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Language Magazine is the leading independent publication for language professionals, with more than 103,000 monthly readers! This invaluable resource has a first-page Google ranking and receives more than 35,000 unique visitors every month.

Teachers TV is the digital channel for everyone who works in schools. Its content covers every subject in the curriculum, all key stages and every professional role – from teaching assistant to headteacher. Viewers can watch Teachers TV on digital cable and satellite and programmes are also available anytime, on-demand and for free on the website.

Teachers TV has 15-minute CPD offerings packed with useful information, exciting pupil programmes for use in class, and a daily education news summary. There are ongoing series such as Teaching with Bayley and Inspirations and award-winning documentaries on everything from global citizenship to education practice in other countries.

Regular specialist hours cater to new teachers, governors and other specialist audiences, and core curriculum hours cover primary and secondary maths, English, science and ICT. Themed seasons such as Behaviour Matters and Lessons from America showcase a range of programmes focusing on a central issue or topic. And all that's just for starters.

Click here to check it out today!

Study Abroad!

For chart and information about: “Who Studies Where: Many high schoolers from abroad study in the U.S. for a semester or two. Far fewer U.S. teens venture overseas.”

See the National Geographic Society link:  http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/exchange/silver-text

AND…

JNCL would like to announce a new section on the website that includes resources and information about study abroad.  The URL is http://www.languagepolicy.org/advocacy/study_abroad.html and can be found from the homepage (www.languagepolicy.org), or under the Advocacy section of the site.  Please check out this new addition and wealth of information. 

Radio France Internationale makes available each morning the titles of news reports in easily comprehensible French.
www.rfi.fr/lffr/statiques/accueil_apprendre.asp

Fulbright Exchanges:
http://www.fulbrightexchanges.org/View/ViewOtherOpps.asp

James Hoadley, 2006 SCOLT/FFLA Conference Keynote Speaker

James Hoadley is the associate director and administrative manager at the Georgia Institute of Technology Center for International Business and Educational Research (CIBER). Mr. Hoadley, worked as an assistant in the CIBER program, which was founded in 1993 under the university’s College of Management, while receiving his Master’s in Business Administration from Georgia Tech. He has nine years of work experience in Japan, including experience as a technical editor for Seiko Epson Corporation and English language instructor with the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program, which has approximately 7,000 teachers from more than 12 countries worldwide. Mr. Hoadley, who speaks Japanese fluently, received an undergraduate degree in international studies and a graduate degree in foreign language teaching at the University of South Carolina. He has also worked as human resource supervisor for Musashi South Carolina Inc.

Click here to download a copy of Mr. Hoadley’s Keynote Presentation, Communication In A Flat World.