What strategies can instructors use to foster the skills students need in order to write effectively and independently? What methods of evaluation best support student progress? In this workshop, language program coordinator Claudia Lynn will discuss how to design and scaffold classroom activities for L2 writing, create focused and clearly articulated L2 writing prompts, provide oral and written feedback, and select appropriate assessment tools.

 A Center for Teaching and Learning Graduate Student Workshop

convener: Bridget Swanson, CTL Graduate Fellow, German

 featuring: 

Claudia Lynn

Language Program Coordinator and Lecturer in Foreign Languages,

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Meaningful communication is at the heart of foreign language education. Thus, assignments that evaluate students’ ability to present their ideas in writing often constitute a core component of foreign language courses. Whereas content and style are key in most native language-based classes, students in the foreign language setting face an additional set of challenges: they must demonstrate grammatical control, semantic precision, syntactical accuracy, and stylistic awareness in a language and culture quite literally foreign to them. How can instructors create writing assignments that are level appropriate and meaningful? What strategies can they use to foster the skills students need in order to write effectively and independently? What methods of evaluation best support student progress? In this workshop, language program coordinator Claudia Lynn will discuss how to:

      design and scaffold classroom activities for L2 writing

      create focused and clearly articulated L2 writing prompts

      provide oral and written feedback

      select appropriate assessment tools

 

 *******Refreshments and snacks will be served*******