Webcasts for WAFLT Members
2007-08 Language Institute Lecture Series
Assessing Language Learning.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Language Institute and the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers (WAFLT) announce joint sponsorship of live webcasts of talks in the Language Institute's 2007-08 lecture series, Assessing Language Learning.
K-12 language teachers throughout the State of Wisconsin who are members of WAFLT will log in online to view a live video stream of the lectures and responses, then submit questions or comments live to the speakers by email. Members of WAFLT, the state foreign language teacher orgranization, will also be able to view archives of the webcasts online after each lecture.
The talks in the lectures series, by prominent researchers and leaders in foreign language education Carl Falsgraf, Gerard Westhoff, James Lantolf, and John Norris, focus on topics related to assessing what language learners know and can do.
Lecture series schedule:
Making the Most of Assessment and Evaluation in College Foreign Language Programs
John Norris, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
12:00 pm, Monday, September 10, 2007
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
Standards-based Measures of Proficiency (STAMP) and the Ecology of Assessment
Carl Falsgraf , Pennsylvania State University
12:00 pm, Thursday, October 18, 2007
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
A Priory Assessment of Complex Language Tasks by Practitioners
Gerard Westhoff, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
3:30 pm, Thursday, February 12, 2008
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
The Dialectics of Assessment
James P. Lantolf, Pennsylvania State University
3:30 pm, Thursday, April 17, 2008
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
All lectures in the series are free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Language Institute, with funding from the College of Letters and Science Anonymous Fund.
More information on the webcasts will be available soon.
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