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skill. On the second day, Antonia Schleichercontinued the workshop by teaching the participantshow to teach the four language skills. The instructorswere given the opportunity to demonstrate microteaching activities to one another based on what theyhad learned from the workshop, and discussionsfollowed after each demonstration.For those who had already participated in the NALRCSummer Institutes, this workshop was a good chanceto refresh their memory. On the other hand, forthose who had never participated in the NALRCSummer Institutes, this workshop was a very goodopportunity to learn essential skills in teachingAfrican languages.Antonia Schleicher with the workshop participantsAntonia Schleicher leads the SCALI workshop.Zoliswa demonstrates teaching activities.NALRC MaterialDevelopmentSummer CampThe NALRC has been hosting a material developmentsummer camp every year in order to make materialsavailable for the teaching and learning of differentAfrican languages. The camp was first started in2002, as an effort to narrow the gap betweenAfrican languages and other commonly taughtlanguages such as Spanish, French, and German interms of the availability of teaching and learningresources. Since then, the Summer camp hasproduced four textbooks based on thecommunicative approach: Tuseme Kiswahili, TosololaNa Lingala, Let’s Speak Amharic, and Let’s SpeakZulu. This year’s summer camp brought severalscholars together again and made possible somemanuscripts in progress.1. AquilinaMawadzaAquilina Mawadza camefrom Zimbabwe and workedon a first-year and a secondyearShona textbooks. As atrained linguist and Shonainstructor, Aquilina hadwritten several books about Shona languagegrammar and teaching. She also teaches Shona as aforeign language. Since 1994, Mawadza has beenteaching Shona to students of various levels such asuniversity students and high school students both inZimbabwe and in the United States. We were reallylucky to have her come from South Africa, where sheis currently based to attend the summer materialdevelopment camp, which has now led to thedevelopment of both elementary and intermediatelevel textbooks for Shona.2. Seth OforiSeth Ofori came from Ghanaand he is currently a doctoralcandidate at IndianaUniversity-Bloomington. Heattended the summermaterial development campto work on the Twitextbook, which is one ofthe NALRC let’s speak African language series. Since1997, Mr. Ofori has been teaching the Akan/Twilanguage to various students and he has beenconducting a lot of research on the Akin/Twilanguage.ULIMI / 14
3.Leonard Muaka & Angaluki MuakaLeonard Muaka originally came from Kenya and he isa doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign. During the summer materialdevelopment camp, he participated in the project ofdeveloping a second-year Swahili textbook withAngaluki Muaka. Angaluki Muaka is currentlyteaching Swahili at Stanford University. Both of themhad taught Swahili in Kenya, and since they came tothe United States, they have put their efforts onteaching Swahili to English-speaking students. AsSwahili instructors, they have a better understandingof students’ needs in learning Swahili especially at theintermediate level.4. Omar KaOmar Ka originally camefrom Senegal and he iscurrently a professor in thedepartment of Modernlanguages and linguistics atthe University of MarylandBaltimore County Campus.During the Summer Camp,he worked on a first-yearWolof textbook. He hasconducted a wide variety ofstudies on language planning and education in WestAfrica as well as on Wolof phonology andmorphology. Let’s Speak Wolof is based on hisexperience as a Wolof language teacher and scholar.5. Alwiya OmarAlwiya Omar visitedMadison again to finish theK-12 project, which is todevelop Swahili learningmaterials for Pre-K to 5thgrade students. She is thenew president of the AfricanLanguage TeachersAssociation (ALTA) and is currently a professor ofSwahili at Indiana University in Bloomington.6. AntoniaSchleicherAntonia Schleicher alsoparticipated in the K-12project. She is currentlyworking on Yoruba learningmaterials for Pre-K to 5thgraders. She is alsodeveloping severalmultimedia learning materials for Yoruba. Prof.Schleicher is the director of the NALRC and theexecutive director of the National Council of LessCommonly Taught Languages. She is also a professorof African Languages and Literature at the Universityof Wisconsin-Madison.Position Vacancy:African Languagesand LiteratureThe Department of African Languages andLiterature of the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-trackposition at the assistant professor level. Weseek a scholar whose work focuses on Africanlanguages, literature, or linguistics, and whohas a high level of competency in an Africanlanguage. Preference will be given tocandidates with a strong record in teaching.Applicants must have completed the Ph.D. bybeginning of appointment in August 2006 andshow promise of a distinguished career as ascholar and teacher. For consideration, yourletter of application and c.v., three letters ofrecommendation, and a writing sample(strongly preferred length: under 50 pages oftext) should arrive by Tuesday, November 1,2005. The writing sample may be a selfstandingessay, or a chapter from a dissertationor book project. Chapters should beaccompanied by a brief outline or statement(less than 2 pages) that sets the chapter in thecontext of the larger work and its argument.Send materials to the following address: Prof.Linda Hunter, Chair of the Search Committee,Department of African Languages andLiterature,1414 Van Hise Hall, 1220 LindenDrive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706(lhunter@wisc.edu). The UW-Madison is anAA/EOE and encourages applications fromwomen and minorities. Unless confidentiality isrequested in writing, information regardingapplicants must be released upon request.Finalists cannot be guaranteed confidentiality.fall 2005 /15
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