20.3412, Confs: Greek Language, Applied Ling, Language Acquisition/USA

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Subject: 20.3412, Confs: Greek Language, Applied Ling, Language Acquisition/USA

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Date: 08-Oct-2009
From: Marina Terkourafi < mt217 at illinois.edu >
Subject: Teaching Greek as a Second Language
 

	
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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:06:12
From: Marina Terkourafi [mt217 at illinois.edu]
Subject: Teaching Greek as a Second Language

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Teaching Greek as a Second Language 

Date: 27-Oct-2009 - 28-Oct-2009 
Location: Urbana, IL, USA 
Contact: Marina Terkourafi 
Contact Email: mt217 at illinois.edu 
Meeting URL: http://www.moderngreek.illinois.edu/tgsl.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition 

Subject Language(s): Greek (ell)

Meeting Description: 

A one-day workshop aiming to link theoretical linguistics with the Foreign Language classroom and explore ways to increase interaction between the two. The workshop is organized by the Modern Greek Studies program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and will offer practical information useful to all instructors teaching Less Commonly Taught Languages, using the Greek L2 classroom as a case study. 

1:05 pm  
Brian Joseph, Ohio State University: A Novel Paradigm for Teaching LCTLs

1:40 pm  
Mark Janse, University of Ghent: A Graduate Curriculum for Modern Greek: Incorporating Modern Greek Dialectology and Folklore 

2.15 pm  
Niovi Antonopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: Some Common Pitfalls in the Greek FL Classroom

2:50 pm  
Coffee break

3:00 pm  
Amalia Arvaniti, University of California at San Diego: Phonetic and Phonological Aspects of Greek Second Language Acquisition

3:35 pm  
Stavroula Tsiplakou, University of Cyprus: Teaching Language Variation: a Case Study from Cyprus 

4:10 pm  
Panayotis Pappas, Simon Fraser University: Distance Education Courses in Greek: The Odysseas Language Tutor

4:45 pm  
Coffee break

5:00 pm  
Open discussion with FL instructors and students





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