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Become a NNELL State
Representative
As a national organization,
NNELL operates through a network of state
representatives. You could help NNELL to continue with
its mission by becoming a representative of your state.
As a State Representative, you will serve as an advocate
for early language learning, heighten public awareness
of foreign languages in elementary and middle school
education, serve as state representative for NNELL to
your state language association and ensure that foreign
languages in grades K-8 are recognized as a priority
matter in your state. If you are interested in being
more involved with NNELL and its advocacy efforts,
please read the description for this position or contact
NNELL's National Networking Coordinator,
Marcela
Summerville (msummerville@nnell.org)
Download PDF to view responsibilities
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NNELL @ ACTFL in San Diego
Congratulations to NNELL's Past President, Rita Oleksak, for
being awarded the ACTFL Florence Steiner Award for
Leadership in Foreign Language Education, K-12. "Honored and
humbled", Rita remarked how fortunate she felt to be
surrounded by her teacher leaders as she received the award.
We could not agree more on her well deserved recognition and
her ability to empower those around her! |
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Our award winning board members do not stop there! We are
excited to share the news that our Treasurer, Diane DeNoon
was recognized as the National Association of District
Supervisors of Foreign Languages (NADSFL)
Supervisor of the Year "It's such a wonderful group of
colleagues who have great programs all across the country,"
DeNoon said. "I've learned so much from them. It's very much
an honor to be recognized by your colleagues." |
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The 2015 NNELL Award for Outstanding Support for Early
Language Learning was announced by New Jersey State
Representative, Amanda Seewald, and President Elect,
Nathan
Lutz (left). This year's award recipient is
NYC Public Schools
Chancellor, Carmen Fariña. Her acceptance of the award was
inspirational and motivating. For instance, she insisted
that, "we need K-16 articulation to meet the teacher need of
increasing dual language and immersion programs!!" |
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Watch Carmen Fariña's message on Youtube.
Click here to see NNELL's Awards Page for
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The annual NNELL Networking Breakfast was well attended and
thanks to Laura Terrill, as one attendee stated, "the
message that I received from the session was unforgettable!"
We extend a special thanks to our sponsor,
Santillana, who
at the platinum level, sponsored graduate student, Hilal
Peker, to join us at the breakfast. We also recognized
Sans,
Inc. for their support and generous gift in kind for the
raffle. We also thank our gold level sponsor,
Highlights and
to NYSAFLT. Our gifts in kind donors rewarded raffle winners
with amazing gifts this year! Don't miss out next year! Make
sure you register for the breakfast. It is a ticketed event.
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We look forward to seeing more NNELL members in person and
as presenters next year in Boston for the 2016 Convention &
World Languages Expo!
Make sure you submit your proposal by
Wednesday, January 13th. Once your proposal is accepted, let
us know so we can share your session for more networking
opportunities!
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Webinars
This fall, we launched our Webinar Series with NNELL's
Learning Languages editor, Dr. Kelly Davidson Devall.
In our first session, Kelly was joined by Nathan
Lutz and Catherine Ousselin, who
authored a recent Learning Languages article, "Engaging
Assessments for Speaking and Listening."
Our second webinar in this series was led by Ann
Ferriter, who authored "Building
Community in a Highly Successful Inner-City STARTALK
Program." As members, you can now watch these
webinars on demand in the "Members
Only" area! We will continue our webinars next
month. Keep an eye out for our next webinar in the series
and send questions, comments and feedback to:
webinars@nnell.org
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Summer Institute: Save the Date!
Please join us July 14-17, 2016 in
Louisville, Kentucky, for the 2016 NNELL Summer Institute.
This year's theme is "Whole Child, Whole World"
and will focus on educating the whole child including core
content, global competency, creativity and self-expression.
Save the date! More details will be shared
soon. Come visit Louisville, home of Jefferson County Public
Schools (JCPS) and World Language Specialist Jacque
Bott Van Houten. The diversity of this school
system will amaze you. Bring the family for a tour of the
Louisville Slugger Bat Museum and Factory
and
The
Muhammad Ali Center!
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Learning Languages Journal
The Spring/Summer theme will coincide with the Summer
Institute's theme, "Whole Child, Whole World."
Our editorial board looks forward to receiving your
submission.
Click here for Author Guidelines and
please send inquiries to
journal@nnell.org
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#FOLLOWUS
NNELL launched #earlylang last year and is
continuing the conversation through social media. Follow us,
like us, retweet, and/or hashtag your favorite
#earlylang moments!
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Baby Talk Patterns Give Clue Into Early Language Acquisition: Children Use Previous Vocabulary To Help Learn New Words
This article reports on a recent study
published in the journal, Developmental Science. Researchers
studied language development of 32 2-year-old children and found
that the children used words they already knew to help them make
associations in acquiring new words. Results confirmed that
mental categorization played an important role in early word
acquisition. Read the article to learn how parents and teachers
can help expand children’s vocabulary.
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Play-based apps aim to switch on preschoolers interest in languages
As part of a multi-million dollar
federal arrangement to improve Australian second language
acceptance, the government set up a trial to seed children’s
language studies at an early age, investing them to have a basis
for building upon later in their secondary schooling by learning
one of five languages using tablet apps and interactive games.
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Español para niños con Benny
Two sets of vocabulary are available
in the lite version of this app. Benny helps users learn
greetings through modeling a conversation with his friend,
Gabi. The names of toys are introduced using a picture and
audio representation of the word. Users can then play three
different games to practice that vocabulary. Twelve
additional vocabulary packages are available for a fee.
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Flash Cards Spanish Free
Free flashcards with audio about
basic vocabulary: foods, animals, body, clothing, furniture,
transportation, colors.
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Français pour les enfants par INKids Education LLC
This app has 400 flashcards in 14
categories for children ages 6-8 to learn basic vocabulary.
Includes a pronunciation soundtrack.
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TOmaTO Free par iBuRGeR Apps
This app is for children up to age
15 to discover vocabulary for fruits and vegetables with a
beautiful photo image and sound - in French, English and
Spanish.
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Hola Llamigo
(Video)
This wordless video is about a
little boy who works on a piñata farm and his adventures
with one of the piñatas that befriends him.
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Simon’s Cat
(Video)
On this YouTube channel, visitors
will find a variety of wordless videos featuring a Simon’s
cat and his friends. Some videos included are: TV Dinner,
Let Me In!, Fly Guy, Snow Business, and many more.
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Thank you to JNCL,
and NNELL members Janine Erickson,
Tammy Dann, Lori Langer de Ramirez,
Kristel Saxton, Andrea Suarez Boyd,
Heather Hendry, PhD., Alice Charkes,
and Sally Hood, PhD., for their contributions
to this publication.
If you would like to share an interesting article, app, or
teaching tool with the NNELL community in our next eNNELL News
edition, please contact
Dorie Perugini.
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