Testing - Solving Countywide Problems - May 9, 2003
This seminar will bring together educational administrators and educators to examine problems with countywide foreign language placements and possible solutions. Heritage students, transfer students, and others suffer from unmanageable classroom placements, and the cost to individual students, schools, and districts is significant. Test instruments are needed that will help determine placement by providing a good predictor of student success.
National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL)
The NCOLCTL conference was held on the UCLA campus, with the theme "Focus on the Learner in the LCTLs: Profiles, Motivations and Opportunities."
California Language Teachers Association (CLTA)
CLTA is an association of language professionals, which sponsors activities that promote, support, and enhance the teaching of world languages.
Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR)
The Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) is comprised of a group of federal agencies working together to develop a uniform scale for measuring language proficiency of government employees.
Video conference - University of Wisconsin System Institute for Global Studies: April 3, 2003
LARC's Director, Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, participated in a free interactive video conference, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin System Institute for Global Studies and the UW-Milwaukee Center for International Education. Topics such as budget cuts, faculty retirements and the shrinking numbers of introductory language courses were discussed as well as the use of learning technologies to address these shortcomings.
American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
The American Association for Applied Linguist (AAAL) annual conference has a national and international reputation as one of the most comprehensive and stimulating language conferences.
Microcompuers in Education Conference (MEC)
MEC 2003 conference provides opportunity to interact and establish networks with over 1,500 K-12 teachers, administrators, and university educators from the Southwest.
Eurocall 2003 - Limerick, Ireland
Lyman-Hager, Mary Ann - San Diego State University
Digital media archiving: access, content, collaboration
LARC (the Language Acquisition Resource Center) at San Diego State University is one of fourteen national centers sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to promote research, teacher training, and materials development/dissemination in the field of foreign languages and cultures. LARC has developed an internet-based Digital Media Archive (DMA) to disseminate teacher-created, learner-friendly authentic media and print in foreign languages. Selections housed in the archive include authentic literary works with annotations (glosses) in print or audio/video formats that are "webbableÓ, as well as sections for teachers and independent learners, categorized by language, then by theme.
Currently fourteen languages are represented in the archive, with such themes as "Human Rights in Latin America" and "The Literature of Baja California." The DMA also contains practice items for oral testing, annotated regional and national literature, and discourse samples. A new online submission protocol enables collaborators world wide to share their work freely with others. Should the archive expand to e-commerce, authors or publishers who seek additional venues for distributing their materials might receive royalties or payments.
This presentation will review the DMA and other concurrent efforts in the U.S. to create and disseminate "webbable" digital media, incorporation of teaching and learning strategies as an integral part of the DMA project, issues of distribution of royalties in a digital environment, securing copyright-free materials, and tenure and promotion decisions related to digital scholarship. Documents shared as handouts include the Modern Language Association's Guidelines on Evaluating Dossiers for Tenure and selected publications of NINCH (National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage). Both organizations actively investigate the creation, preservation, evaluation, and distribution of digital media in the U.S.
DigitalStream: Language on the Edge - 2003
The DigitalStream conference is an annual event offered for the past four years by California State University, Monterey Bay's Institute for World Languages and Cultures and the IDEA Lab.
Baja Literature featured in the MLJ
A short article on the Baja Literature project appeared in the News & Notes section of this month's Modern Language Journal [87 (2003) 1, pp. 115-116].
Arabic After-School Program leaders interviewed by Channel 10 News
San Diego's Channel 10 News interviewed Norman Léonard and Ghada Osman on Friday, February 21st in the LARC Multimedia Lab concerning the new Arabic After-School Program. They addressed topics such as the need for early language instruction, the community support for such programs and the untapped resources of heritage languages.
2002 Events
Heritage Languages in America conference, Oct. 18-20, 2002
The Development and Impact of Heritage Language Education: An Ethnographic Study
This ethnographic study illustrates the value of family and community involvement in promoting language proficiency in heritage language populations and explores language education methods practiced in the Chinese community language schools in San Diego. The intricate factors affecting heritage language learning are examined and the potential uses of technology in assisting young learners in acquiring literacy in their heritage language are explored. Guidelines for designing computer-based programs to facilitate heritage language acquisition are shared.
Presenters:
Minjuan Wang
Educational Technology
San Diego State University
mwang@mail.sdsu.edu
Mary Ann Lyman-Hager
Language Acquisition Resources Center (LARC)
San Diego State University
mlymanha@mail.sdsu.edu
ACTFL 2002 - Beyond Our Customary Borders: Language and Culture in Context
ACTFL's 36th annual meeting and exposition takes place in Salt Lake City, Utah from November 22nd to 24th.
Faculty Seminars, Fall 2002
You can find a list of our Fall 2002 seminars by clicking on the link below.
Eurocall, Jyvaskala, Finland - September 2002
Creating a Community of Learners: the California State University Virtual Language Laboratory Initiative
The California State University is the largest 4-year institution in the United States, with 23 campuses and over 370,000 students. It articulates with the California Community College system and, to some extent, with the University of California system. A curricular program proposed by the Chancellor's Office in 1997-98 was entitled the Strategic Language Initiative (SLI). The Initiative focused on offering language courses system-wide that might have low enrollments at any one campus but which, when the campuses collaborated, could have reasonable class sizes. The initiative also promised to enrich the number of languages able to be offered in the system, especially important strategic languages important to national security, such as Arabic, Farsi, Hindi, Hebrew, Urdu, Tagalog, Korean, etc. The initiative also focused on offering special advanced level language courses that could be shared across campuses in more "commonly taught" languages and that could sustain once viable programs that were threatened with elimination. From this latter emphasis was born the Virtual Language Laboratory (VLL).
The VLL is co-sponsored by Teleste/Tandberg, headquartered in Finland. Tandberg Divace lab equipment was a condition for campus participation, and the software has been created to conform to the needs of the faculty and learners located in seven CSU campuses throughout the system. A French civilization (special topics) course, Nation and Identity, was the first to emerge from the VLL project and was taught in asynchronous and synchronous mode in Fall 2001. As the software was not yet installed on all participating campuses, and the class was already scheduled, the three participating instructors needed to collaborate in new, sometimes uncomfortable ways to accommodate the needs of the students. New (to the faculty) technologies were employed (WebCT, videoconferencing via ISDN), and the course preparation was divided into three, with each collaborative faculty member responsible for roughly a third of the course content. Out of this intense collaboration, with deadlines and institutional/technological challenges, however, emerged a new kind of community. The goal of the instructors was to create with the student an online community that is "interactive, fluid" (Warschauer, p. 15, 1999), with emphasis on fostering higher level thinking skills in the target language.