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Saturday, March 4
 

08:45 GMT+08

A Study of Stakeholder Perceptions of a "Language Learning Assistant Program"
Focus of this research presentation is a peer-mentoring model in which advanced-level language students serve as “Learning Assistants” (LAs) in beginning-level language courses. Language LAs provide assistance in first-year language courses by modeling tasks, facilitating collaborative learning, and inspiring students to continue language study. Following a brief summary of relevant “curricular peer-mentoring” scholarship, the presenter analyzes the results of an empirical study examining participants’ perceptions of a pilot “Language LA” program. Session participants gain knowledge of peer-mentoring research, consider implications of the study, and get advice and resources for starting a Language LA program.
Speakers
MG

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Sutton Center
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Active Explicit Vocabulary Recall in the Intensive Intermediate Language Classroom
Our presentation examines the correlation between student performance on formal written exams and active, explicit vocabulary recall activities performed at the beginning of class in the Intensive Intermediate Spanish classroom. Our study derived from a need to address the overall lack of foundational vocabulary for students who take a placement exam and begin their postsecondary language study at the Intermediate level. In the Intermediate Spanish course at our institution, vocabulary, historically, is not taught explicitly. Beginning Fall 2022, we propose the use of physically engaging ("active") recall activities to improve student vocabulary knowledge. We measure their performance on the vocabulary portion of exams between Fall 2021 and 2022 to demonstrate positive correlation.
Speakers
JI
SS

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Sutton Center
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

CANVAS in the WL Classroom: Effiency and Best Practices
In the last few years, CANVAS has become increasingly important for many of our classes. Many of us are required to use it, but have we been using it effectively? We explore ways to combine best practices for language instruction with existing CANVAS tools to deliver instruction and assessment in the most pedagogically sound way possible and explore ways to promote and assess all modes of communication within the canvas platform. We look at different strategies for formative and summative assessment using the CANVAS tools that allow us to go beyond discrete point grammar and vocabulary activities
Speakers
JV
KR

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Bryant
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Culture Cubed: Choose, Connect, Create
This session focuses on the development of multimodal skills through culturally relevant, thematically appropriate authentic resources. Participants will learn to use carefully crafted templates, adaptable for all languages, to create choice boards that explore the products, practices and perspectives of the target culture through all three modes of communication. Choice Boards are engaging, hands-on, student-centered lessons that appeal to all learning styles. Guide students to discover, understand, and connect with the target cultures and empower them to show their transfer of knowledge through self-selected activities that appeal to their strengths or interests
Speakers
AS
CS

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Nassau West
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Going to the Movies: Developing Proficiency-Oriented Units Using Film
This session highlights the development and sequencing of a proficiency-oriented unit that uses a feature film in the target language as its base. Participants discover how to gather supporting authentic resources, utilize engaging discussion techniques, underscore targeted grammatical structures and develop appropriate assessments that support the themes of the film aligned with proficiency goals. By using high-frequency vocabulary and high-interest topics these engaging units of film study provide optimal comprehensible input and boost language acquisition.
Speakers
MK
CP

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Madison
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Heritage Speakers as Teachers of Spanish: Experiences and Challenges
Research that addresses the needs of heritage speakers of Spanish as in-service teachers is required as they incorporate into the teaching profession as world language teachers of their own heritage language. This research used a qualitative multiple case study design to explore the experiences as teachers of eight Latina heritage speakers. The methods of data collection included interviews, classroom observations, and a focus group. The study sought to answer these research questions: What motivates heritage speakers to stay in the profession? What challenges do they experience as teachers of Spanish? What are their professional development needs? How do their perceptions and attitudes about their use of Spanish evolve from pre to in-service teachers?
Speakers
CB
MN

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Sutton Center
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Hier ist Platz für dich: LGBTQIA+-Affirming German Classrooms
Participants learn and apply best practices for establishing an LGBTQIA+-affirming German classroom environment. First, participants receive a foundation in orientation, gender identity, and expression, as well as a crosswalk between the ACTFL World Readiness and Learning for Justice Social Justice standards. Next, suggestions for using inclusive/affirming language and representative authentic resources, such as web shows and children's books, are shared. Following these examples, in small groups, participants workshop common lesson themes to be more inclusive. Finally, participants discuss challenges they still face in being inclusive. While examples are from the middle school German classroom, other languages and levels are welcome.
Speakers
SS

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Clinton
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Improving Literacy Skills in a Chinese Immersion Setting
The presentation focuses on approaches to balanced literacy in a Chinese immersion setting to help students achieve high proficiency levels of ACTFL standards and meet the grade-appropriate Common Core Language Arts standards. Presenters use Grade 3-7 classroom examples to demonstrate the setup of the literature circles and the roles and jobs and walk through a narrative writing unit. Students are introduced to different writing strategies and apply them effectively to pick the right “tiny topic”, brainstorm, plan, and draft to help students tell their life stories in Chinese.
Speakers
QW
SZ

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Nassau East
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

International Teacher Professional Development in a Changing World: Multimodal Engagement
This session will be interactive, incorporating presentation and dialogic discussion based on findings from an online international English Language teacher program in UZ. This study highlights how teacher engagement was achieved through the application of multimodal approaches for WL educators allowing them to contextualize their learning; data allowed researchers to understand the development of teachers’ authentic applications of instructional methods in global contexts. Attendees will be invited to participate in discussion about teachers’ engagement in bichronous PD. Attendees will have a greater understanding of how effective online WL teacher PD can be implemented domestically and internationally in changing world environments.
Speakers
RF
KW
JK

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Sutton Center
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Language Beyond the Classroom: Teacher of the Year Panel Discussion
Do you struggle with ideas for how to empower your students to use the language beyond the walls of your classroom? Come and learn from the 2022 NECTFL Teachers of the Year state finalists! From empowering your students to teach younger students in your school community, to showcasing student work around town, Teachers of the Year from the northeast region share some of the strategies they implement to practice the Communities standard and advocate for their language programs in their broader communities. Examples are in Spanish, French, Latin, and Chinese across all age groups.
Speakers
TA
RA
HL

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Sutton South
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Language Connects Foundation: A Bold Vision to Elevate the Language Education Profession
Language Connects Foundation (LCF) was born out of a clear and urgent need to address some of the existential challenges facing the language education community today. With the goal of contributing to the development of a well-trained, diverse, and highly effective language educator workforce, LCF seeks funds from individual, corporate, and foundation sources to support language research, awards and scholarships, professional development for educators, and public information/education about the importance of language learning. In this session, learn about how this new, innovative initiative seeks to support language educators today and into the future.
Speakers
KH
EW

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Sutton North
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Learning from the Past, Projecting to the Future: Scaffolding ELLs
This interactive research roundtable will focus on 'Learning from the Past and Projecting to the Future of English Language Learners." Issues specific to ELLs during the pandemic will be discussed. New ways of envisioning and scaffolding our ELLs will about be considered. The foundation of this roundtable discussion is rooted in my previously published researches. However, the discussion will be focused on my new but continuous, non published research. The research discussed at the conference will be published after the conference.
Speakers
NW

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Sutton Center
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Learning Social Dialects by Accessing Diverse Perspectives through Media
This presentation aims to find out how and to what extent it would be desirable to educate advanced learners about the Korean regional and social dialects. The research has focused on the necessity of regional language and culture and social dialects for immigrants and international students. And, it is meaningful in that it considered how far and best for advanced Korean learners to learn the various dialects and discussed the direction in which Korean language and culture education for the dialects should go. Therefore, in this presentation, presenters will investigate how advanced learners perceive the dialects of the Korean language and culture curricula by implementing multimedia and technologies and how they think about the practical needs in order to enhance their multiliteracies.
Speakers
HY
LK

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Sutton Center
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Loving the IPA: Way Beyond Assessment
Speakers
KS

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Regent
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Online Language Teaching Strategies
Students approach to learning languages has evolved significantly from a face-to-face setting to fully synchronous/asynchronous online or hybrid platforms. My research centers on the development of Spanish asynchronous language courses and the advantages and obstacles faced by students and instructors as they learn how to navigate learning and teaching respectively, on an online setting. The presenter will share and discuss effective and ineffective strategies from her own classroom experience.
Speakers
BH

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Sutton Center
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Overcoming Barriers to K-16 Program Articulation
To develop high levels of language proficiency, students must be able to move from secondary to post-secondary language programs and continue building their language skills. Effective K-16 articulation is facilitated by state-level policies, incentives including the Seal of Biliteracy, and the policies and practices of institutions and language programs.
Speakers
FD
JM
MM

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Sutton Center
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Stop Drowning in Papers: Practical Strategies for Engaging Learning
How do we get students to engage with content so that meaningful learning happens? How can educators gradually release responsibility for learning over to students, so that students do more of the work? Join this ACTFL Teacher of the Year and experience hands-on learning of activities that engage students in communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem solving. Most activities are low or no-prep and can be reused at various levels and with varied content. They hit multiple modes of communication, use authentic resources, support social justice themes, and require students to speak interpersonally. The learning routines require students show what they are thinking and learning decreasing grading. Step away from the copy machine and say good-bye to your turn in work bin!
Speakers
KG

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Beekman
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Teacher Perceptions of Inclusion in Online Instructional Practices
The purpose of this study is to explore world language teacher perceptions of inclusion in online instructional practices. Data were collected from semi-structured interviews conducted with six world language teachers in one large public school district during the 2020-2021 academic year. Four of six teachers described practices that incorporate racial and ethnic diversity in curricula, and five teachers expressed uncertainty about how to integrate diverse gender and sexual identities in their practices. Teachers found the support of world language colleagues instrumental in adapting their practices to be delivered online. Findings hold practical implications for teachers and teacher educators who aim to develop inclusive instructional practices in online settings.
Speakers
SD

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Sutton Center
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Teaching about the Holocaust through Literature
This session examines how to teach the Holocaust through French Literature in Translation with a study abroad component as well as interviews with Holocaust survivors. The session examines the curriculum and how to integrate various disciplines in order to further delve in the content. Furthermore, the session examines how students performed on a pre-test and post-test of the content and how the impact of integrating the curriculum allowed for further development of knowledge.
Speakers
KT

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Gibson
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

The Ideal Lesson Plan: 10 Steps to Total Fluency
John Conner, Spanish teacher and author of the acclaimed Breaking the Barrier series, leads participants through ten activities guaranteed to make classes more productive and exciting. The ideas presented can be used in your classroom the very next day.
Speakers
JC

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Morgan
  Professional Learning Session 6

10:30 GMT+08

A Global Future with German Skills: A Roundtable Discussion and Open Forum
A Rountable Discussion and Open Forum on the varied programs of the Goethe-Institut and the way teachers can work together to build their networks, featuring the work of the SPARK program and the study abroad exchange program GAPP. Join us to share your insights and strengthen your program.
Speakers
AH
EB
MR
SS

Saturday March 4, 2023 10:30 - 11:30 GMT+08
Clinton
  Professional Learning Session 7

10:30 GMT+08

Everyone's an alie(b)n: Identity and Language for Novices
Discussing meaningful topics with Novice learners in the target language can feel hard. They are able to speak about themselves, but can they really dig deeper into questions of identity with their limited language? Focus on one French teacher's attempt to use existing literature (Everyone's an aliebn when you're an aliebn too by Jonny Sun) to create identity-driven activities for her students. Examples and resources are shared and participant feedback is sought on how this work could continue to be developed and improved.
Speakers
RV

Saturday March 4, 2023 10:30 - 11:30 GMT+08
Morgan
  Professional Learning Session 7

10:30 GMT+08

Interculturality: Helping Students Understand Identity
How can we move beyond sporadically teaching about culture and identity, and integrate these concepts into our lessons on a daily basis? This session will explore interculturality and identity in the language classroom and demonstrate some simple strategies for making important cultural connections and comparisons. We will also look at how EntreCulturas and EntreCultures from Wayside Publishing help teachers achieve their interculturality goals while also focusing on language acquisition.
Speakers
MO
KS

Saturday March 4, 2023 10:30 - 11:30 GMT+08
Sutton Center
  Professional Learning Session 7

10:30 GMT+08

Meeting Them Where They’re at Through Thematic Planning
How can we plan common learning experiences for students who learn at different rates? How can we develop proficiency, when they need different things? We provide strategies for meeting students where they’re at by leveraging thematic units to appropriately challenge each student through a common learning experience. This includes how to provide students with opportunities to self-differentiate during instruction, assessments, and learning activities, so that they are all talking about the same thing, but each working on their own proficiency growth. Let's meet them where they're at!
Speakers
RA

Saturday March 4, 2023 10:30 - 11:30 GMT+08
Sutton North
  Professional Learning Session 7

10:30 GMT+08

my Identidad
Have you ever explored how your past, present, and future show up in the classroom? Do you wonder how you can uncover and examine the roots of your identidad in order to grow your competencia sociocultural alongside the students you serve? Through a Two-Way Immersion Lens, we will guide you to reflect on your past, present, and future, and how to apply these guided reflections in your Pre-K to 12th grade classrooms. A few of the tasks we will investigate together will be: memoirs, challenging games, how-tos, inspiring videos, and a map of dreams. Join us as we incorporate critical consciousness and social justice into our planning, collegial conversations, advocacy, and instructional practices.
Speakers
SK
DB

Saturday March 4, 2023 10:30 - 11:30 GMT+08
Regent
  Professional Learning Session 7

10:30 GMT+08

NOVUM INITIUM: Building Proficiency in World Language Classrooms
William Lee, the 2023 ACTFL National Langauge Teacher of the Year, shares instructional strategies to engage and motivate students, combining language and culture to develop learners' language performance. These strategies, both technology-based and non-technology-based, can help you reach all kinds of learners in the classroom and are applicable to all languages and levels. Be inspired with new ideas and examples that can have immediate impact in your classroom.
Speakers
WL

Saturday March 4, 2023 10:30 - 11:30 GMT+08
Sutton South
  Professional Learning Session 7

10:30 GMT+08

Preparing Learners of Chinese for Overseas Success
Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) plays a critical role in language learners’ growth and success during study abroad. The Chinese Flagship Culture Initiative (CFCI) aims to design cultural materials and embed them in the development of pragmatic and intercultural competences in intermediate and advanced proficiency Chinese learners. The presenters share results from a needs assessment survey identifying areas of weakness in their cultural preparation, podcasts in which students reflect on their study abroad experience, and new cultural materials developed to address current gaps and strengthen students’ ICC. Feedback on the materials from teachers and students as well as effective instructional strategies for using CFCI materials are also discussed.
Speakers
YC

Saturday March 4, 2023 10:30 - 11:30 GMT+08
Nassau East
  Professional Learning Session 7

10:30 GMT+08

Reflect-Reimagine-Reboot
During an unprecedented time in history, teachers have demonstrated unparalleled resiliency. Many have learned new technology and strategies almost overnight to best serve our students and have done so with grace. Going forward, what happens now? How can teachers apply newly acquired skills to enhance instruction and support all students? Teachers should not only reference Bloom’s Taxonomy for educational objectives but also reflect on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to support students’ social and emotional needs. Reimagine the framework and place importance on the intersection of culture and social emotional learning. Aim to reboot students’ learning experiences to include reflective practices, mindful activities and meaningful affirmations.
Speakers
MM

Saturday March 4, 2023 10:30 - 11:30 GMT+08
Gibson
  Professional Learning Session 7

10:30 GMT+08

Reimaging Upper Level Language and Culture Courses Through Popular Music
Music is an essential element of all cultures, and all proficiency level language classes celebrate cultures through music related activities integrated into the curriculum. A content based language course on popular music products, practices and perspectives deepens students’ cultural competencies, engages students beyond their language requirements and meets students’ various learning styles and interests.
Speakers
MA
HL

Saturday March 4, 2023 10:30 - 11:30 GMT+08
Madison
  Professional Learning Session 7

10:30 GMT+08

Relationship Building & Global Competency: Meaningful Virtual Exchanges
Your classroom walls have no limits! Are you a language educator who would like to create global partnerships via dynamic exchanges for your students? Would you like to empower your students to use their voices and investigate the world through empathy-building opportunities without revamping your curriculum? You will be given practical tools to start your own partnerships and connections in order to have your students exchange stories and gain new perspectives while building confidence in their language skills. See dynamic examples of Spanish language students building their global competency with partners around the Spanish-speaking world without a passport and how your students could do it too!
Speakers
AB
RJ

Saturday March 4, 2023 10:30 - 11:30 GMT+08
Bryant
  Professional Learning Session 7

10:30 GMT+08

Who’s Doing The Heavy Lifting?
How do we guide learners from input to output while also making our students more independent learners? The Gradual Release of Responsibilities (I do, we do, you do) is a framework to help scaffold our lessons and units to achieve those goals. Explore this framework and how it applies to learning a second language. We examine lesson examples in the 3 modes of communication as well as how to apply this framework to planning thematic units that gradually guides students to communicating independently
Speakers
MT

Saturday March 4, 2023 10:30 - 11:30 GMT+08
Beekman
  Professional Learning Session 7
 
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