Plenary Session dates for 2000-2001

Dates

September 8, 2000

Plenary Topics

Looking Ahead to the New Year; Identifying Goals; Committee Plans

Venue

Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington, VA

October 13, 2000

Directions in Language Education: the NFLRCs; Grants and Projects

Department of Education

November 13, 2000

International Education and National Needs:

1. Dr. Myriam Met, NFLC: What's Right with K-12 Foreign Language Education These Days;

2. Dr. Sara Beaton, Dept. of Education: A National "International Education Week";

3. Dr. Robert Slater, NSEP: International Education and the National Security Education Program

Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington, VA

December 15, 2000

Dr. Gary Buck, DLI: "Do You Hear What I Hear?": A Comparison of Testing Reading and Listening and How They Are Different (Plenary by the ILR Testing Committee)

Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington, VA

January 12, 2001

Dr. Thomas Parry, DLI: New Directions in Continuing Education at DLI

Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington, VA

February 16, 2001

Dr. Chris Cierri, University of Pennsylvania: "Linguistic Annotation of Multimodal Data and Infrastructure to Support Language Learning and Teaching"

Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington, VA

March 8-10, 2001

Senior Staff Members, ILR Agencies: Presentations at the 51st Annual Georgetown Roundtable on Language and Linguistics

Georgetown University

May 25, 2001

Staff from NSA, FSI, and DLI: Impressions of Trends at the Spring 2001 Professional Conferences

Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington, VA

June 22, 2001

Marijke van der Heide, U.S. Courts: The Federal Court Interpreter Program

Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington, VA