NNELL
Members Presenting at
ACTFL!
Are you presenting at the 2015 in
San Diego? As a network, we encourage our members to connect
and collaborate. Therefore, this year we would like to
create a directory of the NNELL members who will be
presenting at the ACTFL Convention and Expo. We are looking
forward to seeing you in San Diego!
Please submit your session title and the name of the
presenters here:
ACTFL 2015.
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NNELL is Seeking a Journal
Editor
Join the NNELL team! NNELL is seeking someone to fill the
position of Journal Editor of Learning Languages. Check out
this excellent opportunity to contribute to the field of
early language learning.
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Calendar of Events
For more events, check out the new
Calendar page! NNELL, in the spirit of
networking and collaboration, would like to assist other
organizations in their promotion of activities of interest
to early language educators. If there is a professional
development opportunity in your area,
please submit it to your Regional Representative.
We will get it on our calendar as soon as we can.
Please note: the appearance of an event on this page
does not imply an endorsement of the event.
Regional Representative Meeting
As part of our strategic planning in July, we will hold a
meeting with the regional representatives during the Summer
Institute. Time and date: TBA. If you can
not make it to the Summer Institute, we will do our best to
have you attend virtually. We are excited to share new ideas
and shifts in the regions that will provide our members and
representatives more opportunities to network!
Join Us This
Summer!
NNELL Summer Institute
July 10-12, 2015
Glastonbury, CT
The 2015 NNELL Summer Institute will be
held July 10-12 in Glastonbury, Connecticut. The cost for
members is $200 including meals and space is limited, so register today! For
more information, including a tentative schedule and list of
speakers, please visit our
Summer Institute page.
Valuing Languages
A recent article from the Huffington
Post presents an argument for the protection of linguistic
diversity in the face of a trend toward linguistic homogeneity.
The author stresses that the loss of knowledge funds of the
cultural, spiritual, and social, practices of peoples, whose
languages are threatened with extinction, threatens vast human
knowledge that has been assembled over millennia.
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"Starting kids at an early age gives them an edge"
Teaching Mandarin to toddlers? A New
York immersion program does just that---find out how current
brain research helps inform the curriculum of in this innovative
school.
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Children exposed to multiple languages may be
better natural communicators
A new study conducted by
psychologists at the University of Chicago found that young
children who hear more than one language spoken at home
become better communicators. This study is the first to
reveal that children do not have to be bilingual themselves;
it is the mere exposure to more than one language that is
key for building effective social communication skills. One
of the researchers claimed that, "Our discovery has
important policy implications, for instance it suggests
previously unrealized advantages for bilingual education."
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Señora Speedy
This blogspot, from the NNELL’s KY
representative, shares positive aspects as well as
challenges of teaching language on a cart. Tips for teaching
a variety of curricular topics such as colors, emotions,
animals and even cooking cultural foods are also presented
in the blog.
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Greetings and Self Introduction
Learn how to introduce yourself in
Chinese
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