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Language Teachers to Gather for All Day Conference at CCSU

 
NEW BRITAIN – April 25, 2008 – Central Connecticut State University will host a spring conference for language teachers, April 26 in the Robert C. Vance Academic Center.  Titled “Languages in the Community – Connecting the Language Classroom to the Multicultural Reality, the event is scheduled get under way at 9 a.m. and run through 4 p.m. 

Professor of Italian and Director of the Italian Resource Center at CCSU Carmela Pesca will join Manchester High School Spanish teacher Kathy Sinisgalli and CCSU Modern Language Department Chair Lilian Uribe in delivering the opening remarks in Room 105 at the Vance Academic Center. 

Christine Brown, Glastonbury’s assistant superintendent of schools will present the keynote address.

Films and programs about teaching and studying various languages and cultures are scheduled throughout the day.  Chinese, French, Italian and Spanish will be represented.  Sessions on balancing and separating language teaching and cultural teaching as well as linking the curriculum to the community are planned.  The use of emerging classroom technologies will also be explored.

The event is sponsored by the CCSU Department of Modern Languages, the Center for International Education, the Center for the Teaching of French, the Chinese Culture Center, Connecticut Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, the Connecticut Council of Languages Teachers.  Also sponsoring the day-long language program are the Connecticut Italian Teachers Association, the EU/West European Studies Program at CCSU, the Intensive English Language Program, the Italian Resource Center and the Summer Institute for Teachers of Spanish.

 

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