ulimi 2005 - National African Language Resource Center - Indiana ...

Summer 2005 Institute fellows with their instructors.Steve Timm gives a lecture to the institute fellows.Summer 2005 institutes lasted from May 31st to June13th, 2005. In total, 9 fellows attended the institutesand they came from institutions of higher learningacross the United States—University of Oregon,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,Pennsylvania State University, Ohio University, IndianaUniversity at Bloomington, and UW-Madison.Akinsola Ogundeji gives a Yoruba lesson to his colleagues.Antonia Schleicher welcomes the Summer Institutes participants onthe first day.ULIMI / 10Upon the request of LCTL programs and also uponthe feedback of the previous institute participants,this year’s summer institutes addressed four majorthemes: teaching speaking, listening, reading andwriting skills in the African language classroom,testing and assessing the four skills in the Africanlanguage classroom, lesson planning and classroommanagement.The first part of the Institutes was led by Steve Timm,who has been leading the NALRC Summer Institutesfor two years with the other instructor, KathyMoulton. Steve Timm led the first week of theworkshop, focusing on the teaching aspects ofspeaking and listening. Although the fellows had agreat deal of information to absorb, Steve’shumorous and friendly demeanor made theworkshop fun, as well as challenging.During the second week of the workshop, KathyMoulton taught reading and writing skills. KathyKathy Moulton leads a workshop in the second week.demonstrated how to keep students’ interest levelup, having the fellows participate in language gamesand contests. These contests showed the summerinstitute class of 2005 to be the most competitiveclass yet, even turning to a videotape of “instantreplay” to figure out who won a certain game!On the last day of the institute, a closing ceremonywas held in the Solitaire room at the MadisonConcourse Hotel. Antonia Schleicher delivered aclosing speech, congratulating all the fellows on thesuccessful completion of the institutes and stressingthe importance of the future generation of Africanlanguage teachers. Certificates were presented tothe following 9 fellows: