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September 2009
Introductory Arabic
September 28, 2009 -
December 7, 2009
- University of Maryland
[Details]
Participants will learn basic communication skills and
gain insights into Arabic cultures and customs which is important for Business or travel.
Location: Van Munching Hall
October 2009
Introductory Mandarin
October 5, 2009 -
December 14, 2009
- University of Maryland
[Details]
Participants will learn basic communication skills and
gain insights into Chinese cultures and customs which is important for business and travel.
Location: Van Munching Hall
Foreign Language Online Courses
October 14, 2009 -
October 1, 2010
- University of Maryland
[Details]
The Smith School CIBER is pleased to offer all Smith School faculty and staff online language instruction through RosettaStone, the world's leading language-learning software. RosettaStone combines advanced interactive technology with native speaker voicing and a rich visual environment to mimic the complete immersion process, teaching whole-language skills, including: listening, reading, speaking, and writing.
Instruction is available in the following languages:
Arabic
French
German
Hindi
Japanese
Korean
Mandarin
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Russian
Spanish (Latin America as well as Spain)
Location:
The program compares the dynamic growth of China’s two leading economic regions – the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta – and explores China’s transformation from a planned economy to a globally competitive market oriented economy. Faculty will meet with entrepreneurs, business executives, and government officials who make this growth happen and visit cultural sites, universities, and companies to develop a framework for the past and present. The program begins in Shanghai, China’s burgeoning economic and financial center with 25% of China’s exports and 12.5% of its financial revenues. Participants travel to Hangzhou where the GDP has increased an average of 22% annually. On to Guangzhou, a world class manufacturing center where 34% of China’s exports, 30% of its foreign direct investment, and 19% of its GDP occur on 0.5% of China’s land. Finally to Hong Kong, a world class service center that ranks among the most competitive regions on the globe. Location: China
Florida International University’s CIBER is proud to announce the 2nd Annual KLanguage for Business Conference: K-12 and Community College, Technologies and Tools for a New Language for Business Course. The day conference will be held in Miami, January 23rd at the Sofitel Hotel. The Conference has the support of consulates, language associations and cultural organizations. We have chosen four language tracks—Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese—concentrating on the most relevant languages taught in the classroom today.
The program will serve to instruct high school teachers and junior community college professors on the importance and necessity of incorporating aspects of Language for Business into the standard curricula. It will provide teachers and professors with materials and practical lessons on how to incorporate and develop a course in the K-12 curricula on Language for Business.
Location: Hotel Sofitel - Miami, FL
The workshops will serve as a unique forum for the exchange of ideas among the participants. The workshop leaders offer: numerous insights into the relationship between foreign language, culture and international business; discussions on how to develop and teach a business language curriculum; exploration of the resources available in this new and fast-changing field;
introductions to the business language examinations (i.e., Prufung Wirtschaftsdeutsch International (PWDP);
ways to structure a business language program for varying needs; and instruction in the use of the internet.
Location: University of Memphis
The CIBER Business Language Conference provides the opportunity for teachers, scholars, policy makers and business leaders to discuss business language education. The conference responds to the overarching mission of the U.S. Department of Education’s CIBER grant program to enhance the competitiveness of U.S. business globally by linking the human capital and information needs of the U.S. business community with the international education, language training, and research capacity of universities across the United States.
The conference ties into the larger national discourse about the ways that language education must keep pace and meet future challenges for applied language programs in light of research, trends, and needs of the changing economic environment.
Through the lens of literacy as a critical construct in the fields of second language acquisition and education, participants will be invited to share ideas and charter new directions for language and cross-cultural training. The notion of literacy frames the discussion of cross-cultural training as situating appropriate understandings and meanings in proper contexts. Location: Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania
The theme of the 12th Annual CIBER Business Language Conference explores the practice and theory of language and cultural training through the lens of literacy. The upcoming conference continues the tradition of bringing together teachers, scholars, policy makers, and business leaders to discuss business language education and to share ideas about the ways language education for future business leaders can benefit from principled frameworks and understandings of literacy, cross-cultural awareness and second language acquisition. Location:
On Saturday, April 17, 2010, MSU will again invite hundreds of high school students, teachers, administrators, and parents to campus to explore a world of languages during the Sixth Annual World Languages Day. Free to all participants, this day-long conference will focus on the experiences that languages offer, and highlight the opportunities available for language and international study at MSU. Location: Michigan State University
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 Summer Institute for Teaching a Second Language for Business Communication is designed primarily for secondary and post-secondary language educators. This program includes an overview of basic business fundementals, combined with discussion of current issues in language-teaching methodology and curriculum design.
Participants work on group projects in which they design curriculum modules that apply the concepts addressed during the program. After the institute, participants receive a compilation of all the projects to enable them to adapt and use the modules in their own classroom situations.
Participants who are Pennyslvania or New Jersey public school teachers are eligible to receive continuing-education credit. Location: Lauder Institute, Lauder-Fischer Hall, University of Pennsylvania
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