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K-12 CONFERENCE
LANGUAGE FOR BUSINESS:
New perspectives on developing
a language for business course
Oct
31 - Nov 1, 2008
FIU CIBER in collaboration
with the Embassy of Spain, and other institutions is
organizing a conference to make all text books for teaching
Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese for business
available to K-12 teachers. Through our partners the
conference will bring editorial companies from different
parts of the world to Miami to showcase the materials
to K-12 teachers of all around the US. There will be
travel grants available for K-12 teachers. FIU-CIBER
language coordinator, Dr. Maida Watson, created a list
of the latest editions of Spanish for Business text
books available to the public. She distributed the list
to all participants of our Faculty Development program
"Teaching Spanish for Business in
Spain" and was an immediate success.
The idea is to share the materials with the K-12 academia.
| Venue: |
Hotel
Sofitel
5800 Blue Lagoon Drive, Miami, FL 33126
Rate per night: $129
Free shuttle to/from Miami Airport
Click
here for driving directions to Hotel Sofitel using
Yahoo Maps |
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| Program Arrangements: |
Maida Watson
CIBER Foreign Language Coordinator & Modern
Languages Professor - FIU.
Sonia Verdu
Assistant Director, CIBER, FIU |
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| Registration: |
FREE (including conference
materials, meals and breaks)
The FREE Registration
closes on Thursday 10/30/08 at 10:00 AM. People
who register after 10:00 AM on 10/30 or register
at conference venue will need to pay $40
registration fees by Check/Money Order payable
to FIU-CIBER.
*Lodging is NOT included in the
registration fee. |
Registration
Form |
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| Travel Grants are available. |
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Co-Sponsored by:
Executive Level Co-Sponsor:
- Temple
University - CIBER
Community Level Co-Sponsor:
- The Ohio State University -
CIBER
- Office of the Mayor - City
of Miami
"Sponsor a Teacher"
Level Co-Sponsor:
- Global Via USA
- Indiana University - CIBER
- Institute of Asian Studies
- FIU
- Latin American and Caribbean
Center - FIU
- Panorama Travels
- San Diego State University
- CIBER
- Texas A&M University -
CIBER
- University of Colorado at
Denver - CIBER
- University of Connecticut
- CIBER
- University of Florida - CIBER
- University of Memphis - CIBER
- University of Pennsylvania
- CIBER
- University of Washington -
CIBER
With
support from:
- Embassy of Spain
- Modern Languages Department
- FIU
Thanks
to the generosity of our co-sponsors many travel grants
are available for outside the area teachers.
Are you interested in co-sponsoring
the conference ? Sponsorship
level
Tentative Program Schedule:
Friday
October 31, 2008 |
| 4:00 - 6:00 PM |
Welcome Reception |
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Saturday
November 1, 2008 |
| 8:00 - 8:30 AM |
Registration and Breakfast |
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8:30 - 9:00 AM
Plenary Session
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Key note speaker: The
Honorable Consul of Spain, Santiago Cabanas |
9:00 - 10:15 AM
General Session |
THE IMPORTANCE OF BUSINESS LANGUAGE
IN TODAY’S GLOBAL ECONOMY
- Chinese and the Global economy:
Thomas Berslin, Professor, International
Relations, FIU.
- Brazil and Portugese: Fred
Campos, Ernst & Young
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| 10:15 - 10:30 AM |
Coffee break |
10:30 - 12:00 PM
General Session
(for all Language Teachers)
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The Relationship of Translation/Interpretation
to Future Careers for students in K-12 classes
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| 12:00 - 1:30 PM |
Lunch
Editorials showcase (Grupo Editorial
SM and Cheng & Tsui) |
1:30 - 3:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions |
Spanish:
Portuguese: (Part 1)
Chinese:
Japanese:
- Milestone of Business Japanese
Instruction: Dr. Suguru
Akutus, Univ. of California San Diego
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| 3:30 - 3:45 PM |
Coffee break |
3:45 - 5:15 PM
Concurrent Sessions |
Spanish:
Taller como incluir materiales para enseñar
español para negocios en los Cursos de
español en el programa K-12
Chinese:
Portuguese:
(Part 2)
Japanese:
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| 5:30 - 6:00 PM |
Closing remarks |
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