NCOLCTL Update: Pre-Conference Workshops

NCOLCTL announces two pre-conference workshops.

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NCOLCTL invites you to attend a Pre-Conference Workshop on “Task-based Language Teaching and Performance Assessment” in the Less Commonly Taught Languages (see below). The workshop, scheduled for Thursday, April 23, from 1:30 – 5:30 PM, as part of this year’s NCOLCTL conference titled, “Towards a New Paradigm in LCTLs,” which will be held in Madison, WI, April 23-26.

A second workshop on “Building 21st-Century Arabic Programs: A Roundtable Discussion for Program Directors” is scheduled for Thursday, April 23, from 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. (see below).

The workshops will be conducted at the Madison Sheraton Hotel. They are free and open to the public.

All conference attendees, NCOLCTL members, and UW language teachers, researchers, and students are especially invited to attend. Workshop participants are also invited to attend the Conference Welcome Reception, which will begin at 5:30 PM. These events are sponsored by the National African Language Resource Center and the Dean of International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Please feel free to post or circulate this announcement widely.

These events are sponsored by the Dean of International Studies at the UW-Madison.

Feel free to post the attached flyer in your LCTL organization.

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NCOLCTL PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP 1

THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2009

1:30 – 5:30 p.m.

MADISON SHERATON HOTEL

“Task-based Language Teaching and Performance Assessment”

A Workshop led by Hong Gang Jin, Professor of Chinese, Hamilton College and President, NCOLCTL

Professor Jin served as Vice-President of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages and is currently its President.

NCOLCTL PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP 2

THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2009

1:00 – 5:30 p.m.

MADISON SHERATON HOTEL

“Building 21st-Century Arabic Programs: A Roundtable Discussion for Program Directors”

A Workshop led by Mahmoud Al-Batal, University of Texas, Austin and

Kirk Belnap, BYU

NCOLCTL

4231 Humanities Building

455 North Park Street

Madison, WI 53706

www.councilnet.org

608-265-7903

ncolctl@mailplus.wisc.edu