Peer Collaboration and Second Language Learning: Innovations and Reflections
April 17, 2021
DePaul University
Symposium Agenda
9:00-9:10AM - Opening Remarks
9:15-10:45AM - Panel 1: Classroom-based Peer Collaboration
9:15-9:45am
Collaborative Experiential Learning in Advanced Spanish Translation
Presenter: María Luisa Ortega Hernández, DePaul University
9:45-10:15am
Task-based Peer Collaboration: Two City-based Projects in a Mixed-level Advanced Chinese Language Class
Presenters: Xuehua Xiang & Duosi Meng, University of Illinois at Chicago
10:15-10:45am
Peer Presentations of Historical Backgrounds: Setting the Context in Advanced Language Courses
Presenter: Nicole G. Burgoyne, University of Chicago
10:50AM-12:20PM - Panel 2: Non-Native Speaker-Native Speaker Peer Telecollaboration
10:50-11:20am
Peer collaboration in Spanish Heritage Language Instruction: a Telecollaboration Model
Presenter: Maria Jesus Barros Garcia, Northwestern University
11:20-11:50am
The Effects of NNS-NNS and NNS-NS Telecollaborative Interaction on the Development of Second Language Confidence
Presenter: Lauren Hetrovicz, Northwestern University
11:50am-12:20pm
Chinese as Foreign Language Learner's Intercultural Communicative Competence Development through a U.S. - China Collaborative Online International Learning Project
Presenters: Yizhe Huang, University of North Georgia
12:20-1:00PM -
Lunch Break
1:00-2:15PM - Keynote Speech
Peer learning in L1 and L2: Teaching foreign language with Concept-Based Language
Instruction (C-BLI)
Speaker: Dr. Amy Snyder Ohta, University of Washington, Seattle
2:30-3:30PM - Panel 3: Peer Tutoring and Online Peer Collaboration
2:30-3:00pm
Language Peer Tutoring: Starting from Zero
Presenter: Elizabeth Dolly Arvai Weber, Ariana Antonelli, Lisa James, University of Illinois at Chicago
3:00-3:30pm
Meaning Negotiation in Interactions Between Learners and Native Speakers of Portuguese: Challenges and Outcomes
Presenters: Ana C. Thome Williams, Augusta Saraiva, & Keyla Carvalho, Northwestern University
3:30-3:45PM - Closing Remarks & Announcements