Arabic-L:PEDA:NMELRC Webinars on Staying in Target Language, Learning Centered Environment

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1) Subject:NMELRC Webinars on Staying in Target Language, Learning
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Date: 11 Apr 2012
From:Scott Gemmell [sgemmell at byu.edu]
Subject:NMELRC Webinars on Staying in Target Language, Learning
Centered Environment

The NMELRC announces the following two Webinars:

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On behalf of the National Middle East Language Resource Center
(NMELRC), we would like to invite you to participate in a webinar on
Friday, April 20th at 1pm Eastern Standard Time in the U.S.

The topic will be: Encouraging student collaboration, negotiation, and
engagement in meaningful and relevant environments. This 60-minute
webinar will be led by Dr. Nicole Mills, coordinator of the Beginning
French language Program at Harvard University and previous coordinator
of beginning and intermediate French at the University of
Pennsylvania. At both institutions, she developed curriculum grounded
in second language acquisition and theory for the beginning and
intermediate levels of language instruction. She assisted in last
year’s STARTALK Persian program as the curriculum design specialist
and has extensive publications in various academic journals and edited
volumes on various topics associated with curriculum design and
foreign language education, motivation, and engagement. She holds a
Ph.D. in Educational Studies and French from Emory University.

The webinar will focus on how to create a learner-centered environment
by providing opportunities for social negotiation and collaboration
through active and authentic language use in meaningful and realistic
environments. She will present a brief overview of research and theory
associated with the value of experiential and constructivist learning
and student engagement in the foreign language classroom. She will
then discuss a global simulation curriculum grounded in Paris, France
in which students create a fictive yet culturally grounded world,
assume the role of a self-developed French character, and collaborate
with fellow community members (Magnin, 1997). Adapted from this
curriculum, she will propose an adapted curriculum in the Persian
language context. With the help of the participants, she will propose
ideas for a global simulation curriculum in Beginning or Intermediate
level Persian grounded within the Shiraz, Iran context. Ideas will
include possible course themes, interactive writing tasks, oral exams,
in-class activities, and a final play assignment which encourage
student negotiation, collaboration, and active participation. The
format of the webinar will be a live webcast with participants
emailing in questions and comments before and during the broadcast.

This webinar will be held at George Washington University and
moderated by Professor Pardis Minuchehr.

Please RSVP by visiting: http://nmelrc.org/nmelrc-webinar-april-20th

Scott Gemmell
NMELRC
Research Assistant

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NO ENGLISH PLEASE!

Join us on Friday April 27th, 2:00-3:00 pm EST in a webinar on how to
stay in the target language inthe foreign language classroom. The
webinar will be hosted by Dr. Roberta Micallef at BostonUniversity and
led by Ms. Sue Griffin, who trains graduate students teaching foreign
languages in thedepartment of Romance Studies, at Boston University.
If you are interested in participating please send an email including
your name, the language you teach or are interested in teaching, and
your institutional affiliation and the email address you would like
used for the webinar to Roberta Micallef at:Micallef at bu.edu by Friday,
April 20th. Participation is limited to twenty-five participants so
rsvp soon!

Thank you,
Scott Gemmell
NMELRC
Research Assistant


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