National
Council of Organizations of
Less Commonly Taught Languages
Fifth
National Conference
April
12-14, 2002
Arlington, Virginia
Expanding Our Capabilities: Focus on Teacher Preparation
and Professional Development in the LCTLs
FRIDAY 12 APRIL, 2002
Foreign Service
Institute, National Foreign Affairs
Training
Center
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8:30-9:00 a.m.
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Opening plenary
and welcoming remarks
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9:00-10:30 a.m.
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Colloquia
and paper sessions (those preceded by an asterisk will also offer
demonstration or poster sessions on Saturday April 13)
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Pat Dege,
Grazyna Dudney, Natalie Fryberger & Maurice Funke (Defense Language Institute)
“Re-Valuing the Seasoned
Teacher” (colloquium)
Surendra
Gambhir (University of Pennsylvania), Neil Kubler
(Williams College) and Gerald Lampe (National Foreign Language Center)
“Reading at ILR 4 Level”
(colloquium)
Maria Lekic
& Barbara Mozdzierz (American
Council of Teachers of Russian)
“Teaching Russian on
Line”
*Marmo Soemarmo,
John Mugane & Jorg Waltje (Ohio University)
“CALL Curriculum for
Language Teachers”
Kaija A.
Wilson & Diana Brante-Bicevskis (Foreign
Service Institute)
“Training New Teachers
and Developing Professionals—A Latvian Case Study”
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11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
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Plenary
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Robert
Slater (National Security
Education Program)
“National Need and National
Response”
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1:30-2:30 p.m.
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Plenary
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Christine
Brown (American Council
on the Teaching of Foreign Languages)
“Towards National Standards
in Foreign Language Education”
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3:00-5:00 p.m.
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Paper sessions
(those preceded by an asterisk will also offer demonstration Saturday
April 13) or poster sessions on Saturday April 13)
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*Abbas Benmamoun,
Naomi Gurevich & Mustafa Mughazy (University of Illinois)
“ARABIC-ONLINE at University
if Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mark J.
Alves (Montgomery College)
“Modeling Colloquial
Speech through Comic Books”
Grant Goodall
(University of Texas at El Paso)
“Using the web to simulate
community involvement”
Yuphaphann
Hoonchamlong (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
“Karaoke in teaching
of languages and cultures with non-Roman scripts”
Thomas W.
Ihde (Lehman College, CUNY)
“Teacher Training and
the Use of Authentic On-line Materials”
*Jung Hyuck
Lee (University of Chicago)
“Enhancing Listening
Comprehension Ability of Korean through Web-based ‘Chalk’”
Joseph Lewerk
(Defense Language Institute)
“Using Language to Teach
Culture”
William
S. Pate (National Security
Agency (ret.))
“LCTLs and National
Security, a Perspective”
Antonia
Schleicher (University of Wisconsin)
“Issues in Developing
African Language Learners’ Reference Grammar Series”
*Rama Sohonee
& Anjum Khilji (Foreign
Service Institute)
“Classroom Films: Developing
Instructor Awareness Towards Using and Abusing Video”
John Spiridakis
(St. John’s University)
“Reaching Greek Teachers
Across the USA (and the
world)”
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SATURDAY 13 APRIL, 2002
Holiday Inn
Arlington at Ballston
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8:00-9:30
a.m
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Colloquia and paper sessions (those
preceded by an asterisk will also offer demonstration or poster
sessions on Saturday April 13)
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*Jianhua
Bai (Kenyon College)
“Empower Teaching by
Integrating Multimedia Exercises into the LCTL Curriculum”
Miguel Gusmao
& Elmano Costa (California State University, Stanislaus)
“Creating New Approaches
for Teacher Development”
James W.
Hammerstrand (Marshall University)
“Vad Heter Du?: Using
LCTLs to Train L2 Instructors”
Mayumi Ishida
(Dartmouth College) and Yasuhiro Omoto (University of California at Berkeley)
”Assisting teacher’s
professional development: Sharing materials online”
Ping Liu (California State University, Long Beach)
“Teacher
Preparation for the LCTLs: A Collaborative Model”
Jeanmarie
Rouhier-Willoughby & Cynthia Ruder (University of Kentucky) and Cynthia
Martin (University of Maryland)
“Learner Centeredness in the Russian Classroom”(colloquium)
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9:30-10:30
a.m.
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Plenary
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Michael
Everson & Leslie Schrier
(University of Iowa) and Charles James (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“A Distance Education Tool for the Professional Development
of Teachers of the LCTLs: LangNet”
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11:00
a.m.-12:30 p.m.
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Colloquia
and paper sessions (those preceded by an asterisk will also offer
demonstration or poster sessions on Saturday April 13)
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Matthew
B. Christensen (Brigham Young University)
“Training Teachers for
East Asian Languages: A Performance-based Pedagogy”
James Dirgin
(Defense Language Institute)
“Training Dari Teachers
on Government Oral Proficiency Testing (OPI) Standards”
H. Lin Domizio
(Brown University)
“Solidarity, Power,
and Negotiation Behaviors in L2 Pragmatic Competence and Teacher
Training”
Surendra
Gambhir & Vasu Renganathan (University of Pennsylvania) and Mark
Lenhart (CET Academic Programs)
“Overseas Advanced Language
Programs: Innovative Approaches”(colloquium)
Haiyong
Liu (University of California at Los Angeles)
“The Acquisition of
Mandarin Reflexives by English Speakers”
Natalie Lovick (Monterey Institute
of International Studies)
“Using Internet-based
Materials for Teacher Preparation and Development”
Anna Meskhi (Isik University, Istanbul)
“Role of Phonology in Foreign
Language Acquisition”
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12:30-2:00
p.m.
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Luncheon and A. Ronald Walton Award presentation
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Richard
D. Brecht (National Foreign
Language Center)
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2:00-3:30
p.m.
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Poster and demonstration sessions
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Ibrahim Suliman Ahmed (International.I. University-Malaysia)
“The
role of the teacher of language in the era of technology, with emphasis
on Arabic language”
Serafin
M. Coronel-Molina (University of Pennsylvania)
“Electronic Games in
the LCTL Classroom”
Karin Gleisner
(University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“Supplementing First
Year Swahili with the Internet”
Scott J.
Goldberg (New York University)
“Beyond Dr. Seuss: Developing
Cross-Linguistic Pre-Reading Skills”
Siu Lun Lee (Chinese University of Hong
Kong)
“Matching
Teachers’ Needs and Learners’ Needs in the LCTLs)”
Eleni Marinos
& Judith Thomas (Foreign
Service Institute)
“Introduction to Greek
Through Technology: Out & About in Athens”
Yahui Olenik
(Montclair State University)
“My Experience in Urawa, Japan”
Seung-Min
Song (Pennsylvania State University)
“Hearing parent-teachers’
voices from community language schools”
Quang Phu
Van (Yale University)
“Filming, Selecting,
and Editing Video for Teaching Language and Culture”
James C.
Whitlock (United States Foreign Service (ret.))
“A ‘Radical’ Approach to Learning Chinese Characters”
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3:30-5:00
p.m.
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Colloquia and paper sessions
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James Alatis
& Karin Ryding (Georgetown University), Dora Johnson
(Center for Applied Linguistics), Abigail Bartoshesky &
Richard
Robin (The George Washington University) and Ephy
Amoah-Ntim (National Capital Language Resource Center)
“New
Approaches and Resources for LCTL Teachers”(colloquium)
Soohee Kim
(University of Washington)
“Establishing a dual-track
language program”
Michael Long, Craig Chaudron, Catherine J. Doughty,
Younkyu Kim, Dong Kwang Kong, Jinhwa Lee, Young-geun Lee & Rachel
Rivers (University of Hawai’i)
“A task-based needs
analysis of a Korean as a foreign language program”
“From needs analysis
to materials in Korean TBLT”
Jenneke
Oosterhoff (University of Minnesota)
“Curriculum development
in Dutch: A Journey”
Linda Trinh
Pham (University of California at Berkeley)
“Identity in a Vietnamese
Native Language (Re)learning Classroom”
Joanna Radwanska-Williams
(Chinese University of Hong
Kong) and Leonard Polakiewicz (University of Minnesota)
“English Bilingualization and Polish-American Heritage Learners”
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5:00-6:00 p.m.
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Small-group discussion
sessions
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SUNDAY
14 APRIL, 2002
Holiday Inn
Arlington at Ballston
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8:00-9:30
a.m.
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Colloquia and paper sessions
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Helen Carpenter,
Carmen Cross, David MacGregor, Valerie Malabonga, Margaret E. Malone
& Paula Winke (Center
for Applied Linguistics)
“Applying national reading,
listening and speaking criteria to task development”(colloquium)
Margo Glew
(Michigan State University)
“LCTLs in Higher Education:
Addressing the National Language Crisis”
Yumiko Guajardo,
Darrell Grob & Salah D. Hammoud (United States Air Force Academy) and Duncan R. MacLaren, Daniel L. Paller &
Raissa M. Shafer (Colorado College)
“Skill Training
for Students & Teachers of LCTLs”(colloquium)
Miriam Isaacs
(University of Maryland, College
Park)
“Endangered Languages
and Professional Development Needs: The Case of Yiddish”
Shuckran
Kamal (United States Department
of State)
“Our Government’s Foreign Language Needs: A Practical
Approach”
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9:30-10:30
a.m.
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Plenary
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Eyamba
Bokamba (University of Illinois)
“A Perspective on the Development of an LCTL Field: African
Language Teaching”
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11:00
a.m.-12:00 p.m.
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Colloquia and paper sessions
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Marisa Fang
(Plainview-Old Bethpage
(NY) Central School District), Scott
McGinnis (National Foreign Language Center),
Vickie Truei (The Chinese
School of Southern New Jersey), Shuhan
Wang (State of Delaware Department of Education) and Wei-ling Wu (West Windsor-Plainsboro (NJ) High Schools)
“A Field Response: The
Penn Summer Chinese Teachers’ Institute”(colloquium)
Tom Hinnebusch
(University of California at Los Angeles), Nina Garrett
(Yale University) and
Louis Janus & Nancy Stenson
(University of Minnesota)
“In Retrospect and Prospect:
The Past and Future Five Years with LCTLs” (colloquium)
Jean Yu
(The Hotchkiss School)
“Light the Fire to Learn
Chinese Characters”
Annette
M. Zehler (Development
Associates, Inc.)
“Feasibility Study: Transfer
of Literacy Skills from Non-Roman Script Languages”
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12:00-12:45
p.m.
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Closing plenary: Summaries and evaluations
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