Helping Students Achieve Proficiency Through Meaningful and Authentic Contexts
Join Claudia R. Fernández, PhD, of the University of Illinois-Chicago, and Muriel Gallego, PhD, of Ohio University, for a discussion of stimulating higher-level thinking and communication through the use of meaningful contexts.
Claudia R. Fernández, PhD, University of Illinois-Chicago
Muriel Gallego, PhD, Ohio University
Authentic contexts are not only facilitated by implementing authentic texts. This webinar discusses implementation of tasks that stimulate higher-level thinking skills and emphasize communicative functions in meaningful contexts that result in better written or oral products. These tasks can involve diverse dynamics, such as:
- Stages involving searching, reflection, and individual creation
- Collaboration where meaningful information is exchanged
- Co-creation of texts
- Brainstorming and presentations
- Peer response requiring active, critical attention rather than passive reception
- Peer evaluation
- Re-elaboration of products based on comments and suggestions received
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Claudia R. Fernández, PhD, University of Illinois-Chicago
Claudia R. Fernández is Clinical Assistant Professor of Spanish and Director of the Spanish Basic Language Program at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She has extensive experience teaching Spanish at higher learning institutions in the US and Mexico, and in the creation of teaching materials. Her research focuses on the acquisition of grammar and on task-based language teaching, and has been published in journals such as The Language Educator, Hispania, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition, as well as in several book chapters. She is author of Input destacado y adquisición de la gramática (Enhanced Input and Grammar Acquisition), published by Arco/Libros, Spain in 2016.
Muriel Gallego, PhD, Ohio University
Muriel Gallego is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics-Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages at Ohio University, where she also serves as Language Program Director for Lower Division Spanish. She has taught language teaching, foreign language acquisition, language variation and change, Hispanic sociolinguistics, and the Spanish language (at all levels). Gallego has facilitated workshops and PD events for World Language K-12 teachers both in the US and in countries such as Argentina, Croatia, and Sweden. Her research has been published in journals including Hispania, Foreign Language Annals, and Spanish in Context. She has served as an AP reader and an external reviewer for numerous grant competitions for the Department of Education, Washington DC. She earned the Ohio University College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Award in 2012, the Diversity and Inclusion Award in 2016, and the Service and Leadership Award in 2019.
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