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2021 Chicago Language (Virtual) Symposium

Peer Collaboration and Second Language Learning:
Innovations and Reflections

April 17, 2021
DePaul University



Keynote Address

Dr. Amy Snyder Ohta
University of Washington

"Peer learning in L1 and L2: Teaching foreign language with Concept-Based Language Instruction (C-BLI)"

Amy Snyder Ohta is Associate Professor of Japanese and Applied Linguistics at the University of Washington, where she has been teaching since 1995. She is particularly interested in developmental processes that promote growing language and language-in-culture skills in classroom settings. Her recent research considers applications of Concept-Based Instruction to teaching Japanese pragmatics and pragmalinguistics. Her main interest is to empower students as agentive L2 speaker/hearers by providing them with classroom opportunities to internalize high quality linguistic and cultural concepts presented visually (via SCOBAs, high quality conceptual materializations), accompanied by interactive peer-learning, role-play, monologue, and writing. 

Keynote Address PowerPoint

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Co-Sponsors

The Chicago Language Symposium 2020 is co-sponsored by:

    The Department of Modern Languages at DePaul University

    The Council on Language Instruction and the Multimedia Learning Center at Northwestern University



    The University Language Center at University of Chicago

    The Sandi Port Errant Language and Culture Learning Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago