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Teaching Heritage and Domestic Language Learners in LCTL Courses |
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This project draws on the power of interactive multimedia technology and case-based learning to address two significant professional development needs unique to teachers who teach both heritage and domestic language learners in post-secondary LCTL classrooms. These needs are:
- to understand the pedagogical challenges created by the presence of both domestic and heritage language students in their LCTL classrooms and
- to use this understanding to create effectual learning communities in LCTL classrooms containing both heritage and domestic language students.
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Instructional Resources for LCTL Teacher Preparation Series:
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The instructional resources in this series are designed to address two significant professional development needs unique to teachers who teach both heritage and domestic language learners in post-secondary LCTL classrooms. These needs are:
- to understand the pedagogical challenges created by the presence of both domestic and heritage language students in their classrooms;
- to create effectual language learning communities in their classrooms.
CALPER's Instructional Resources for LCTL Teacher Preparation Series consists of:
- Teaching Heritage and Domestic Language Learners
- Understanding Teachers of Heritage and Domestic Language Learners
- Understanding Heritage and Domestic Language Learners (available 2010)
These instructional resources combine case-based learning with the power of multimedia technology to showcase in real time both the complexities and dynamics of working with university-level domestic and heritage language students in LCTL classrooms. Case-based learning is an instructional design that uses real-world problems or cases to stimulate reflection, discussion and analysis and ultimately to enhance the teachers’ professional knowledge and problem-solving skills. Multimedia technology captures in rich detail the real-world challenges of teaching in ways that are not possible with static print-based materials, such as methods books or sets of lessons plans, and so, brings to life what language teaching and learning looks and feels like for both teachers and learners in university-level LCTL classrooms.
CALPER's Instructional Resources for LCTL Teacher Preparation Series is primarily intended for use by post-secondary language program coordinators to supplement pre-semester orientation program and/or weekly meetings with novice teaching assistants. They can also be used to supplement the curriculum of language methods courses or by individual novice language teachers who wish to improve their professional knowledge and skills.
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(1) Teaching Heritage and Domestic Language Learners
by Karen E. Johnson and Joan Kelly Hall, The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA: CALPER Publications, 2008.
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Teaching Heritage and Domestic
Language Learners: Preview
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(2) Understanding Teachers of Heritage and Domestic Language Learners
by Karen E. Johnson and Joan Kelly Hall, The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA: CALPER Publications, 2009.
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Understanding Teachers of
Heritage and Domestic
Language Learners: Preview
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Workshops
Please visit our Professional Development page for upcoming workshops.
Project Co-Directors: Karen E. Johnson and Joan Kelly Hall, The Pennsylvania State University
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