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FEBRUARY IS DISCOVER LANGUAGES MONTH! [more]
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Globalization101.org provides students and teachers with information about interdisciplinary learing opportunities on this complex phenomenon. Check out the resources that include lesson plans, issue briefs, expert interviews, and news analyses. Featured also are the World Bank and IMF issue brief in Chinese and the Culture Issue Brief in Spanish. This site is sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation.
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Martha Abbott, Director of Education at ACTFL, speaks with David Inge of WILL AM 580 in Champaign-Urbana, IL on learning foreign languages in the United States and why it matters. Click here to download the audio file.
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Students at Richmond Drive Elementary in Rock Hill, South Carolina, find out where languages have taken their faculty members by charting their courses on this world map. Thanks to teacher Lynn Fulton-Archer for sending in this picture!
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Foreign Language Association of Georgia
Kentucky World Language Association
Fulton County Schools, Department of World Languages announces February as Discover Languages Month!
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