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Spring 2006 Presentations, Seminars, and Workshops |
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Spring 2006 Presentations, Seminars, and Workshops Events will be held at the Center for Language Study, 370 Temple St., Room 106, and are open to anyone interested in the teaching of foreign languages. Most events will be videotaped and made available to language faculty upon request. Some events will be discussions of pedagogical issues, some will be demonstrations of new technologies, and some will be presentations of completed materials development projects funded and supported by the CLS. In most cases, ideas being presented will also be of interest to language faculty teaching languages and levels other than those for which the materials were originally created. In all cases, there will be plenty of opportunity for asking questions and sharing ideas. --------------------------------------- Tuesday, January 31, 2006 from 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. IIG Project Presentation Risa Sodi, Senior Lector and Language Program Director, Italian "Opera at the Confluence of Music, Language, and Literature: A Proposal for Developing A New Media-Enhanced Italian Department Course" - This course was developed to bridge the fields of Italian language and music, using multi-media teaching environments for class work, group work and remote study and developing departmental, subject-specific, reusable materials. "Instructional Innovation Grant Competition - Open Brainstorming and Question/Answer Session" Mark Knowles, Assistant Director for Teaching, Learning and Research, CLS The second part of the meeting is open to anyone considering undertaking an IIG project. It is strongly encouraged for anyone intending to submit a proposal for this spring's competition, though it is also open to those who are just curious to learn more about the IIG process. Particular focus will be placed on ideas for program building and curriculum development projects intended to meet the challenges of the new language requirement, and CLS staff will be available to answer questions about the competition itself (proposal guidelines, deadlines, etc.). --------------------------------------- Tuesday, February 14, 2006 from 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. IIG Project Presentation Ling Mu, Senior Lector, East Asian Languages and Literatures (Chinese) "Exposing Language Subtleties - A Proposal for Building an Online Usage Dictionary As a Self-Study and Teaching Tool" - This project developed a dictionary-like web tool that highlights common mistakes caused by the influence of English on a learner of Chinese. The tool combines a dictionary with a grammar book with exercises, and uses examples of common mistakes collected from students' own writings to provide a self-study tool that explains the different usage of words within contexts. Plentiful familiar examples and exercises allow students to understand, to absorb, and to digest the language. "Putting Video Assignments on the Web through Clabs" Michael Kerbel, Director of the Yale Film Study Center Putting film-viewing assignments on the web can be especially beneficial for language practice. Students at any location and on a 24/7 basis can scrub through a film to any part and watch, re-watch, listen, re-listen and imitate the film's dialog. They will no longer have to wait until classmates finish watching a single DVD copy at the CLS. Learn about the procedures for making this new tool available to your students. --------------------------------------- Tuesday, February 21, 2006 from 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. "Putting the Power Back in Power Point" (repeat of a presentation given last fall) Regina DeAngelo, Training and Resource Specialist, CLS Learn how to - make non-boring presentations! - make them multilingual! - upload your presentations to the new Classes V2 server! - create useful handouts! - do more with this powerful application! --------------------------------------- Tuesday, February 28, 2006 from 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. IIG Project Presentations William Zhou, Senior Lector, East Asian Languages and Literatures (Chinese) "Mandarin Grammar and Exercises: Grammar and Exercises for Learners of Elementary and Intermediate Chinese." The project provides an online reference and grammar tool that offers a virtual second classroom for students to study and practice grammar between classes, while allowing instructors to preserve contact hours for interactions with students in the target language. Angela Lee-Smith, Lector, East Asian Languages and Literatures (Korean) "Online Vocabulary Flashcards for Heritage Korean Learners (1st Semester of Elementary Level)" - The project developed an online vocabulary study program ("Vocabulary Flashcards") for heritage-Korean learners. Using the Picture Dictionary template developed by the CLS, students in the heritage-track class were given access to 650 words and phrases/expressions. --------------------------------------- Friday, March 24, 2006 from 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Diane Larsen-Freeman, Professor of Education, Applied Linguist and Director of the English Language Institute, University of Michigan School of Education "The Role of Second Language Acquisition and Its Growing Importance for Language Teaching" Diane Larsen-Freeman is an internationally admired writer and presenter in Second Language Acquisition, and her work has always focused on the value to teachers and learners of research in that field. She will offer a presentation on the ways in which growing research data on SLA can support and inform our understanding of our students' language-learning processes and help us as teachers engage with them. Saturday, March 25, 2006 from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. "Grammaring" Workshop Diane Larsen-Freeman coined the term "grammaring" to represent the organic nature of the process in the mind of the language learner of making communicative sense and communicative use of "grammar rules" in becoming a fluent speaker. This workshop will provide an opportunity for language teachers to work actively with pedagogical ways to support learners' grammaring. --------------------------------------- Friday, April 7, 2006 from 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Aneta Pavlenko, Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Technology in Education, Temple University, College of Education "Emotion Talk in a Second Language" This talk will introduce a corpus-based approach to development of advanced proficiency in a foreign language that focuses on two often neglected skills: narrative ability and ability to describe and express emotions in a second or foreign language. The aim of the talk is to highlight new possibilities in teaching language/culture in foreign language classes, and for business, medical, and legal purposes, using problem-solving learning that raises students’ awareness of cross-linguistic differences and possibilities of intercultural miscommunication. --------------------------------------- Tuesday, April 11, 2006 from 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. "Getting the Multilingual Message: Email and Other Applications in a Multilingual Environment" Regina DeAngelo, Training and Resource Specialist, CLS E-mails getting garbled in transit? Can't view your language in your Web browser? Having trouble setting language inputs in Windows or on your Mac? The Center for Language Study can help! Our language tech specialists will cover these and other multilingual electronic communication issues. We'll also answer your additional questions. --------------------------------------- Friday, April 21, 2006 from 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Kevin M. Gaugler, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Marist College "Teaching Second Language Media Literacy" Dr. Gaugler will discuss the need for a new curricular model of language instruction that integrates media literacy. In addition, he will present a task-based course successfully taught for the past five years at the undergraduate level that prepares language students for the kind of electronic communication they will encounter in the workplace. --------------------------------------- |
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