Bringing the World Closer
ELT Professional Development at the New School on February 26
Dear Colleagues,
We are honored to bring you one of the most influential and ground-breaking scholar-practitioners in the TESOL field as part of our ELT Professional Development workshop series. Please join us for a stimulating Saturday of new perspectives and ELT friends and colleagues!
Empowering the Language Learner
A discussion with Diane Larsen-Freeman
The New School
Saturday, February 26th from 11:00 a.m-1:00 p.m.
Theresa Lang Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Through a combination of lecture and experiential exercises, we will trace the evolution of language teaching methods over the past 60 years. We will see how each evolutionary phase has contributed to a more "whole-person" view of language learners. I will suggest, however, that there still exists at least one critical barrier to our students' empowerment. Perhaps, surprisingly, this barrier is due to our understanding of language. When language is seen not as a closed, static system, but rather as the complex, dynamic system it is, then we come to understand that our students have the power to transform their linguistic world, not merely conform to it. This shift in understanding has implications for what and how we teach, which I will conclude by illustrating.
Dr. Diane Larsen-Freeman is a Professor of Education and Director of the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She is also Distinguished Senior Faculty Fellow at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. She has spoken and published widely on the topics of teacher education, second language acquisition, English grammar, and language teaching methodology. In 1997, Dr. Larsen-Freeman was inducted into the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1999, she was named one of the ESL pioneers by ESL Magazine. In 2000, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Heinle and Heinle Publishers.
Co-sponsored by English Language Studies Department at The New School for General Studies and Oxford University Press.
Admission is free. Light refreshments will be served.
Please share this invitation with your colleagues, faculty and/or classmates, but note that space is limited. RSVP to elsc@newschool.edu
We hope to see you there!
We are honored to bring you one of the most influential and ground-breaking scholar-practitioners in the TESOL field as part of our ELT Professional Development workshop series. Please join us for a stimulating Saturday of new perspectives and ELT friends and colleagues!
Empowering the Language Learner
A discussion with Diane Larsen-Freeman
The New School
Saturday, February 26th from 11:00 a.m-1:00 p.m.
Theresa Lang Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Through a combination of lecture and experiential exercises, we will trace the evolution of language teaching methods over the past 60 years. We will see how each evolutionary phase has contributed to a more "whole-person" view of language learners. I will suggest, however, that there still exists at least one critical barrier to our students' empowerment. Perhaps, surprisingly, this barrier is due to our understanding of language. When language is seen not as a closed, static system, but rather as the complex, dynamic system it is, then we come to understand that our students have the power to transform their linguistic world, not merely conform to it. This shift in understanding has implications for what and how we teach, which I will conclude by illustrating.
Dr. Diane Larsen-Freeman is a Professor of Education and Director of the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She is also Distinguished Senior Faculty Fellow at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. She has spoken and published widely on the topics of teacher education, second language acquisition, English grammar, and language teaching methodology. In 1997, Dr. Larsen-Freeman was inducted into the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1999, she was named one of the ESL pioneers by ESL Magazine. In 2000, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Heinle and Heinle Publishers.
Co-sponsored by English Language Studies Department at The New School for General Studies and Oxford University Press.
Admission is free. Light refreshments will be served.
Please share this invitation with your colleagues, faculty and/or classmates, but note that space is limited. RSVP to elsc@newschool.edu
We hope to see you there!
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