NCLRC Summer Workshops
Register by May 1 for early registration discount

 Visit:  http://nclrc.org/  for complete schedule of Summer Institutes and registration form. 

USE FILM CLIPS IN YOUR SPANISH CLASSROOM: A HANDS-ON WORKSHOP

June 23 Cost: $100 / Early: (before 5/1): $80 Spanish teachers are guided to view films with an eye toward selecting 3-5 minute clips that can easily be integrated into an existing curriculum. Through examination of a successful film clip website, and application of the principles embodied in the website, participants select a clip from a movie they bring with them, and prepare support materials for use in classrooms.
Scholarship available thanks to co-sponsorship by the GWU Language Center and GW-CIBER (Center for International Business Education & Research) Contact info@nclrc.org

SPAIN: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE: EMBASSY OF SPAIN/NCLRC 3-DAY IMMERSION SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR TEACHERS OF SPANISH.
Embassy of Spain staff, Sheila Cockey, M.A. and Michele Harris-Padron (Guitars in the Classroom)

An enjoyable, informative, immersion experience for teachers on Spanish language and culture, and how to teach it. All participants and presenters speak only Spanish for the duration of the Institute. In addition to an Embassy reception, programs include hands-on, interactive presentations, discussions, language and cultural experiences. Evenings focus on sharing of teaching strategies and learning an easy method to play guitar and sing songs in Spanish. Participants may borrow a guitar to take home and play in their class.
The guitar workshops are generously sponsored by Godin Guitars, Dunlop Manufacturing, and The John and Joan D'Addario Foundation. NCLRC thanks them for their outstanding contribution to promoting the arts as an integral part of foreign language study. Participants who take part in these institutes will have the chance to learn to play guitar and then borrow a guitar to be used in the classroom. The organization Guitars in the Classroom http://www.guitarsintheclassroom.com/ is collaborating with NCLRC to provide these workshops and has arranged to provide an instructor and the loan of the guitars.

TEACHING SPANISH TO HERITAGE SPANISH SPEAKERS
Conducted in Spanish by Anna Uhl Chamot, Ph.D. and Héctor M. Enríquez, (University of Texas, El Paso)

June 26 - 27 Cost: $200/ Early: (before 5/1): $150 Secondary heritage Spanish speakers are fluent in oral Spanish, but vary greatly in their level of literacy. Those with educational gaps need help in developing their reading and writing proficiency and also in grammar and academic and literary vocabulary. Practical, research-based activities for high school Hispanic students demonstrate ways to teach literary concepts, language skills, and learning strategies for reading comprehension and writing in Spanish. Ways to differentiate instruction in mixed literacy level classes are suggested.

For a complete list of our summer institutes and registration form please visit:
http://nclrc.org/profdev/nclrc_inst_pres/summer_inst.html

University of Virginia Center for the Liberal Arts

Saturday Workshop for Spanish K-12 Teachers
and
Spring Meeting of AATSP

April 26, 2008.  8:30 - 3:00, Zehmer Hall, University of Virginia

¿Qué decís vosotros? ¿Qué tú dices? ¿Qué decís vos?: La variación lingüística en el mundo hispanohablante.
 
The Spanish-speaking world is a fountain of linguistic variation.  From one region to another, as well as from one segment of society to another, one can observe differences in pronunciation, forms and use of pronouns and verbs, different words to identify the same item, as well as the same word with very different meanings from region to region.  It is this linguistic diversity that makes the Spanish language such a fascinating object of study for dialectologists and sociolinguists.
 
Professors Fernando Tejedo and Joel Rini of the University of Virginia, together with Professor Roger Wright of the University of Liverpool, will explore with the participants of this workshop the most salient features of the major varieties of the Spanish language, and when relevant, their origins.  In addition, notions such as “language”, “dialect”, “variety”, “register”, “Castilian”, and “Spanish” will be considered and discussed, as well as what such variation means for the teaching of Spanish.
 
This workshop will begin with Registration and coffee at 8:30 and should run until 3 p.m.  It will be held at Zehmer Hall at the University of Virginia campus. 

If you are interested, please fill out the registration form at this website:   

http://www.virginia.edu/cla/contact.php 

UVA / CLA summer session
http://www.virginia.edu/cla/

The Center for the Liberal Arts and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation will be offering a 3 credit summer session in Spanish this summer. The institute will run from June 22 thru July 5, 2008 and will be limited to 15 participants.

The first week will be presented by Professor Fernando Opere
THE SECOND SPANISH REPUBLIC , ART AND LITERATURE
There is not another period more dramatically interesting in the 20th Century History of Spain than the Second Republic . After 500 years of Monarchy, the Second Republic brought a political system that lasted from April 14, 1931 (when King Alfonso XIII left the country) until April 1, 1939, when the forces of the Republic surrendered to Nationalist rebels led by General Franco, after the three years of Spanish Civil War. It was a period of dramatic changes and confrontations, but also of effervescent creativity, a sort of second Golden Age of arts and literature. This summer Institute will study the history, society, and culture of this period that is fundamental to understand the rest of the century and Spain today.

The second week will be presented by Professor Andrew Anderson on
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR IN LITERATURE AND FILM
Almost seventy years after its end, the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) continues to be a fundamental historical point of reference in contemporary Spain and, arguably, all the more so since the return to power in April 2004 of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the PSOE. Since 1939, hundreds of works of literature have been published inside and outside Spain that take as their theme some aspect of the Civil War. For this summer institute, we will be focusing on literary works that have also been made into successful films, and we will be considering both book and film intrinsically as well as analyzing the process of adaptation. The works to be studied will also be selected to provide a varied range of viewpoints, from Republican to Nationalist and from adult to child.

Please use application form found on the website: http://www.virginia.edu/cla/
15 Participants will be chosen from the applications.
Tuition for the 2 credit class will be
In-State $520 ($260/hr x 2 hours) plus $253 Comprehensive Fee – Total $773.00 
For out of State participants – Tuition will be $660/hr x 3 $1320 plus $265 comprehensive fee= $1585 total
 

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