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FSL Conference:
Engaging FSL Learners Through Task Design
Who Should Attend? K-12 French as a Second Language Teachers
May 23, 2015
9:00 am – 9:30am
Breakfast & Registration
St. Paul Centre
124-24 Ave. NE, Calgary, AB
9:30 am – 11:45 am
Keynote Address: Doing More with
Second Language Tasks
$110/person
11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Lunch
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
Designing Tasks for the ActionOriented Classroom
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Learning Technologies A to Z
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Reception
(continental breakfast & lunch included)
Register online www.crcpd.ab.ca
*** NOTE: This
conference will be
presented in English
Doing More with Second Language Tasks with Dr. Bill Dunn
This session will explore how task-based pedagogy offers second language
teachers a useful framework for teaching language in engaging and
authentic ways. It will begin with an overview of some fundamental
aspects of task design. The session will then address how tasks can serve
multiple aims including not only language learning, but also the
development of cross-curricular competencies such as problem solving,
critical thinking, personal growth, and intercultural understanding.
Participants will look at concrete examples of classroom tasks and will
also have the opportunity to create new ones.
Designing Tasks for the Action-Oriented Classroom
with Ruth Radetzky
The action-oriented approach embraces and goes beyond the
communicative approach. Communication is not viewed as an end in
itself, but is used as a means of accomplishing a mission, a “task” that
requires linguistic competencies. Cross-curricular competencies such as
critical thinking, solving complex problems, managing information and
applying multiple literacies are also involved in accomplishing the task.
Learning a language according to the action-oriented approach signifies
using the language in authentic and motivating contexts. Explore the
action-oriented approach to language teaching and learning which
prepares students to respond effectively in new and unfamiliar situations
as they engage in a variety of communicative activities in French
Learning Technologies A to Z with Stephanie Jackson-Basuyaux
Integrating technology and digital citizenship into the language classroom
can be a daunting task, for both techno-geeks and techno-phobes. Go
beyond language games and apps; learn how to help your students
become engaged thinkers in our digital world! In this hands-on session,
you will explore 30+ online tools to increase student engagement with
learning technologies, and collaborate with other educators to start
planning a language task. You will come away with simple, easy to
implement tools you can use on Monday, as well as a list of learning
technologies to add to your Tech Try Bucket List.
Please remember to bring your own device!
Dr. Bill Dunn is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Secondary Education at the
University of Alberta. He works primarily in
the areas of second language education, taskbased language teaching, and addressing
language, literacy, and culture across the
curriculum. He received his PhD from Cornell
University in 2002, and began working at the
University of Alberta in 2003.
Ruth Radetzky is currently Senior Education
Specialist in Global Learning for the Calgary
Board of Education. Ruth possesses eighteen
years of experience as a classroom teacher in
elementary French Immersion. She also
worked as an AISI Learning Leader where she
supported K-12 educators in her district with
the personalization of learning for all
students in second-language programs. Her
professional interests over the past three
years have been focused on Intensive French:
A Neurolinguistic Approach to second or
foreign language learning and the ActionOriented Approach to teaching and learning in
second languages.
Stephanie Jackson-Basuyaux started working
for Edmonton Public Schools after graduating
in 2010, teaching FSL, FLA and ELA.
Currently, Stephanie is the lead teacher of
French at T.D. Baker Junior High, where she
teaches FSL and Digital Publishing. Stephanie
has been involved with creating resource kits
and learning tasks for new second language
teachers, and is also the current webmaster
for the ATA Second Languages and
Intercultural Council for the ATA.