Open Up

 Language program directors, graduate students, and faculty will work together to create open resources for teaching literacy using authentic texts that demonstrate playful and creative uses of language. Breakfast, lunch, and an evening social event are provided to workshop participants.  About the FLLITE projectThe FLLITE Project, sponsored by CERCLL (University of Arizona) and COERLL (University of Texas at Austin), takes the creative moments found in everyday language use as the basis for lessons in second language literacy. By emphasizing language play as central to communication, FLLITE lessons aim to develop language awareness as well as communicative abilities through the integration of speaking, reading, listening, and writing tasks. The goal of the FLLITE Project is the publication of lessons based on authentic texts in both commonly and less-commonly taught languages, for example, blogs, Internet memes, YouTube videos, slam poetry, and so forth. When you submit a lesson, the FLLITE editorial board will give you feedback to improve your lesson for publication. In addition, you will learn how to adopt an open copyright license (Creative Commons) that gives the public the right to access, adapt, and re-use your lesson.    Important information Registration is full for this workshop Please bring your own device (laptop or tablet) in order to fully participate in the workshop Useful links Find information about hotels and transport in Austin  &nbs […]

View workshop scheduleWe know that writing builds communicative skills as it develops critical and analytical thinking. Why then, do we avoid assigning that writing task? Do we fear a student rebellion? Dread the mountain of resulting papers to grade? Honestly, have we been taught to effectively teach, or assess, writing?  Probably not. Join master English Language Arts teacher and UT clinical professor Julia Haug and Rose Potter for this one day workshop. Learn to integrate ELA planning and assessment strategies into a cross-curricular unit of study that will help cultivate your students' communication skills in all three modes. This approach will build your students' creativity, problem solving and entrepreneurship skills.Leave this interactive workshop with the outline for a writing unit, your own writing sample, and samples of work shared by your colleagues. Important information Cost is $5 for students, $10 for K-12 teachers, and $20 for others.Breakfast, lunch, and coffee are included.CPE credits available.   Please bring your own device (laptop or tablet) in order to fully participate in the workshop Useful links Register for the workshop View workshop scheduleFind information about hotels and transport in Austin […]

This workshop brings together four language and culture experts, who have all witnessed transformations in teaching and learning languages over the past decades. In four separate presentations, they will examine critical changes in the methods, materials, and means that are employed in and out of the classroom that have reshaped language learning in the 2010s. The workshop will take on the topics of changes in technology applications, the teaching of reading, the teaching of culture, and the language “textbook” in recent decades. Each presenter will focus on practical applications for use in and out of class, as well as ways to adapt these recommendations to various languages, levels, and learning environments for use by the participants. […]