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DAILY PROGRAm SuNDAy, November 18, 2012
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 121 C
782 Collaborating for Success:
Creating an Effective workforce
Among Chinese Immersion
Schools
Three Chinese immersion administrators will share
tangible techniques to work together The panelists will
share an administrative perspective on how to support
teachers so that their programs provide an excellent
immersion experience to students, and how these
efforts will sustain the Chinese immersion programs in
the long run
Presenter(s): Luyi Lien, Yinghua Academy; Kevin
Chang, Chinese <strong>American</strong> International School;
Marty Chen, Utah State Office of Education
sponsor(s): CLTA
strand: Professionalism
applicable level(s): Pre-K–Grade 12
language of Presentation: English, Chinese
applicable language(s): Chinese
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 122 A
783 Implementing Task-based
Pedagogy in CFL Classroom
The panel explores the ways to implement task-based
language teaching (TBLT) in Chinese classrooms at the
intermediate level Specifically, it investigates how
cognitively engaging and meaningful activities can
be designed, adjusted, and incorporated into Chinese
language teaching in a normal classroom setting to
enhance teaching and learning effectiveness
Presenter(s): Lihong Huang, Juei-Chen Hsiao, and
Yu-Sheng Yang, Georgetown University
sponsor(s): CLTA
strand: Professionalism
applicable level(s): All
language of Presentation: Chinese
applicable language(s): Chinese
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 122 B
784 Critical Language Takes Critical
Thinking to Prepare Students for
Success
Interlaced with meaningful classroom activities,
the presentation addresses how to use meaningful
activities to tackle general learning obstacles: learner’s
anxiety, short attention span, learning frustrations, and
unsustainable motivation to create a friendly, engaging,
motivating, and rewarding learning environment, and
students will follow you to the end of the earth
Presenter(s): Jian Gao, Belmont Hill School; Piling
Chiu, Naperville North High School
sponsor(s): CLASS
strand: The Learner
applicable level(s): All
language of Presentation: English, Chinese
applicable language(s): All
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 123
785 Learning and Assessment
These papers address assessment issues such as
oral task-based performance assessment, and the
use of authentic multimedia materials in integrated
performance assessment Also addressed is the effect
of reading structure revision on reading comprehension
of learners at the intermediate level Constructing
Specifications of Oral Task Performance Assessment
in CFL (Su); Applying ACTFL’s Integrated Performance
Assessment in High Level Chinese Classes (Chen);
Improvement of CFL Reading Comprehension by
Systematic Structure Revision (Huang)
Presenter(s): Shuhui Su (Chair), Grove City College;
Shuchen Chen, University of Virginia; Ting Huang,
New York University; Rong Cheng, Columbia
University
sponsor(s): CLTA
strand: Assessment, Research
applicable level(s): All
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 124
786 Internationalizing Students’
Learning Experiences Through
Collaboration with Students from
China
This panel explores effective approaches to internationalizing
students’ learning experiences with the
opportunities brought by the increasing presence of
Chinese students on campus These approaches include
Chinese students being a learning resource, collaboration
with them to improve writing, and interviews with
native speakers
Presenter(s): Aili Mu (Chair), Tonglu Li, Yi Jin, and Lu
Yang, Iowa State University
sponsor(s): CLTA
strand: The Learner
applicable level(s): Higher Education
language of Presentation: English, Chinese
applicable language(s): Chinese
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11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 125
787 Develop Students’ Proficiency
Through Digital Storytelling
Storytelling can be a powerful approach to develop students’
proficiency across the interpretive, interpersonal,
and presentational modes Participants will review
numbers of web-based free, easy tools through studentcreated
animation production from a variety of cultures,
genres, languages, and levels and examine ways to
integrate stories into existing lessons
Presenter(s): Yi Ping Yao (Chair), Montville Township
High School; Tsun-Ju Lin, Red Bank School District;
Annick Huiching Chen, Abraham Lincoln High School
sponsor(s): CLTA
strand: Technology
applicable level(s): Pre-K–Grade 12
language of Presentation: English
applicable language(s): Chinese
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 126 A
788 Student-Centered Learning
Activities
Actively engaging students in the world languages
classroom continues to be a challenge We are
expected to cover the curriculum, focus on the goals
of our district, differentiate instruction and produce
quality assessments In this session, we will show how
student-centered learning activities can support these
efforts
Presenter(s): Thomasina I. White, School District of
Philadelphia
sponsor(s): PSMLA
strand: The Learner
applicable level(s): Grades 6–12
language of Presentation: English
applicable language(s): French, Spanish
Participants are encouraged to offer feedback on the convention. ACTFL will e-mail
the convention survey to all attendees after the convention. If you prefer to take
this survey during the convention, there is a survey button on the main menu of
the mobile App. Each event in the mobile App schedule has an survey option so
you can also rate individual sessions, workshops, and presenters.
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SuNDAY November 18, 2012