Retaining language skills is as important as acquiring new skills. STARTALK-SIPHUR 2011 wants to offer students the opportunity to continue to build their language proficiency based on what they learned during the past summer. The extended program will start in the beginning of October and end February 28, 2012. There will be three classes run concurrently: Beginning Hindi/Urdu, Intermediate Hindi, and Advanced Urdu II.  Each class will meet on a weekly basis through Skype.  The sessions will be focused on conversational Hindi/Urdu, but other skills will be emphasized through homework assignments designed for improving reading and writing skills.
https://sites.google.com/site/startalksiphur2011/home

• Orientation
• Class Photos
• Cultural Class
• Clubs
• Extracurricular
• Video-conference
• Trips
• Closing Ceremony

In-class instruction
There are four levels of Hindi / Urdu classes:
Rooms

Students will be placed depending on their linguistic and cultural skills. Each class meets five days a week for four hours a day with 10 minute breaks between classes. Classes will be split into small groups for various kinds of in-class activities depending on students’ levels of proficiency, or at times dividing heritage and non-heritage students. Students will go on a weekly field trip every Saturday.

Class Periods
Classes will run as follows:

Afternoon extra-curricular activities
Students can choose a club from among the following:

• Hindi/Urdu Film songs
• Drama
• Thali, Rangoli and Henna design

Clubs meet…
2:30 – 3:20 pm
Woodburn Hall,
Rooms 204 and 205
Evening Culture classes

• Students participating in STARTALK-SIPHUR 2011 will be housed in Eigenmann, which is located at 1900 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN47406-7512. Students will live in a double occupancy room with a roommate.
  
  
• Students will purchase a meal card using the scholarship. With the meal card, students can eat in any dining location. Read Hall Food Court, Wright Quad Food Court and McNutt Dining Room will be open during your stay. Wright Quad Food Court is open between 7 am and 9 pm on weekdays and from 9 am to 9 pm on weekends. There is also a convenience store at Wright and Eigenmann. There will be other dining locations on campus. A dining hall locations and hours sheet will be available to students.
  
  
• Move-in: Check-in will take place on Sunday, 6/26/2011 from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm in the main lobby of Eigenmann Hall. Following check-in, the RAs will give participants a brief orientation.

• Move-out: Check-out will take place on Friday, 7/15/2011 from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm.
  • Please  plan on moving during those times, if at all possible.  If you can’t you should contact one of the RAs : Ph) 847-894-7527 (Amy) or 859-433-1482 (Keelan)  or e-mail.

Laxmi Khattri
During the school year, Laxmi Khattri works as a Technology Coach for Union City Board of Education, NJ. She trains teachers for technology integration and teaches Hindi on-line with Indiana University’s Startalk Extended Program. As a Chair Person, she led a committee to develop integrated technology curriculum for her school district. She holds two Masters Degrees: one in Educational

Technology from the New Jersey City University, NJ and the other in English from India. She worked as a Hindi Teacher Trainer with Department of Education for National Security Language Initiative, Teacher-to-Teacher incentive. Her commitment to education is truly international as her career is highlighted by diverse teaching experience in the United States and Japan. She has demonstrated outstanding talents in language and technology training for multiple presentations and in-class teaching.

Dr. Tahsin Siddiqi
Dr. Tahsin Siddiqi is a lecturer and the director of South Asian Language Program in the department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has a long and extensive teaching experience. In addition to regular semesters, Dr. Siddiqi has taught summer intensive Urdu and Hindi at the University of Wisconsin and Hindi at the International Institute, University of Michigan. He is also a member of Language Program Committee. For further information, please visit... http://www.lsa.umich.edu/asian/language/south-asian.

Shahnaz Hassan
Shahnaz Hassan is a lecturer in Urdu in the department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Prior to her commitment at Texas, she worked for many years with the Berkley Urdu language program in Pakistan (BULPIP), and began her long career in teaching with the US Peace Corps Urdu Program in Pakistan.

Sana K. Younis
Sana K. Younis is a Pakistani American writer. She received her MFA Degree in Creative Writing from Indiana University, Bloomington. She enjoys reading, and loves Urdu poetry. She has teaching experience in English Composition, Creative Writing, and Urdu Language.

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The Dhar India Studies Program seeks two graduate assistants and two graduate /undergraduate resident assistants who will work for STARTALK-SIPHUR 2011 (Summer Intensive Program for Hindi and Urdu). Refer to www.iub.edu/~indiast  for more information about STARTALK-SIPHUR 2011. The summer student program will run from June 27 to July 15, 2011.

The two graduate assistants for Hindi and Urdu, each as a 100% time employee, will help the instructors with grading, teaching, and
material development. Fluency in Hindi/Urdu is required.

The two resident assistants will live in the residential hall to supervise the students participating in the program. The RAs must be available
on-call overnight and Sundays.  When there are extra-curricular activities, they must be present to supervise the students. Lodging, meals,
and a stipend of $ 750 will be provided. Knowledge of Hindi/Urdu is desirable.

The Dhar India Studies Program is also seeking an administrative assistant who will work for STARTALK SIPHUR –HUTEP in the summer of 2011. The administrative assistant will provide administrative support to the director of the STARTALK SIPHUR-HUTEP 2011. It will be a total of 140 hours of work spread over the time before and during the program and the hourly rate is $ 15.

Application materials can also be sent via e-mail at sh2@indiana.edu  Applications will be reviewed starting April 11, 2011.

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Ursula Lentz
Ursula Lentz is the assessment project coordinator at the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) and is the assessment consultant for the five year Minneapolis FLAP grant "Arabic and Chinese Extended Sequences." From 2002-2007, she was the world language content specialist and coordinator of the Quality Teaching Network for World Languages for the Minnesota department of Education. Presently, she serves on the ACTFL standards impact task force and was a member of the ACTFL Assessment Advisory Committee. Her experience includes teaching, workshops and presentations, and test development at the postsecondary and K-12 levels. During the past two years, she has presented, with Donna Clementi, at a series of workshops on developing integrated performance assessment units for teachers of Arabic, Chinese, French, Filipino, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, and Thai. Also, with Donna Clementi, she has led the CARLA summer institute, Developing Proficiency-based Language Assessments since 2002 and was part of the team that developed the MLPA, a battery of proficiency-based assessments for French, German, and Spanish. Among her workshops is a series of workshops presented for the South Asian Language Resource Center (SALRC) to teachers of Urdu, Arabic, Thai, Hindi, Bangla, and other less commonly taught languages.

Donna L. Clementi
Donna Clementi is director of education and research at Concordia

Language Villages, Moorhead, Minnesota.  She is also the co-director for the Master of Education in World Language Instruction at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota.  She earned her bachelor’s degree in French and Education from St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, and her master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  She is currently pursuing a PhD in Educational Leadership from Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with plans to complete her dissertation in 2011. 
Clementi has been an active member of the profession, serving as president of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers.  She is a frequent presenter at state, regional, and national conferences.   She collaborates annually with the University of Minnesota’s Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) Summer Assessment Institute.  She has worked on a variety of state and national committees related to curriculum, instruction, and assessment.  She led the design of Concordia Language Village’s version of the LinguaFolio called the Concordia Language Visa, a tool to help Language Village participants self-assess their language learning progress.  Clementi received  ACTFL’s Florence Steiner Award for K-12 Leadership in Foreign Languages in 2000,  the Distinguished Foreign Language Educator Award from the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers in 2002, and the Supervisor of the Year Award by the National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages in 2004.