Language of Service and Community symposium

Posted by on March 9, 2009

THE LANGUAGE of SERVICE and COMMUNITY SYMPOSIUM
Bringing together foreign language/ESL professors and instructors who are exploring community engagement and service-learning pedagogy.

Saturday, April 4, 2009
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Rollins College – Winter Park, FL
http://www.rollins.edu/hispanicstudies/symposium2009.html

The Language of Service and Community symposium will provide an opportunity to learn from colleagues from across the country about ways to enhance foreign language instruction through service-learning and community engagement pedagogy.

Call for Participation and Programs:
We invite participants to share ideas and practices through engaging presentations of innovative projects, pedagogies, and research in service-learning and community engagement pedagogy. We encourage presentations (not the reading of papers) showcasing original and engaging practices in one of several topic areas:

1. Service-learning pedagogy in foreign language and/or ESL instruction
2. Best practices with S-L pedagogy in study abroad and international experiences
3. Community engagement and community-based research projects in foreign language instruction
4. Research on the effectiveness of S-L pedagogy in language acquisition

Please send a brief RFP to [email protected] by Monday, March 9, 2009. Presenters will be notified by March 16, 2009 by e-mail.

Your RFP should have a title, abstract (100-150 words), summary of presentation topic, and names/institution of presenter(s).  Note: this will be used in the Symposium Program.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Josef Hellebrandt, Santa Clara University

Editor of Construyendo Puentes (Building Bridges): Concepts and Models for Service Learning in Spanish; Learning the Language of Global Citizenship: Service-Learning in Applied Linguistics; and Juntos: Community Partnerships in Spanish and Portuguese

For questions please contact Gabriel Barreneche, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures 407-691-1770 or [email protected]

Registration and travel Information at
http://www.rollins.edu/hispanicstudies/symposium2009.html