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April 2008
Short-Term Study Abroad Conference
April 23, 2008 -
April 25, 2009
- The University of Texas at Austin
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An annual conference designed to share best practices and innovation in short-term study abroad programming with academic institutions with small or developing programs. Location: Austin, TX
The Center for International Business Education and Research at the George Washington University (GW-CIBER) is collaborating with the organizers of the World Russian Forum in an effort to bring world class experts to Russian language educators, students, and practitioners.
The main purpose of the Forum is to discuss and generate new ideas for the development and broad expansion of U.S.-Russia cooperation in global security, business and commerce, science and education, and other key areas. There will be a specific session for Russian language instructors that will focus on understanding, analyzing, and interpreting the rich content on Russian business, politics, and educational issues in order to devise ways in which these new insights can be transferred into the Russian language classroom, and more specifically the Business Russian classroom. An in-depth discussion will be led by experienced business language professional Dr. Maria Bourlatskaya from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. Participants will be immersed in the Russian language throughout the duration of the program. Location: Washington, DC
The University of Florida is pleased to sponsor a program in Brazil for business students and others interested in Latin American business and finance. Drawing on the resources of the Center for Latin American Studies and CIBER, UF has offered this unique study opportunity since 2000.
The program offers six credits and two courses: Business in Brazil (3 transfer credits) and Brazilian Portuguese (3 transfer credits). Business in Brazil is organized by the School of Business at PUC-Rio and includes visits to local companies and NGO's three afternoons per week. Brazilian Portuguese is offered at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels in small intensive classes taught by native speaking, professionally trained IBEU instructors. Location: Rio de Janeiro and San Paulo, Brazil
The workshop is designed for college and university professors of Spanish who are interested in or already offering courses in business Spanish at the advance-intermediate and advanced levels. It is also intended to provide an understanding of the field of international business, a source of employment for many students of foreign languages. Participants will discover new practices and resources to improve their abilities as instructors in the ever-evolving international business environment. The University of South Carolina CIBER offers fourteen (14) $500 scholarships on a first-come, first-served basis to help defray the cost of attendance. Location: Columbia, SC
The Ninth Annual Spanish Language Faculty Development Program - Teaching Spanish for Business: A Global Approach is designed for Spanish professors. The program will provide Spanish language faculty with knowledge about business terminology, the methodology of teaching Spanish for Business, information about the business world in Spain and its relationship to the European Union. FIU CIBER in cooperation with UNED, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, invite Spanish language faculty to join their colleagues from around the nation for an exciting and rewarding one week workshop on Business Spanish to be held in Spain. Location: Spain
International Conference on Business Chinese
June 26-29, 2008
- University of Florida
[Details]
The purpose of the conference is to promote international cooperation in the teaching and research of business Chinese. Under the main theme of the conference “Contemporary Linguistic Theory and the Teaching of Business Chinese”, there are three sub-themes: “Sociolinguistics”, “the Teaching of Business Chinese” and “the Linguistic Study of Chinese.” Participants of the conference are mostly by invitation, but submission of abstracts for a poster session by other scholars is also welcome. All papers presented at the conference will be screened by an independent panel for publication in the proceedings. The full text of each paper submitted for publication should be no longer than 10,000 Chinese characters or 10 pages in English.
The conference is jointly sponsored by the College of International Cultural Exchange, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, the Hitotsubashi University (一桥大学) in Japan and the University of Florida in the U.S. and is organized by the College of International Exchange and the Center for Business Chinese Research of the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
Location: Shanghai, China
SDSU's LARC Summer Institute "Teaching Languages in the Digital Age" addresses the needs and concerns of digital literacy for language teachers. We remember that you are a language teacher, and not a programmer. This institute will help you integrate web technology in your curriculum. It is designed for teachers who want to know what tools to use and how to use them for adding content online and make it accessible for students.
Location: San Diego, California
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