Conversations and Presentations
A series of events on Second Language Acquisition and Technology brought to you by ALTEC.
2013
Online Language Instruction
Ed Dixon 04/2013In 2010, Dr. Ed Dixon taught the first online language course at the University of Pennsylvania. In this talk, he addresses practical concerns for online language teaching including content creation, assessment, student interaction, and time management.
2012
Open Educational Resources and Language Instruction
Christopher Jones 10/2012Dr. Jones reviews the history and discusses the future prospects of Open Educational Resources, using as a case study the French Online course through the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University.
Multimodality, Media, & Access to Multiliteracies
Kathy Mills 4/2012Dr. Mills draws on a case study of a multilingual language learner, Paweni, a Thai immigrant, describing how she and her peers negotiated cultural and linguistic difference within a long-term multimodal project that was ostensibly more equitable than an exclusively print-based approach.
Education in Late Modernity
Steve Thorne 4/2012Professor Thorne discusses whether it is feasible or desirable to include out-of-school L2 digital engagement in environments such as social media, fan fiction communities, and online gaming.
Interview on Blogging
Tatiana Mikhailova 3/2012Tatiana uses the students' blogs to publish their translations of Russian poetry and provide them with a record of their accomplishments.
Interview on Blogging
Kyoko Saegusa 2/2012Kyoko describes how she's been using student blogs to allow first year Japanese students to reflect upon their language acquisition experience.
Interview on Blogging
Anne Becher 1/2012Edwige Simon interviews Anne Becher concerning her use of student blogs to teach her fourth year Spanish writing course.
Interview on Blogging
Maggie McCullar 1/2012When she teaches her Spanish courses, Maggie McCullar uses Blogger as a course management system.
Interview on Blogging
Amber Navarre 1/2012Amber Navarre describes another case of using blogging as a course managment system. In this case she used Wordpress to teach her Chinese courses.
2011
Interactive Whiteboards
Sarah Withee 10/2011In this presentation, Sarah Withee demonstrates that, with properly designed activities, an interactive whiteboard can be a valuable tool for learning and practicing vocabulary, reading strategies, and conversation in the language classroom.
2010
Virtual Immersion
Colleen Coffey 11/2010In her talk, Colleen discusses the benefits and challenges to developing a virtual immersion program as an integral part of language course curriculum department-wide.
Blending foreign language instruction
Senta Görtler 4/2010Spring 2010 Share Fair Keynote Talk: Michigan State University professor Senta Goertler's lecture explores methods through which language instructors can blend traditional classroom tactics with technology.
Digital Games
Julie Sykes 2/2010Julie Sykes of the University of New Mexico discusses the value of virtual spaces as environments in which language learners may acquire new experiences and perfect their existing skills.
2009
The Quest for Communicative Competence
Sandra J. Savignon 5/2009For ALTEC's first Second Language Aquisition workshop, Sandra Savignon presents communicative competence and ways to overcome obstacles to implementing CLT.