Welcome Remarks
Sunil Sharma & Roberta Micallef (Boston University)
Part I: Keynote
Digital Mapmaking and Intercultural Awareness: Developing a Sense of Place in Study Abroad Contexts
Per Urlaub and Eva Dessein (Middlebury College)
Digital Mapmaking and Intercultural Awareness – Q & A
Per Urlaub and Eva Dessein (Middlebury College)
Part II: Learner-Empowered Language Pedagogy
Build Your Course Online: Helping Novice Learners of Spanish with School-life Balance
Borja Ruiz De Arbulo (Boston University)
Learner-Empowered Language Pedagogy – Empowering Learners: Student-centered Teaching and Learning
Min-Min Liang (MIT)
Learner-Empowered Language Pedagogy – Teaching a Foreign Language in a Globalized World
Richard Delacy (Harvard University)
Learner-Empowered Language Pedagogy – Q & A
Borja Ruiz De Arbulo, Min-Min Liang & Richard Delacy
Part III: Building Communities and Connections through Technology
Enhanced Oral Proficiency by Communicating with Native Speakers
Giselle Khoury-Disano (Boston University)
From a One-Minute Video to a Class: Dialogue, Community and Authentic Materials
Elena Carrion Guerrero & Maria Datel (Boston University)
Computer-mediated Corrective Feedback: Exploration into Its Exploration into Its Synchronous and Asynchronous Modes
Pengfei Li (Boston University)
Building Communities and Connections through Technology – Q & A
Giselle Khoury-Disano, Elena Carrion Guerrero, Maria Datel & Pengfei Li (Boston University)
Part IV: Multimodal Language Teaching
Linguistic and Cultural Landscape: The Case of Graffiti in L2
Mira Angrist (Boston University)
Dub with App: Incorporating Dubbing Projects into the Foreign Language Classroom
Carmelinda Chilelli (Brandeis University)
Identity through Podcasts and Dramas: Teaching Culture and Communication with Authentic Texts
Richard Cozzens (Tufts University)
Working with Intercultural Pragmatics through YouTube Channel Subtitling
Tracy Heranic (Boston University)
Part V: Panel
Restructuring Bridge Courses using Content-Based Approaches
Kristen Turpin, Elena González Ros & Lucia Reyes de Del (Brandeis University)
Restructuring Bridge Courses using Content-Based Approaches – Q & A
Kristen Turpin, Elena González Ros & Lucia Reyes de Del (Brandeis University)
Part VI: Roundtable
Critical Media Literacy: Teaching Middle Eastern Films (A Roundtable on the challenges and rewards of teaching about the Middle East through films)
Somy Kim (Northeastern University)
Critical Media Literacy: Teaching Middle Eastern Films (A Round Table on the challenges and rewards of teaching about the Middle East through films)
Sassan Tabatabai (Boston University)
Part VII: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Language and Culture
Teaching Teresa of Avila in the Language Classroom – Angelica Avcikurt (Boston University)
Angelica Avcikurt (Boston University)
Interdisciplinary and Multimedia Approach (IMA) to Culture Studies for Advanced Heritage
Oksana Willis (Harvard University), Ekaterina Burvikova (University of New Hampshire)
Pragmatic knowledge for Beginners
Svitlana Malykhina (Boston University)
Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Anthology Series 1959-64: How Can It Be Used To Inform Students About Past And Present US Cultural Discourses
Walter Harper (Bridgewater State University)
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Language and Culture – Q & A
Angelica Avcikurt (Boston University), Oksana Willis (Harvard University), Svitlana Malykhina (Boston University), Walter Harper (Bridgewater State University)