NDLR Modern Languages’ Community of Practice

Ciclo de cine

Isis (Irish Spanish Integration Society) invites you to our Spanish Food and Wine tasting event that will take place on Saturday 4 April at the Harbour Hotel in Galway from 8pm.

As usual, it will be a very pleasant evening where you will be able to enjoy the Spanish Ham (Pata Negra!), manchego cheese and other types of cured meat that we specially bring over to Dublin from Spain for this occasion.

We will also ensure that you drink our very tasteful Spanish Rioja wine, in company of your friends, and meeting people from Spain and from all over the world!

We will gather at the Harbour Hotel where we’ve rented a room for ourselves and where you will drink and eat all you want, no restrictions! You don’t have to buy your ticket in advance, which is 25 euros per person, just come along, but make sure you book your ticket, as the access is limited.

If you would like more information or make your booking, please send sms to  086 896 05 22 or email gourmet_iberico@yahoo.esThanks and enjoy the night!

Hola a todos!

To mark the end of the semester we are going to have a party this coming
Thursday from 8.30 in Bar no8.
It’s a Bring Your Own Food party, so, if you feel like it, prepare your
favourite nibbles and share them with the rest! Don’t worry, you’ll be let
in without food, too;)
Also, we are going to have some great Flamenco musicians play for us!
It should be great fun and a perfect way of ending the academic year so
hope to see all of you there!

Nos vemos pronto,
Stephanie

As we all know, activities that require oral performance in a secon language are more anxiety-provoking than others. As Oral examinations are about to start at University and leaving cert level. I think it’s a good time to recommend you a few readings I have found interesting in the last few years.
I have used some of the activities they recommend in my spoken classes and revamp them in Spanish to start giving students skills to cope with their language anxiety.
I’ll be happy to share them and discuss them with you if you are interested.

RECOMMENDED READING
Horwitz, E. K., Horwitz, M. B., & Cope, J. A. (1986). Foreign language classroom anxiety. The Modern Language Journal, 70, 125  132.

Horwitz, E. K., & Young, D. J. (Eds.) (1991). Language anxiety: From theory and practice to classroom implications. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Young, D. J. (Ed.) (1999). Affect in foreign language and second language learning: A practical guide to creating a low-anxiety classroom atmosphere. Boston: McGraw Hill.

Conversation Circle Offered
Á n-Eagrú ag Paul is organising a conversation circle in Westmeath. This is a monthly conversation circle suitable for Adults. If you want more information feel free to contact Paul Breen.
Where:
Olive Bar
Bóthar Bhaile Uí Mhatháin
Baile Átha Luain
Westmeath
Ireland
When:
Every month from 7/4/2009
21:45
For more information contact:
Email: oicheghaelach@eircom.net
Phone: 087 6439628
Fax: 087 6439628
Website: Suíomh Gréasáin
Cost: €0

Pascalin Horan, project leader of the Modern Languages in Primary Schools Initiative (MLPSI), in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, has organised a workshop for teachers of Italian in Primary Schools.
The subject of the workshop will be: “LEARNING ITALIAN THROUGH MUSIC AND SONG” and the day will be facilitated by Liz Kiely, former project leader for Italian with the MLPSI.

The details of the training day are as follows:

9.45 am – 10.30 am Coffee/Tea

10.30 am – 1.00 pm Workshop 1

1.00 pm – 1.30 pm Lunch

1.30 – 3.00 pm Workshop 2

Information

Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009 – Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Time: 9.45 am – 3 pm

Venue: Istituto Italiano di Cultura

Organized by: MLPSI – The Modern Languages in Primary Schools Initiative

In collaboration with: Istituto Italiano di Cultura

http://www.iicdublino.esteri.it/IIC_Dublino/webform/SchedaEvento.aspx?id=268&citta=Dublino

Wednesday, 29 April 2009, 4:00 pm
Adalante Muchachas
Dir.: Erika Harzer und Kalle Stayman, colour, 60 min., Germany/Hondouras 2004

This film tells the story of four young women from Honduras. Seydi, Wendy, Cristel and Kenia could not be more different from one another; nevertheless they share one big interest: All of them love to play soccer. When their clubs are playing against each other in the women`s league encounters happen that would never take place in “normal life” as they come from four completely different milieus that normally do not have any contact. There is the poor underclass that lives in slums on the outskirts of the city on one side and the well-off middle class from the villa area in the city on the other side

Presented by SALIS Dublin City University

In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Irland, the Instituto Cervantes Dublin and the Chilean Embassy in Ireland

THe alliance Francaise presents the 2009 literary festival.
2000-09, 10 years already!

Ten years already and the memories flow; how can we choose between the emotional encounter of the two former hostages Jean-Paul Kauffman and Brian Keenan, the huge success of JMG Le Clézio’s contribution, the roars of laughter at Nell McCafferty’s caustic humour or Azouz Begag’s short musical interludes on the guitar and much more?

This year the festival will rock us to the rhythm of the turmoil of love and death, between joy and sorrow, laughter and tears, hatred and love. L’amour, La mort, a universal theme written about since the very first literature and for this year’s festival the theme to be discussed by our writers who will reveal their very souls!
All sorts of questions will be raised: why is the theme of love so closely linked to that of death? Is passionate love a source of pleasure or pain? Is it as wonderful as it is devastating? How far would one go for love? Is first love always the best? Must love always end?

We have all experienced these terrifying feelings, at one time or another, without always understanding them. So… in April we will attempt to solve these mysteries!

The Festival is organised jointly by the Alliance Française Dublin and the Cultural Service of the French Embassy. It owes its longevity to the trust in which it is held by its many partners who support it. Its success has also been made possible by the generosity of its sponsors – the Ireland Fund of France, The Arts Council, Culture Ireland, Foras Na Gaeilge, Poetry Ireland, The Irish Writers’ Centre, Ireland Literature Exchange, Dublin City Council – by the help of several companies, by broad media coverage (The Irish Times, RTÉ lyric fm, The Irish Eyes etc…) as well as by the active participation of its Organising Committee.

Naturally we also salute the involvement of all our writers, the real actors in this great event. We thank them sincerely for having accepted our invitation and are convinced that they will make this 10th anniversary an exceptional edition.
So join them from the 3rd to the 5th of April at Dublin Castle. More information at:
http://www.francoirishliteraryfestival.com/2009/

Let’s cheer up!
http://www.alliance-francaise.ie/iffs/