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The Department of Foreign Languages held the annual Ä¢¹½tv Spring Methodology Conference on Foreign Language Teaching on Friday, April 19, 2024. The organizing committee included Christina Huhn (co-chair), Marjorie Zambrano-Paff (co-chair), Heide Witthoeft (German and department chair), Charles McCreary (French), and Laurel Liu (Chinese).

Ä¢¹½tv graduates and conference committee

Ä¢¹½tv graduates, conference committee, and keynote speakers

The 2024 keynote speakers were Eileen Glisan, Ä¢¹½tv professor emerita, and Bonnie Adair-Hauck, second language researcher and world language consultant. Glisan and Adair-Hauck, along with Francis Troyan, are co-authors of the recently published book The Integrated Performance Assessment: Twenty Years and Counting. 

The keynote and workshop presentations were titled:

  • "Can Assessment Really Drive the Curriculum, and Should It? Lessons Learned from the Integrated Performance Assessment," Eileen Glisan, professor emerita, Ä¢¹½tv
  • "IPA: Keys to Motivating Language Learners K-16," Bonnie Adair-Hauck, second language researcher and world language consultant
Additional presentations by current Ä¢¹½tv faculty and alumni and local world language educators:
  • "Implementing Seals of Biliteracy: One District's Experience," Raquel Lemelle and Alicia Schmouder, Hollidaysburg SD
  • "Making the Learning Visible: From Tips to Actual Application of Strategies that Work!" Pascale Spinelli and Marina Buratti, Sewickley Academy
  • "How to Increase Enrollment through a Collectivist Approach," Gale DeArmin, Mount Aloysius College
  • "The Story of Language Instruction," Melissa Henderson and Ashley Hertzog, World of Learning, IU8
  • "Reconsidering Target Language Choices in the Classroom," Christina Huhn, Ä¢¹½tv
  • "Engaging Online Learners," Melissa Toncini, PA Leadership Charter School
  • "Bafa, Bafa, A Way to Connect FL Students Cross-Culturally," Marjorie Zambrano-Paff,  Ä¢¹½tv 
  • "Exceeding Expectations: Guiding Students to Increase Quality Language Use," Michael Bogdan, assistant director of education services, PSEA

Full conference information is available on the Ä¢¹½tv Spring Methodology Conference website.

The 2025 conference is planned for April 2025.