Archive for November, 2008
Thursday 27 November 2008 @ 6:11 pm
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TALKING TURKEY: ESOL students get schooled on Thanksgiving
Bethany Beach Wave, DE - "Even though some of our ESOL families don't celebrate the same way, everyone has things they celebrate. They learn and I get to learn." |
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Thursday 27 November 2008 @ 6:11 pm
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Intel Report Reshapes Iran Sanctions Debate
Arms Control Today - The 2007 NIE uses more specific language with a similar time frame, assessing with moderate confidence that Iran “probably would be technically capable of … |
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Thursday 27 November 2008 @ 4:11 pm
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The watercooler: How languages boost employability
TrainingZone.co.uk, UK - More than a third of the staff we have employed speak a foreign language– one even spoke Korean. As well as having language skills, gap years can also … |
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Thursday 27 November 2008 @ 4:11 pm
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Every School Every Thursday — Des Moines south
DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - After much travel and study abroad during the summer by foreign language teachers, the French and Spanish curriculum reflects the real-time culture of … |
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Thursday 27 November 2008 @ 3:11 pm
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Want to Learn a Foreign Language? Try Thinking Like a Bird!
Nick.com, New York - In other words, they apparently learned what the calls meant, even though the calls were coming from a different species a foreign language, as we'd say in … |
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Thursday 27 November 2008 @ 3:11 pm
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She’s Tops in Clinton
TheDay, CT - Not only are they learning a foreign language, they’re doing math. “We try to integrate Spanish with other curriculum,” she says. In another exercise called … |
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Tuesday 25 November 2008 @ 7:11 pm
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Students say ‘halito’ to Choctaw language
Daily O’Collegian, OK - … classes are taught through the distance learning to 14 Head Start centers, 52 public schools, five colleges and carries a foreign language credit. … |
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Tuesday 25 November 2008 @ 6:11 pm
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'Soft power' and hard reality
BBC News, UK - "We'll learn," he told the BBC News website. "But right now, if you ask a dozen people to describe Obama's foreign policy you get a dozen different answers. … |
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Tuesday 25 November 2008 @ 6:11 pm
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Language classes to increase
Justice, MA - by Jillian Wagner Members of the language departments agreed that the cap size for enrollment in foreign language courses could increase to 25 students from … |
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Tuesday 25 November 2008 @ 6:11 pm
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Text to Speech Enables New Orleans Teacher to Help Students Speak …
PR Web (press release), WA - "I would encourage foreign language students to play with that feature in order to find a speed at which they find comprehension fairly easy," adds Kosofky, … |
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