Duke Foreign Language Teaching Share Fair

The Trinity College Language Committee proudly presents:

 Duke Foreign Language Teaching Share Fair Spring 2013

“Language, Literature & Culture”

Thursday, February 7, 2013, 1.00-3.00 pm, Languages A 247

Program:

1.00 – 1.15 Meet and greet

1.15 – 1.25 Dan Wang: SLA through task-based approach -Video production in advanced Chinese

1.25 – 1.35 Emily Sposeto: Class at the Nasher – Using the museum space to engage students

1.35 – 1.45 Susanne Freytag: Staying on script – Pronounciation practice at the intermediate level

1.45 – 2.00 Break

2.00 – 2.10 Muhammad Habib: Developing vocabulary through story telling

2.10 – 2.20 Maria Romero: Using Word Press to foster learning autonomy – Collective vocabulary glossary and grammar self-correction sharing

2.20 – 2.30 Heidi Hart: Stop that glottis! Using German diction for singers in the classroom

Refreshments will be served.

For questions, please contact corinna.kahnke@duke.edu.

The Trinity College Language Committee proudly presents:

 Duke Foreign Language Teaching Share Fair Spring 2013

“Language, Literature & Culture”

Thursday, February 7, 2013, 1.00-3.00 pm, Languages A 247

Invited to present are all language instructors and TAs.

The share fair aims to bring us together across the languages and offers an opportunity to share a strategy or exercise that has worked particularly well in the classroom. Depending on the target level of language the activity is aimed at, the presentation (5 minutes – short and sweet…) can be given in the target language or English, whereby the audience is “the class”. This is followed by 5 minutes of Q&A.

To make the materials available, we have set up an open access wordpress site, and ask presenters for a short description paragraph after the fair.

Please send your proposal (title & A/V needs) to Corinna Kahnke corinna.kahnke@duke.edu by Thursday, January 31.

“Crossing Borders, Bridging Gaps”

Friday, February 10 2012, 3.00-5.00 pm, Old Chemistry 101

03.00 pm – Meet and Greet

03.15 pm – Opening Remarks (Corinna Kahnke)

03.20 pm – Encouraging Critical Thinking: Representing the Stakeholders (Melissa Simmermeyer)

03.30 pm – How to Improve Group Work for CFL Learners (Tianshu He)

03.40 pm – Bringing the News to the Classroom (Graciela Vidal)

03.50 pm – Practicing and Reinforcing Grammar through Oral Skills: Creating a Podcast (Maria Romero)

04.00 pm – Break

04.10 pm – Languages across the Curriculum: Preparing Students for Research in Foreign Languages

                     (Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers and Tanya Kinsella)

04.25 pm – Teaching Grammar through Visuals: Preterit vs. Imperfect in Spanish (Ana Fernández)

04.35 pm – Using Surveys to Personalize Courses (Rebecca Ewing)

04.45 pm – Vocabulary Expansion at Every Level: Word/Phrase of the Day (Corinna Kahnke)

The Trinity College Language Committee proudly presents:

 Duke Foreign Language Teaching Share Fair Spring 2012

“Crossing Borders, Bridging Gaps”

Friday, February 10 2012, 3.00-5.00 pm, Old Chemistry 116

Invited to present are all language instructors and TAs.

At the 2011 ACTFL conference, the confluence and collaboration of language, literature, and culture in the foreign language classroom were once again strongly emphasized. How do we, as instructors, cross these borders and bridge existing gaps in the everyday-classroom?

The share fair aims to bring us together across the languages and offers an opportunity to share a strategy or exercise that has worked particularly well in the classroom. Depending on the target level of language the activity is aimed at, the presentation (5 minutes – short and sweet…) can be given in the target language or English, whereby the audience is “the class”. This is followed by 5 minutes of Q&A.

To make the materials available, we will set up an open access wordpress site, and ask presenters for a short description paragraph after the fair.

Please send your proposal (title & A/V needs) to Corinna Kahnke corinna.kahnke@duke.edu by Tuesday, January 31.