Applied Language Didactics Colloquium
sponsored by the Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies, University of Waterloo

Thursday, December 2, 2004

 
Morning Sessions: ML 245
10.00 Welcome
10.15 An Jiang: The Task-based Approach: Theory and Practice
10.35 Sylwia Piekielska: Using Music in the Foreign Language Classroom
10.55 Jörg Schröder: Speech Act Theory and Its Implications for Language Teaching
11.15 coffee break
11.30 Jane Shen: Phonological Awareness and Early Literacy Skills
11.50 Jessica Hamann: Assmann’s Concept of Memory and Its Implications for Language Education

12.10 Vera Kloprogge: The Importance of Intercultural Learning in Language Learning

 
2.00 Sandwiches, ML 245
 
Afternoon Sessions: ML 354
3.30 Peter Wood: Studies on the Order of L2 Acquisition and Their Implications for Language Teaching
3.50 Norma Chapple: Deficient Learners and Dismissive Critics: Divisiveness in SLA Theory
4.10 Hanna Lin: Grammar Instruction in Communicative Language Teaching
4.30 coffee break
5.00 Janice McGregor: Post-Method Pedagogy: The New Wave in Language Teaching?
5.20 Matthew Tite: The Impact of Vygotsky’s Theories on Current Approaches to Language Education
5.40 Alexandra Kern: “Brainsex” and Foreign Language Learning: Myth or Reality?
 
6.00 Reception, ML 245

for more information contact

Dr. Barbara Schmenk
bschmenk@uwaterloo.ca
519.888.4567, x2148