CLASP Workshop on "Real-Life Languaging: Approaches to Teaching English Language Learners"
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
8:30 am – 11:30 am EST/GMT-5 Online Event
8:30 AM New York l 2:30 PM Vienna
The Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Pedagogy invites all OSUN faculty to attend a free-of-charge workshop on "Real-Life Languaging: Approaches to Teaching English Language Learners." This workshop is targeted at faculty teaching OSUN Online and Network Connected Courses, but the content in the module is broadly applicable. All faculty are welcome to attend.
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), uses authentic language material, such as newspaper articles, radio broadcasts and everyday communication situations. These help learners to feel immersed in real life social contexts where they engage with native speakers. At the same time, the everyday reality of second-language English speakers is that translanguaging (the ability to move between languages) is quite common.
The aim of this workshop is to identify the ways in which CLT and translanguaging in ESL complement, support and inspire each other. This workshop invites lecturers and ESL/ELL instructors to join writing exercises where we will experiment with questions such as: How can translanguaging become a real-life element of everyday communicative situations in the classroom? How do we activate the instructors’/facilitators’ own multilingual backgrounds to access second language teaching? How do bridging/scaffolding devices in second language teaching give permission for playfulness in freewriting and dialogical notebook writing exercises?