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April 27: Angela Reyes, Ph.D. Associate Professor Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York Monday on Asian American Youth and Mass Media Discourses

by on April 27, 2015 3:29 pm
 Asian American Youth and Mass Media Discourses Angela Reyes, Ph.D. Associate Professor Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York   Monday April 27, 12pm Cubberley 115     Mass media and digital technologies have an undeniable influence on youth experiences, educational spaces, and ethnographic research. Drawing on fieldwork at after-school programs… Read more April 27: Angela Reyes, Ph.D. Associate Professor Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York Monday on Asian American Youth and Mass Media Discourses

April 24: Prof. Encarnacion Carrasco Perea on Diversity, equity, quality: Intercomprehension, a shared value

by on April 27, 2015 3:27 pm
  The understanding between citizen and the sustainability/promotion of linguistic and cultural diversity are the most challenging aspirations of European policies. Intercomprehension can contribute to both as a plurilingual communicative practice, since it proposes mutual comprehension/intercommunication between allophone subjects instead of either accommodating to a language or resourcing to a lingua franca. In addition, it… Read more April 24: Prof. Encarnacion Carrasco Perea on Diversity, equity, quality: Intercomprehension, a shared value

April 1, 2015: Prof. Jana Echevarría - Lessons Learned: Reflections On the Creation of An Instructional Model

by on April 14, 2015 2:37 pm
LEEP Conference: Prof. Jana Echevarría Wednesday April 1, 12pm CERAS 101   Lessons Learned: Reflections On the Creation of An Instructional Model Over the past 20 years, the SIOP Model, an empirically validated instructional model for English learners, has been implemented in school districts across the U.S. and in other countries. This presentation will focus… Read more April 1, 2015: Prof. Jana Echevarría - Lessons Learned: Reflections On the Creation of An Instructional Model

January 12, 2015: Dr. Tara Fortune, Academic Achievement and Language Development in Early Total Mandarin Immersion

by on January 21, 2015 10:00 pm
   Title: Academic Achievement and Language Development in Early Total Mandarin Immersion Presenter: Tara Williams Fortune   Abstract Language immersion education has proven itself to be highly effective in developing high levels of proficiency in a first and second language and supporting academic achievement in English. However, little is known about program effectiveness when the… Read more January 12, 2015: Dr. Tara Fortune, Academic Achievement and Language Development in Early Total Mandarin Immersion