Bulletin No. 102
THE HELLENIC LINK, Inc.
Member Update- BULLETIN
Editorial Committee: Ahilleas Adamantiades, Alex Economides, Maria-Eleftheria Giatrakou, Dean C. Lomis, Katherine Efthymiatou-Stabile, Contributing Editor: Evangelos Calamitsis, Acting Editor: Constantine Efthymiou
No. 102, July, 2012
SPECIAL EDITION – URGENT!
National Standards for Teaching Modern Greek:Draft is now in Public View
We are pleased to report that the 12-Member Task Force (TF) of Educators, who were invited two years ago by the Hellenic Link to collaboratively develop a set of professional standards to guide the teaching/learning of Modern Greek, has reached the terminal stage of its task. A semi-final draft of “Greek National Standards”, evolved from a series of continually revised rough copies and passed through a two-tier scrutiny and improvement process by expert Reviewers and Advisory Scholars, is now presented to the educational community and the public at large for feedback comments and final tuning. The Hellenic Link, Inc. is happy to make this document accessible to everyone interested in the Modern Greek language and culture, by posting it on its Web Site: http://www.helleniclink.org For consideration and possible incorporation in the final draft of offered feedback comments, all interested readers are advised by the Coordinator of TF, Dr. Vasiliki Tsigas-Fotinis to return their comments as soon as possible. As previously announced, the final version of the “Modern Greek Standards Document” will be submitted for review and approval to the American Council for Teaching Foreign Languages (ACTFL) at its Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA, November 16-18, 2012 (For more details, see HL Bulletin 101,June 2012). The approved document will be included for the first time in the 4th Edition of the “Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century,” to be published by ACTFL. This development will inaugurate the introduction of relevant curricula and the instruction of Modern Greek in schools of primary and secondary education of the U.S.A.
Constantine J. Efthymiou, Ph.D. Coordinator,
Advisory Council on Hellenic Education, Hellenic Link, Inc.
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On-Line Course in Modern Greek Offered Free
In cooperation with the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)/
“Athena” Research Center, the Hellenic Link, Inc. is offering as a service to the community a series of Greek language lCATIONessons on its Web site: http://www.helleniclink.org ( on a 24/7 schedule)
On the home page of the site, upper left corner, click on “Learning Greek,”
to be introduced to a series of fifteen lessons of the filoglossia+ courseware.
Please inform anyone who would be interested in learning Greek of this service.
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OF HELLENES AND PHILHELLENES
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