NCOLCTL Conference, April 29-May 2nd, 2004

NCOLCTL Conference, April 29-May 2^nd, 2004

Howard Johnson Hotel

525 W. Johnson Street, Madison, WI

608-251-5511

Pre-Conference Workshop (Thursday April 29, 2004)

9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. NCOLCTL Executive Board Meeting

(Regents Room)

12:00 – 5:00 p.m. REGISTRATION (Hotel Lobby)

1:30 – 5:30 p.m. Pre-Conference workshop for NCOLCTL and ALTA participants

(University A)

“Multiple Approaches to Language Assessment”

Andrew Cohen

University of Minnesota

PRE-CONFERENCE UW-MADISON LCTL SYMPOSIUM

Thursday April 29, 2004

1:30 – 9:00 p.m. The UW-Madison LCTL Symposium sponsored by the Dean of International Studies and Programs, College of Letters and Science, NALRC, UW-Madison Language Institute and NCOLCTL

(University Room B)

1:30 -3:15 p.m. FIRST SESSION:

“The Summer Language Institutes: Methods and Outcomes”

Chair, Antonia Schleicher

African Languages and Literature, UW-Madison

Guest Speakers:

Richard Chi

East Asian Languages and Literature,

University of Utah, Salt Lake

“Methods and Organization of a Successful SLI”

Benjamin Rifkin

UW-Madison, Slavic Languages and Literature Department

“Learning Outcomes of a Successful SLI”

Discussants:

Mary Jo Studenberg, Michael Cullinane

South East Asian Studies Center, UW-Madison (SEASSI)

Vinay Dharwadker

Center for South Asia, UW-Madison (SASLI)

Magdalena Hauner

African Languages and Literature, UW-Madison (SCALI)

3:15 – 3:30 p.m. BREAK

3:30 – 5:15 p.m. SECOND SESSION:

“Some Current Practices in Teaching the LCTLs”

Chair, Vinay Dharwadker

Center for South Asia, UW-Madison (SASLI)

Discussant

Sheldon Pollock,

George Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, University of Chicago

“Teaching Sanskrit”

Speakers:

Robert Bickner

Languages and Cultures of Asia, UW-Madison

Dustin Cowell

African Languages and Literature, UW Madison

Velcheru Rao

Languages and Cultures of Asia, UW-Madison

Jolanda Taylor

Dutch Program, UW-Madison

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5:30- 7:30 p.m. RECEPTION (University Room)

And

Inauguration of the UW-Madison Language Institute

Reception Chair: Gautami Shah

(For ALTA and NCOLCTL participants)

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5:30– 5:45 p.m. Korean Dance - S’alpuri

Peggy Choy

S’alpuri is a traditional Korean dance inspired by the ritual performance by the mudang (healer). The white cloth is a pathway to the spirit world whereby restless spirits of the dead can be freed and communities healed.

Peggy Choy teaches dance in the UW-Madison Dance Program and is Outreach Director at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. She will perform in the Gala Opening Festival of the Overture Center, September 19, 2004.

5:45– 6:15 p.m. Inaugration of the UW Madison Language Institute

6:15– 6:25 p.m. Chinese Dance

Jin-Wen Yu

Jin-Wen Yu, Ed.D & MFA, currently an Associate Professor and Chairing the Dance Program

of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has created, performed, directed, and produced more than 50 works for the stage in Americas and Asia, including 24 commissioned works for professionals and institutes. Before coming to the United States, Dr. Yu was a soloist with Cloud Gate Dance Theater, which has been invited to perform in major theater and dance festival all over the world. He co-founded Artifact Productions with Ed Groff in Philadelphia 1995. The company performed in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Taipei, and New York. Dr. Yu has been invited to present, teach, and/or perform in many national and international dance festivals and conferences, including Festival International de Video-danza de Buenos Aires, Taiwan International Dance Festival, World Dance 2000 Seoul Event, 2000 FEET international Dance festival in Philadelphia, Guangdong International Experimental Theater Modern Arts Festival in China, DANCE ON’97 International Dance Festival in Hong Kong, JADE International Dance Conference and Festival in Tokyo among others. In 1999, he founded Jin-Wen Yu Dance based in Madison, Wisconsin. The company has performed nationally and internationally: New York, San Francisco, Los Angles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cambridge, Seattle, San Jose, Dallas/Fort Worth, Eugene, Buenos Aires/Argentina, Seoul/ Korea, Salvador/Brazil and three major cities, Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung /Taiwan, R.O.C. In addition to the supports of UW-Madison, Dr. Yu has received numerous grants, honors, commissions, residencies, and awards such as Outstanding Dance Artist Award from Taiwan, Wisconsin Arts Board Choreographer Award, the first Madison CitiARTS Commission Signature Grant and Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment. Grants includes the National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan , Residential Arts of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst , Chinese Information and Culture Center in New York, Jih Sun Foundation for Culture and Education, Wisconsin Arts Board, Madison CitiARTS Commission, Madison Civic Center Foundation, Madison Community Foundation and Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission.

6:25– 6:40 p.m. Middle Eastern Dance - Raks Sharki

Sadira

Music: Eshta Ya Amar, composer: Monir el Wisami

Raks sharki (dance of the East)is the solo women’s dance of the Middle East and was originally developed by women for their own entertainment.While raks sharki requires a specific movement and technical vocabulary, it is an improvisational dance form. The technique is focused on the dancer’s ability to isolate and move different parts of the body independently.

Sadira has been performing and teaching Middle Eastern dance for over 25 years. She travels frequently to Egypt, Morocco and Jordan to research both dance and music. Sadira has studied in Egypt with choreographer Mahmoud Reda and solo dancer Nadia Hamdi and in Amman, Jordan with the Jafra Company. She has performed at weddings in Cairo, Egypt and also for the Women’s Club of Cairo. Sadira directs the Riad Dance Company, produces the Madison Middle Eastern Festival and teaches Middle Eastern dance at Kanopy Dance and for the U.W. Division of Continuing Studies.

6:40– 7:00 p.m. Indian Dance - Bharatanatyam

Meenakshi Ganesan

Bharatanatyam is one of the oldest, beautiful, and purest classical dance forms of India. The origin of Bharatanatyam is found in the scriptural text called Natyashastras, written by sage Bharata around 200 B.C. The word Bharatanatyam is an acronym framed from the syllables of the words Bhava (expression), Raga (melody), Thala (rhythm), and Natyam (dance). A Bharatanatyam dancer uses facial expressions, various types of body gestures and postures, graceful and rhythmic body and foot movements, and melody to evoke Rasa (“mood” or “sentiment”) in the audience. Bharatanatyam dances may be focused on Abhinaya (expressions shown to express poetic meanings), Nritta (rhythmic body movements), or Natya (depiction of scenes like in a drama), or any appropriate combination of these.

Meenakshi Ganesan is the founder and Artistic Director of Kalaanjali, LLC, also referred to as the Kalaanjali School of Dance & Music, in Madison, Wisconsin. Meenakshi started learning the art of Bharatanatyam at the tender age of 6 from Guru Smt. Prema Nagasundaram and performed her arengetram (dance debut) at the age of 13. Meenakshi also frequently learns Bharatanatyam from Nritya Seekshaka Choodamani Guru Smt. Padmini Radhakrishnan. Meenakshi has been performing Bharathanatyam and Indian folk dances for the past 18 years and has been teaching this art for the past 11 years. Meenakshi has over 220 public performances to her credit including about 25 performances in the U.S.A.

7:00– 7:10 p.m. Yoruba Poetry Reading - Itan Oogun Itelorun

Obadele Bakari Kambon

The poem’s chorus is “one kind of problem is worse than another, having hemorrhoids is better than having swollen testicles, one kind of problem is worse than another.” It is about a poor man who, whenever people gave him money, would respond with a prayer saying “Olodumare (the creator in Yoruba conception) will not let you have itelorun (satisfaction).” No one understood why the beggar would say this after someone would give him money and no one asked until one day he was asked to explain the meaning of his prayer. He explains that he has never seen a person who is satisfied with something good that he/she has. A person always wants more good things. A person, however, does quickly become satisfied and fed up with problems and bad things. By saying that the person who gives him things should not become satisfied, he is saying that he/she should only have good things that he or she wants more of and not bad things that would make him satisfied (not wanting any more).

Obadele is a graduate student in the department of African languages and literature. Obadele has studied the Akan (Twi) language for five years, Yoruba for two years, and Wolof, informally, for two years and is interested in African comparative linguistics, African language pedagogy, African philosophy and African literature. Obadele has traveled to Africa four times including Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Mali and plans on continuing to learn the Akan, Yoruba and Wolof as well as other African languages for my research in the aforementioned fields.

7:10– 7:30 p.m. African Dance - Bima

Edi Gbordzi

Bima is a harvest dance from the upper western region of Ghana. This dance is being performed by the youth after a success in harvesting their farm products. They perform this dance during the harvest festival to thank the ancestors and nature for good food and life they have gotten from them. Bima is energetic, stylish and competing so only the youth can perform it.

Atimevu Drum and Dance is a new group appearing in Madison. This group performs mainly Ghanaian traditional folk music and dance. the group consists of six members. The group performs and does educational workshops at school, churches and community centers through out Wisconsin State and travel to other states as well.

Friday, April 30, 2004

8:00-12:00noon REGISTRATION (Hotel Lobby)

8:30-9:10 a.m. General Welcome Remarks:

(University Room)

- Gilead Morahg

UW-Madison, Chair, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies

- Magdalena Hauner

UW-Madison, Associate Dean of the Arts and Humanities

- Sally Magnan

UW-Madison, Director, Language Institute

- John Mugane

Harvard University, ALTA President

- Antonia Schleicher

UW-Madison, NCOLCTL President

9:10-10:15 a.m. FIRST PLENARY SESSION

(University Room)

“Language Learning and the Global Professionals”

Chair: Gilead Morahg

UW-Madison Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies

Speaker:

Gilles Bousquet

UW-Madison, Dean of International Studies and Programs

10:15 -10:30 a.m. COFFEE BREAK

10:30 . – 11:00 a.m. SECOND PLENARY SESSION

(University Room)

“Congressional Attention to National Needs of LCTLs”

Ann Copland

Office of Senator Thad Cochran, Washington, DC

11:00 – 12:15 p.m. THIRD PLENARY SESSION

(University Room)

Chair: Alexander Dunkel,

University of Arizona

Speakers:

- Richard Brecht,

Center for Advanced Study of Language,

University of Maryland

- Frederick Jackson

Foreign Service Institute

- Anne Manganaro,

Foreign Broadcast Information Service

12:30-2:00 p.m. Walton Award Luncheon and Plenary Address (Univcersity Room)

PARALLEL SESSION I:

Colloquium Session 1A (Materials)

(Chancellor Room)

Chair: Magdalena Hauner

2:15 – 3:45 p.m. Natalia Antokhin, Abdelfattah Boussalhi, Maria Ortenberg

Defense Language Institute

“Integrating Needs Assessment, Language Maintenance, and Proficiency Enhancement in On-Line Learning”

Paper Presentations Session 1B (Curriculum)

(University A)

Chair: Suren Gambhir

2:15 – 2:45 p.m. Allison J. Spenader

University of Minnesota

“Responsibility in Curriculum Development”

2:45 – 3:15 p.m. George Alao

Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France

“Addressing Francophone Learners’ Need for a Modern Yoruba Manual”

3:15 – 3:45 p.m. Anne Bruehler

Georgia Perimeter College

“Challenges of Expanding a Language Program at Community College”

Paper Presentations Session 1C (Research)

(University B)

Chair: Dustin Cowell

2:15 – 2:45 p.m. Mihyon Jeon

University of Pennsylvania

“Language Ideologies and Language Learning”

2:45 – 3:15 p.m. Hye-Sook Wang

Brown University

“Korean Heritage Learners Revisited: A Research Perspective”

3:15 – 3:45 p.m. Hyunok Ahn

University of Arizona

“Meeting Individual Learners’ Needs in a Self-Instructional Setting”

Session 1D (Advanced Overseas Intensive Language )

( Regents Room )

Chair: Lungching Chiao

2:15 – 3:45 p.m. Lungching Chiao

Group Projects Abroad (GPA) program at U.S. Department of EducationA

“Advanced Overseas Intensive Language ”

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3:45 – 4:00 p.m. BREAK

PARALLEL SESSIONS II:

Colloquium Session 2A (Curriculum)

(University B)

Chair: V Gambhir

4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Dora Johnson

National Capital Language Resource