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California
Community College
Foreign Language Council News
November
1, 2003
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| Meetings
in Pasadena and San Francisco Draw Over 70 Faculty |
| Our fall
annual meetings at Pasadena City College and San Francisco City College
drew over seventy participants to discuss the state of languages in the
community college, Online courses and new accreditation requirements. |
| Given the
successful format of these meetings, it was consensus that we continue with
the two meeting format both north and south. Location and dates will be
determined next spring. Members in the southern meeting expressed interest
in having a session on Spanish for Spanish speakers. |
| The CCCFLC
Southern regional meeting was held October 3 at the Community Education
Center at Pasadena City College. We had a very good showing with forty members
in attendance. |
| Dr. Theodore
R. Young, Dean of Languages at Pasadena City College welcomed all of us
and gave a very informative presentation on the language program at PCC.
Dr. Barbara Padrón, Spanish professor at PCC, spoke on the multimedia labs
at PCC and their importance for student achievement in foreign language
learning. We extend our sincerest gratitude to both, Dean Young and Barbara,
for allowing us to hold the meeting at PCC and for helping us with the arrangements.
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| Denise Cabanel-Bleuer,
Spanish instructor at Orange Coast College and CCCFLC Vice President/South,
gave a demonstration of the new CCCFLC Website. Denise stressed the importance
of using the website as a resource tool and as a means for us to communicate.
If any of you have useful information you would like to include on the website,
please contact Denise. We are indebted to Denise for creating the website.
It can be accessed at http://www.occ.cccd.edu/~dcabanel/cccflc. |
| The morning
session continued with an update on first semester courses and CSU, with
discussions on strategies for promoting languages and on Heritage Speakers
classes. The afternoon session was devoted to a discussion of the new accreditation
standards regarding foreign languages. |
| We thank
you for your support and hope all of you will attend next year's conference.
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| Patricia
M. Scarfone, CCCLFC President |
| At the northern
meeting, participants learned about the benefits and work involved in
online courses in the morning and in the afternoon, Dean Bruce Smith of
City College of San Francisco discussed the new accreditation standards
and how languages might work with them. |
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| Now's
the Time to JOIN CLTA! |
| CLTA is moving
forward with new services to the profession. CLTA has hired a lobbyist in
Sacramento and has successfully had bills effecting language teaching (k-12
levels) passed. CLTA underwrites much of our Summer Seminar costs for our
CCC students who wish to become language teachers. CLTA now has put its
newsletter on the internet to save postage and get it to you faster. |
| If you're
not a member of CLTA, please consider joining on the enclosed forms, today!
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| IMPAC
Project Brings Together CSU, UC and CCC's |
| The first
IMPAC meeting which brought in foreign language faculty from community colleges,
CSU and UC was held Oct. 25 in San Jose. Prof. Robert Blake of UC-Davis
chaired the meeting, and our segment was well represented. We looked over
CAN descriptions for language courses, discussed transfer issues, and planned
to start a report which will go through several more meetings. Prof. Blake
encouraged us to consider bolstering our second year courses so that students
who transfer to UC are well prepared for the upper division courses. |
| The next
meeting will be in Newport on Saturday, Nov. 15. For further information
go to http://www.cal-impac.org. |
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| Next
Issue: |
| Our next
issue will appear in December along with membership
renewal forms. If you have an article you'd like to submit, please send
it to: Tom Blair ~ 424 Dorado Terrace ~ San Francisco, CA 94112-1753. Membership
is $10 for part-time and $15 for full-time. CLTA membership is $35
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