ADE World & Native Language Updates
Including Partner Trainings and Events
NOMINATE TODAY! Outstanding World Languages Teacher Awards
Outstanding World Languages Teacher Awards
Application deadline has been extended for Elementary, Post Secondary and Young Educator Awards until May 31, 2024. Complete this application to nominate a colleague.
AZLA President Elect 2024-2025
We would like to invite you to apply for the President Elect position for the 2024-2025 fiscal year. If you are interested, please visit our website for more information.
How Students can Leverage Their Global Seal
When individuals and organizations receive their packet of Global Seal of Biliteracy certificates, they'll find enclosed a letter. This letter will give them some tips on how to leverage their Global Seal and use it to highlight their language skills and open the door to future opportunities including advanced placement, scholarships, and more. Click on the highlighted text below to learn more about each opportunity. If you are an organization/school representative awarding the Global Seal, please share this information with your recipients.
From the Global Seal of Biliteracy March Newsletter
- February 7, 2024, 4:00-5:30pm: Decentering Grades – Centering Learning: Ungrading in Language Classes Speaker: Evgeny Dengub, University of Southern California Dornsife
- February 29, 2024, 4:00-5:30pm: Maximizing the experience of heritage speakers in study abroad contexts Speaker: Antonio Jimenez, California State University Channel Islands
- March 5, 2024, 4:00-5:30pm: Learning and memorizing vocabulary: mental lexicon development in L2 learners Speaker: Jiang Liu, University of South Carolina
- April 17, 2024, 4:00-5:30pm: Modeling Learner Corpus-Based Instruction: Examples from Less Commonly Taught Languages Speakers: Shelly Staples and Valentina Vinokurova, The University of Arizona
Multilingualism is a superpower! Let’s celebrate it together! How are you planning to celebrate this April? Maybe you’re celebrating students’ heritage languages by promoting the Seal of Biliteracy and the AAPPL. We’ve heard from some schools exploring global exchanges, like the Pitman High School and Delbarton School in New Jersey. The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) has posted great resources for educators to promote and celebrate multilingualism.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
12:00–1:00 p.m. (Central Time)
Register for the Zoom link
Even though Spanish conventionally has a binary grammatical gender system (i.e., masculine and feminine), various approaches have been taken in recent years to achieve a more equal linguistic representation of all genders (e.g., using both male and feminine at once such as “todos y todas” or adopting a new morpheme that is not associated with the traditional binary genders, as in “latinx” or “todes” instead of “latino” or “todos”). However, the gender-inclusive forms are yet to be accepted by many native speakers. Not unexpectedly, students who study Spanish as a foreign language are still unlikely to be exposed to gender-inclusive varieties (Morales-Vidal & Cassany 2020).
The Inclusive Language Instruction Research Group (LangIn) surveyed and interviewed undergraduate students of Spanish at the University of Minnesota about their experiences with and opinions of gender-inclusive language to examine how students learn and understand gender expressions and inclusivity in the language classroom. Furthermore, the study seeks to contribute to the creation of gender-inclusive classroom environments by articulating what kind of gender-related topics, materials, and pedagogy are desired by students themselves.
April 15 is National ASL Day; find a history timeline, ideas for ASL-focused activities, and fun facts here to enhance your ASL day celebrations.
Date: April 17, 2024
Time: 5:00 pm EST
Please join us for a virtual with Fernando Rubio, a distinguished language educator and researcher.
Presenter:
Fernando Rubio
Director of the Yale Center for Language Study and Professor of Linguistics at Yale University
Fernando will discuss his study of the acquisition of gender and number agreement among Spanish learners enrolled in 4th, 6th, 8th, and 9th grade in an immersion program. Using AAPPL data collected by the State of Utah through its annual assessment of Dual Language Immersion learners, Fernando and his colleagues were able to identify the contexts in which errors typically occur with these features. After presenting the results of the study, he will discuss some pedagogical interventions to address the challenge that these grammatical structures pose in a content-based learning environment.
The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) at the University of Arizona invites language teachers to attend our FREE upcoming Professional Development webinar, the third in our series, Rebooting Language Educ-AI-tion. Participants can receive a certificate with 1.5 hours of professional development for this 90-minute event, and digital badges are available as well. Information about the full series is here: https://cercll.arizona.edu/webinars/ai-spr24/.
Registration is now open for all webinars in this series!
April 18, 2024 at 10 am
Integrating Extended Reality in Language Instruction, presented by
Regina Kaplan-Rakowski (University of North Texas)
The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) at the University of Arizona invites language teachers to attend the FREE upcoming Professional Development opportunity, the Language Teacher Symposium (LaTeS).This is a biannual in-person workshop at which K-12 language teachers can share ideas and issues that are specific to their community, leaving with methods and materials that they can implement into their own classrooms.
Information about the event and registration are now available:
presented by Ben Fisher-Rodriguez (Seattle, Washington).
Saturday, April 27th, 2024, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm (includes lunch).
Location: In-person at The University of Arizona, Tucson. (There are no remote access options for this event.)
There is no cost to register, but registration is required and closes on April 19th, or when the event is filled.
Limited funding for travel is available for K-12 Educators and for Graduate Students. Applications must be received by April 5.
Details about eligibility and a link to the application form are below.
Details and a link to register: https://cercll.arizona.edu/lates-language-teacher-symposium/
BELC Etats-Unis - July 10-14 - Registrations open until April 30!
From July 10 to 14, 2024, the professional development training program BELC États-Unis 2024. will be hosted at San Diego State University (SDSU), welcoming French language professionals and educators from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and registrations are open until April 30!
Please note that this professional development training is designed for all teachers of French World Language and Dual Language Immersion Programs, working in both primary and secondary levels, as well as at the university level.
BELC is an intensive training program for French language and education professionals coordinated by France Education International (FEI). BELC USA will offer all participants the opportunity to take 30 hours of training (2 modules of 15h each) in French, enabling them to perfect their pedagogical skills and develop their language teaching techniques.
The French Embassy in the United States organizes this first edition, in partnership with the French Embassy in Canada and the Institut Français d’Amerique latine (Mexico).
The cost of tuition and accommodation for teachers in the United States is covered by the Embassy.
About the BELC
The BELC trainings, conducted by France Education International (FEI), boast a storied tradition of excellence among professionals in the realm of teaching French as a foreign language. These training courses empower educators to refine their pedagogical approaches and acquire new expertise, fostering both formal instruction and informal dialogue.
Organized by the Embassy of France in the United States, in partnership with the Embassy of France in Canada and the Institut français du Mexique, the BELC États-Unis 2024 is an intensive one-week training course open to all teachers of French in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
With a wide range of courses covering the teaching, evaluation, training, and management of the French teaching profession, the BELC addresses the professional, disciplinary, and methodological developments in the domain of French as a foreign language.
Regularly held in France during the summer and winter, and globally since 2012, the Embassy of France in the United States is honored to host the BELC Régional with the goal of developing professional practices and supporting dynamic career projects for teachers of French.
The BELC États-Unis 2024 will give the opportunity to all participants to attend 30 hours of training to develop and strengthen their language teaching skills through selected workshops in French.
The available modules will cover several key areas, including classes for children or adolescents, pedagogical engineering, teaching methodologies as well as addressing the challenges and opportunities of teaching French as a heritage language.
Please do not hesitate to reach out to: belcusa@frenchculture.org should you have any questions.
July 23-25 Building Inclusive Schools Through Skillful Communication
Join us for an incredible two-and-a-half day leadership institute held July 23-25 at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
Centered on the tenets of intercultural communicative and pragmatic competence, we will support educators in developing culturally relevant classroom practices that celebrate the diverse communicative repertoires of learners from all socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. The draft agenda (to be updated based on participants’ feedback) is here. More key information is below.
Who should attend?
This leadership institute is for all educators working in K-12 contexts. The individuals listed below are people who may receive special benefit from their participation given the synergies within existing programmatic initiatives.
Educators working in socioeconomically diverse schools
Educators working in schools with AVID programs
Mid- or late-career professionals who have just become educators, particularly in career and technical fields
World language educators seeking to expand resources related to intercultural communicative competence
International Baccalaureate educators, particularly those teaching Theory of Knowledge or Approaches to Learning
Any educator wanting to expand their toolkit of culturally relevant approaches to assessment and instruction
Where can I register?
The cost of the event is $200 for early registrants. Click here to register. Early registration ends April 12.
Where will I stay?
Participants can book housing at the Holiday Inn Express in Eugene at a reduced price using this link. Cost per night is $109 before tax.
I’m interested, but funding is an issue. Who can I contact?
Please contact CASLS Associate Director Stephanie Knight at knights@uoregon.edu.