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The finest radio drama of the 1930's was The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. (...)The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown. This site has many of the surviving shows, and will eventually have all of them. The show first broadcast on CBS and CBC in July 1938. It ran without a sponsor until December of that year, when it was picked up by Campbell's Soup and renamed The Campbell Playhouse. All of the surviving Mercury Theatre shows are available from this page in RealAudio format (some are also in MP3 format). There are several Campbell Playhouse episodes available here as well, in both RealAudio and MP3 formats; the rest are being added gradually.

BERNA - La Confederazione vuole poter conoscere in tempo reale il traffico di dati in internet di persone sospette: nel caso di un procedimento penale in corso, intende sorvegliare le comunicazioni avvenute via banda larga in chat, forum, oppure servizi telefonici proposti in rete. È quanto emerge da documenti confidenziali citati oggi dal settimanale «Wochenzeitung» (WOZ). Il Dipartimento federale di giustizia e polizia (DFGP) conferma.

"From November 5th to 8th, 2009, there will be an open-knowledge event, Social Networking, organized by AVEALMEC and ARCALL, two LatinAmerican associations, one based in Venezuela and the other one in Argentina, interested in promoting the use of ICT in the language classroom. It will be completely online and free, and its aim is to encourage practioners to reflect the role of communities of practice as social networks in ELT."

"However, like everything YouTube does, captions face a tremendous challenge of scale. Every minute, 20 hours of video are uploaded. How can we expect every video owner to spend the time and effort necessary to add captions to their videos? Even with all of the captioning support already available on YouTube, the majority of user-generated video content online is still inaccessible to people like me. To help address this challenge, we've combined Google's automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video. The captions will not always be perfect (check out the video below for an amusing example), but even when they're off, they can still be helpful-and the technology will continue to improve with time. In addition to automatic captions, we're also launching automatic caption timing, or auto-timing, to make it significantly easier to create captions manually. With auto-timing, you no longer need to have special expertise to create your own captions in YouTube. All you need to do is create a simple text file with all the words in the video and we'll use Google's ASR technology to figure out when the words are spoken and create captions for your video. This should significantly lower the barriers for video owners who want to add captions, but who don't have the time or resources to create professional caption tracks."

Does French still matter? If so, why? This roundtable discussion is a response to recent concerns about the status of the study of French and other foreign languages and cultures in U.S. higher and secondary education at a time of increasing globalization. Five leading voices in different fields bring a variety of perspectives to bear in a lively discussion about why French matters today. *Adam Gopnik, writer and essayist for The New Yorker magazine*Charles Kolb, President of the Committee for Economic Development*Rosemary Feal, Executive Director of the Modern Language Association and Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages, University at Buffalo, SUNY (on leave)*Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of French and Philosophy at Columbia University*Antonin Baudry, Cultural Counselor, French Embassy in the U.S.This event is fully sponsored by the Florence Gould Foundation.

"I have always believed that reading has a significant impact on our understanding and appreciation of the world. As both a life-long passionate reader and an experienced English Language Arts teacher, I have witnessed first-hand the impact that reading has on the ability of learners in terms of comprehension, grammar, empathy, confidence, vocabulary and expression. This has however, only ever been phenomenological through informal observations in the classroom, and in an effort to incorporate sustained silent reading (SSR) as a regular, valid and essential practice, I have embarked upon this research in order to determine the impacts that daily reading has on middle-school learners, not only in terms of English Language Arts, but also across the curriculum."

"Dyslexia is a learning difficulty which affects the ability to adopt the automatic reflexes needed to read and write. Several studies have sought to identify the source of the problems encountered by individuals with dyslexia when they read. Little attention, however, has been paid to the mechanisms involved in writing. Sonia Kandel, Professor at the GIPSA-Lab of the Université Grenoble Alpes (CNRS/Université Grenoble Alpes/Grenoble INP) and her team [1] decided to look at the purely motor aspects of writing in children diagnosed with dyslexia. Their results show that orthographic processing in children with dyslexia is so laborious that it can modify or impair writing skills, despite the absence of dysgraphia in these children. The findings of this study are published in the November 2017 edition of Cognitive Neuropsychology."

"Posteljooni - The postman played by a class of 9 - 10 years in Finland as part of the FolkDC project. Finnish subtitles: made from the transcript in http://lirama.net/song/143122 - the subtitles between square brackets about the teacher are Google translations English -> Finnish]"

Subtitled in Finnish - it would be nice to have a translation in English and possibly in other languages: you can do it from the linked page.

"Uploaded by payitfwdisl on Oct 17, 2010 Pay It Forward In Signs is a non-profit organization created to raise awareness and bridge the gap between the deaf and the hearing communities in Israel. Lean more at : http://www.payitfwdisl.org.il or in ower Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pay-it-forward-in-sign-language/110699218993662"

researchers long thought the window for learning a new language shrinks rapidly after age 7 and closes almost entirely after puberty. Yet interdisciplinary research conducted over the past five years at the University of Washington, Pennsylvania State University, and other colleges suggest that the time frame may be more flexible than first thought and that students who learn additional languages become more adaptable in other types of learning, too.

This degree is designed to provide both the advanced level of mastery in language and culture and the pedagogical knowledge they need for full certification from the Maine State Department of Education. Additional requirements include a course in advanced French grammar or one in French stylistics and a minimum of 12 hours of 500-level courses in French linguistics, film, literature, and contemporary society. (suggested by Deb Taylor)

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" Multilingualism is an undeniably powerful tool in today's world-in more ways than one. Not only can the knowledge of one or more foreign languages assist in boosting one's resume, it also opens communication with an entirely new world."

This is one of my favorite sites to find out what's new in tech for our use.  The April 11th blog post discusses typing accents in other languages.  It also presents 2 virtual keyboards for WL students. Also presented are links to learning languages, activities, and image-based language lessons.  The Pictolang games could help students study languages on their own. The CAPL galleries could be helpful in locating images to use in developing your own language learning activities. You could also have students use CAPL to create language learning games to use to study

Middlebury's program is mostly interpretive with some presentational aspects so best used in a blended environment where learners have the opportunity to practice spontaneous speaking in live situations. That said, if this is the only option it seems much better than the majority of what's out there for independent language study, in my opinion.

See also annotations - vedi anche le annotazioni "SI': presto servizio in una Scuola appartenente al Sistema Scolastico Nazionale. Pertanto, chiedo che mi venga assegnato gratuitamente un Account Didasca per accedere alle Google Apps for Education. * Required COGNOME * Digita il tuo COGNOME, con caratteri MAIUSCOLI NOME * Digita il tuo NOME, con caratteri MAIUSCOLI CODICE FISCALE * Digita il tuo CODICE FISCALE, in caratteri MAIUSCOLI MAIL * Digita la tua MAIL, evitando possibilmente quella con il suffisso @istruzione.it DENOMINAZIONE DELLA SCUOLA * Digita la DENOMINAZIONE DELLA SCUOLA in cui presti servizio CODICE MECCANOGRAFICO * Digita il CODICE MECCANOGRAFICO della Scuola in cui presti servizio, con caratteri MAIUSCOLI LOCALITA' * Digita il nome della LOCALITA' dove è ubicata la sede della tua Scuola PROVINCIA * Digita la SIGLA della PROVINCIA dove è ubicata la tua Scuola FUNZIONE ESERCITATA * Seleziona la funzione appropriata * Dirigente * Docente * Personale Ata NOTE Scrivi eventuali NOTE TUTELA DELLA PRIVACY * Prendi visione dell' Informativa, nella sezione 'Legalese' * Ho preso visione e acconsento"

From the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. These are spoken folk tales reinforced with animated pictures. Seems that many of the Arabic and Chinese tales are in the TL and English with options to show subtitles in either. Looks like stories from other countries are mostly in English. Columbia story in Eng/Spanish.