1 / 15

FRIDAY , July 23, 2010

FRIDAY , July 23, 2010. SECOND STARTALK/NHLRC HERITAGE LANGUAGE TEACHER WORKSHOP. Thank you to: The Center’s (Fabulous!) Team. KATHRYN PAUL Agazit Abate Susie Bauckus Herman Rosiles Max Quinones Nadine Dorsht Evgeniya Teyfukova. Thank you!. TO THE PRESENTERS Maria Carreira

adolph
Download Presentation

FRIDAY , July 23, 2010

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. FRIDAY, July 23, 2010 SECOND STARTALK/NHLRC HERITAGE LANGUAGE TEACHER WORKSHOP

  2. Thank you to: The Center’s (Fabulous!) Team • KATHRYN PAUL • Agazit Abate • Susie Bauckus • Herman Rosiles • Max Quinones • Nadine Dorsht • Evgeniya Teyfukova

  3. Thank you! • TO THE PRESENTERS • Maria Carreira • Maria Ortenberg • Susie Bauckus • Liz Galvin • Tommy Lu • Saeid Atoofi • Brandon Zaslow and Iman Hashem

  4. THANK YOU! • TO ALL THE PARTICIPANTS • Individually • Collectively

  5. Summing up • The Main Goal of the Workshop was • To explore approaches to teaching heritage language learners (HLLs)

  6. The Main Themes • Profiles of HLLs • The five C’s • Differentiated instruction • Backward design • Using authentic texts

  7. A Top-Down Approach • Focus • on strengths /global abilities • Attention • to weaknesses

  8. THREE HL STRATEGIES

  9. CURRICULUM Learner-centered and community-based: • Learner proficiencies and need • HL community in the U.S. culture and practices • HL country culture and practices

  10. A genericHL Learner • Born in the U.S. or arrived at an early age • Spoke HL before starting school, switched to English • Has preserved some proficiency in speaking/listening • Is motivated by learning about roots, culture • Identifies with both HL and American cultures

  11. The Community • History of immigration • Intergenerational transfer of language • Continuing immigration • Commercial activity and media • Baseline language (i.e. dialect, variety, code-switching patterns) • Desire to preserve the language

  12. HL Country/countries • Language varieties • Cultural attitudes • Traditions • High culture … that everyone knows • Contemporary culture and practices

  13. Locally • What can we do to strengthen HL instruction? • How can we establish programs that respond to HLLs’ needs? • How can we promote bilingualism and multilingualism?

  14. Homework • Talk to your colleagues about HL teaching • Share with them what you’ve found valuable at the Workshop • Implement some of what you’ve learnt in your daily teaching • Keep learning about your students and the communities they come from • AND let us know about any successes you have or problems you try to solve. Keep in touch!

More Related