The Language of Service and Community symposium will provide an opportunity to learn from colleagues from across the state 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 gbarreneche@rollins.edu by Monday, March 9, 2009. Presenters will be notified by March 16, 2009 by e-mail.
1) Title, abstract (100-150 words), summary of presentation topic, and names/institution of presenter(s). Note: this will be used in the Symposium Program.
See http://www.rollins.edu/hispanicstudies/symposium2009.html for more information.