Carl Falsgraf is director of the Center for Applied Second Language Studies, the Northwest National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Oregon. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1994 and has published and presented nationally on second language acquisition, immersion education, and language assessment. He is on the executive board of ACTFL, is a former president and board member of the Pacific Northwest Council for Foreign Languages (PNCFL), and is currently serving as co-chair of the national New Visions task force on Curriculum, Instruction, Articulation, and Assessment.
Sachiko Kamioka is project coordinator at CASLS and takes the lead on multiple projects at the center. Her current projects include an online curriculum tool and materials development project, a national articulation project, and an online oral assessment project. Sachiko received her masterŐs degree in Japanese pedagogy from the University of Oregon in 1998. She began teaching Japanese to Vietnamese refugees in Japan in 1987, and since that time, has taught at various places including Japanese language schools in Japan, a high school and various universities in the U.S.
Second language teachers have been focused on proficiency since the 1980s. Yet many classrooms continue to focus on abstract knowledge rather than communicative performance due to a lack of assessment and teaching tools. This presentation will introduce a system of online tools to make it possible -- even easy -- for Japanese teachers to focus their classrooms on proficiency.
Carl sensei and Sachiko sensei's paper is at
http://casls.uoregon.edu/benkyokai/maintext.html
So read the paper above and go to TAPPED IN. There, you will be able to discuss this topic with Carl sensei, Sachiko sensei and others from around the world. TAPPED IN is open to everybody and the presentation will be done in English.
This event is open to anybody who is interested in the topic. It will be at After School Online Room at http://www.tappedin.org
Instructions to log in as a guest and get to the After School Online Room:
1. Go to http://www.tappedin.org
2. Click the "Guest Login" Button on the TAPPED IN home page
3. Be patient while loading
4. When prompted in the bottom window, erase the text next to the word SAY, and type your name and hit return.
5. When loading is done, you will be in the Reception area.
6. To talk, type in the message in the window next to the word SAY. Then press the SEND button or the ENTER key
7. In order to get to After School Online room, you can click on After School Online in the map.
Download and print this document. It will explain the interface really well. http://www.tappedin.sri.com/info/docs/TAPestry3.pdf
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