NEALLT 2011 - Draft Program

Transcultural Collaborations:
Language Learning in Virtual and Physical Spaces

NEALLT 2011

@ University of Pennsylvania, Penn Language Center

2011 Draft Program - pdf

Friday, April 1

2:00-4:00 pm Multimedia Services David Rittenhouse Laboratory PC Lab 1	OPTIONAL Workshop ... please sign up with registration if interested. “Building the Language ePortfolio Using Google Doc Templates and WordPress MU” MARY TOULOUSE + MICHELLE GEOFFRION-VINCI Lafayette College

4:30 – 7:00 Cohen Hall Terrace Room	PENN LANGUAGE CENTER GRANTS SHOWCASE (NEALLT attendees are invited to attend.) Christina Frei, University of Pennsylvania

7:00 – 9:00 Cohen Hall Terrace Room	RECEPTION

Saturday, April 2

8:00 – 8:45 Cohen Hall Schniderman Lobby	BREAKFAST and REGISTRATION

8:45 – 9:00 Cohen Hall G17	INTRODUCTION Ed Dixon, University of Pennsylvania

9:00 – 9:15 Cohen Hall G17	OPENING REMARKS NORA LEWIS, Vice Dean and Executive Director of the College of Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

9:20 – 10:20 Cohen Hall G17	PLENARY SÉBASTIEN DUBREIL, Coordinator of the French Language Program University of Tennessee “Identities, Borders, Change: (Trans) cultural Learning in Mediated Learning Communities”

SESSION 1: 10:30 – 10:50
Cohen G17	RANDA JAD-MOUSSA UCSD/USD/CFLP Internationalization & Technology: Leveraging Intercultural Competence using Multi-media/Task-Based Learning
Williams 301	SHAHEEN PARVEEN University of Pennsylvania Telecollaborative Learning Environments
Williams 303	HAROLD F. SCHIFFMAN University of Pennsylvania The future of dictionaries: digital or paper? The case of the English Dictionary of the Tamil Verb.
Williams 304	MARLENA FIORENTINO WONG Eastern University Yahoo to YouTube-Using Online Digital Media to Enhance Language Learning
Williams 305	FULVIA SERRA Saint Joseph University Behind the scenes: A sneak peek into the theory of the ‘e-class’

SESSION 2: 11:00 – 11:20
Cohen G17	KRISTI NEWGARDEN University of Connecticut Language Learning through Co-Action in a World of Warcraft (WoW) Centered Course
Williams 301	NITA SHARMA YAJNIK + FATAMA GADDECHE Rutgers University Digital Media, Online resources, and e-textbooks
Williams 303	LILIAN MINA Indiana University of Pennsylvania Web Integration in the engineering eco-technical writing class
Williams 304	ELENA LAHR-VIVAZ + MICHAEL JONES Swarthmore College From iPod Touch to the Big Screen in Just an Hour (More or Less)
Williams 305	MANDY REINIG Penn State Altoona To Tweet or Not to Tweet: That is the Question!

SESSION 3: 11:30 – 11:50
Cohen G17	LYNN KUTCH Kutztown University Challenges and Benefits of Teaching an Online Conversation and Composition Course
Williams 301	JOSE LUIS BOIGUES Emory University Student Interaction with Native Speakers in Public Chat Rooms: A Different Setting in Computer Mediated Communication Applied to Language and Culture Learning.
Williams 303	CLAIRE BRADIN SISKIN Excelsior College Challenges in Designing Virtual Spaces for Language Learning
Williams 304	MICHELLE GEOFRION-VINCI + MARY TOULOUSE Lafayette College Metacognition, Assessment and the ePortfolio
Williams 305	GLORIA B. CLARK + MARTHA STRICKLAND The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Where’s the Learning? Exploring the Gap Between Virtual Space and Undergraduate Perception of Learning.

LUNCH: Noon – 1:30 Cohen Hall Terrace Room	LUNCH VENDORS’ SESSIONS Chester Technical Services, Inc. Cengage Learning Arts and Sciences, Linguistic Data Consortium POSTER SESSIONS CELESTE MANN (Villanova U./Georgian Court University): El Apartamento: Global Simulation for an Online Introductory Spanish Course CHRISSY STEELE (Drexel University’s English Language Center): A Personal Journey into Cyberspace – An ESL Teacher’s Search for Online Arabic Conversation Partners THOMAS PLAGWITZ (University of North Carolina – Charlotte): Batch-produced time-stretched audio for personalized learning ANN WARNER-AULT, CHRISTOPHER AULT, URSURLA WOLZ, TERESA MARIN NAKRA: (The College of New Jersey) Language Learning through Kinesthetic Interfaces SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP for Language Lab Directors

SESSION 4: 1:30 – 1:50
Cohen G17	CHRISTOPHER JONES, SOPHIE QUEUNIET + THERESE TARDIO Carnegie Mellon / Columbia / Carnegie Mellon Designing the New Instructional Space: Hybrid Learning in Language Online
Williams 301	SHOGGY WARYN + SABINE LEVET Brown, MIT Transcultural Collaboration with Cultura: roads travelled, lessons learned, and future directions
Williams 303	CHANTAL PHILIPPON-DANIEL University of Pennsylvania News content and virtual tools for culture and communication
Williams 304	MARGARET KENEMAN Emory University Teaching Grammar Through Interactive Story-Based Instruction
Williams 305	ANDY HALVORSEN University of Illinois Conceptualizing literacy development and language learning in social networking contexts

SESSION 5: 2:00 – 2:20
Cohen G17	ED DIXON + CHRISTINA FREI University of Pennsylvania Brave new classroom: The future of distance learning
Williams 301	REYES LLOPIS-GARCIA Columbia University e-Tandem exchange: the ultimate cultural tool in the foreign language classroom
Williams 303	TOMÁS BEVIÁ Cornell University Blogging from Abroad
Williams 304	JOHANNA DAMGAARD LIANDER + MARIANA SAN MARTÍN Harvard University Language Learning through Cinema in First-Year Spanish
Williams 305	EDUARDO LAGE-OTERO Trinity College Language learning and social media sites: Broadening the language learning experience

SESSION 6: 2:30 – 2:50
Cohen G17	AMBER MARKS Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Languages shared across 12 institutions: CIC CourseShare
Williams 301	DONGDONG CHEN Seton Hall University Using Skype as a Language Exchange Tool for Introductory Chinese
Williams 303	CHRISTINE E. POTEAU Temple University Online Collaborations and the Language Learner
Williams 304	DUANE W. KIGHT Haverford College Annotated and Supplemented French News Videos
Williams 305	JANE COSTELLO Memorial University of Newfoundland Increasing linguistic competence with blogs in online introductory second language courses

SESSION 7: 3:00 – 3:20
Cohen G17	NICOLE MILLS Harvard University Action Research: Bridging Theory and Practice in an Online Teacher Education Program
Williams 301	HAEWON CHO University of Pennsylvania Digital Storytelling Project in Korean language classroom
Williams 303	MAIA SOLOVIEVA + LILIANA MILKOVA Oberlin College; Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College Learning Culture through Art: Creating Personal Meanings in a Virtual Learning Environment
Williams 304	CARRIE E. HAIGHT + LUCIE KNIGHT Arabia Mountain High School, Dekalb County, GA and Franklin and Marshall College Oh là là…quelle aventure! Discovering Basic French
Williams 305	ANN MARIE DELFORGE + CHRISTINE PETTUS Montclair State University Constructing Knowledge Through Conversations in Second Life: Student-Student and Student-Native Speaker Interactions in a Hybrid Spanish Class

SESSION 8: 3:30 – 3:50
Cohen G17	SANDHYA BODAPATI Educational Testing Service Emerging technologies and new trends
Williams 301	CRAIG KAPP, TULIA JIMENEZ-VERGARA New York University / The College of New Jersey Using Rich-Media Digital Storytelling Tools to Encourage Writing and Conversation
Williams 303	ED DIXON, FERIDE HATIBOGLU, INSOOK KANG + MIKA TSEKOURA University of Pennsylvania Penn’s virtual campus in Second life and the language islands
Williams 304	INÉS ARRIBAS Bryn Mawr College "A Website for the Teaching of Federico García Lorca’s Bodas de sangre [Blood Wedding]"
Williams 305	KAREN PRICE Boston University Paper-based Computing

SESSION 9: 4:00 – 4:20
Cohen G17	MOHAMED MAAMOURI + CHRISTOPHER CIERI Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania Incorporating Resources and New Technologies in Language Education
Williams 301	BRISA TEUTLI Cornell University ¡A escribir! writing as a process on-line program for high-beginner Spanish students
Williams 303	VICTORIA KIRKHAM + JULIA VERKHOLANTSEV University of Pennsylvania Possibilities and Perils of the Wiki: Two Italian Classroom Experiments (Dante, Cinema). Blogs, Diaries, Journals: a Public Life of a Writing Assignment".
Williams 304	LUBA ISKOLD Muhlenberg College Instructional challenges of Hypbrid Teaching
Williams 304	ADRIANA MERINO + JOSEPH ROBERTSON Villanova University Enhancing Participatory Learning Through Technology

SESSION 10: 4:30 – 5:30
Cohen Hall Terrace Room Cohen Hall G17	VENDORS’ SESSIONS BY Adobe's eLearning tools (Cohen Hall G17, 4:30 - 5:00) Chester Technical Services, Inc. Cengage Learning Arts and Sciences Linguistic Data Consortium Adobe Connect ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY International Association for Language Learning Technology McGraw Hill Publishing Penn Language Center Penn SAS Computing and Multimedia Services African Studies Center Center for East Asian Studies of the University of Pennsylvania South Asia Studies of the University of Pennsylvania

DINNER: 7:00 – 9:00
Penne 3611 Walnut Street	DINNER (requires extra registration)

Sunday, April 3

8:00 – 9:00 Cohen Hall Schniderman Lobby	BREAKFAST + REGISTRATION


9:00 – 9:45 Cohen Hall Room 402	MARIA ALESSANDRA WOOLSON + JOE ANTONIOLI MIDDELBURY COLLEGE Constructing a Virtual Social Space for Cultural Immersion in Spanish Language Acquisition


9:45 – 10:30 Cohen Hall Room 402	JANEL BRENNAN-TILLMANN, ROBERTA LAVINE, MARY ELLEN SCULLEN + ANA PATRICIA RODRIGUEZ University of Maryland Language classrooms without borders: using web based tools


10:30 – 11:15 Cohen Hall Room 402	NELLEKE VAN DEUSEN-SCHOLL + ED DIXON Yale University, University of Pennsylvania Panel on Distance Learning


11:15 – Noon Cohen Hall Room 402	MICHAEL JONES + MARY TOULOUSE Swarthmore College, Lafayette College Re-designing the Language Resource Center

Noon – 1:30 Cohen Hall Schniderman Lobby	LUNCH (requires extra registration) + BUSINESS MEETING