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DAILY PROGRAm FrIDAy, November 16, 2012
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Philadelphia marriott Downtown, Room 414
199 Issues in Portuguese Pedagogy
As the Portuguese language gains popularity, several
questions in pedagogy have risen: What variety should
we teach? How do we teach it in mixed classrooms
with heritage and non-heritage learners? What are
the best teaching practices? These and other relevant
questions will be addressed in three presentations in
this session Portuguese: Seven Countries, One Voice?
(Viviani and Estima); Learning Portuguese: Heritage
and Non-heritage Learners’ Perspectives on Mixed
Classroom (Gontijo); From Parts of Speech to Word
Combinations (Silva)
Presenter(s): Liliane Viviani and Sonia N. Estima,
Defense Language Institute; Viviane Gontijo,
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Cassia
Silva, Key Languages, Inc.
sponsor(s): ACTFL Portuguese SIG
strand: Professionalism
applicable level(s): Higher Education
language of Presentation: English
applicable language(s): Portuguese
Join us for SCOLT/AAFLT/SEALLT
April 11 - 13, 2013
Birmingham, AL
World Language Learning: Setting the Global Standard
Sheraton Birmingham
Keynote speaker: John DeMado
Information and registration online at
http://www.scolt.org
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Philadelphia marriott Downtown, Room 415
200 National Standards-Based Greek
Curricula Targeting the 21st
Century Skills
Two papers showcase innovative, National Standardsbased
Greek language curricula that are targeting the
21st century skills A Standards-Based Greek FLES
Curriculum Targeting the 21st Century Skills (Bairaktari
and Przywara); Standards-Based Performance Learning
and the 21st Century Skills (Lekkakou)
Presenter(s): Elpida Bairaktari and Maribeth Przywara,
Odyssey Charter School; Ioanna Lekkakou, Greek
Ministry of Education
sponsor(s): ACTFL Modern Greek SIG
strand: The Learner
applicable level(s): Pre-K–Grade 8
language of Presentation: English
applicable language(s): Greek
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Philadelphia marriott Downtown, Room 501
201 ACTFL African-<strong>American</strong> SIG
Business meeting
2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 101
202 NECTFL Board meeting
3:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit
hall D-E, workshop Room 1
E26 Community Service and
Language Instruction
Whether you and your students use iPhones, iPads
or Androids, we all use technology to teach and
improve language learning We will present new
ideas for making learning fun with the help of
the technology teens already love to use as well
as presenting ideas for how community service
opportunities can pick up where helpfulness of
digital devices may end More than just apps,
we will share our field-tested methods to prove
increased language learning, retention, and
participation
Presenter(s): Pat Maloney, Ned Clark, and
Johnny Perkins, Travel for Teens, LLC
sponsor(s): Travel for Teens LLC
strand: Culture
applicable level(s): Grades 6–12
language of Presentation: English
applicable language(s): Chinese, French,
German, Italian, Spanish
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