| DAY |
ROOM |
SESSION BEGIN |
SESSION END |
Type |
Title |
Summary |
Presenters |
| Saturday |
CB |
12:00 PM |
1:00 PM |
Poster |
Exploring
Change in Preservice Teachers' Beliefs about English Language Learning and
Teaching |
The
purpose of the present study is to discover preservice Pre-K through 8th
grade mainstream teachers' beliefs about language learning in order to better
inform future teacher preparation programs. |
Zoreh Eslami |
| Saturday |
CB |
12:00 PM |
1:00 PM |
Poster |
ESL
Teachers' Needs for Their Professional Development: The Voice from Ontario |
Professional
development is crucial for in-service teachers. In this Poster presentation,
we will present research findings from a pilot study of ESL teachers'
professional development needs in the Ontario context. Twenty teachers from
four language institutes participated in the questionnaire survey study.
Implications for ESL teacher education will be discussed. |
Kangxian Zhao & Hong
Wang |
| Saturday |
CB |
12:00 PM |
1:00 PM |
Poster |
A
Narrative Inquiry into the Impact of English Curriculum Reforms on Teachers'
Professional Identities in Mainland China |
This
study investigates three experienced teachers impacted by the English
curriculum reforms since the 1980s in mainland China. It explores how the
teachers reconstructed their professional identities faced with challenges to
fill in research gaps. The findings of complex professional identities
indicate the danger of the solely pedagogical reforms. |
Zhaoyang Liu |
| Saturday |
CB |
12:00 PM |
1:00 PM |
Poster |
HOPE
for Integrating Reflective Skills into Language Learning Programs: A Toolbox
for Teacher/Coaches |
Programs
which empower learners to be successful in their SLA endeavors must include
practical tools presented in an integrated approach. Reflection is an
essential ingredient throughout. Reflective teacher/coaches are better
equipped to train reflective learners. This session illustrates how to groom
teacher/coaches and learners in using reflection effectively. |
Elizabeth
Barbour Hopkins |
| Saturday |
CB |
12:00 PM |
1:00 PM |
Poster |
Teaching
Mainstream Teachers about Second Language Acquisition |
This
poster reports on an introductory course in second language acquisition (SLA)
for mainstream K-12 teachers. The course content includes Lightbown and
Spada's (2006) introductory text, sixteen SLA journal articles, and clips
from the documentary Promises, about Palestinian and Israeli youth developing
relationships through their shared second language, English. |
Ari Sherris |
| Saturday |
CB |
12:00 PM |
1:00 PM |
Poster |
We're
All Teachers of English Language Learners": Innovative Practices in a
Professional Development Model for Teaching ELL Students in Content Area
Classrooms |
With
the increased number of English Language Learners included in content area
classrooms, all teachers must have the knowledge, skills and dispositions to
impact the learning of ELL students. This presentation illustrates the
innovative practices used in a 5-day professional development seminar on
teaching ELL students in content area classrooms. |
Beth Wassell & Jacqueline
McCafferty |
| Saturday |
CB |
12:00 PM |
1:00 PM |
Poster |
Exploratory
Practice in Initial Teacher Education: Integration and Work for Understanding |
This
poster, co-authored by four teacher-learners and three teacher educators,
combines the group's pre-professional and professional reflection on the
process of implementing Exploratory Practice in initial language teacher
education. It illustrates how beginning teachers reconceptualize pedagogic
practice as 'work for understanding' and integrate an investigative attitude
into their pre-professional lives. |
Ines Miller, Beatriz Barreto, Maria
Cristina Goes Monteiro, Fábio
Santos, Juliana
de Oliveira Sant'Anna dos Santos, Rubiane
Guilherme & Michele
Valadão Vermelho |
| Saturday |
308 |
12:00 PM |
1:00 PM |
Tech
Poster |
Internet
Technologies and Teaching Techniques |
This
presentation explores how to incorporate varied technologies into the foreign
language classroom. Sample technologies include image manipulation software,
digital voice recording, MP3 players, the blogosphere, digital stories,
Blackboard, and a variety of interactive websites that can be used to
complement and/or facilitate class assignments. |
Zennia Hancock, Erin
Korves & Loredana
Di Stravolo |
| Saturday |
308 |
12:00 PM |
1:00 PM |
Tech
Poster |
Using
Technology To Meet the Needs of Students with Learning Disabilities |
Computer-based
practice is ideally suited to students with learning disabilities in a number
of ways. They benefit from rapid feedback, the ability to self-pace, and
increased opportunity to practice language in ways that are structured and
multimodal. |
Eve Leons |
| Saturday |
308 |
12:00 PM |
1:00 PM |
Tech
Poster |
Development
Course in Communicative Competence, EFL Methodology and Optimization of
Language Learning Resource Centers |
The
focus of this presentation is on the way a Colombian University contributes
to the fostering of both bilingualism and the use of Information and
Communication Technologies in public educational contexts. Among the outcomes
of the course, the presenter will refer to the creation of a Virtual Language
Resource Centre which hosts the products created by teachers and will welcome
them as members of an academic community of public school teachers. |
C.
Patricia Alvarez |
| Saturday |
308 |
12:00 PM |
1:00 PM |
Tech
Poster |
Multilingual
Family Literacy in ESL |
This
discussion addresses the use of interactive FL websites with an emphasis on
family literacy and maximizing multi-sensory and interactive learning.
Participants will be instructed on how to tailor online lessons for their
target population. The purpose of this program is to enhance in-class
learning of foreign languages using technology. |
Talia Kowitt |
| Saturday |
302 |
1:05 PM |
1:30 PM |
Paper |
A
Model of Mid-Term Conference that promotes pre-service students' overall
teaching |
In
this talk, the presenter will introduce a model of teaching practicum
developed for teaching English to young learners in our university. The
mid-term conference of the teaching practicum is student-centered and
consists of video viewing and peer coaching. The study reports that mid-term
conference contributes substantially to overall teaching. |
Makiko Tanaka |
| Saturday |
308 |
1:05 PM |
1:30 PM |
Paper |
Leveraging
Web 2.0 Collaboration Sites into Language Teaching and Research |
Collaborators
and developers benefit from the abundance of new web-based tools available.
These web applications enable writers and project developers to work together
from anywhere on the Internet, thus providing language teachers and
researchers emerging opportunities to interact with counterparts from around
the globe. |
Frank Tuzi |
| Saturday |
403 |
1:05 PM |
1:30 PM |
Paper |
Inclusivity
in Exploratory Practice: A case study of principles in practice |
What
is "inclusivity" in Exploratory Practice? What does it mean and
what are the implications in practice? This paper will examine these
questions and suggest that if inclusivity is indeed a desirable principle for
practitioner research in education, then a degree of trust in practitioners
will be required. |
Judith Hanks |
| Saturday |
404 |
1:05 PM |
1:30 PM |
Paper |
Teaching
in the Target Language: A Neglected Pedagogical Value? |
This
session critiques current positions on code-switching, situating them within
what is known about students' and teachers' beliefs and practices about
teaching in L2. It introduces a workshop designed to respond to the current
dissonance between research, standards and practices, and presents impact
data gathered from program participants. |
Mark
K. Warford |
| Saturday |
405 |
1:05 PM |
1:30 PM |
Paper |
A
National, Collaborative Project in Language Teacher Education in Australia:
Reciprocal Effects of Collaboration Among Communities of Languages Educators |
Based
on the research, development and implementation of the nationally-coordinated
Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning in Practice project in language
teacher education, we critically explore some assumptions that need to be
negotiated in any professional collaboration. We use data from an extended
case study to provide a counterpoint. |
Angela Scarino & Leo
Papademetre |
| Saturday |
301 |
1:05 PM |
3:00 PM |
Symposium |
Addressing
Teacher Training Challenges in Federal Language Programs |
A
panel of officials with teacher training responsibilities at four of the
major federal language training institutions will discuss their challenges
and solutions. The panel includes personnel from the Defense Language
Institute (DLI), the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), the Intelligence
Language Institute (ILI), and the National Cryptologic School (NCS). |
Douglas Gilzow, Lea
Christiansen, Grazyna
Dudney & Carolyn
Crooks |
| Saturday |
307 |
1:05 PM |
3:00 PM |
Symposium |
Mentoring
Apprentice Language Teacher Educators: Apprenticeships in Action |
The
Language Teacher Educator Apprenticeship Model (L-TEAM) mentors doctoral
students to become highly productive "apprentice" language teacher
educators (LTEs), surpassing ordinary doctoral RA/TA roles. We demonstrate
the practical model, built on work by Vygotsky; Alexander; Lave and Wenger;
and Brown et al. Audience participants share experiences in language educator
professionalization. |
Rebecca Oxford, Michael
Wei, Donna
Bain Butler, Chien-Yu
Lin & Rui
Ma |
| Saturday |
309 |
1:05 PM |
3:00 PM |
Symposium |
Preparing
Teachers for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Classrooms: Perspectives
and Possibilities |
This
symposium explores the professional learning of teacher educators in the
process of teaching ESL pedagogy; the empowerment of teachers through
collaborative dialogue about intercultural school-based incidents; and the
preparation and integration of immigrant teachers for whom English is an
additional language in the K-12 teaching force. |
Clea Schmidt, Antoinette
Gagne, Sunny
Lau Man Chu, Yi
Li & Seonaigh
MacPherson |
| Saturday |
310 |
1:05 PM |
3:00 PM |
Symposium |
Teaching
Content to ELLs: Collaboration between Universities and Schools |
Presenters
discuss their perspectives on collaboration between a university education
department and a public school system to design and implement a new federally
funded professional development program to help secondary content teachers
improve English language learners' performance in math, science, and social
studies. Voices from teachers, administrators, and professors are
highlighted. |
Joan
Kang, Shin, JoAnn
Crandal, John
Quinn, Roberta
Girardi, Christopher
Browder & Lori
Edmonds |
| Saturday |
GB |
1:05 PM |
3:30 PM |
Paper |
Teacher
Beliefs, Teacher Practices, and Coaching to Improve Performance |
Who
is a good teacher? Who wants to be a good teacher? Why aren't all teachers
good teachers? How can teacher educators use coaching to empower pre-service
and in-service teachers to self-assess their performance and direct their own
progress toward continuous improvement of their instructional practices? In
this session you'll have an opportunity to examine recently developed
descriptors of highly effective language teachers, learn more about what
works (and doesn't' work) in changing instructional practices, and become
familiar with some of the strategies associated with cognitive coaching. |
Myriam Met |
| Saturday |
302 |
1:35 PM |
2:00 PM |
Paper |
Dynamic
Assessment in Teacher Education: Using Video Protocols to Intervene in
Teacher Thinking and Activity |
This
paper argues that teacher educator's direct intervention in a video protocol
can be viewed as a kind of dynamic assessment. The teacher-educator provides
an expert's perspective orienting the teachers, reducing their cognitive
load, and enabling them to begin appropriating different teacher thinking and
activity. |
Paula Golombek |
| Saturday |
308 |
1:35 PM |
2:00 PM |
Paper |
Teacher
Training and Technology of Today |
This
action research project seeks to answer three major questions. What
technological knowledge do future instructors need to perform effectively?
How to integrate technology training within teacher-training programs? What
challenges might trainees encounter? Practical activities on how to integrate
technology in teacher training programs are shared with the audience. |
Nerman
S. Eltorie |
| Saturday |
403 |
1:35 PM |
2:00 PM |
Paper |
Observation
Schemes: Manifesting Current Domains of Teacher Knowledge? |
This
presentation investigates whether the currently studied domains of teacher
knowledge are manifested in different observation schemes commonly utilized
in second language teacher education. Do the observation schemes
appropriately represent these knowledge domains, or do the knowledge domains
not completely encapsulate all facets of what teachers are expected to know? |
Drew
S. Fagan |
| Saturday |
404 |
1:35 PM |
2:00 PM |
Paper |
Implementing
Communicative Language Teaching in Togo |
This
paper reports on the background, content and results of a workshop presented
in Togo, West Africa, in December 2008. The purpose of the workshop was to
help EFL teachers in Togolese secondary schools implement small and effective
changes to include communicative language teaching approaches in their
classroom teaching. |
Colleen Maloney-Berman & Janice
Nersinger |
| Saturday |
405 |
1:35 PM |
2:00 PM |
Paper |
Online
Professional Development for Second Language Teachers: Considerations for
Fostering Intercultural Competencies in Technologically-Mediated Environments |
A
model for online teacher professional development for second language
teachers to promote intercultural competencies is proposed. The unique
synergies between online learning, adult learning and intercultural inquiry
are discussed in support of this theoretical model, as are preliminary
findings from a study testing the model. |
Erin McCloskey |
| Saturday |
302 |
2:05 PM |
2:30 PM |
Paper |
The
Implications of Case-based Pedagogy Using Practicum-Based Student-Generated
Cases for Pre-Service Language Teacher Education: A Pilot Study |
This
pilot study investigated the effectiveness of case-based pedagogy using
student-generated cases as an instructional tool in the preparation of 12
pre-service ESL, Bilingual, and Modern Foreign Language teachers in a Student
Teaching Seminar. The results indicate a strong correlation between
case-based pedagogy and positive effects on teacher knowledge, thinking,
praxis, and beliefs. |
Amy Cournoyer |
| Saturday |
308 |
2:05 PM |
2:30 PM |
Paper |
Teacher
Training in Technology: Overcoming Limitations |
While
the need to foster teacher self-autonomy when acquiring new technology is
recognized, there is a clear need to go beyond the teacher and to implement
resources at the curriculum level which are then made available to
instructors for optional or mandatory instruction. Case studies will be
presented. |
Thomas
N. Robb |
| Saturday |
403 |
2:05 PM |
2:30 PM |
Paper |
Assessing
Teachers' Knowledge About Language (KAL) |
Teachers
require knowledge about language, but this need is not identified in teacher
education. This problem may be partly solved by "beneficial
backwash" from effects of professional teacher examinations if such
tests reflect KAL content. This paper is a small sample review of KAL face
validity in teacher education tests. |
Rebecca Burns |
| Saturday |
404 |
2:05 PM |
2:30 PM |
Paper |
Research-Based
Professional Development: Using the SIOP Model to Develop Science Literacy in
English Language Learners |
As
part of a national research project, researchers have created a professional
development program designed to help science teachers promote second language
development. Presenters will describe SIOP Model workshops that show teachers
how to identify and teach language and literacy skills, project-developed
science lesson plans, and SIOP coaching. |
Jennifer Himmel & Sandra
Gutierrez |
| Saturday |
405 |
2:05 PM |
2:30 PM |
Paper |
Developing
the Intercultural Awareness of Pre-service and In-service Language Teachers |
We
discuss the development of ESL and foreign language teachers' intercultural
awareness in a graduate course designed to examine the relationship between
culture and language. After examining how these pre-service and in-service
teachers came to new cultural understandings, we share suggestions for
incorporating such intercultural awareness in the language classroom. |
Andrea DeCapua |
| Saturday |
302 |
2:35 PM |
3:00 PM |
Paper |
Communities
of Practice in ESL Reading and Writing pedagogy |
This
presentation describes a journaling activity for graduate students whose goal
is to bring students into the "community of practice" of ESL
reading/writing pedagogy. Another goal is to allow students to see that
developing literacy in a second language also leads to entry into a new
community. |
Joel Hardman |
| Saturday |
308 |
2:35 PM |
3:00 PM |
Paper |
Formative
Assessment and the Use of "Clickers" in Pre-Service Teacher
Education |
"Clickers"
(electronic voting systems) have become extremely popular in a number of
disciplines for assessment purposes, individual and collaborative learning,
and enhancement of student motivation, participation, and satisfaction.
Literature findings will be compared and contrasted with the presenter's own
experience and results from a student survey in her language-education
classes. |
Marinella Garatti |
| Saturday |
403 |
2:35 PM |
3:00 PM |
Paper |
Exploring
Tensions Between Teachers' Grammar Teaching Beliefs and Practices |
This
paper presents findings from longitudinal research which shows that tensions
between grammar teachers' beliefs and practices can be explained in terms of
competition between core and peripheral beliefs. It also demonstrates that
collaborative dialogue between teachers and teacher educators can facilitate
exploration of such tensions and subsequent teacher development. |
Simon Phipps |
| Saturday |
404 |
2:35 PM |
3:00 PM |
Paper |
A
Collaboration in Less Commonly Taught Languages |
In
this paper, presenters will discuss the process and results of developing a
collaborative teacher training program that has been created for
less-commonly taught languages. The purpose is to provide teachers with basic
information for teacher certification and continue to support their academic
growth throughout the school year. |
Janice >Dowd, Marty
Abbott & Rita
Oleksak |
| Saturday |
405 |
2:35 PM |
3:00 PM |
Paper |
Binational
Dual Degree Programs in Foreign Language Teacher Education |
The
reorganization of language and cultural education to provide students with
deep transcultural and translingual competence as called for in a recent MLA
report (2007) also requires a rethinking of foreign language teacher
education. This paper examines binational dual degree M.A. programs as one
way to address this issue. |
Erwin Tschirner |
| Saturday |
302 |
3:05 PM |
3:30 PM |
Discussion |
Exploring
21st Century Dynamics: Changing Roles and Settings for Teacher/Coaches and
Learners |
In
our increasingly global community, with over 6,000 languages spoken daily,
teacher and learner roles are changing as learning settings have vastly
increased. We'll explore how teaching and learning in a "world
classroom" present unique challenges, celebrating that 21st century
dynamics of SLA offer endless adventures for the intrepid! |
Elizabeth
Barbour Hopkins |
| Saturday |
308 |
3:05 PM |
3:30 PM |
Paper |
Train
the Trainers: Introducing Instructors to the Smart Board as a 21st Century
Language Teaching Tool |
Staff
at the Foreign Service Institute had a creative response when they learned
that dozens of Smart Boards would soon be installed in classrooms. Training
needs were addressed through two-hour sessions, intensive day-long training,
small group hands-on sessions, brown bags, on-line tutorials, open houses,
mentoring and more. CDs with resources will be shared. |
Eva Szabo & Dora
S. Chanesman |
| Saturday |
403 |
3:05 PM |
3:30 PM |
Paper |
Issues
in Researching Language Teacher Education |
This
presentation discusses three issues confronting researchers and practitioners
in the field of language teacher education: (1) a conflation of terms in the
literature, (2) a disparity between language teacher education and general
teacher education, and (3) a reduced number of empirical studies utilizing
actual classroom interaction. |
Drew
S. Fagan |
| Saturday |
405 |
3:05 PM |
3:30 PM |
Paper |
Learning
about 'Otherness': The Treatment and Impact of Culture Learning in
International Language Teacher Preparation Programs |
Culture
teaching has a crucial role in 21st century language classrooms. This paper
will outline findings from a government-funded Canadian study examining the
relationships between teacher education practices and teacher candidate
visions of culture teaching and intercultural learning in international
language education. |
Geoff Lawrence |
| Saturday |
GB |
3:45 PM |
5:00 PM |
Plenary |
Teacher
Cognition and Communicative Language Teaching |
Understanding
the relationship between teachers' beliefs and practices is an established
theme in language teaching research. Borg examines this theme with specific
reference to communicative language teaching (CLT). The findings of research
into what teachers say and what they do in relation to CLT will be examined
and the implications of this work for language teacher education discussed. |
Simon Borg |
