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An innovative summer program for North Carolina high school students introducing them to the new global economic realities by providing them with unpaid internships in Puebla, Mexico. The internships will be supplemented by intensive foreign language and cross-cultural instruction both in NC and Mexico. Applicants must already have and be able to demonstrate Spanish language proficiency.
Location: North Carolina & Mexico
This program will be the first symposium of its type especially for Ph.D. students in business languages to encourage greater long-term focus on business language research and teaching among future language faculty and leadership (deans, department heads, etc.). The conference will focus on three themes: Current environment for business language education; Career Development; and Instructional Design. This is a unique event that will influence future language education leaders early in their careers to recognize the importance of business language and culture in their academic preparation. Location: West Lafayette, IN
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
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 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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