Teacher's professional development (CARLA summer institute): Language and Culture in Sync (ONLINE) Teaching Linguistic Politeness and Intercultural Awareness

Host Institution: University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA
Coordinating Institution: CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition)
Website: https://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2024/linguistic.html

Dates: 24-Jun-2024 - 12-Jul-2024
Location: online

Focus: Summer institute online (Jun 24-Jul 12) for teaching pragmatics with sensitivity to learners’ identities, cultures, and multilingualism. Early-bird registration closes on April 26th! Asynchronous but vibrant interactions for 3 weeks with a very diverse group of teachers and researchers discussing, connecting, and reflecting together.

This institute provides practical insights for teachers on how to enhance the learning of linguistic politeness and boost students' intercultural awareness of linguacultural diversity. Participants will have hands-on opportunities to develop activities and materials for the classroom.

Week 1:
• Terms and definitions for teaching linguistic politeness (pragmatics)
• Recording and studying language use
• Needs assessment for (im)politeness, (in)directness, and (in)formality
• Instructional examples: Teaching speech acts, implicatures

Week 2
• Theories and practices in applied linguistics and instructional pragmatics
• Pragmatics-focused lessons
• Exploring instructional resources
• Classroom-based assessment of pragmatics

Week 3
• Textbook analysis and adaptation
• Teaching pragmatics in lingua franca or other culturally diverse contexts
• Developing lesson plans and exchanging feedback
• Goal-setting and reconnecting for the future

Participant testimonial:
I would highly recommend this CARLA Summer Institute to any language educator. It fit every language and provided an excellent balance of research and ways to apply this information to our specific teaching contexts. (2023)
Minimum Education Level: Experience of learning an additional language

Description:
Participants will:
1. Demonstrate an awareness of sociocultural aspects of language learning and teaching.
2. Develop or refine the ability to identify intercultural similarities and differences in pragmatic language use in at least two languages/cultures.
3. Enhance their ability to identify learners’ needs in intercultural communication.
4. Become familiar with current approaches to the teaching of L2 pragmatics.
5. Develop a pragmatics-focused lesson plan which incorporates research-based information.
6. Identify means for assessing learners’ pragmatic competence.
7. Demonstrate a deeper awareness of the link between learners' sociocultural identities, multilingualism, and expressions of linguistic politeness and develop culturally sensitive instruction and assessments based on this awareness.
8. Collaborate and network with other participants in and beyond their immediate teaching environments.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
General Linguistics
Pragmatics

Tuition: 300.0 US dollars
Tuition Explanation: Early-bird registration (by April 26): $300
Regular (4/27–6/7/24): $350
Late (After 6/7/24): $400

CARLA offers three scholarship programs to support attendance at the CARLA Summer Institutes:

1. Priority Teacher Professional Development Scholarship Program
2. Teaching Excellence in Action in Minnesota (TEAM) Scholarship Program
3. LC/CARLA Summer Institute Scholarship for UMN Language Instructors
See the link for more information.

Registration Open until 21-Jun-2024

Contact Person: CARLA
Email: [email protected]

Apply by Email: [email protected]
Apply on the web: https://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2024/registration.html

Registration Instructions:
https://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2024/registration.html