English Teaching FORUM, Volume 48 - Number 1, featuring snowboarding, is now available

The latest English Teaching FORUM is now available. The feature article in this issue is on snowboarding. A lesson plan, “Create Your Own Sporting Event,” continues the sporting theme.

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Oscar Nomination for Fulbright Alumna

Announced in February 2010, U.S. filmmaker Rebecca Cammisa is nominated for an Academy Award for her Documentary Feature Which Way Home. In this video, she speaks about the support she received from the Fulbright program.

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	Host an Arabic or Chinese Teacher The Teachers of Critical Languages program is now accepting applications for elementary and secondary schools interested in hosting an Arabic or Chinese teacher. Application deadline: 2/12/2010.

	Intensive Summer Language Institutes in China, Russia, and Egypt Applications are now open for American teachers of Chinese (Mandarin), Russian, and Arabic to study abroad for six weeks! Application deadline: 3/1/2010.