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CALPER at Conferences



Forum on Education Abroad
April 3-5, 2013, Chicago, IL
American Association for Applied Linguistics
March 16-19, 2013, Dallas, TX
  • Dynamic Assessment: Mediating Language Development of All Learners
    The Wilga Rivers Pedagogy Colloquium
    Organizers: James P. Lantolf and Matthew E. Poehner
  • Syntactic Complexity in College-level English Writing: Differences Among Writers With Diverse L1 Backgrounds
    Presenters: Xiaofei Lu and Haiyang Ai
  • Language Socialization Through Contextualization Cues: Mealtime Interactions with a Chinese Host Family
    Presenter: Sheng Hsun Lee
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)
January 3-6, 2013, Boston, MA
  • Graphic Online Language Diagnostic
    Presenter: Xiaofei Lu

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
November 16-18, 2012, Philadelphia, PA
  • Chinese Language Corpora and Chinese Language Teaching
    Session Organizer and Chair: Hongyin Tao
  • Language Learning Abroad: American High School Students in Chinese Homestays
    Presenter: Celeste Kinginger and Dali Tan
  • Free Language Teaching Resources from the Language Resource Centers (LRCs)
    Co-presenter: Gabi Appel
  • Teaching the Interface of Language and Culture through Metaphor
    Presenter: James P. Lantolf
  • Exhibition of Materials and Resources at Booth 733

American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK)
June 29 - July 1, 2012, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
  • Workshop: Goal Orientation, Creativity, and Linguistic Sensitivity: Designing Materials to Target ACTFL’s 5 Cs in Korean
    Presenter: Susan Strauss
  • Panel: Framework of Curriculum Development for K-16 Korean Language Instruction
    Panelist: Susan Strauss

Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
April, 21-22, 2012, Baltimore, MD
  • Exhibition of Materials and Resources

TESOL International
March 28-31, 2012, Philadelphia, PA
  • Invited Speaker Session: The Pedagogical imperative and the Dialectics of L2 Instruction
    Presenter: James P. Lantolf
  • Invited Speaker Session: How 'Sign Meaning Develops": Strategic Mediation in Learning to Teach
    Presenter: Karen E. Johnson
  • Invited Speaker Session: Corpora and Spoken Language: Ways Forward for TESOL
    Presenter: Michael McCarthy

Forum on Education Abroad
March 21-23, 2012, Denver, CO
  • Language learning in study abroad: Recent findings, new implications for best practices
    Presenter: Celeste Kinginger

2012 CIBER Business Language Conference
March 21-23, 2012, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
  • Domain-naming strategies of top internet-based businesses in the US and China: Cross-linguistic analysis and pedagogical applications
    Presenter: Xuehua Xiang

Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics (GURT)
March 8-11, 2012, Georgewtown University, Washington DC

3rd International Conference on the Development of Intercultural Competence
January 26-29, 2012, Tucson, AZ
  • Workshop: The interface of language and culture
    Presenter: James P. Lantolf
  • Exploring the intercultural dimensions of cross-border language learning
    Keynote: Celeste Kinginger

Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association
October 21-22, 2011, State College, PA
  • Workshop: Teaching Heritage and Domestic Language Learners
    Presenter: Karen E. Johnson
  • Workshop: Language e-Portfolios
    Presenters: Gabi Appel and Mary Toulouse
  • CALPER - Your Gateway to Free Resources
    Presenter: Gabi Appel
  • Exhibition of Materials and Resources