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Assessment Practices In The Post-Communicative Era: A Multiliteracies Perspective, Heather W. Allen, Kate Paesani, Beatrice Dupuy
Assessment Practices In The Post-Communicative Era: A Multiliteracies Perspective, Heather W. Allen, Kate Paesani, Beatrice Dupuy
Heather Willis Allen
No abstract provided.
Project Percolate: Preparing Fl Tas For Multiliteracies-Oriented Instruction, Heather W. Allen, Beatrice Dupuy
Project Percolate: Preparing Fl Tas For Multiliteracies-Oriented Instruction, Heather W. Allen, Beatrice Dupuy
Heather Willis Allen
No abstract provided.
A Long-Term Approach To Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Professional Development (Workshop), Heather W. Allen, Beatrice Dupuy
A Long-Term Approach To Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Professional Development (Workshop), Heather W. Allen, Beatrice Dupuy
Heather Willis Allen
The frontloading Foreign Language (FL) Teaching Assistant (TA) training paradigm has been viewed for some time as inadequate preparation for tomorrow’s FL professoriate. This workshop will present select materials and inquiry-based activities (concept mapping, goal setting, lesson study, etc.) that permeate a long-term FL TA development framework and show how these can lead TAs to gradually rethink and reorient the way they teach.
Embracing Literacy-Based Teaching: A Longitudinal Study Of The Conceptual Development Of Novice Foreign Language Teachers, Heather W. Allen
Embracing Literacy-Based Teaching: A Longitudinal Study Of The Conceptual Development Of Novice Foreign Language Teachers, Heather W. Allen
Heather Willis Allen
Taking a sociocultural theory perspective (Lantolf & Thorne, 2006), this longitudinal study explored the conceptual development of two teaching assistants in a university foreign language department in relation to literacy and language teaching. Findings illustrate the "twisting path" (Vygotsky, 1987, p. 156) of concept development experienced by the two first-time teachers of Spanish as their understandings of literacy and efforts to use tools of literacy evolved over several years. Evidence of the ability to think through concepts of literacy in structuring teaching practices did not emerge for either participant until four semesters after they started teaching, illustrating what a gradual …
Theme-Based Bridge Courses: A Gateway To Linguistic Proficiency, Heather W. Allen, Stacey Katz Bourns
Theme-Based Bridge Courses: A Gateway To Linguistic Proficiency, Heather W. Allen, Stacey Katz Bourns
Heather Willis Allen
Based on the 2007 MLA report’s call for more integrative approaches to L2 language/literature courses, we present the curricula of two theme-based French bridge courses. These courses simultaneously develop students' advanced language proficiency and explore literary, cultural, and sociolinguistic themes through an analysis of various textual genres and linguistic registers.
Beyond The Four Skills: Structuring Classroom Foreign Language Instruction With A Literacy-Based Approach, Heather W. Allen
Beyond The Four Skills: Structuring Classroom Foreign Language Instruction With A Literacy-Based Approach, Heather W. Allen
Heather Willis Allen
A video of this presentation is available via the Emory Language Center's iTunesU page and can be accessed via iTunesU or at: http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/emory-public.2724289000.02724289011
Exploring The Feasibility Of A Pedagogy Of Multiliteracies In Introductory Foreign Language Courses, Heather W. Allen, Kate Paesani
Exploring The Feasibility Of A Pedagogy Of Multiliteracies In Introductory Foreign Language Courses, Heather W. Allen, Kate Paesani
Heather Willis Allen
The 2007 MLA Report calls for large-scale reform in university foreign language (FL) departments to integrate the study of language, literature, and culture and move beyond the the language-content dichotomy that has characterized the undergraduate curriculum for decades. This article explores the implications of these recommendations for introductory FL courses, arguing in favor of a pedagogy of multiliteracies (New London Group, 1996; Kern, 2000) as one pathway toward curricular reform. The adoption of a multiliteracies framework in response to calls for curricular change is not entirely novel, yet most scholarship to date has focused on the need for more explicit …
Beyond The Language-Literature Divide: Advanced Pedagogy For Training Graduate Students, Heather W. Allen
Beyond The Language-Literature Divide: Advanced Pedagogy For Training Graduate Students, Heather W. Allen
Heather Willis Allen
In this article, my objectives are 1) to discuss current practices and challenges related to the professional development of graduate students in foreign language departments as teachers; and 2) to provide a rationale for and description of a graduate seminar that serves to prepare future professors to develop students' analytical, critical, and argumentative capacities in the advanced undergraduate curriculum. It is my hope to encourage further discussion of integrative approaches to teaching foreign language at all levels by providing a concrete example of how graduate student professional development can include issues of language in advanced courses. A one-semester advanced foreign …
Advanced Literacy: An Integrated Approach To The Grammar & Composition Course, Heather W. Allen
Advanced Literacy: An Integrated Approach To The Grammar & Composition Course, Heather W. Allen
Heather Willis Allen