Professional Development
CALPER's Past Workshops (Archive)
2008
| Tuesday | Tuesday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday 6/20 | Saturday 6/21 |
| Projects in Foreign Language Courses | Language Portfolios | |||||
| Sunday | Monday 6/23 | Tuesday 6/24 | Wednesday 6/25 | Thursday 6/26 | Friday 6/27 | Saturday 6/28 |
| Investigating Real Language | Challenges in Teaching Heritage and Domestic Language Learners | |||||
| New Technologies for Language Teaching and Learning | Investigating Language Use in Study Abroad | Dynamic Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom | ||||
| Friday, June 20, 2008 ..... 9:00am - 4:30pm |
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Projects in Foreign Language Courses Projects are a way of bringing culture into the foreign language classroom in a meaninful way. In this workshop, participants will become familiar with developing appropriate projects for their students, how to design them, and how to assess their students' language development and content learning. The format of the workshop will vary between mini-presentations, discussions, and hands-on activities. |
PA teachers: ACT 48 - 6 hrs
Program Cost: $40
| Saturday, June 21, 2008 ..... 9:00am - 4:30pm |
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Language Portfolios In this workshop participants will be guided through the process of using a language portfolio with their students to assess development. As well as learning about key elements of portfolio assessment, participants will work through activities that promote reflective learning in their students and strategies that encourage self-assessment of their students. Detailed information on LinguaFolio and the European Language Portfolio will also be provided and used for discussion and hands-on activities. |
PA teachers: ACT 48 - 6 hrs
Program Cost: $40
| Monday + Tuesday, June 23-24, 2008 ..... 9:00am - 4:30pm |
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Investigating Real Language The workshop covers the basics of building language corpora (collections of texts) and how to analyze them using simple software. There will be hands-on opportunities to work with spoken, written, and learner corpora. As well as receiving a theoretical outline, participants will do practical work with vocabulary and grammar frequency lists, concordances, keyword lists, collocations, etc.). Partcipants will also see a demonstration and be able to use the new CALPER GOLD software (Graphic Online Language Diagnostic) where you can build and analyze your own corpus. |
Presenter: Michael McCarthy, U Nottingham (emeritus)
PA teachers: ACT 48 - 12 hrs
Program Cost: $80
| Monday + Tuesday, June 23-24, 2008.....9:00am - 4:30pm |
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New Technologies for Language Teaching and Learning This workshop will focus on recent and emerging technologies as they relate to the needs of foreign language teachers and learners. We will address the creation of innovative, technology-enhanced methods and activities for classroom instruction to promote the development of linguistic, cultural, pragmatic, interpersonal and communicative competencies of advanced language learners. Specific areas include: new media literacies and self-expression in Internet-mediated communication, the use of the Internet to foster language learning through intercultural dialogues, and the use of a number of multi-modal Internet tools and environments, including blogs, wikis, chat, online gaming, podcasting, and data driven learning pedagogies supported by online corpus tools. This workshop will include content for teachers and technology specialists working the foreign language education. |
Presenter: Steven L. Thorne, Penn State and Jonathan Reinhardt
PA teachers: ACT 48 - 12hrs
Program Cost: $80
| Wednesday + Thursday, June 25-26, 2008 .....9:00am - 4:30pm |
| This workshop will focus on the challenges that language teachers face as they seek to meet the linguistic, cultural and instructional needs of both heritage and domestic language learners enrolled in post-secondary LCTL courses. Using multimedia case studies of actual LCTL classrooms, workshop participants will be prompted to reflect on their own experiences of working with both heritage and domestic language learners, share the interactional strategies, instructional activities, and curricular resources they rely on to meet the needs of their students, and develop strategies for creating effectual learning communities based on the shared goal of raising all students' language proficiencies. |
Presenters: Karen E. Johnson and Joan Kelly Hall, Penn State University
PA teachers: ACT 48 - 12hrs
Program Cost: $80
| Wednesday + Thursday, June 25-26, 2008..... 9:00am - 4:30pm |
| Participants in this workshop will explore three trends in research on language learning in study abroad: 1) investigation of sociolinguistic and pragmatic aspects of language development; 2) scrutiny of communicative settings, including the classroom and the home stay; and 3) inquiry into language socialization and learner identity. Discussion will focus first on the implications of this research for the design and enhancement of study abroad programs and on meeting the needs of students before, during, and after their sojourn abroad. The focus will then turn to approaches directly involving students in research on language use and ethnographic observation in study abroad settings. |
Presenter: Celeste Kinginger, Penn State University
PA teachers: ACT 48 - 12 hrs
Program Cost: $80
| Friday + Saturday, June 27-28, 2008..... 9:00am - 4:30pm |
| Foreign language educators and testers have been exploring ways of bringing instruction and assessment closer together. Dynamic Assessment is an innovative response to this issue whereby instruction and assessment are unified into a single process that not only reveals learners’ language ability but at the same time helps them move beyond this ability to higher levels of development. In this workshop, participants will become familiar with the basics of dynamic assessment, including its theoretical framework. Participants will have to opportunity to do practical work with DA procedures. |
Presenter: James P. Lantolf and Matthew E. Poehner, Penn State University
PA teachers: ACT 48 - 12 hrs
Program Cost: $80
2007
- Workshop for Japanese Teachers
- Investigating Real Language
- Dynamic Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom
- Raising Language Awareness in Study Abroad
- Using Technology to Promote Advanced Language Proficiency
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