PACE: Curriculum Design through a Principled Approach to Listening: A Hands-On Workshop

Friday, May 20, 2016
9:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Jones 35
Register Online (required)

The PACE Project will facilitate an all-day event on May 20 for language instructors and coordinators to examine the role of listening in the language curriculum, to determine guiding principles for attending to listening, and to begin the process of revising the curriculum to integrate listening systematically, based on these principles.

The workshop will begin with a discussion of principles for the integration of listening in the curriculum. Participants will generate a list of principles meant to develop student listening proficiency. They will apply these principles to their own curriculum. They will locate appropriate materials and develop activities to guide students through them. At the end of the day, participants will demonstrate one activity that serves as an example of the principled approach to listening proficiency and that will represent a start toward a more comprehensive systematic attention to listening in a revised curriculum.

This event is free and open to all CLA foreign language instructors. Please register in advance, since lunch will be provided. If you are unable to register online, please email elsie@umn.edu.

The PACE Project is funded by a grant from The Language Flagship.