Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto
The SLTL Workshops are designed to provide graduate student instructors with theoretical and practical knowledge to improve their classroom teaching and assist their students’ learning. Each of the thematic workshops involves a presentation intermixed with a series of practical activities.
Workshops take place on the dates indicated below from 1-4PM at St. Michael’s College (rooms vary). If you are interested in attending, please pre-register by writing to french.secretary@utoronto.ca indicating your home department.
Fall Semester
• Friday, September 23, Teefy 102
Teaching and assessing reading skills
Presenter: Jeffrey Steele (Department of French)
Sponsored by the Department of Italian Studies
• Friday, October 28, 2016 — Carr Hall 405
Aural comprehension in the language classroom: Developing active listeners
Malama Tsimenis, Centre for French & Linguistics, UTSC
Sponsored by the Department of French
• Friday, November 11, 2016 — Carr Hall 405
Implicit and explicit L2 Instruction and L2 learning
Nina Spada, CERLL, OISE
Sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Winter Semester
• Friday, January 20, 2017 — Teefy Hall 102
Recent innovations in second language teaching: the action-oriented approach
Enrica Piccardo, CERLL, OISE
Sponsored by the Departments of Germanic Languages and Literatures & Slavic languages and Literatures
• Friday, February 10, 2017 — Teefy Hall 102
Interlanguage pragmatics: Learning and teaching to communicate effectively in a second language
Julie Kerekes, CERLL, OISE
Sponsored by the Centre of French and Linguistics (UTSC)
• Friday, March 10, 2017 — Teefy Hall 102
Translanguaging as pedagogy in multilingual and multicultural classroom
Anu Muhonen, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Sponsored by the Departments of East Asian Studies & Language Studies (UTM)
Individuals interested in participating are asked to pre-register by writing to french.secretary@utoronto.ca.