Thursday, August 26th, 2010
| 1:00 - 1:30 | Welcome |
| 1:30 - 3:00 | Learners' Accomplishments Pankova, Marianna (Georgetown University) Fostering advanced foreign language abilities in the integrated literacy-oriented German curriculum Scott, Jill (Queen's University) Curriculum redesign: A learning-outcomes perspective Byrnes, Deirdre (National University of Ireland, Galway) From tradition to transferable skills: Teaching applied German in the twenty-first century |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 - 5:00 | Learners as speakers Scholz, Kyle (University of Waterloo) Deconstructing the foreign language classroom anxiety scale Müller, Mareike (University of Waterloo) Pronunciation training without the native speaker? Reframing concepts in German as a foreign language classrooms Liebscher, Grit (University of Waterloo) L2 learners as bilingual speakers: Research from the foreign language classroom |
| 5:00 - 6:00 | Keynote Alice Pitt (York University) Language on loan: Meditations on the emotional world of language learning and teaching |
Friday, August 27th, 2010
| Session 1 | Session 2 | |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Change Guse, Annette (University of New Brunswick) Hope is in the air: Pedagogical and curricular practices and trends in German studies in Canada Anderson, Elizabeth A., & O'Rourke, Ruth (University of New Castle, UK) Choose your weapon! How UK universities respond to the 'call to arms' to protect an endangered degree Dressler, Roswita (University of Calgary) Challenging the tradition of German bilingual programs in Canada: Transitioning to a dual immersion model? | CALL (I) Levine, Glenn (University of California, Irvine) Theorizing CMC for German curriculum design and teaching Wood, Peter (University of Saskatchewan) Heterogeneous learner populations and language learning technologies Schulze, Mathias (University of Waterloo) Computers in German studies - Traditional autobahn or quiet back road? |
| 10:30 -11:00 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Frames Dueck, Cheryl (University of Manitoba) Curriculum assessment following revisions to a midsize Canadian German program Hoenle, Sandra (University of Calgary) Challenging the German curriculum: The common European framework of reference for languages in the context of Canadian postsecondary insitutitions Schmenk, Barbara (University of Waterloo) Revamping the language program in Euro terms. Impacts, experiences, challenges | CALL (II) Wegel, Christina (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Flip a page and get a screen: Challenges and opportunities of new technologies in the FL classroom O'Sullivan, Helen Jane, Martin, Gillian, & O'Rourke, Breffni (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) SpEakWise: A blended learning project to promote pragmatic awareness and intercultural competence Biebighäuser, Katrin (Universität Gießen, Germany) Landeskundevermittlung in der virtuellen Welt Second Life |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | Lunch | |
| Session 1 | Session 2 | |
| 2:00 - 3:30 | Models Forester, Lee, & Wegel, Christina J. (Hope College/University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Designing an intercultural curriculum for beginning and intermediate German Petrescu, Mihaela (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) Increasing the profile of a German program by teaching multiculturalism. A case-study of the course "Deutschland: Zwischen "Leitkultur" und Multikulturalismus" Warner, Chantelle & Gramling, David (University of Arizona/Bilkent University, Turkey) Developing a pedagogy of translingual competence through pragmatic stylistics | Texts McLelland, Nicola (University of Nottingham, UK) German through English eyes: German textbooks for UK learners 1858 to 2000 Even, Susanne & Dollenmeyer, David (Indiana University, Bloomington/Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Bilingual texts as landmarks for language and cultural awareness Webber, Mark (York University) Reclaiming translation for German studies curriculum |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Identities Plews, John (St.Mary's University) On reading the German curriculum through a postcolonial analysis of stakeholder identities McGregor, Janice (Pennsylvania State University) Study abroad, language learning, and identity | |
| 5:30 - 6:30 | Keynote Claire Kramsch (University of California Berkeley) The translingual and transcultural imagination | |
| 7:30 - 10:00 | Buffet/Reception | |
Saturday, August 28th, 2010
| Session 1 | Session 2 | |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Language and Culture Cattell, Allison (University of Waterloo) Language and culture through Wittgenstein's eyes: A symbiotic relationship in the classroom Jaeger, Stephan (University of Manitoba) Literary studies and cultural studies intertwined: Teaching "Representations of War" as an example for a modernized interdisciplinary undergraduate curriculum in German studies Hausstein, Alexandra (University of Toronto) Kulturalisierung der Sprachvermittlung? Ihre Erfolge, Grenzen und Möglichkeiten | Expression Fordham, Kim (University of Alberta) Interactive cultural learning: Reading Der Vorleser. Incorporating a novel into a 6-week immersion intensive Koerner, Morgan (College of Charleston, SC) "Literatur" liberated from "Wissenschaft": "Writerly" approaches to literary texts across the undergraduate German curriculum Rieger, Caroline (University of British Columbia) Conversational German for university students |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Influence Müller, Rüdiger (University of Guelph) Internationalization, corporatization, and curricular practice Skidmore, James (University of Waterloo) An undisciplined approach to Germanistik Schewe, Manfred (University College Cork, Ireland) German Studies à la Bauhaus? | |
| 12:30 - 1:30 | Keynote Dietmar Rösler (Universität Gießen, Germany) Zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen fragen Sie lieber nicht Ihren Theoretiker: Kommunikative Orientierung der Fremdsprachendidatik und Deutsch als Fremdsprache außerhalb des deutschsprachigen Raums | |
| 1:30 - 1:45 | Closing Words Brown bag lunch | |
