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| Title | CALPER Summer Workshops at Penn State |
| Body | CALPER Summer Workshops at Penn State CALPER E-News During June, the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research will again hold a series of one–day and two-day workshops for language educators on the Penn State campus. This year, they offer seven workshops on a range of topics: June 20 Projects in Foreign Language Courses Projects are a way of bringing culture into the foreign language classroom in a meaningful 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. June 21 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. June 23-24 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. You will see a demonstration and be able to use the new CALPER GOLD software where you can build and analyze your own corpus. June 23-24 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. 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. June 25-26 Challenges in Teaching Heritage and Domestic Language Learners 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 Less-Commonly-Taught-Language (LCTL) courses. June 25-26 Investigating Language Use in Study Abroad 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. June 27-28 Dynamic Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom 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 the opportunity to do practical work with DA procedures. Deadline for registration is: June 9, 2008. More information is available at http://calper.la.psu.edu/profdev.php?page=workshops . |
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