NEWSLETTER!
Volume 24
Number 3
January 2012
***************************************************************
Future dates for our Professional Development Meetings for 2011 -2012

January 28
8:45- 12:00 Leutze Hall 136 and adjacent rooms
12:15 Lunch at McAlister’s with Glynis Cowell

March 24
8:45 - 12:00
Leutze Hall 136 and adjacent rooms
Thanks to everyone who participated in the November meeting. We experienced VARK
strategies in the session given by Christi Lea and Rachel Hatfield on learning preferences and
were given multiple ideas for classroom activities in the SWAP presentations.
Our January meeting will include (as always, times are approximate!):
8:45
Breakfast Snacks and Registration
9:00
Business Meeting – report on needs for the UNCW Intercultural Festival; call for
nominations for HS scholarship recipients; plans for fund-raising raffle in March.
9:30 or 9:40
“Listen Up and Speak Out: Tips for Maximizing Student Interaction in the
Foreign Language Classroom” - Glynis Cowell, UNC Chapel Hill
11:00 - “Reflections on My Trip to Senegal” - Donna McQueen, Ashley High School
Extra added attraction for January: LUNCH with Glynis Cowell at McAlister’s
immediately following the meeting. Please send your name to Joann Mount at
mountj@uncw.edu if you plan to attend. We would like to have an approximation of the number
of persons who will attend. Dutch treat.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The SLINKI Conference to be held at UNCW on January 21, 2012. SLINKI stands for Spanish
Linguistics in North Carolina. Registration is now closed. See
http://people.uncw.edu/boomershinea/SLINKI2012.htm for the schedule of presentations.
Cinematique Films at Thalian Hall: "The Way" runs Sunday, January 22 through Tuesday,
January 24. All screenings are at 7:30 PM. Filmed on the Camino de Santiago.
Intercultural Week at UNCW will be February 13-18. The Festival will be held on Saturday,
February 18 from 11:00 – 3:00. CFFLC will have a booth at the festival. For speakers and
performances, please see http://uncw.edu/iweek/ . Among the many activities are a French film,
a Spanish-language drama performed by Puro Teatro (UNCW), and a presentation by a
Salvadoran author. Check for updates.
From here on in the newsletter, the announcements are important, but most
of you have read them before… just skim if you are an old member, read
carefully if you are a new member or are thinking of joining us!
If you have not paid dues this year… Yearly dues are $15 ($5 for full-time students). Checks
should be made to Cape Fear Foreign Language Collaborative. Dues may be mailed at any time
to Julie Bordo, 202 Wayne Drive, Wilmington, NC 28403. We have been fortunate to have
approximately 40-45 members paying dues in the last few years. We are still hoping to hit 50!
INCREASING MEMBERSHIP AND ATTENDANCE: Everyone is encouraged to
forward a copy of this newsletter with a personal invitation to someone else in your school
or county. Let’s see if we can’t increase our membership bit by bit by introducing our
colleagues to our programs and activities. If you are the only person who attends from your
school or county, please send an e-mail announcement to your list of FL teachers. Consider
especially new teachers or teachers new to our part of the state. Some teachers may not know
that the CFFLC exists! We all have so much support and knowledge to share. Don’t forget
that we keep track of attendance for the year and will distribute certificates verifying
attendance at meetings. These may be used to request CEU credit from your school
system.
SPONSORS: CFFLC has been sponsored for twenty-three years by the Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. In recent years,
we have also received support from the Office of Public Service and Continuing Studies.
Funding support has also been received from the Women’s Studies and Resource Center at
UNCW for three years.
SCHOLARSHIPS: Our scholarship program continues to be a success. We gave two
scholarships to UNCW students last year and one to a graduating senior in high school for a total
of $800 awarded. Thanks to all faculty who made nominations. We will hope to bring in
enough from dues and our fund-raising raffle and to give the same scholarship amounts this year.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Please contact Joann Mount at mountj@uncw.edu in the event that you
have professional information and announcements that you would like distributed to our
membership.
Hoping to see you soon!
Joann McFerran Mount, Coordinator of CFFLC
Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, UNCW / mountj@uncw.edu