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2/3/2004
Contact: K.E. Schwab --
724-738-2199; e-mail: karl.schwab@sru.edu
1,000 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS VIE FOR
LANGUAGE AWARDS AT SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. –More than
1,000 high school world language students from approximately 25
area high schools will be on the Slippery Rock University campus
beginning at 8 a.m. Feb. 17 for the university’s annual
department of modern languages and cultures “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
for teaching foreign languages will be offered to the high school
language teachers in attendance. Dr. Deb Cohen, professor of modern
languages and cultures, organized the program.
For further information, contact call
724-738-2617.
SRU
offers courses in Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese,
Japanese and Korean from its newly renovated Carruth Rizza Hall
which includes a state-of-the-art language
laboratory.
A
LIST OF PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS INCLUDES:
Alderdice
Avella
Center
Chartiers-Houston
Chartiers Valley
Cochranton
Falk
School
Ford City
Fox Chapel
Hickory
Lakeview Christian
Academy
Laurel
Mercer
Mercyhurst Preparatory
School
Mohawk
Moon Area
Neshannock
North Clarion
North Hills
Our Lady of the Sacred
Heart
Redbank Valley
Rocky Grove
Shenango
Slippery RockUnion
PN,
WPN, PgN, PR
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