The Department of French and Italian announces the

 

Italian Language Teachers' Workshop at the University of Southern California

"Culture in a Communicative Classroom"

in Los Angeles, CA

Saturday, October 15, 2016

 

This one-day workshop at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles is an occasion for Italian language instructors from Southern California and beyond to come together to discuss teaching Italian at the novice and/or intermediate levels.  We designed this conference with the intention that participants will exchange actual lesson plans, activities, short video-clips of themselves interacting with their students, language acquisition technologies, materials, best practices, and strategies that they incorporate in their classrooms.  Our hope is that all participants in this one-day workshop will walk away with ideas and materials that they can immediately implement in their courses and will have the opportunity to make real connections with other Italian basic language professionals in their field.

 

All presentations (in English or Italian) should address the needs of novice and/or intermediate students of Italian.  

 

Topics may include:

-interpretation of culture

-"keeping culture in the target language," is it necessary?

-social networks, connecting students with online communities

-best practices in online searches

-archiving activities

-explicit vs. implicit presentation of culture

-assessing culture

-application of ACTFL standards on culture (cultural products, perspectives, and practices) and comparisons

 

 

Proposal submission DEADLINE EXTENSION: April 29, 2016. 

 

Length of the abstract (300 words with title)

 

Please send abstracts to Alessio Filippi and James M. Fortney at afilippi@usc.edu and fortney@usc.edu.

 

For more information please see the ILT conference website at https://dornsife.usc.edu/italian-language-teachers-workshop-ilt/

 

James M. Fortney, PhD
Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Italian
Director of the Summer Rome Program
Department of French and Italian
USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Taper Hall, Room 155 (THH 155)
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0359
Fax: (213) 746-7297