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From: Detiveaux, Georges J
Sent: 3/12/2010 9:11:03 AM
Subject: Conference announcement / Registration now available


The South Central Association for Language Learning Technology (http://www.socallt.org, representing Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico, & Arkansas) will hold its annual conference April 29-May 1, 2010 (http://www.socallt.org/Conferences/2010/) in conjunction with the Arkansas Foreign Language Teachers Association (http://www.aflta.org) at the Arlington Resort Hotel (http://www.arlingtonhotel.com) in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Conference registration is now open at http://www.socallt.org/Conferences/2010/registration.php. We hope to see you there!

 

 

georges detiveaux (georges.j.detiveaux@lonestar.edu)

manager/instructional technology consultant, http://www.lonestar.edu/tlclabs

language labs, http://cyfair.lonestar.edu/languagelabs   

french, http://faculty.lonestar.edu/gdetiveaux   

 

lone star college-cyfair

9191 barker cypress road, LRNC-212a

cypress, tx 77433

tel 281.290.5975 fax 281.290.5282

 

pres-elect, socallt, www.socallt.org 

pres, aatf-houston, http://aatfhouston.blogspot.com  


From: Dorothee Mertz-Weigel <Dorothee.Mertz-Weigel@armstrong.edu>
Date: 3/3/2010 6:03:41 AM
Subject: RE: Francophone Film Festival at AASU

The Second Annual Francophone Film Festival at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia, will be April 1-3, 2010 in the Fine Arts Auditorium. Is it made possible through a program called Tournées Festival through FACE (The French American Cultural
Exchange). It is organized by The AASU French Club, the Department of
Languages, Literature and Philosophy, the College of Liberal Arts as
well as the Office of International Education.
 
The program will be as follows:
 
Thursday April 1st, 2010, 7 pm
La Graine et le Mulet (The Secret of the Grain)- Reception to follow
 
Friday April 2nd 2010.
6 pm- Un Secret (A Secret) and
8:30 pm- Entre les murs (The Classroom)
 
Saturday April 3rd:
6 pm: Azur et Asmar (Azur and Asmar)
8:30 pm- Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon (The Romance of Astrea and
Celadon)
 
Please contact Dr. Dorothee Mertz-Weigel
(dorothee.mertz-weigel@armstrong.edu) if you have any questions.
 
 
 
Dorothee Mertz-Weigel, PhD
Assistant Professor of French Language and Literature
Armstrong Atlantic State University
Gamble Hall 102 A
912- 344- 2804
Dorothee.Mertz-Weigel@armstrong.edu

From: Rick Cohoon
Sent: 2/17/2010 7:01:32 AM
Subject: Re: AATF Babillard posting

Thanks so much for posting my info (SEE BELOW) on Le Babillard. The tee shirts are now on sale and I have developed a web page on our school site where they can be purchased. I'm also hoping to get other partner schools to help out as well if their teachers are interested in selling the shirts.
 
The website address is: http://www.charleston.k12.il.us/chs/haiti.html
 
Merci!
Rick
 

Subject: My French Club selling Haiti Tee Shirt
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:22:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Cohoon <rcohoon_1999@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: rcohoon@consolidated.net

 

Hello,
 
I am the French teacher at Charleston High School in Charleston, IL and a member of AATF. Some of my French students have designed a simple tee shirt that says "Haiti Espoir." The shirt is kelly green in color with white print.  The printer is selling us each shirt for $5.00 and we will be selling for $10.00, donating every cent of the $5 profit to Doctors Without Borders.
 
I was wondering if you would be willing to help us spread the word about the shirts to AATF members, I will create a page on our school website where anyone can buy the shirts for $10 plus a small shipping fee.
 
I was hoping that with your help we could spread the word and raise more money for Haiti.
 
Thanks,
Rick Cohoon

Subject: Linguistics Institute for Language Teachers
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:27:20 -0500
From: Beth Hume <ehume@ling.ohio-state.edu>


LINGUISTICS INSTITUTE FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

June 21-25, 2010

LILT is a weeklong summer program designed specifically for teachers of foreign languages. The goal is to provide language teachers with greater linguistic awareness and understanding, with the ability to think critically about language, and with a deeper appreciation for all aspects of language and language study. The program is not a general introduction to language, nor is it an introduction to linguistics, nor is it about second language pedagogy. Rather, the philosophy behind the program is that language teachers and learners can be well served by knowledge that offers them insight into the structure and use of their own language, so that they will be able to see more clearly how the language that they are teaching or learning differs from it and be able to profit from this understanding. In short, the objective is to provide the teacher/learner with what s/he needs to know about language in general in order to study a particular language more effectively. 

Course credit: 3 graduate credit hours

Course times: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Monday, June 21st – Friday, June 25th

Tuition: Tuition is $575.00. However, 25 full tuition waivers are available thanks to generous support from the Ohio Humanities Council. Participants need not be teachers in Ohio to qualify for a tuition waiver.

Application deadline:  Friday, April 30th, 2010

Webpage: http://linguistics.osu.edu/lilt


Rating:  ETUDES

From: Perigord Linguistique Culturel <fle_perigueux@yahoo.fr>
Date: 2/2/2010 12:41:29 AM
Subject: Nouveau Stages Fle et Surf à Biarritz

 Une très très bonne année à Biarritz avec l'Alliance Française et l'APLC
Je reste à votre disposition pour toute information complémentaire, à bientôt,

Françoise Lipchitz  http://www.alliance-bordeaux.org/fr/stages-juniors-biarritz.htm

Rating:  ETUDES

 

From: Francois Fouquerel
Sent: 1/21/2010 3:40:28 PM
Subject: La Chandeleur
 

Bonjour du Lac du bois

En Normandie ou j’ai grandi, le ciel d’hivers et souvent bas et lourd et la bruime froide pénètre jusqu’aux os mais le deux février jour de la chandeleur il fait chaud dans les chaumières.  Sur la gazinière les mamans jonglent avec trois ou quatre poêles d’où sautent des crêpes blondes et dorées que les marmots dévorent avec gourmandise les mains collantes de sucres et de confitures

Et la prochaine elle est pour qui?

                     Moi je suis prête pour une autre crêpe avec du Nutella cette fois

La chandeleur c’est la fête de la lumière

                                 Faisceau que le français apporte dans nos classes

Au bon plaisir de vous accueillir au Lac du bois avec vos élèves

François Fouquerel

http://www.concordialanguagevillages.org/newsite/Programs/Educators/village_weekends1.php

 

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandeleur

http://www.teteamodeler.com/culture/fetes/coutume-chandeleur.asp

http://www.linternaute.com/femmes/cuisine/magazine/dossier/0501crepes/tradition.shtml

http://www.saveursdumonde.net/traditions/chandeleur/

http://www.saisons-vives.com/frontoffice/index.asp?id=598

http://www.momes.net/dossiers/chandeleur/chandeleur.html

http://www.lexilogos.com/calendrier_chandeleur.htm

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk8BvnSOlHw

 


From: Celine Garnier-Perrault <fleette@yahoo.fr>
Date: 1/15/2010 4:48:50 PM
Subject: Recherche des correspondants pour mes élèves français de seconde

Bonjour! Hi everyone,
 
Je suis enseignante d'anglais dans un lycée d'Angers (France, Maine et
Loire) et je recherche une ou deux classes (plutôt des "11th graders" je
pense) pour correspondre avec mes élèves de secondes (elles -une grande
majorité de filles- ont entre 16 et 19 ans et sont une soixantaine au
total). Je parle beaucoup de la culture américaine dans mes classes
(j'ai passé 4 ans comme prof. à Ossining) et j'aimerais entre autre
faire un projet vidéo dans lequel les élèves présenteraient leur école
et leur vie au lycée (et en dehors). Si cela vous -et vos élèves-
intéresse, contactez-moi. On sera ravies! ;-)
Merci and have a good day.
Céline Perrault
LP La Roseraie
celine.perrault@ac-nantes.fr

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