NEWSLETTER!
Volume 28
Number 3
January 2016
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Happy New Year to all CFFLC members and friends! We hope that your spring semester is off
to a wonderful start. On behalf of the CFFLC, thank you for all that you do for our students, our
community, and the profession as a whole. We hope to connect with many of you at one or
both of our two meetings this semester.
February is packed with so many exciting events that there is just no other way to describe it.
It’s going to be SUPER! … and I’m not even talking about the Panthers’ return to the
Superbowl. Take a look at what’s coming up over the next several weeks, and prepare to be
amazed! You’ll want to pay particular attention to our special February 6 professional
development meeting, as participants will need to register for the event by Monday, February 1.
FEBRUARY MEETING
We are excited about our next meeting on Saturday, February 6, 8:30am – 12:00pm. Vista
Higher Learning is sponsoring a 3-hour professional development session titled “A Little
Technology Never Hurt Anyone, as Long as It Is Done in Moderation.” This event is free
and open to all; however participants must register by Monday, February 1. Free parking is
available in Lot G (north of Leutze Hall).
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Click here to view the flyer, which has more information on the program and the speaker,
Cristina Sparks-Early.
Click here to REGISTER before February 1!
Here’s a preview of February’s meeting (with approximate times):
8:30
Registration and refreshments
If you have not already done so, please bring your money to pay dues at this time.
Yearly dues are $20 ($10 for full-time students). [Note: You do not have to be a member
to attend our meetings or to attend this special workshop.]
9:00
Business meeting and announcements
Please bring announcements of school changes, cultural events, workshops and
conferences, etc. We will hear a report from the treasurer, discuss committee work, and
present the recipients of the 2015-2016 CFFLC undergraduate and graduate
scholarships.
9:30
Professional development session from Vista Higher Learning
11:50 Door prizes and drawings
INTERCULTURAL WEEK AT UNCW
This year’s Intercultural Weeks kicks off with the 23rd annual Intercultural Festival at UNCW,
which will take place on Saturday, January 30, 10am-2pm in the Burney Center. Come
experience presentations, crafts, food, and more from all over the globe. Don’t forget to swing
by the CFFLC table to pick up your passports! Click here for more information about all the
wonderful events that will be featured during iWeek. If you have questions about CFFLC’s
involvement in the festival or if you would like to volunteer, please contact Rachel Hatfield
(rhatfield@capefearacademy.org).
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EXCITING STUDY ABROAD OPPORTUNITY FOR SPANISH TEACHERS
Amanda Boomershine and L. J. Randolph will be leading a study abroad trip to Santiago,
Dominican Republic, during the summer of 2016 (July 5-22). The trip was designed specifically
for practicing Spanish teachers at the K-12 level and graduate students (or advanced
undergraduates) of Spanish. Students will have the opportunity to earn 3.0 credit hours at the
graduate or undergraduate level by taking one of the following two courses: 1) Teaching
Spanish for Transformation and Social Justice or 2) Spanish Sociolinguistics and Variation.
The program also includes a group service-learning project, excursions to several Dominican
cities, opportunities for immersion and interaction with various communities, and much more.
Visit the following website for more information: www.uncw.edu/spngradabroad.
We will have interest meetings on Tuesday, February 2, at 7pm and again on
Wednesday, February 3, at 6pm. Both meetings will take place in Leutze Hall 130.
FLANC 50TH ANNIVERSARY CALL FOR PROPOSALS NOW OPEN!
The Foreign Language Association of North Carolina (FLANC) is excited to have its 50th
anniversary conference in Durham, NC, October 6-8, 2016. The conference theme is
#FLANC 50: Empowerment, Transformation, and Social Justice.
Please submit your original, innovative ideas for language teaching. We encourage sessions
that show how world language education promotes social justice and develops students’
intercultural communicative competence, but sessions in all areas of world language education
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are welcome. We also welcome sessions that address teaching ideas for specific age levels or
languages.
Presenters have four options: 1) 50-minute Friday/Saturday session, 2) research roundtable
presentation (20-minute paper presentation and discussion), 3) Saturday post-conference
workshop (3 hours), and 4) Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday pre-conference webinar (2 hours).
Please contact Amanda Boomershine (amanda.boomershine@flanc.org) for more information
about the research roundtables. All other inquiries may be directed to L. J. Randolph
(lj.randolph@flanc.org).
The proposal deadline is March 1, 2016. CLICK HERE to submit your proposal today!
CFFLC SENIOR SCHOLARSHIP (HIGH SCHOOL)
The deadline for the CFFLC scholarship ($200) for a graduating high school student is
February 20. The scholarship will be awarded at our April 16 meeting. Please nominate one of
your stellar students who has excelled in language study. Download the application
here: http://www.uncw.edu/languages/CFFLCScholarships.html
OTHER EVENTS IN SUPER FEBRUARY
Wait, there’s more! Be sure to check out these other exciting events happening in our
community in February and early March. Click on the titles to learn more.
Narrative Journalism: A Transnational Dialogue between Latin American and the North
(Diego Fonseca). February 3, 6:30pm, Cameron Hall 105.
Speaking in Tongues: Film Screening and Discussion on Dual Language and Immersion
Programs (Amanda Boomershine & L. J. Randolph). February 13, 10am, Northeast
Regional Library (1241 Military Cutoff Rd.).
No Child Left Monolingual: Why and How to Promote Multilingualism in the U.S. (Kim
Potowski). February 18, 5:30pm, Education Building 162.
Crispín d’Olot: A 21st Century Medieval Troubadour (special performance as part of El
Quixote Festival). March 1, 6:30pm, Lumina Theater.
2015-2016 PROGRAM
If you haven’t already done so, please mark your calendars for the final meeting of the year
on April 16, 8:45am-12:00pm. Dr. Jeff Ertzberger from the Watson College of Education will
give an engaging workshop on the creative use of technology in the world language
classroom. We’ll also have our world-famous CFFLC Raffle, which is always a good time!
All meetings are held in Leutze Hall 136 and adjacent rooms. Attendees may park in Lot G
(north of Leutze Hall). More information about each program will be distributed in subsequent
newsletters. As always we will keep track of attendance for the year and will distribute
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certificates verifying attendance at meetings. These may be used to request CEU credit from
your school system.
DUES & SPONSORSHIP
YEARLY DUES: If you have not already done so, please be ready to pay CFFLC dues at the
November meeting. Yearly dues are $20 ($10 for full-time students). Checks should be
made payable to: Cape Fear Foreign Language Collaborative. We depend on your dues to
help with miscellaneous expenses and with the scholarships. Thanks for your support!
SPONSORSHIP: CFFLC is sponsored by the Department of World Languages and Cultures at
the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. The February professional development
session will be sponsored by Vista Higher Learning.
SCHOLARSHIPS: Our scholarship program continues to be a success. We awarded three
scholarships to UNCW students last year and one to a graduating senior in high school for a
total of $1100. CFFLC is proud to announce that scholarships awarded since the inception of
the program in 1995 total $13,525. This includes $300 given by Vista Higher Learning in
November 2014. All other funds have been raised by the membership of CFFLC.
ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Cinematique Films: http://whqr.org/topic/cinematique-wilmington-film-series
UNCW Presents: http://uncw.edu/presents/currentseason.html
For more events, conferences, news, etc., see the CFFLC home page at
UNCW: http://www.uncw.edu/fll/CFFLC.html
Please contact L. J. Randolph at randolphl@uncw.edu, Keri Chandler at chandlerk@uncw.edu,
or Amanda Boomershine at boomershinea@uncw.edu if you have professional information and
announcements that you would like distributed to our membership.
Everyone is encouraged to forward a copy of this newsletter with a personal invitation
to attend to someone else in your school or county. If you are the only person who attends
from your school or county, please send personally or ask a coordinator to send an e-mail with
an announcement and this newsletter to your list of World Language and ESL/ESOL teachers.
Consider especially new teachers or teachers new to our part of the state. Our membership
and participation is holding steady, but we would be delighted to have new faces and new
ideas.
We look forward to seeing you at the February 6 meeting! (Don’t forget to register by February 1!)
L. J. Randolph
UNCW, Dept. of World Languages and Cultures
910-962-3349 / randolphl@uncw.edu
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