Webinar
400 Million Insights: Corpus and Critical Thinking Transform Beginning and Intermediate Spanish Courses
Tuesday, August, 18th, 2020
1:00 PM EST.
There are more than 400 million entries in the world-wide Spanish corpus, which has been collected over the past decade by the various national offices of the Real Academia Española. Think of it: over 400 million digitized transcriptions of conversations in all kinds of contexts, from all over the Spanish-speaking world — and these data can be searched for real-life language usage patterns.
Imagine what we could do with that! But how DO we include these insights and patterns that this vast corpus can give us? Where do we start, and how do we use what we find?
Join Norah Lulich Jones as she hosts international guests to explore this amazing resource, focusing on how to apply it in your beginning and intermediate Spanish courses.
Help your students develop their own voice in Spanish through the use of tools such as the corpus, and activities that promote reflective learning.
This free webinar, sponsored by Edinumen USA, is the first in a professional development series.
Presenter
Norah Lulich Jones serves as the senior higher education consultant for Edinumen USA Higher Education and as series consultant for Frecuencias. Norah is a career world language educator, having served as a teacher, supervisor, and leader in world language organizations, and as a state and national presenter and trainer in pedagogy and methodology. Norah is a contributing author of student and teacher instructional and cultural materials; serves as a member of the JNCL-NCLIS Advocacy Committee; and has been content area specialist and director of professional development for several publishing companies. Norah received her B.A. Magna cum laude from William and Mary with a major in Modern European Studies, and her M.Ed. in Secondary Education with a focus on Linguistics. She is a recipient of the Founder’s Award from the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT), and the Distinguished Service Award from the Foreign Language Association of Virginia (FLAVA). Norah lives in Central Virginia.
Information of interest
All participants will receive a free digital sample of a didactic book and other surprises for their training.
Inscription
Matriculation is free, but it is necessary to register in advance. Registration is done through the Zoom platform.
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