The motto of the conference, “Contexts and Language Learning: Situated Learning in the 21st Century” inspired quite a few contributions on ‘authentic’ situated learning in study abroad contexts that attempted to go beyond the home university instructor-led course abroad (including…
Category: Conference Reports
Language Testing Research Colloquium
The International Language Testing Association held its annual conference – Language Testing Research Colloquium – in Toronto this year from March 18-20. The theme, ‘From language testing to language assessment’ reflects the attention that classroom-based and learner-oriented assessment has been…
Borrow-aways from the Georgetown Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics
Heading to another conference (AAAL in Toronto) is a strange time to be blogging about a conference from last weekend, but the Georgetown Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics was too good not to want to revisit what I learned and somehow…
“So when y’all meet, what do you speak?”
“So when y’all meet, what do you speak?” As a faculty who teaches Arabic, I always hear this question from my students in their attempt to shed light on the mysteries of the many dialects of Arabic (Arabic has a Standard…
A report on ACTFL 2014 in San Antonio
Thanks to the generous support of the CLS travel fund, I was able to participate at the annual conference of American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), held on November 21-23, 2014 in San Antonio, TX. It was…
ACTFL 2014 – Ideas for Curriculum Discussion
At last year’s ACTFL conference in San Antonio, I attended several panels that concentrated on using literature at various levels in the language classroom, which was also the topic of the session in which I presented. In one session, instructors…