Saturday May 7

Saturday May 7

Salomon Center 
Room 001 and Lower Lobby
Brown University

8:00-9:00 Registration

9:00- 10:30 Panel 2: Interacting with text: Genre-based Reading and Writing

  • Corinne P. Crane, Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
    The Role of Genre Knowledge in Evaluating Source-Based Creative Writing in the L2
  • Jennifer Redmann, Associate Professor of German, Franklin & Marshall College.
    Reading and genre-based writing in a multiliteracies collegiate foreign language curriculum
  • Lewis Seifert, Professor, French Studies, Brown University.
    Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales: From the Language to the Literature Classroom

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:00 Keynote Address

  • Marianna Ryshina-Pankova, Assistant Professor, Department of German, Georgetown University.
    Scaffolding Foreign Language Literacy: Implementing The Genre-based Approach

12:00-1:00 Lunch break

1:00- 2:30 Panel 3: Genre-based pedagogies and multiliteracies

  • Chantelle Warner, Associate Professor and Language Program Director for German Studies, University of Arizona.
    Symbolic Struggles in L2 Genres
  • Cecelia Burke Lawless, Senior Lecturer, Romance Studies, Cornell University.
    Cities in Films in Language Learning: Incorporating the Practice of Genre-based Teaching
  • Verónica Rodríguez Ballesteros, Lecturer in Spanish,  Boston University.
    Actors, directors and playwrights in the FL classroom: Spanish through Performance

2:30- 2:45 Closing remarks