
NNELL’s Summer Institute 2023
As you are making plans for your well-deserved summer break we want to remind you of a wonderful Summer Professional Development opportunity on July 24-25: NNELL’s Summer Summit! This year the theme for NNELL’s Summer Summit is “Unlocking the Power of Languages.” They have an exciting lineup of early language professionals who are presenting on…

Language News from Maryland
Maryland State Liaison Dr. Richard Dabrowski, who oversees Russian andUkrainian instruction for government employees, spent two weeks in Poland inMay attending a special course in Ukrainian at the University of Warsaw. Hisreport on his trip, lightly edited was as follows: The timing of my current trip to Poland centers on a summer Ukrainian language andculture…

Language News from North Carolina
North Carolina State Liaison Dr. Janis Antonek received a fellowship from the U.S. State Department Fulbright-Hays Program to join a group of educators for a study abroad trip to Morocco this summer. She will report back on her visit when she returns.

Language News from Missouri
Missouri State Liaison Dr. Lisa Dorner reports that the University of Missouri at Columbia will host the annual Cambio de Colores (Change of Colors) conference on June 7-10, 2023, in Columbia, Missouri. This is a multistate conference focused on the integration of Latin@s/Latinxs/Hispanics and immigrants in new destinations, and it provides a professional development opportunity…

Language News from Turkiye
Turkiye Liaison Gülşen Şencan is developing an original project is to create an Augmented Reality (AR) guide that transforms audio guides into sign language to facilitate access to museums for the hearing impaired. This project, titled “AR Museum Guide with Sign Language in Museums” will be based on exhibits in the Imaret Museum, located in…

Language News from Maryland
The PEARLL (Professionals in Education Advancing Research and Language Learning) Title VI Language Resource Center at the University of Maryland National Foreign Language Center is offering an in-person Leadership Academy this summer from July 12th to 14th, 2023. This academy is focused on enhancing the effectiveness of current or aspiring leaders in the language field. …