The Baha'i Language Educators (BLE) Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Association for Baha'i Studies, North America invites you to submit proposals for presentations, workshops, colloquia or roundtable activities for its annual meeting at the annual ABS conference to be held 3-6 September 2004, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The SIG meeting will be on Friday, September 3.
Please visit the ABS website for conference information: www.bahai-studies.ca.
Presentations may be on any theme integrating Baha'i principles and concepts with instruction, curriculum design, materials development, classroom participation patterns, intercultural studies, mentoring, computer assisted language learning (CALL), web page design, translation, literature, and other topics involving language education. Talks should be 20 minutes in length, including 10 minutes for questions.
Please send proposals to Sandy Fotos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, SIG Coordinator, with copies to Dara Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Program and Newsletter, and Joy Allchin, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Membership and Newsletter.
The afternoon program again includes the very popular Roundtable on Baha'i Inspired Materials. Participants are invited to share classroom activities based implicitly or explicitly on Baha'i principles. Presentations should be 10 minutes in length and be accompanied by a handout of the activity and teaching guidelines. Activities may be for any language, grade or ability level, and will be uploaded to our website after the conference. If you are interested in sharing your favorite classroom activity with other language professionals, please contact Dara Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with your proposal!
If you are interested in joining this dedicated group of Baha'i language professionals around the world, please contact Joy Allchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Visit our website for papers given at previous sig meetings, newsletters, downloadable activities for language teaching, and a menu of links of interest to language professionals: http://ble-sig.org/
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