Southeast Asian Language Pedagogy Symposia

Given the large number of Southeast Asian HL Learners, the Heritage Center will collaborate with the joint-Berkeley-UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the UCLA Asia Pacific Center to host two language pedagogy workshops focused on that region. These workshops will cover such topics as differentiated instruction, PBLL, oral proficiency assessment, and technology training for classroom hybridization.

In Year 2, the collaborating centers will host a “Teaching Indigenous and Endangered Asian Languages” symposium to highlight scholarship from researchers from Asia and language instructors in the U.S. In Year 3, another symposium “Connecting Discourse Analysis to Asian Language Instruction” will train Asian language instructors on how to improve their classroom interaction using contextual and discourse analysis of authentic texts and speech in different social contexts. Both symposia will extend language teaching research into practice and give HL LCTL researchers and teachers opportunities to network.