Thursday Afternoon Workshops: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm OPTIONAL

WA1 - Functional Raps: A MUST for the 21st Century Toolbox, John De Mado, John DeMado Language Seminars, Inc.
How do we create exclusionary activities and assessments for large classes and heterogeneous grouping? ...Activities that allow us to differentiate our expectations for student performance?... Activities that can be inserted into our curriculum mapping plans?...Activities that really lead to language acquisition?.. 'Raps' are the answer! Be prepared to reflect profoundly and to laugh heartily!

WA2 - Embedded Reading: MORE BANG FOR YOUR BOOK ( or whatever your students are reading), Brian E. Barabe, Chandler, Arizona
Ever wonder how to make reading a REALLY successful part of your language program? Embedded Reading makes reading an opportunity for personal interaction and individual success! This simple, yet powerful, approach is designed to pinpoint and to elevate comprehension levels through literacy. This session will demonstrate how to: a) choose and/or create a reading b) scaffold the reading for success c)utilize activities that further develop literacy skills and engage students' interest.

Thursday Evening Workshops: 4:30 - 7:30 pm - OPTIONAL

WE1 – Developing Fluency from Day ONE through CI-based Strategies, Carol Gaab, TPRS Publishing
How can teachers prevent students from exiting language study without ever attaining a measurable level of fluency?... By creating a hybrid immersion experience in which students begin developing fluency from day ONE! Learn powerful CI-based strategies to provide an abundance of authentic contextualized, comprehensible input, which will result in immediate success in the language classroom.

WE2 - Using Online Diagnostic Assessment to Support Foreign Language Teaching, Ying Shiroma, Defense Language Institute
Online Diagnostic Assessment (ODA) is a web-based tool developed by the Defense Language Institute to help foreign language learners evaluate and manage their learning in Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Farsi, and other languages. ODA identifies the language learners' strengths and weaknesses in the language of study, and provides learners with individualized online feedback. All assessment texts are selected or adapted from authentic sources in accordance with Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) level descriptions.

WE3 - The Italian Language Program at the ASU downtown campus, Antonella Dell'Anna, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University
In the fall semester of 2010 I began to teach Italian at Arizona State University - Downtown Campus. In order to develop and implement an academic program that would include the Italian elementary and intermediate level courses, I started advertising the program utilizing any tool available at ASU. This presentation is a brief journal of my past year experience. I am including also the list of initiatives taken to advertise the program and which ones, in my opinion, have been more effective.

Sunday Full Day Workshop: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. OPTIONAL

WF1 - Oral Proficiency Interview Familiarization Workshop (ACTFL) - For All Languages

All participants must pay for SWCOLT registration.

Intended as an introduction to the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines, the ACTFL Rating Scale, and the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview, this workshop includes live demonstration interviews conducted by the trainer in English or the common language of the group. Participants discuss the implications of the ACTFL Proficiency Scale and the Oral Proficiency Interview for establishing program goals, and for planning curriculum, instruction, and assessment.