9:50 AM – 10:50 AM: Concurrent Session II (60 minutes)
Workshop 1: Communicating & Collaborating: Give Every Student A Voice
Noemi Rodriguez (Pascack Valley Regional High School District)
(ASHA CEU)
It's time to give every student a voice in your classroom-digitally! Learn how to use unique assessment tools through this hands-on presentation that allows learners the opportunity to showcase their interpretive, interpersonal, or presentational skills & knowledge! Different websites will be modeled and participants will have the opportunity to engage in using these formative technology tools during the presentation. Activities will be modeled in English and participants will collaborate to share additional ideas & tools that have proven successful to grow language proficiency.
Learning Outcomes: As a result of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Set communicative goals for their students
- Establish routines for daily communication and collaboration
- design communicative activities using different technology tools.
Target audience: 6-12 Educators
Workshop 2: Using WIDA’s Key Language Use of Narrate in Digital Biography
Margaret Churchill (Closter Public Schools/NJTESOL-NJBE President)
Learn how to implement the WIDA Key Language Use of Narrate, which features prominently in the 2020 WIDA Standards Framework for multilingual learners, through a biography unit designed for digital teaching and learning. Participants will learn key features of narration, digital resources for biography, and ways to capture student speaking and foster online interaction in virtual classrooms.
Target audience: K-12 Educators
Workshop 3: Using Social Media (Instagram) to Teach English as a Second Language
Sarah Alqasem (University of Northern Colorado)
This workshop will provide tips on how an Instagram account can be used to teach English as a second language. The workshop will go over how to teach in an entertaining way through the use of pop culture, memes, and gifs. Also, you will learn how to create engaging posts with questions and Instagram story polls and exams. In addition, the workshop will provide best practices for creating your own educational videos based on recent research that you can post on Instagram. You will also learn how to incorporate learners' first language and culture in videos and how to teach English vocabulary in a fast and short way that appeals to most young people online. This workshop aims to give you tools on how to teach English as a second language in a non-academic setting.
Target audience: 6-12 Educators
Workshop 4: Developing Metapragmatic Awareness: How Can We Help Others Communicate Successfully Across Languages and Cultures?
Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth (New York University) and Timothy John Ebsworth (Kean University)
(ASHA CEU)
Many people assume that if they know how to be polite in one language, the same approach will succeed in another language and culture as long as the vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation are correct. But it doesn’t always work that way. Each “languagculture” has its own norms and strategies for how to send particular messages to others. For example, a comment intended as a helpful suggestion when translated literally might be misunderstood as negative criticism. In this workshop, we will explore how to guide learners from different cultures to be more successful in cross-cultural communication through a second language or variety. We will share our intercultural pragmatics research on communities in contact and offer activities to promote intercultural pragmatic awareness.
Learning Outcomes: As a result of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Understand the basic units and processes of pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic competence within and across languages, varieties, cultures, and subcultures.
- Understand how speech acts and speech act sets can contrast in terms of illocutionary force, using direct , conventionally indirect, and unconventional strategies.
- Develop pedagogical strategies to work with students, practitioners, and other stakeholders to help them be more successful sending and interpreting meaningful functions to and from other
Target audience: 9-16 Educators and Adult Educators
Workshop 5. Supporting English Learners’ Self-Confidence in Speaking with FlipGrid
Arely Lima (Paterson Public Schools) and Heejung An (William Paterson University)
How can we monitor how far English Learners’ English skills and confidence have improved with technology? Flipgrid, a video response platform, provides learners with the ability to record themselves speak, share the recording with others, and receive feedback from teachers. In this session, we will discuss how teachers can use FlipGrid to monitor ELLs’ progress in using academic vocabulary in English as well as learning about how to incorporate growth mindset feedback with FlipGrid to help build confidence when speaking in English.
Target audience: K-8 Educators