Marathon de lecture pour une bonne cause

Participez avec vos élèves au Marathon de lecture en français et soutenez un programme d’éducation au Burkina Faso. Les enseignants de français langue seconde disposent gratuitement d'une sélection de bandes dessinées et de ressources pédagogiques prêtes à l'emploi.

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Survey: Exploring the Relationship Between Mindfulness and Second Language Teaching

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected your teaching and yourself as a teacher? Are you using or would you like to use mindfulness practices (e.g., breathing, meditation, and relaxation techniques) in your teaching? Take part in a 10- to 15-minute survey to help inform a study on this topic.

The study is being conducted by Alba Fano-Trabanco (alba.fanotrabanco@ucalgary.ca), a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at the University of Calgary, under the supervision of Dr. Mary O’Brien (mgobrien@ucalgary.ca) and Dr. Angela George (angela.george@ucalgary.ca). It has been approved by the University of Calgary Conjoint Faculties Research Ethics Board (REB20-1832).

EducLang Seminar January 27th

EducLang is holding an online seminar on Wednesday, January 27th at 4 pm EST. Gene Vasilopoulos, Doctoral Candidate at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education, will speak about “Working Within the Research Assemblage: Reading Plagiarism in L2 Student Digitally Mediated Writing Differently.”

The presentation will be in English with opportunities to ask questions in French. Participants can join the seminar through this Zoom link.

No spring and summer immersion sessions at Universite Sainte-Anne in 2021
The Chronicle Herald
Because of the ongoing pandemic, Université Sainte-Anne will not be offering spring and summer immersion sessions in 2021. Students, teachers, and staff will have to wait at least another year to attend this much-anticipated program. “It is a necessary but difficult decision. These sessions require a significant amount of planning and logistics and with all the uncertainty because of the pandemic, it is best to cancel. Our priorities remain the health and safety of our university community and to limit the spread of the virus,” says Allister Surette, president and vice-chancellor of Université Sainte-Anne.

From apps to podcasts, COVID-19 has forced language learning online
CBC News
When the COVID-19 pandemic sent Aly Murphy into lockdown, she figured it was finally time to start learning Russian. Nearly one year later, she's still at it. "I don't know if I'd have committed to it as fiercely as I have," said Murphy, a University of Ottawa theatre student who wanted to read famous Russian playwrights like Anton Chekhov without relying on translations.

My Virtual Classroom, January 19th and 21st

With the rapid, large-scale switch to online teaching last March, teachers had to adapt quickly — but it hasn’t always been easy. CASLT has created a new resource to help teachers thrive in a distance learning and teaching environment. Welcome to “My Virtual Classroom!”

Registration is open for our sixth My Virtual Classroom webinar: Targeting Multiliteracies in Building Digital Learning Tasks, presented by Jim Murphy.

• January 19th at 7 pm EST (English)
• January 21st at 7 pm EST (French)

Sessions will be 45 minutes, with Q & A to follow. All content will be posted on our CASLT Learning Centre afterwards.
 

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Marathon de lecture (French Reading Marathon) for a Good Cause

Starting January 18, you and your students can participate in a Marathon de lecture and support an education program in Burkina Faso. A selection of ready-to-use comic strips and teaching resources will be made available free of charge to teachers of French as a second language

Call for Chapters: Special Issue of Languages Journal

Languages is seeking chapters for the upcoming special issue of their journal titled “Learning and Teaching of English in the Multilingual Classroom: English Teachers’ Perspectives, Practices, and Purposes.” This special issue aims to compile papers that examine English teachers’ perspectives, practices, and purposes on the current challenges in linguistically diverse classrooms.

'Learn French and have fun!': Ontario teacher turns to YouTube for virtual learning
CTV News
With his stuffed elephant named Dex and his pet cat named Puppy, Steve Massa is going the extra mile to make sure his students have fun while learning French while away from the classroom. As schools closed for in-person learning last spring, the Grade 3 teacher with the Toronto District School Board decided to get creative to keep his students engaged while learning the French language, so “Monsieur Steve” was born

The Ayajuthem language radiates across territory
The Star
The word G???..gih’jeh radiates across airwaves through deep forests, over waters, into intricate fjords and snowy mountain tops into the lush and vibrant area of Ayajuthem-speaking territory. “G???..gih’jeh means the land,” says Norman Francis, as a part of the ‘Ayajuthem Word of The Day’ on The Raven. The station is operated by not-for-profit Aupe Cultural Enhancement Society. Located on Homalco First Nation land, holding a Type B Indigenous license.

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