TP: Professional Development Workshop & Reflection
Selena Clark
Table of Contents:
3) Basic Details of the Event
4) Brief Summary of the Event
5) Main Take-Away from the Event
6) Photo and Link of Agenda
7) Extra Professional Development Conferences from Same Event that I attended
Details of the event:
Name: Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2022 2-3pm�
Assisted two pedagogy as an attendee:
Implementing TBLT In A Spanish As A Foreign Language Program: An Evaluation Study
by Xavier Gutierrez
Language Program Vitality in Higher Education
by Clara Burgo
Brief Summary
The event was held online through Zoom. I listened to many presentations (listed on the last slide), but the two I will focus on for now are from Xavier Gutierrez and Clara Burgo. They presented on Pedagogical topics such as; Implementing Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) In A Spanish As A Foreign Language Program: An Evaluation Study (Gutierrez) and Language program vitality in higher education (Burgo). ��The main focus of their studies were to prove the best methods and programs for foreign-language learning in Higher Education. I chose to attend these events because I am passionate about language teaching and learning. My goal is to become a language professor and researcher in the future at the university level, so I decided to get insights on how I can improve in my own teaching as well as learn to promote language programs. In my undergraduate university, they considered taking out the language-learning requirement due to lack of interest, but I was curious what are successful teaching methods to engage students in classes and that encouraged them to continue on their language-learning journey.
Main Takeaway
I learned many useful tricks that I would not have learned had I not attended the HLS conference. For example, in regards to the Task-Based Language Teaching session, I learned that students had positive results in terms of learning outcomes that were better than if they had taken a quiz or test. The presenter also mentioned that a problem that can occur with using the target language 100% of the time sometimes prohibits students from doing well on the written tests since they are mostly practicing speaking and listening in the classroom, and therefore students may understand how to conjugate a verb but will not know the exact translation into English. From the second presenter, who mentioned the vitality of higher education programs, she encouraged teachers and students alike to talk to directors and show interest in running a program, whether it be of a heritage language or a foreign language. She encourages promoting the benefits within the community and getting as many people involved as possible in order to have a successful language program at the university.
Photo of agenda
Other conferences from HLS that I attended
Apart from the hour that I emphasized in the first slides, I also attended the following conferences from HLS that are listed below in the google docs:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kolhE_7rhrSYe-y0OZ-xG2t3yqgNiM89YcC3Mi6p3nA/edit
Or, as listed in my CV: