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NAFSA Welcomes 100th Global Partner
From NAFSA.news Vol. 12 No. 1
January 9, 2006
Concordia Language Villages of Concordia College, a nationally recognized leader in language immersion training, has become NAFSA’s 100th Global Partner. The Moorhead, Minnesota program joins an elite and diverse group of organizations serving the field of international education.
Following a Concordia College faculty member’s suggestion to create an experimental program using immersion techniques to teach language, the college sponsored the first two-week program teaching German in 1961 in a recreational setting for 72 children ages 9-12. The intent of the program was to teach young people about other languages and cultures, while giving Concordia students the opportunity to gain practical teaching experience. The program was so successful that Language Villages has been teaching world languages to young people for nearly 50 years. Today, its 14 language programs reach 11,000 young people ages 7-18 and 700 adults each year.
NAFSA conference attendees will be able to experience an immersion course either before or after NAFSA’s 2007 annual conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Chinese (Mandarin) will be offered May 25-27, 2007 and Arabic from June 1-3, 2007.
Stay tuned for more information, which will be available in NAFSA’s Conference Registration Brochure in early March 2007. The brochure will also be available on NAFSA’s Web site at www.nafsa.org/minneapolis.
Read more about Concordia Language Villages and Concordia College in NAFSA’s 2006 Internationalizing the Campus: Profiles of Success at Colleges and Universities report.
Learn more about the Language Villages and Concordia College.
January 9, 2006
Concordia Language Villages of Concordia College, a nationally recognized leader in language immersion training, has become NAFSA’s 100th Global Partner. The Moorhead, Minnesota program joins an elite and diverse group of organizations serving the field of international education.
Following a Concordia College faculty member’s suggestion to create an experimental program using immersion techniques to teach language, the college sponsored the first two-week program teaching German in 1961 in a recreational setting for 72 children ages 9-12. The intent of the program was to teach young people about other languages and cultures, while giving Concordia students the opportunity to gain practical teaching experience. The program was so successful that Language Villages has been teaching world languages to young people for nearly 50 years. Today, its 14 language programs reach 11,000 young people ages 7-18 and 700 adults each year.
NAFSA conference attendees will be able to experience an immersion course either before or after NAFSA’s 2007 annual conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Chinese (Mandarin) will be offered May 25-27, 2007 and Arabic from June 1-3, 2007.
Stay tuned for more information, which will be available in NAFSA’s Conference Registration Brochure in early March 2007. The brochure will also be available on NAFSA’s Web site at www.nafsa.org/minneapolis.
Read more about Concordia Language Villages and Concordia College in NAFSA’s 2006 Internationalizing the Campus: Profiles of Success at Colleges and Universities report.
Learn more about the Language Villages and Concordia College.
