Pre-Conference Workshops
LFLTA is proud to offer 2 Pre-Conference Workshops to registered, paid participants of our 2018 Conference in Shreveport, Louisiana. These Pre-Conference Workshops require a separate registration and space is limited. Registration is on a first come, first served basis.
Our Pre-Conference workshops will be held on Friday, January 12 from 9:00AM to 11:00AM.
Paid conference goers may select and register for only 1 Pre-Conference Workshop.
Our Pre-Conference workshops will be held on Friday, January 12 from 9:00AM to 11:00AM.
Paid conference goers may select and register for only 1 Pre-Conference Workshop.
Pre-Conference Workshop #1
Implement Core Practices:
Facilitating Target Language Comprehensibility and Supporting Classroom Conversations
Paul Sandrock, ACTFL
Explore essential practices to make language instruction and assessment more effective, based on second-language acquisition theory, research on learning, and classroom practice.Unwrap how to enact selected practices, analyzing various teaching moves and their relationship to learning goals. The workshop focuses on ways to support learners’ understanding and use of the target language and strategies to develop and assess Interpersonal interaction and negotiation of meaning.
Pre-Conference Workshop #2
1-2-3 Improv
Margaret Weston Piccoli
Improvisation has been used in theater to unleash creativity in actors by making spontaneous, unplanned language connections. Through improvisation, students focus on the game and experience the creative flow of using language in a real-life, meaningful setting while satisfying the goals of the second language classroom. This innovative teaching technique can be used for any language, level, and age. Teachers will be taken step-by-step through the philosophy of improvisation, the connection to second languages, the practice of the technique, and finally to the implementation in the second language classroom.