http://larc.sdsu.edu Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:48:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Language Acquisition Resource Center, LARC, is a national Language Resource Center located on the San Diego State University campus. LARC, a San Diego State University-housed program sponsored by the San Diego State University Research Foundation (SDSURF), is one of fifteen Department of Education Title VI funded Language Resource Centers (LRCs). ... http://larc.sdsu.edu/?p=1026 This fall, LARC is hosting a new series of Online Webinars.  These free workshops are designed for language educators and will highlight ways to use social media tools like blogs and youtube in the language classroom. The sessions are held each Thursday at 4 PM (PST) in our Elluminate classroom. ... http://larc.sdsu.edu/?p=1464 August 10th to August 14th, 2009 The Social Media Summer Institute will be delivered from LARC at San Diego State University from Aug 10 - 14th, 2009. For the first time, we’re broadcasting a summer institute online for anyone who’d like to participate. National and International CALL (Computer Assisted ... http://larc.sdsu.edu/?p=1330 Faculty Professional Development Day: 6 July 2009 Dr.  Mary Ann Lyman-Hager Keynote address: Trans-Cultural, Trans-Lingual Competency: Achievable in our Time? http://larc.sdsu.edu/?p=1314 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 http://larc.sdsu.edu/?p=1263 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 ... http://larc.sdsu.edu/?p=1259 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 ... http://larc.sdsu.edu/?p=1082 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. 2009 Summer Institutes Schedule June 8 - Aug 14: Critical Language Teacher Training Institute June 22 - 26: SAILN Language Teacher Training ... http://larc.sdsu.edu/?p=1137 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 ... http://larc.sdsu.edu/?p=1162 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 ... http://larc.sdsu.edu/?p=1028