Thursday April 14th, 2005
9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. NCOLCTL Executive Board Meeting
(Regents Room)
12:00 – 5:00 p.m. REGISTRATION
(Hotel Lobby)
1:00 – 6:00 p.m. EXHIBITORS Booth Setup Time
(Chancellor Room)
1:30 – 5:30 p.m. Pre-Conference workshop / UW-LCTL Symposium
(University Room)
“Establishing a Realistic and Effective LCT Language Program for Higher Education Systems in the U.S.”
By
Masakazu Watabe,
Professor of Japanese, Brigham Young University, Utah
Chair: Junko Mori, University of Wisconsin - Madison
5:30- 8:30 p.m. RECEPTION
(University Room)
Co-ordinator: Gautami Shah
6:30- 8:00 p.m. Multi Cultural Performance
(University Room)
ONE UNIVERSE, MANY FACES
Kripa Baskaran and her Natyarpana Dance:
Kripa Baskaran and her Natyarpana Dance Company present "One Universe, Many faces"- an innovative dance ballet uniting and honoring several cultures of the world. The production will be premiered at the NCOLCTL conference reception as a central presentation honoring and uniting several world cultures which includes African, Hmong, Chinese, Middle Eastern, Indian, and Arabic where the dancers unite with a fusion as a grand finale. The ballet is exclusively choreographed by Kripa Baskaran for the NCOLCTL reception to show the diversity in our world cultures. The ballet is choreographed to portray the richness of each and every culture, tradition, formalities, rhythm, expressions and group synchronization.
Duration:
One hour and thirty minutes
About Kripa Baskaran:
Kripa Baskaran is the director of Natyarpana Indian Dance Company based in Madison, WI, who specializes in Bharatnatyam, one of the celebrated art forms of Southern India that combines artistic expression with a sense of spirituality. Kripa is an avid dancer, an accomplished choreographer and a skilled teacher who has been applauded for her exquisite choreography, eloquent gestures and innovative presentations. She has collaborated with some reputed artists practicing other art forms and has presented multi media dance ballets and dance workshops. Kripa's dance company Natyarpana strives hard to reach the Indian, American and other cultures through their performances, lecture demonstrations, workshops, seminars and dance classes with a primary focus of enhancing the education of adults, youths and children in our community so that they could experience peace and joy through classical arts.
Friday, April 15th, 2005
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. COFFEE AND MUFFINS
8:00 a.m. -12:00 noon REGISTRATION
(Hotel Lobby)
8:00 - 5:00 p.m. EXHIBITION
(Chancellor Room)
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. General Welcome Remarks:
(University Room)
- Professor Antonia Schleicher
Executive Director, NCOLCTL
University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Professor. Michael Everson
President, NCOLCTL
University of Iowa, Iowa City -
- Professor Sally Magnan
Director, Language Institute, UW-Madison,
- Professor Magdalena Hauner
Professor of Swahili Language & Lit. UW-Madison,
9:00 - 9:25 a.m. General Welcome Remarks:
(University Room)
Chair: Michael Everson, NCOLCTL President
- Professor Gilles Bousquet
Dean of International Studies, UW-Madison
9:30-11:00 a.m. FIRST PLENARY SESSION
(University Room)
Speakers:
“Title VI/Fulbright-Hays and Less Commonly Taught Languages”
Mr.Ralph Hines
Director, International Education Programs Service
U.S Department of Education (USED)
“The Course of Human Events and Language Education in the U.S.: Irresistible Force and the Not-so-Immovable Object”
Professor Richard Brecht
Executive Director – Center for Advanced Study of Language.
University of Maryland
“Raising the bar for Language Learning: The National Flagship Language Initiative (NFLI)”
Dr.Robert Slater
Director, National Security Education Program (NSEP)
Chair: Professor Benjamin Rifkin, UW-Madison
11:00 -11:15 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
PARALLEL SESSION I:
Paper Presentation Session 1A (Research)
(University Room A)
Chair: Vijay Gambhir, University of Pennsylvania
11:15 – 11:45 a.m. Megumi Fujio
Wittenberg University
“Negotiation of Form in Foreign Language Learning”
11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Hong Gang Jin
Hamilton College
“Learners’ Beliefs about Instruction and Interaction in a Study Abroad Context”
Paper Presentations Session 1B (Curriculum)
(University Room B)
Chair: William Rivers, CASL, University of Maryland
11:15 – 11:45 a.m. Alexander Dunkel
NASILP, University of Arizona
“Expanding LCTL Heritage Resources”
11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Catherine W. Ingold
National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland
“Design of advanced proficiency training for heritage language learners”
Paper Presentations Session 1C (Teacher Training and Materials)
(Dean’s Room)
Chair: Maria Ortenberg, Defense Language Institute
11:15 – 11:45 a.m. Jieun Kim & Jinjoo Kwak
University of California, Los Angeles,
University of Southern California
“Text Analysis and Self-Assessment of Korean Heritage Learners”
11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Ali Cicekdag
Defense Language Institute
“New Approaches to Training Arabic Faculty Towards High Level Proficiency”
Paper Presentations Session 1D (Technology)
(Regents Room)
Chair: Scott Brill, University of Arizona
11:15 – 11:45 a.m. Michael Quinlan
Transparent Language, Inc.
“A No-Cost Technology Platform for LCTLs and ANTLs”
11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Benjamin Rifkin, Dianna Murphy, Katrina Daly Thompson, & Magdalena Hauner
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Easy-to-use multimedia authoring software for LCTL instructors”
12:15 -1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own
1:30 – 2:30 p.m. KEYNOTE SPEECH
(University Room)
“An Uncommon Moment for Less Commonly Taught Languages”
CONGRESSMAN RUSH HOLT
Chair: Dean Gilles Bousquet, UW-Madison
PARALLEL SESSION II :
Paper Presentations Session 2A (Curriculum)
(University Room B)
Chair: Erlin Barnard, UW-Madison
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Marie Kruger
University of Iowa
“Talk my way: Individualized LCTL learning”
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Barbara Lindsey & Manuela Wagner
University of Connecticut
“Expanding the community of LCTL learners: An integrated instructional approach”
Paper Presentations Session 2B (Teacher Training and Materials)
(Dean’s Room)
Chair: Kirk Belnap, NMELRC, Brigham Young University
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Lee Siu Lun
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
“LCTLs Teachers Training in Multi-cultural Classrooms”
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Dora Johnson
National Capital Language Resource Center,
George Washington University
“Enhancing the Teaching of Arabic K-12 in the U.S.”
Paper Presentations Session 2C (Technology)
(Regents Room)
Chair: Rand Valentine, UW-Madison
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Jennifer Robinson & Ken Sheppard
National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland
“The LangNet Design Process”
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Victor Frank
Center for Advanced Study of Language,
University of Maryland
“Learning object design for listening skills development”
3:30 – 3:45 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
PARALLEL SESSIONS III:
Colloquium Session 3A (Materials)
(University Room A)
Chair: Uli Schamiloglu, UW-Madison
3:45 – 5:15 p.m. Anthony Guest-Scott, Nasrullo Khodjaerov, Zebeniso Naimova
Indiana University, Bloomington
“Developing language materials for languages of the Central Asian Region”
Colloquium Session 3B (Curriculum)
(University Room B)
Chair: Maria Lekic, American Council of Teachers of Russian
3:45 – 5:15 p.m. William Rivers, Ewa M. Golonka, & David Mehall
Center for Advanced Study of Language,
University of Maryland
“Curricular and Cognitive Aspects of Directed Third Language Acquisition in the Less Commonly Taught Languages”
Paper Presentations Session 3C (Technology)
(Dean’s Room)
Chair: Erika H. Gilson,
American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages
3:45 – 4:15 p.m. Tuncer Can
Syracuse University
“Teaching Less Commonly Taught Languages via Videoconferencing: A case study on teaching Turkish”
4:15 – 4:45 p.m. Abdesalam Soudi
University of Pittsburgh
“Re-engineering of LCTL’s classes for online delivery at the University of Pittsburgh”
4:45 – 5:15 p.m. Eun Young Won
Harvard University
“Ways to get most out of PowerPoint in LCTL classes”
Colloquia Session 3D (Research)
(Regents Room)
Chair: Salem Aweiss, University of Florida - Gainsville
3:45 – 5:15 p.m. Supa Angkurawaranon, Quyen Di, Jiedson Domigpe, Nenita Domingo, Shoichi Iwasaki, Gyanam Mahajan, Tin Pham, & Juliana Wijaya,
University of California, Los Angeles &
Thavin Pak, Bac Tran, M.J. Warsi,
University of California, Berkeley
"Defining Heritage Language Learners : A Perspective from South and Southeast Languages"
5:45 – 7:00 p.m. Council Delegate Assembly Dinner
(Regents Room)
7:00 – 10:00 p.m. Delegate Assembly Meeting
(Dean’s Room)
Saturday, April 16th, 2005
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. COFFEE AND MUFFINS
8:00 - 12:00 noon REGISTRATION
(Hotel Lobby)
8:00 - 5:00 p.m. EXHIBITION
(Chancellor Room)
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. SECOND PLENARY SESSION
(University Room)
“We are all in this together!”
Professor Audrey Heining-Boynton
President
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Chair: Professor Alexander Dunkel, University of Arizona
9:30 – 9:45 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
PARALLEL SESSION IV:
Colloquium Session 4A (Technology)
(University Room A)
Chair: Magdalena Hauner, UW-Madison
9:45 – 11:15 a.m. Maria Ortenberg, Natalia Antokhin, & Abdelfattah Boussalhi
Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center
“Content Development Considerations in Designing Web-based listening activities”
11:15 – 11:45 a.m. Scott Brill
University of Arizona
“The Critical Languages Series: The Second Wave”
Paper Presentations Session 4B (Research)
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