The Language Acquisition Resource Center, LARC, is a national Language Resource Center located on the San Diego State University campus.
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STARTalk Persian Summer Camp Program - July 6th - July 24th, 2009
STARTalk Turkish Summer Camp Program - August 10th - August 21st, 2009
Chinese Summer Program - August 4th - August 6th, 2009
University of Bahrain Teachers’ College
The director of the Arabic Programs, Dr. Hanada Taha-Thomure, was in Manama, Bahrain earlier in June 2009, to observe and evaluate the Arabic program at Bahrain Teachers College. The BTC is part of a new initiative within the University of Bahrain prepare world-class teachers.
Larc at the StarTalk Summer Institute at DePaul University
Dr. Hanada Taha-Thomure, offered a reading workshop at the StarTalk summer institute at DePaul University in the third week of June 2009. K-12 Arabic language teachers from around the nation were in attendance. The workshop trained teachers in reading strategies and types with a focus on guided reading.
Larc at MiddleBury’s Summer Program in CA
Dr. Taha-Thomure was invited to give a lecture at MiddleBury’s Arabic school in the third week of June 2009. The lecture whose title was “My Life in Lebanon” was attended by the whole school including 165 students and 30 teachers and staff members.
LARC Staff were in Washington DC on March 19th - 21st for the Title VI’s 50th Anniversay Conference. Our presentation titles, slides, and relevant links are listed below.
“Creating Learner Corpora from the Computer Assisted Screening Tool for Advanced Level Proficiency (CAST)”
Michael Trevor Shanklin, San Diego State University
(Right click to download the presentation slides)
View the CAST site
“Highlights of Materials and Curriculum Development for Less Commonly Taught Critical Languages: The Evolution of the Digital Media Archive”
Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, San Diego State University
Christopher Brown, San Diego State University
John Vitaglione, San Diego State University
“Creating Peace: Creating Effective Teachers of Arabic at SDSU and Bahrain Teachers’ College”
Hanada Taha-Thomure, San Diego State University
(Download the presentation slides)
Each summer LARC offers a number of workshops for language teachers. These mini-workshops are a great way to learn about emerging technology or build new language, literacy, and culture skills.
Reserve your spot in one of our summer workshops by filling out this online form.
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Our Persian Director, Dr. Atefeh Oliai, has been working hard to prepare our Persian teachers for this year’s This year’s Persian Summer Camp. Thanks to funding from STARtalk, we’ll be offering free Persian classes to students aged 7-18. We’ve had over 60 students register so far.
Visit the Persian Summer Camp web site, or the Persian Institute home page for more information.
We’re holding a series of Brownbag Workshops at the LARC. Check the schedule and sign up for any remaining sessions if you’re interested.
Today’s session was called Youtube & Friends. We looked at the more advanced features of youtube like setting up a channel, like we’ve done at LARC, then discussed ways to use captioning, and group annotations with our students. Since the presentation slides don’t have any notes, I’m just sharing links from today’s session instead.
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