2024 Summer Institute

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CALLS FOR PROPOSALS COMING SOON FOR the 2024 SUMMER INSTITUTE

on

Diversity and Equitable Teaching and Learning of Languages and Cultures: Pedagogy, Research, Curriculum, and Community Building

 
Hosted and funded by the Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC)
& the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES)
Duke University
Summer 2024

 

The call will be made to interested scholars, graduate students, and professionals on workshop-related topics and that focus on teaching/learning ANY language. The Institute will also include professional development events on social emotional learning and culturally responsive teaching.

Workshop topics in the past have included, but are not limited to:

  • Neuroimaging and multilingualism
  • Teaching language and culture through film
  • Language proficiency testing
  • Specialized language instruction at the advanced and superior levels
  • The use of technology in the language classroom
  • Integrating heritage students in the language classroom
  • Addressing the needs of differently-abled students
  • Using computer technologies to create pedagogical materials
  • The role of grammar in proficiency-based instruction
  • Popular culture and language instruction
  • Web resources for language teachers
  • ScribeZone: transcription and reading
  • Minority Voices in the Urban STEM Classroom and Beyond
  • Use of Social Emotional Learning and Culturally Responsive Teaching
  • Moving Equity and Inclusion Forward: The Role of Language Justice in Transforming Thinking and Empowering Action
  • Identities Under Siege: the effects of essentialism, other-izing, & trauma on linguistic and cultural identities
  • Reimagining Language and Curriculum to Lever Equitable Classrooms and Schools