Description:

During this interactive workshop, participants will gain strategies and access resources for building students’ intercultural communicative competence. Participants will practice a process for selecting authentic resources for both cultural and communicative value and will design tasks around those resources where students investigate cultural products, practices, and perspectives and interact through authentic scenarios in a culturally appropriate way.

Objectives: Participants will be able to…

• describe the differences between culture, intercultural communication, and intercultural communicative competence
• plan window, mirror, and door tasks
• provide opportunities for students to interact interculturally
• plan lesson segments focused on all modes of communication.

Leslie Grahn has twenty-seven years of language teaching experience at the middle and high school levels and twelve years of experience at the central office level, most recently as Coordinator of World Languages for the Howard County Public School System in Maryland. Leslie is a frequent presenter at state, regional, and national conferences, specializing in best practices. She curates and creates resources to support language teaching and learning and shares them through her website (www.grahnforlang.com) and on Pinterest (grahnforlang). Leslie is the co-author of The Keys to Strategies for Language Instruction and has served on the boards of NECTFL, NADSFL and ACTFL