The Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series at Washington University presents Dr. Claudia R. Fernández

Workshop: Tuesday, November 7, 9 – 10 am in Busch 100

In this workshop, participants will first identify a communicative goal that is likely to be desired, interesting, or useful for their students according to their contexts. Then, they will be guided to design a real-world target task that reflects this communicative goal. Participants will also identify the evaluation criteria with which to measure students’ accomplishment of this target task. Finally, participants will have the information to create, select, or adapt a sequence of pedagogic tasks that would serve as stepping stones for the accomplishment of the target task. The goal is for participants to leave the workshop with a solid draft of a task-based module that can be implemented in their own classes.

 

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*The Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series at Washington University in St. Louis is sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; the Department of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures; Applied Linguistics; the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.