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Description

  • Institute Type: 1-week in-person
  • Location: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Campus
  • Target Audience: World language and ESL teachers at the middle school through the postsecondary level, as well as teacher educators, curriculum coordinators, and language program directors. This institute is not intended for elementary school teachers or immersion educators.

Preparing students to participate in multilingual and multicultural communities entails shifting the way we approach language instruction. How do we move beyond teaching students to order food or talk about weekend activities, and instead encourage them to think critically and reflectively about language, culture, and communication? To answer this question, this institute focuses on how to develop students' foreign language literacies—or the ability to interpret and create different kinds of discourse—through engagement with target language texts such as movies, infographics, poetry, music videos, magazine articles, podcasts, and the like.

Using conceptual and pedagogical understandings gained during the institute, participants will examine and assess target language texts for use in their classrooms and create text-based instructional materials that develop students' communicative abilities, critical thinking, intercultural understanding, and language awareness.

Instructor

Kate PaesaniKate Paesani is the Director of CARLA and Associate Professor in the Department of French & Italian at the University of Minnesota. She has delivered workshops and lectures across the United States on topics related to text-based teaching and learning, multiliteracies and critical pedagogies, and teacher professional learning.

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Section Title
Using Target Language Texts to Support Students' Literacies Development
Type
Workshop
Days
M, T, W, Th, F
Time
9:00AM to 4:00PM
Dates
Jul 14, 2025 to Jul 18, 2025
Campus
Twin Cities (US Central Time)
Building
University International Center
Schedule and Location
Contact Hours
30.0
Delivery Options
Workshop  
Section Details

July 14–18, 2025 (9 a.m.–4 p.m.)
1-week in-person summer institute
Location:
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Campus

Refund Policy:

  • Written cancellation requests received on or before the Monday four weeks prior to the institute start date are eligible for a refund minus $50 processing fee per participant for each canceled institute. Please send cancellation/refund request to carla@umn.edu.
  • Cancellations received on or before the Monday two weeks prior to the institute start date will be charged $100.
  • No refunds will be granted after the Monday two weeks prior to the institute start date. See exact refund dates on the refund information page.

Contact Information:
For questions regarding course registration, materials, and content, please email carla@umn.edu.
For questions regarding system access, log-in, username, or password, please email help@umn.edu or call 612-301-4357.

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