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From:  http://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2020/literacies.html

Foreign Language Literacies: Using Target Language Texts to Improve Communication

July 13-17, 2020

University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

Participants will learn how to use target language texts (such as movies, infographics, poetry, music videos, magazine articles, and podcasts) to develop students’ communicative abilities, critical thinking, intercultural competence, and language awareness. By the end of the institute, participants will be able to:

• Define principles related to foreign language literacies and literacies pedagogy and discuss their importance in twenty-first century language education;
• Apply principles related to foreign language literacies and literacies pedagogy to your own teaching;
• Examine target language texts and instructional materials, and assess their appropriateness for your instructional context; and
• Create text-based instructional materials that develop students’ communicative abilities, critical thinking, intercultural competence, and language awareness.

Presenters: Kate Paesani (CARLA–University of Minnesota) and Mandy Menke (University of Minnesota)

• Find out more about Foreign Language Literacies:  http://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2020/literacies.html

Register by the Early Bird Deadline: April 24, 2020:  http://carla.umn.edu/institutes/registration.html