The QUEENS CONSORTIUM
ON LOTE
invites you to the
FIRST CONFERENCE ON
FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Queens College,
Friday, May 4th, 2012, from 8:30 AM to
5:00 PM
Please
join us for a full-day conference
on the
craft of teaching modern languages
No registration
needed
Breakfast
and Lunch will be provided
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
8:30, Welcome Breakfast. Location: Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, Room 230
9:00, Opening note and Introduction, Beatriz Carolina Peña, Queens Consortium on Languages Other Than
English, Queens College
9:05, Welcome Remarks, William McClure, Acting Dean of Faculty, Division of Arts and
Humanities, Queens College
Keynote Address: Our Often-Forgotten Resource: Heritage Language Speakers
Sandra B. Schreffler,
Professor of Spanish and Linguistics,
Department of Modern Languages,
Roger Williams University,
Introduced by Barbara Simerka, Acting Chair of
the Hispanic Languages and Literatures Department
9:15-10:15,
Location: Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, Room
230
Heritage Language Placement Exams: A
Case of Polish HL Learners
Presenter: Agnieszka Rakowicz, LaGuardia Community
College, CUNY
10:30-11:20, Location: Powdermaker Hall, Room 110
Teaching Italian with the ePortfolio: Integrating Technology with
Purpose
Presenter: Giulia Guarnieri, Bronx Community College, CUNY
10:30-11:20, Location: Powdermaker Hall, Room 112
Harnessing Motivation in a Spanish for Native Speakers class: An Experience
with a Community-Based Curriculum
Presenter: Diana
P. Romero, Columbia University
10:30-11:20, Location: Powdermaker Hall, Room 121
“Beyond Grammar Textbooks”: A Conversation about Experiential
Teaching and Learning with Bilingual Faculty
Panel Chair and Moderator:
Anahí Viladrich
, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, and Director of the Immigration Studies Working Group
Participants:
Antonietta D’Amelio, Baruch
College, CUNY, Eva
Fernández, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, Robert Vago,
Professor of Linguistics, Queens College and The Graduate Center, Chair,
Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders, Queens College, CUNY, Sandra M.
Wozniak, Queens College, CUNY, and Columbia University
11:30-12:45,
Location: Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library,
President’s Conference Room 2, Fifth Floor. Lunch will be served.
Implementing Chinese Heritage Language Courses at a Community
College,
Presenters:Wei
Lan and Maan Lin, Pennsylvania State University
and Queensborough Community College, CUNY
1:00-1:50, Location: : Powdermaker Hall, Room 110
Media and/or
Technology in the LOTE Classroom –Ipads anyone?
Presenter: Lisa
Mars, Townsend Harris High School
1:00-1:50, Location: Powdermaker Hall, Room 112
Energizing the Spanish
Language Classrooms through Music, Literature and Movies
Presenter: Sonia
Tejada,
Hewlett High School
2:00-2:50,
Location: Powdermaker Hall, Room 110
Teaching and Learning a
Foreign Language through the New Media: How
Facebook, Wiki, Podcast, ePortfolio, Enhance the
Learning Experience and the Teaching Performance
Presenter: Elda
Buonanno,
Iona College
2:00-2:50, Location: Powdermaker Hall, Room 112
Integrating Culture and Technology in the Elementary Italian
Language Class
Presenter: Antonella
Ansani, Queensborough
Community College, CUNY
3:00-3:50, Location: : Powdermaker Hall, Room 110
Manifestaciones de "La mancha
indeleble": del cuento al corto
Presenter: Margherita
Tortora, Yale University
3:00-3:50, Location: : Powdermaker Hall, Room 112
Teaching Foreign Languages to First Time Learners: A Definitive
Methodology?
Presenter: Hamid
Bahri, York College, CUNY
4:00-4:50, Location: : Powdermaker
Hall, Room 110