35.1187, Summer Schools: Teacher's professional development (CARLA summer institute): Language and Culture in Sync (ONLINE) Teaching Linguistic Politeness and Intercultural Awareness / Online

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Date: 10-Apr-2024
From: Noriko Ishihara [ishi0029 at gmail.com]
Subject: Teacher's professional development (CARLA summer institute): Language and Culture in Sync (ONLINE) Teaching Linguistic Politeness and Intercultural Awareness / Online


Teacher's professional development (CARLA summer institute): Language
and Culture in Sync (ONLINE) Teaching Linguistic Politeness and
Intercultural Awareness

Host Institution: University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA
Coordinating Institution: CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on
Language Acquisition)
Website: https://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2024/linguistic.html

Dates: 24-Jun-2024 - 12-Jul-2024
Location: online

Focus: Summer institute online (Jun 24-Jul 12) for teaching pragmatics
with sensitivity to learners’ identities, cultures, and
multilingualism. Early-bird registration closes on April 26th!
Asynchronous but vibrant interactions for 3 weeks with a very diverse
group of teachers and researchers discussing, connecting, and
reflecting together.

This institute provides practical insights for teachers on how to
enhance the learning of linguistic politeness and boost students'
intercultural awareness of linguacultural diversity. Participants will
have hands-on opportunities to develop activities and materials for
the classroom.

Week 1:
•       Terms and definitions for teaching linguistic politeness
(pragmatics)
•       Recording and studying language use
•       Needs assessment for (im)politeness, (in)directness, and
(in)formality
•       Instructional examples: Teaching speech acts, implicatures

Week 2
•       Theories and practices in applied linguistics and
instructional pragmatics
•       Pragmatics-focused lessons
•       Exploring instructional resources
•       Classroom-based assessment of pragmatics

Week 3
•       Textbook analysis and adaptation
•       Teaching pragmatics in lingua franca or other culturally
diverse contexts
•       Developing lesson plans and exchanging feedback
•       Goal-setting and reconnecting for the future

Participant testimonial:
I would highly recommend this CARLA Summer Institute to any language
educator. It fit every language and provided an excellent balance of
research and ways to apply this information to our specific teaching
contexts. (2023)
Minimum Education Level: Experience of learning an additional language

Description:
Participants will:
1.      Demonstrate an awareness of sociocultural aspects of language
learning and teaching.
2.      Develop or refine the ability to identify intercultural
similarities and differences in pragmatic language use in at least two
languages/cultures.
3.      Enhance their ability to identify learners’ needs in
intercultural communication.
4.      Become familiar with current approaches to the teaching of L2
pragmatics.
5.      Develop a pragmatics-focused lesson plan which incorporates
research-based information.
6.      Identify means for assessing learners’ pragmatic competence.
7.      Demonstrate a deeper awareness of the link between learners'
sociocultural identities, multilingualism, and expressions of
linguistic politeness and develop culturally sensitive instruction and
assessments based on this awareness.
8.      Collaborate and network with other participants in and beyond
their immediate teaching environments.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Pragmatics

Tuition: 300.0 US dollars
Tuition Explanation: Early-bird registration (by April 26): $300
Regular (4/27–6/7/24): $350
Late (After 6/7/24): $400

CARLA offers three scholarship programs to support attendance at the
CARLA Summer Institutes:

1. Priority Teacher Professional Development Scholarship Program
2. Teaching Excellence in Action in Minnesota (TEAM) Scholarship
Program
3. LC/CARLA Summer Institute Scholarship for UMN Language Instructors
See the link for more information.

Registration Open until 21-Jun-2024

Contact Person: CARLA
                Email: carla at umn.edu

Apply by Email: carla at umn.edu
Apply on the web:
https://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2024/registration.html

Registration Instructions:
https://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2024/registration.html



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