17th Annual Colloquium on Language Teaching
- date: 02/11/23
- time: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
- contact: Cecilia Tocaimaza-Hatch • ctocaimazahatch@unomaha.edu
The 17th Annual Colloquium on Language Teaching will be held virtually on Feb. 11, 2023 from 10:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M.
Call for Papers | Abstracts due Oct. 30, 2022
Keynote speaker Dr. Kate Paesani will present "Making Multiliteracies Real: Comparing Multiliteracies Pedagogy and Communicative Language Teaching."
About the speaker: Kate Paesani (Ph.D., Indiana University) is Director of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) and Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on literacies-based curriculum and instruction and language teacher development, couched within the frameworks of multiliteracies pedagogy and sociocultural theory. Her most recent co-authored book, Literacies in Language Education: A Guide for Teachers and Teacher Educators, will be published with Georgetown University Press in Spring 2023.
The event is free and open to the public. The conference will be held online to allow greater access to those who cannot attend in person: Register Here
UNO Sponsors: The Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, the Office of Graduate Studies, and the Writing Center.