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1/24/2005
Contact:
K.E. Schwab -- 724-738-2199; e-mail:
karl.schwab@sru.edu
750 AREA HIGH
SCHOOL STUDENTS TO VIE FOR LANGUAGE AWARDS AT SRU
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – More than
750 high school world language students from some 25 area high
schools will be on the Slippery Rock University campus from 8:30
a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 15 to participate in the department of modern
languages and cultures annual “World Language
Competition.”
Students will compete for both
individual and school prizes in several levels of Spanish, French,
German and Latin. Plaques and trophies will be presented to winning
schools while individual students will receive dictionaries,
T-shirts, and certificates.
In addition to the competition,
the daylong event will feature 30-minute sessions introducing
Korean, Japanese, Italian, Latin and other languages. SRU
international students will answer questions about teenage life in
their countries. In conjunction, a methodology workshop will
be offered to the high school language teachers in
attendance.
Dr. Deb Cohen, professor of
modern languages and cultures, organized the program and is
available for questions at 724-738-2617.
SRU offers courses in Spanish,
French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and
Korean.
PgN, WPN,
PR, PT
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