As the Hispanic population continues to grow, schools receive greater numbers of students who are native or heritage speakers of Spanish who come to us with diverse cultural backgrounds and widely varying linguistic abilities. This workshop will address the variation found within this population as well as information on the contributions they bring to the classroom. We will discuss ways to create a positive environment where Hispanic students feel welcomed and comfortable, regardless of background or prior language knowledge.
Differentiation. We all know it is important, but also daunting and often considered implausible. The first steps to effective differentiation are effective grouping and efficient assessments.However, with some simple and easily used strategies for grouping students, we can make differentiation a natural part of the classroom.
In this presentation, educators will learn how to design a new language course from the ground up for free. Using examples from a new German course taught with open educational resources at the University of Mississippi, this presentation introduces educators to an inexpensive, coordinated approach to language proficiency training and assessment. Participants will receive access to a digital toolkit for building a new language course in German, including a syllabus, assignments, grammar tutorials, vocabulary decks, in-class assessments and presentations.
In communicative language classes, we strive to focus student participation and assessment on activities that closely mirror 'real-world' use of the target language, and choosing a response from multiple choices doesn't usually fit that bill. With the right knowledge and appropriate set-up, L2 teachers can incorporate multiple choice, T/F, etc. in both their formative and summative assessments in a manner that maintains our communicative goals while easing the teachers' workload.
Are you aware of national proficiency outcome averages for Dual Language Immersion learners of languages other than English? This session will present these foreign language-specific findings & what they mean—what DLI learners should be able to do in the foreign language compared to national averages for 2nd & 5th graders. The session will conclude with tips from research findings on how to boost students’ foreign language proficiency while teaching content instruction.
This presentation will focus on the preliminary implementation of a leveled instructional approach to teaching and learning in an intermediate Spanish classroom. Using grammar concepts as examples, I will share how I have been able to implement curriculum that allows for a student-centered progression through content that supports both low and high achieving students. By learning concepts at their own speed and with the help of their classmates, students have increased agency in the language acquisition process.
Come learn about a new alternative to becoming certified in proficiency rating using the ACTFL scale with Avant ADVANCE: all online, self-paced, and a fraction of the cost of traditional training sessions. Once certified, instructors continue to have access to training modules to remain calibrated, allowing teachers to be confident in their rating of student responses. Research shows that skill-based abilities, like accurate rating of student responses, occurs best with an established practice and feedback process.
Avant is a leader in improving student outcomes in immersion and world language programs by providing data from its online, adaptive, real-world language assessments.
This presentation includes an overview of the editorial process from submission to publication in scholarly journals with examples from Dimension (SCOLT) & Learning Languages (NNELL). Tips for writing manuscripts, responding to reviewer feedback, & revising & resubmitting manuscripts are offered. Information about becoming a reviewer is also provided. Come with your questions about publishing.
