(NAME-MCE) Special Opportunity for LCTL teachers!! Deadline April 10!

[Anselmo Villanueva]

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



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<http://ecommunication.umn.edu/t/29047/2581612/17472/0/>

  Asian LCTL teachers see:
http://asias.umn.edu/funding/k16.html<http://ecommunication.umn.edu/t/29047/2581612/17473/0/>

  All other LCTLs see:
http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/language.html<http://ecommunication.umn.edu/t/29047/2581612/17474/0/>

For more details about the stipend program see:
http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/scholarships.html<http://ecommunication.umn.edu/t/29047/2581612/17475/0/>

*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*

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*Culture as the Core in the Second Language Classroom
July 13–17, 2009
Instructors:  *Francine Klein and Wendy Allen*

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*Developing Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs)
July 20–24, 2009
Instructors: *Bill Johnston and Louis Janus*

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*Improving Language Learning:
Styles- and Strategies-Based Instruction
July 20–24, 2009
Instructor: *Martha Nyikos with guest presenter Andrew Cohen*

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*Content-Based Language Instruction and Curriculum Development
July 20–24, 2009
Instructor: *Laurent Cammarata*

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*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*

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*Focusing on Learner Language:
Second Language Acquisition Basics for Teachers
July 27–31, 2009
Instructors: Elaine Tarone and Maggie Broner

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*Developing Assessments for the Second Language Classroom
July 27–31, 2009
Instructor: *Ursula Lentz with guest presenter Donna Clementi*

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*Language and Culture in Sync:
Teaching the Pragmatics of a Second Language
July 27–31, 2009
Instructor:* Noriko Ishihara with guest presenter Andrew Cohen*

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More information about each institute is available on the CARLA website at:
*http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/*<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/* <http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/>
 or you can request a print copy of the brochure by contacting the CARLA
office at: carla at 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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Liz Hellebuyck
Office Specialist
Center for Advanced Research on
Language Acquisition (CARLA)
140 University International Center
331 17th Ave SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414

phone: 612-626-8600
fax: 612-624-7514
email: carla at umn.edu
web: www.carla.umn.edu