The Department of Modern Languages at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania will hold its sixth annual educator\u2019s workshop on Saturday, September 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Dansbury Commons Lower Lounge, corner of Normal and South Green Streets.\u00a0This year\u2019s one-day workshop is titled \u201cLearner Identities and Interactions in the Modern-Language Classroom\u201d and will focus on the relationship between identity, interaction, and linguistic development in the modern-language classroom. The workshop leader will be Dr. Andrew Lynch of the University of Miami (Coral Gables, Fla.).<\/p>\n
Dr. Lynch is an associate professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at the University of Miami, as well as director of its Spanish Heritage Language program.\u00a0 He is a nationally recognized expert in the field of bilingual and heritage-speaker education. In this workshop, Dr. Lynch will draw upon his research and teaching experience in the areas of heritage learners, language identity and pedagogy to conduct two sessions: \u201cLearner identities in the modern-language classroom,\u201d and \u201cLearner interactions in the modern-language classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n
A catered lunch will be provided onsite, and five PDE Act 48 hours will be awarded to participants. The workshop is open to all interested parties, but traditionally attendees have been foreign language instructors at the K through 16 level who teach at schools from throughout the region.<\/p>\n
To register, please visit www.esu.edu\/ml<\/a> by Wednesday, September 18.\u00a0Registration for ESU faculty, staff, and students is free and there is a $20 fee for non-ESU attendees.\u00a0For more information, please contact the organizers, Annie Mendoza, Ph.D., and Paul Creamer, Ph.D., assistant professors of modern languages, at langworkshop@esu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Modern Languages Sixth Annual Educators Workshop, September 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6982"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6988,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions\/6988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}