1 Discover Languages: Discover Languages: Make Languages Matter Make Languages Matter in Your Community in Your Community Justin Gerlach Mishicot High School WAFLT Public Relations Chair Paul Sandrock Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction ACTFL President
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Discover Languages:Discover Languages:Make Languages MatterMake Languages Matter
in Your Communityin Your Community
Justin GerlachMishicot High SchoolWAFLT Public Relations Chair
Paul SandrockWisconsin Department of Public InstructionACTFL President
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Global literacy starts with Global literacy starts with curiositycuriosity
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Add experiences to build Add experiences to build curiositycuriosity
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Create desire to Create desire to communicatecommunicate
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Provide tools for Provide tools for communicationcommunication
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Instill confidence to Instill confidence to communicate across communicate across bordersborders
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What are “global What are “global literacies?”literacies?”
• Communication skills
• Global perspectives
• Knowledge of people, places, and practices
• Skills to function comfortably in other cultures
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What skills are in What skills are in demand?demand? According to top executives in a USA Today poll, the skills most lacking in employees are:
• Foreign Language
• Interpersonal
• Administrative
• Technical
• Management
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What skills are in What skills are in demand?demand? According to Michael Eskew, CEO of UPS: • Trade literacy• Sensitive to foreign cultures (cultural awareness, sensitivity and diplomacy)• Conversant in different languages• Technology savvy• Capable of managing complexity (being creative)• Ethical behavior – core values
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Languages add value to Languages add value to our economyour economy
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Where does the U.S. send Where does the U.S. send its products?its products?Total U.S. Exports (2005)
$904,379,818,000
Top Ten Destinations: Canada, Mexico, Japan, China, United Kingdom, Germany, South Korea, Netherlands, France, Taiwan
State-by-state export data available
(http://tse.export.gov)
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Committee for Economic Committee for Economic DevelopmentDevelopment
Education for Global Leadership: The Importance of International
Studies and Foreign Language Education for U.S. Economic and National Security
(http://www.ced.org)
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Committee for Economic Committee for Economic DevelopmentDevelopment
Education for Global Leadership:
“America’s continued global leadership will depend on our students’ abilities to interact with the world community both inside and outside our borders.”
(http://www.ced.org)
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Languages add value to Languages add value to our diplomacyour diplomacy
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A Call to Action for National A Call to Action for National Foreign Language Capabilities:Foreign Language Capabilities:• build language and cultural understanding
capability;• develop language and cultural competency;• develop language skills in a wide range of
critical languages• strengthen programs and tools in foreign
languages and cultures; and• integrate language training into career fields
and increase the number of language professionals
www.nlconference.org
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US Defense Department: US Defense Department: Defense Language Defense Language Transformation RoadmapTransformation Roadmap
• for officers and for enlisted ranks• identify language assets• recognize need for understanding of
other cultures
www.languagepolicy.org/dodlangroadmap.pdf
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National Security Language National Security Language InitiativeInitiative
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National Security Language National Security Language InitiativeInitiative• Incentives to teach critical need languages K-12
• Scholarships for 3000 high school students to study abroad by 2009
• 300 native speakers to teach in US universities by 2006-07
• National Language Service Corps of Americans proficient in critical languages to serve as volunteers and teachers, K-12
• Teacher-to-teacher seminars
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2006/58733.htm
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Association of American Association of American UniversitiesUniversities
National Defense Education and Innovation Initiative: Meeting America’s Economic and
Security Challenges in the 21st Century
www.aau.edu
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Association of American Association of American UniversitiesUniversities
• Shorten time to degree & improve completion rates for doctoral programs
• Accelerate teacher certification and retraining programs
www.aau.edu
National Defense Education and Innovation Initiative:
Cultivate American talent to enhance the nation’s expertise in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and foreign languages
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Languages add value for heritage cultures
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US 2000 Census:US 2000 Census:Heritage Language SpeakersHeritage Language Speakers
17.9% of US residents speak alanguage other than English at home
(47 million people out of UStotal of 262 million people, over age 5)
http://www.mla.org/census_main
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US 2000 Census:US 2000 Census:Heritage Language SpeakersHeritage Language Speakers
• an increase of 47.4% between 1990 and 2000 of US residents who speak languages other than English at home
Students studying languages outperformed those who did not study languages:
• Lower socioeconomic students performed just as well
• Outperformed non-language students on every subtest of state assessment
Languages impact academic achievement:
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Languages add value Languages add value to our communityto our community
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Languages add value Languages add value by adding perspectivesby adding perspectives
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Discover the WorldDiscover the Worldwww.actfl.orgwww.actfl.org
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Make Languages Visible Make Languages Visible in Your Communityin Your Community• Sponsor an activity or event • Download the free poster from the website
and display it in your school and community• Use “Discover Languages” products to
publicize your event or heighten awareness among students, parents, and administrators
• Create articles about your local “Discover Languages” campaign
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Make Languages the Talk Make Languages the Talk
of Your Communityof Your Community• Sponsor a language “ambush” • Sponsor a “Discover Languages” booth at a
summer community event; soon, Discover Languages kits will be available from ACTFL
• Send in a picture of your “Discover Languages” event for posting on the ACTFL website