Using Target Language Texts to Support Students' Literacies Development
July 10–14, 2023
1-week in-person summer institute
Kate Paesani and Mandy Menke
Preparing students to participate in multilingual and multicultural communities entails shifting the way we approach language instruction. How do we move beyond teaching students to order coffee or talk about weekend activities, and instead encourage them to think critically and reflectively about language, culture, and communication? To answer this question, this institute focuses on how to develop students' foreign language literacies—or the ability to interpret and create different kinds of discourse—through engagement with target language texts such as movies, infographics, poetry, music videos, magazine articles, podcasts, and the like.
Using conceptual and pedagogical understandings gained during the institute, participants will examine and assess target language texts for use in their classrooms and create text-based instructional materials that develop students' communicative abilities, critical thinking, intercultural understanding, and language awareness.
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After this institute, you will be able to:
- Define principles related to foreign language literacies and literacies pedagogy and discuss their importance in twenty-first century language education;
- Apply principles related to foreign language literacies and literacies pedagogy to your own teaching;
- Examine instructional materials and target language texts, and assess their appropriateness for your instructional context; and
- Create text-based instructional materials that develop students' communicative abilities, critical thinking, intercultural understanding, and language awareness.
Instructors
Kate Paesani is the Director of CARLA and Associate Professor in the Department of French & Italian at the University of Minnesota. She has delivered workshops and lectures across the United States on topics related to text-based teaching and learning, multiliteracies and critical pedagogies, and teacher professional learning.
Mandy Menke is an Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Minnesota. She is a specialist in Spanish language acquisition by both child and adult learners and has delivered professional development workshops for university instructors and immersion teachers.
Target Audience
This institute is designed for foreign language and ESL teachers at the middle school through the postsecondary level, as well as teacher educators, curriculum coordinators, and language program directors. This institute is not intended for elementary school teachers or immersion educators.
Priority Teacher Professional Development Scholarship Program–NEW!
The Priority Teacher Professional Development Scholarship program is designed to promote equity and access to affordable professional development for world language educators who are currently teaching at a Community College, Minority Serving Institution, or Historically Black College/University in the United States and/or are currently teaching a Less Commonly Taught Language in the United States. The program provides funding for selected teachers in these categories to attend a CARLA Summer Institute for no charge.
Learn more and apply by March 17, 2023 on the Priority Teacher Professional Development Scholarship website.
I absolutely loved this institute and found it so beneficial in both conceptual and practical ways. I am excited to include multiliteracies pedagogy to create more meaningful curriculum materials for my students!
