The VII International Conference on Language Teacher Education will take place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 19–21, 2011. The mission of the conference is to address the education of teachers of all languages, at all instructional and institutional levels, and in all the many national and international contexts in which this takes place, including: English […]
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VII International Conference on Language Teacher Education – Minneapolis
Posted on 07 January 2011.
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Funding for Portuguese at University of Arizona- LCTLs
Posted on 03 January 2011.
The UA’s Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy has earned a $1.3 million federal grant to continue its mission of helping improve the instruction and learning of languages least commonly taught (LCTLS). The languages targeted in this project are Chinese, Portuguese and Russian. At $1.3 million, the grant will support 12 projects […]
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António Damásio publishes new book
Posted on 02 January 2011.
Ten years after the publication of The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (1999), neurologist António Damásio launched a new book on consciousness Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (2010) on relations between mind, brain and consciousness. António Damásio is a researcher at University of Southern California. His […]
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Free fuel assistance – MAPS
Posted on 02 January 2011.
The Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS) announced it is providing free help with fuel assistance applications for Portuguese speaking families in the Greater Boston- by appointment -at the nonprofit agency’s offices in Cambridge, Allston, Dorchester and Lowell. The program, which runs from November 1 to April 30, is available to any family or individual […]
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