Workshops & Training
CeLCAR also conducts training workshops for materials developers and language teachers in the Department of Central Eurasion Studies (CEUS) and Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Languages (SWSEEL). Workshops are given on varying pedagogical issues, such as language materials design and preparation, language teaching methodologies, and evaluation. These workshops are led by CeLCAR staff, or guest experts who have been specially invited to present.
Examples of recent workshops: |
Methodological Approaches for Teaching the Ergative Construction in Pashtoby Rakhmon InomkhojayevPresented at the 2009 NCOLCTL Conference, this article identifies reliable features and establishes criteria for classifying Pashto ergative clauses for teaching purposes; describes the various types of ergative sentences according to these criteria; offer learners some approaches to using the ergative construction. Click here to download the article (PDF, 186KB) |
CeLCAR Language Materials Development WorkshopPresented by Amber Kennedy Kent and Beatrix Burghardt This workshop will focus on creating Quality over Quantity when it comes to language materials development. Some topics we will cover are: defining clear learning objectives, ensuring the exercises fit the goal, writing clear lessons and directions, creating a broad, yet succinct scope and sequence, developing task-based materials, incorporating all four language skills effectively, and more. This workshop is very hands on and focuses on the applicable, rather than theoretical. Come ready to work! |
The Best and the BetterPresented by Dr. Bill Johnston and Amber Kennedy Kent This workshop will focus on materials that you've created. Please bring one activity or set of materials that you've created that you are really proud of (you believe it is strong and it works well), and also an activity or set of materials that you feel would benefit from some further work. As a group, we will discuss what makes a strong activity, and give one another feedback on how to enhance the second group of activities. |
Creating Advanced-Level MaterialsPresented by Dr. Bill Johnston and Amber Kennedy Kent This workshop will focus on pedagogically sound approaches to developing advanced-level materials. Please bring one "raw" authentic text (one that you find interesting but have not yet developed for teaching and learning purposes) in the language you teach. The text could be a newspaper or magazine article, brochure, travel guide, internet article, etc, and should be between half a page and one page in length. |
