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Apr. 11, 2019 | Wayside Publishing: Proficiency Talks
This week in Wayside Publishing's new language learning and teaching blog, "Proficiency Talks", JNCL highlights 5 bite-size
tips on how to advocate for languages
in your community and beyond. "If you're not at the table, then you're on the menu."
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Apr. 28, 2019 | Forbes
Jennifer Ma
thern, one of Amazon’s ASL interpreters,
explains how the program works. “[Amazon]
provides interpreters from the minute a person becomes a candidate
. So, if a deaf person applies and they get through to a point where their résumé's being passed on, the recruiter connects with the interpreting program. From that point on, we take on the responsibility of connecting the deaf person with an interpreter so that there is a pre-interview meeting that happens where the interpreter and the deaf person can interact, they can see each other's signing styles, share a work history, résumé information, vocabulary, any work-related language and acronyms that are going to come up during the interview.
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Apr. 27, 2019 | The Economist
Foreign-language skill has become yet another
cultural-political divider
: it is associated with despised liberal elites, like a fondness for sushi or a passport full of stamps. And like the general disgust with those elites, this attitude crosses the left-right divide. Pete Buttigieg, the young mayor of a medium-sized city in Indiana, is enjoying a surprise moment in the sun as a presidential candidate—and nearly every profile of him mentions that he speaks seven foreign languages: French, Spanish, Italian, Maltese (his family’s heritage tongue), Norwegian, Arabic (from which Maltese is descended), and Dari, a language of Afghanistan.
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Apr. 30, 2019 | Phys.Org
For decades, more women have been entering male-dominated educational fields and careers. The proportion of men in female-dominated areas, on the other hand, has remained mostly unchanged. Now,
gender gaps in female-dominated undergraduate majors—like foreign language—are larger than gender gaps in biology, math or the physical sciences
.Foreign language proficiency is a useful skill that can lead to job opportunities and potential cognitive benefits.
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Apr. 24, 2019 | The New York Times
Scientists are reporting that they have developed a virtual prosthetic voice, a system that decodes the brain’s vocal intentions and translates them into mostly
understandable speech, with no need to move a muscle, even those in the mouth
. (The physicist and author Stephen Hawking used a muscle in his cheek to type keyboard characters, which a computer synthesized into speech.)
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POLICY CLIPS
EDUCATION CLIPS
INDUSTRY CLIPS
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Check out S3E11 of Cornell University's Language Resources Center's podcast,
Speaking of Language,
featuring JNCL's President-Elect Amanda Seewald.
The Language Resource Center at Cornell produces a weekly podcast, Speaking of Language. Through informal conversations with educators, students, and other people of interest, episodes feature interesting and helpful information about the intersection of language learning and pedagogy, while also spreading the word about the work we do at the LRC and about other global units across campus.
Listen here!
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In 2005, North Carolina had seven dual-language schools; in 2018, there were 140. A 2018 graduating class at one of these dual-language high schools had two valedictorians—one a native Spanish speaker and the other a native English speaker, both now fluent in the other’s native tongue.
How did North Carolina do it? Can their success be replicated? And are the number of dual-language schools outpacing the number of bilingual teachers needed for them?
In Episode 42 of America the Bilingual, host Steve Leveen talks to six high-ranking educators on how it’s not just basketball and a famous Research Triangle anymore where North Carolina is a powerhouse. It’s also dual-language education.
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PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
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The University of Kansas will be offering a
online beginning BCS course
, Fall 2019.
The course is
open to non-KU and non-degree-seeking students
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BCRS 150 - Beginning Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian I (3 credit hours) Fall 2019
Fundamentals of B/C/S grammar, reading, speaking, and writing. Introduction to the cultural context in which B/C/S discourse occurs. ONLINE course, designed to accommodate the needs of students regardless of age, educational background, or occupation who want to acquire some basic communicative skills in B/C/S. No previous knowledge of BCS or other foreign languages required.
For more information, interested students should contact the instructor, Marta Pirnat-Greenberg, at
[email protected]
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You are invited to join us in exploring this important topic with
national leaders in research, practice, and policy
who will share their perspectives on why developing language and literacy skills in English plus other languages is critical in today’s learning environment.
Featured speakers will include leaders from federal agencies, Congress, educators, parents and students.
Read more and register!
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Deadline: July 5th
Native speakers of critical languages are in high demand in the U.S. government. EHLS trains advanced English speakers to be effective communicators and strong candidates for federal jobs.
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June 10-11, 2019, University of Utah Campus
Presenters: Carl Blyth (UT Austin) and Anne Lair (University of Utah)
The FLLITE project, a collaboration of COERLL (University of Texas at Austin) and CERCLL (University of Arizona), helps teachers to bridge the language/literature divide by developing their own literacy lessons as open educational resources (OER). Rather than focusing on canonical literature, FLLITE lessons focus on the poetics of everyday language (e.g., conversations, letters, blogs, YouTube videos, etc.). in brief, the goal of this workshop is to help foreign language teachers develop original materials based on authentic texts that promote language awareness and communicative abilities through the integration of reading, listening, speaking, and writing tasks.
Participants can receive
1 graduate-level college credit
but must attend both days. Sponsored via a Language Resource Center grant.
Read more about how to sign up!
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The 6
th
Annual Community-Based Heritage Language Schools Conference at American University will be held
on Saturday,
October 12, 2019.
The Coalition of Community-Based Language Schools is a nationwide initiative established to support, guide, and promote the interests of community-based heritage language schools and organizations across the United States. Registration will open in June.
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FEDERAL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
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Solicitation Number: W91ZLK-19-R-0032
Agency: Department of the Army
Office: Army Contracting Command
Location: ACC - APG (W56ZTN) Garrison Contracting Division
Response Date: May 2
Solicitation Number: FA481419TF080
Agency: Department of the Air Force
Office: Air Mobility Command
Location: 6th Contracting Squadron
Response Date: May 3
Solicitation Number: NIHOD201800037
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Office: National Institutes of Health
Location: Office of Acquisition
Response Date: May 8
Solicitation Number: H9821019R0004
Agency: Other Defense Agencies
Office: Defense Human Resources Activity
Location: Procurement Support Office
Response Date: May 14
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JNCL-NCLIS Significant Contributors
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JNCL-NCLIS is grateful for the support from our partners.
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Joint National Committee for Languages
National Council for Languages and International Studies
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