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2017 West Virginia Foreign Language Teachers Association Annual ConferenceThe Key to West Virginia’s Future!Advanced Technology Center at BridgeValley CTCCharleston, WVOctober 20-21, 2017Featured Keynote: Dr. Stephen Krashen“Acquisition requires meaningful interaction in the target language- natural communication- in which speakers are concerned not with the form of their utterances but with the messages they are conveying and understanding.” Stephen KrashenTable of ContentsSponsors ……………………………………………………..……………….page 4Vendors …………………………………………………………………..…..page 4Grab bag donors………………………………………………................……page 4President’s Welcome……………………………….…………………………page 5Meet the Conference Keynote Speaker.………….…………………………...page 6Master Schedule at a glance: Friday………………………………………..…page 7Master Schedule at a glance: Saturday ………………………………………..page 8Presentation Descriptions…………………………………………...…………pages 9-12Poster Descriptions ……………………………………..……….……………page 12About the Strands…………………………………………….…………….….page 13Meet the Presenters ……………………………………………….…….……..pages 14-18Winner of 2017 Cemanahuac Educational Institute Scholarship….......………page 19Previous West Virginia Outstanding Teacher Winners………………………..page 20Association Meetings ………………………………………………..........…..page 21WVFLTA Cultural Mini-Grant Information ………………………………….page 21Concord University credit syllabus information ………………….…………..pages 22-23National Board for Professional Teaching Standards………………………….page 24Future Events …………………………………………………….……………page 25Emir Sensini………………………………………………………………..….page 26Connect with the WVFLTA Officers ……………………………..….……….page 27WVFLTA on Social ………………………………………….………..………page 28References …………………………………………………….………………page 28Thank you to the workshop and poster presenters. Also thank you to anyone who had a hand at making this conference a success from volunteers, community sponsors, vendors, caterers, DJ Alasha Al-Qudwah, supportive administration, and the dedicated executive board. A special thank you to our renown keynote speaker Dr. Stephen Krashen! Most importantly, thank you to all of the attendees for their desire to enhance student proficiency and support world language education in West Virginia. 416465844119400-74930050355500If you would like your presentation uploaded to the WVFLTA site send it to arichter@wju.edu within a week after the conference and it will be added to our website for teachers to access.47126716832400Sponsors:West Virginia University Department of World Languages, Literatures and Linguistics Grab Bag Sponsors:427682315078800199961516041100Se?or WoolyWorldstridesFluency Matters290859310887800Vendors:Heart of the Sky Fair TradeMcGraw HillEF ToursEF Educational Tours is an education company that develops and provides experiential learning opportunities around the world for groups of U.S. and Canadian middle and high school students.President’s WelcomeI would like to personally welcome each of you to the 2017 West Virginia Foreign Language Teachers Association Conference. It’s an exciting time for WVFLTA as we continue to grow as an organization and adapt to the many changes in foreign language education. World language instruction continues to be our top priority. Keeping with our organization’s founding ideals, we work to support teachers’ efforts in the classroom and provide a quality conference so that our members will have a forum for collegial interaction. I would like to give you an idea of what you can expect and what we hope to achieve over the next two days. This year’s theme is Aim for World Language Proficiency: The Key to West Virginia’s Future. It’s based on a report on the nation’s foreign language education needs by the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences. With that in mind, we have organized this conference around opportunities for you to develop your abilities to help your students acquire language and use it in real life. This year’s strands were created to correspond with one of the ACTFL Core Practices or the needs of our members in higher education. Also, during the EdCamp session, you can decide what you want to learn about or even what you want to present. Then there is the fun. On Friday evening join us for the Culture Comes Alive Social with heavy hors d'oeuvres and a DJ. We hope that you’ll take every opportunity to network with old and new friends alike.We are working to bring WVFLTA to the people through Social Media. It has been a long process, but our association is now on Twitter and Instagram as @wvflta. In fact, the hashtag for this conference is #wvflta17. Having a presence on social media allows us to make connections with foreign language teachers and advocates from across the country as well as our member conferences such as SCOLT and ACTFL. Advocacy for world language education is an important part of WVFLTA. With that said, we are working with the West Virginia Department of Education, ACTFL and the JNCL-NCLIS to bring the Seal of Biliteracy to the Mountain State. The Seal of Biliteracy allows students who score well on a world language test to have a seal placed on their diploma. It will be an incentive for students to stick with world languages as well as an incentive for businesses to move to a state with a workforce that is biliterate and bicultural. Finally, before I close, I want to revisit this year’s conference theme, Aim for World Language Proficiency: The Key to West Virginia’s Future. It’s important to consider that being proficient in another language is an economic tool. West Virginia’s economy is changing, and with that, the workforce has to change as well. World languages are an important part of this change. We, as language teachers, can be the catalysts for this change by helping our students develop this tool. I want to thank each and every one of you for attending this conference. Your participation in our conference will help move world language instruction in West Virginia forward. Now, let’s have a great conference! Bill DenhamWVFLTA PresidentMeet this year’s WVFLTA Keynote SpeakerDr. Stephen Krashen“The best methods are therefore those that supply ‘comprehensible input’ in low anxiety situations, containing messages that students really want to hear. These methods do not force early production in the second language, but allow students to produce when they are ‘ready’, recognizing that improvement comes from supplying communicative and comprehensible input, and not from forcing and correcting production.” – Stephen KrashenKrashen?is professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, who is an expert in the field of linguistics and specializes in theories of language acquisition. He has been has impacting all areas of second language research and teaching since the 1980’s. During the past 30 years, he has written more than 500 publications, and has been invited to deliver over 300 lectures at universities throughout the United States and Canada. Dr. Krashen has been recipient of many awards.1985: winner of the Pimsleur Award, given by the American Council of Foreign Language Teachers for the best published article.1993: Distinguished Presentation Award presented by the editors of the School Library Media Annual1982: winner of the Mildenberger Award, given for his book,?Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning?(Prentice-Hall)2005: Krashen was inducted into the International Reading Association’s Reading Hall of Fame.2005: elected to the National Association for Bilingual Education Executive Board.What an opportunity it is to have Dr. Stephen Krashen here at our very own WVFLTA Conference!Master Conference ScheduleFriday October 20, 20178:00am-9:30amRegistration and light breakfast. Location: The Commons9:30amWelcome and Opening Remarks from WVFLTA President Bill DenhamTeacher of the Year Announced Location: Main Conference Room 10:00am-11:45amFeatured workshop with Keynote Speaker Dr. Stephen Krashen Location: Main Conference Room11:45am- 12:45pmLunch Location: Room 1361:00pm-1:45pmPoster Presentations Location: The Commons1:45pm-2:30pmLocation: Room 131 Héctor Guillén, Zoe Morris & Tom Willis“Skype School Program WV- Peru”Location: Room 132Jenny Santilli“Creating an Effective Rubric”Location: Room 134Shannon Halicki PhD“Teaching Food: an Intercultural Bridge to Promote Global Thinking”2:45pm – 3:00 pmLight Snacks Location: Room 1363:00pm- 3:45pmLocation: Room 131 Leah Devine “Programming with Scratch in the target language; Technology and Languages – Keys for SuccessLocation: Room 132Israel Fernando Herrera“?Por una clase de Espa?ol de películas! Parte 1 Nuevas películas, documentales, cortos, y canciones Iberoamericanas.”Location: Room 134Pablo Garcia Loaeza“Making Connections: Appalachia and Latin America”4:00pm- 4:45pmLocation: Room 131 Bill Denham “Digital Picture Books and Wordless Picture Books as Comprehensible Input (CI) for all Proficiency Levels”Location: Room 132Amelia Richter “Using mini novels to provide CI, build proficiency, and introduce grammar in context”Location: Room 134Ms.Hui Shi & Heiko Everwien ter Haseborg, Ph.D.“A Method of Teaching Chinese Tones to English”4:45pm- 5:30pmAssociations Meetings - Meetings of the various language associations. See Associations page 21 of the program5:45pm- ?Culture comes Alive! Heavy Hors d’oeuvres and music Location: Room 136DJ Alasha Al-Qudwah (Co-host of Beats Without Borders on WTSQ)Saturday October 21, 20178:00am- 8:40amRegistration (Location: The Commons) & light breakfast (Location: Room 136) 9:00am- 3:00pmVendors Location: The Commons9:00am- 9:45amEd Camp Facilitated by William Denham Location: Main Conference Room10:00am- 11:45pmFeatured workshop with keynote speaker Dr. Stephen Krashen Location: Main Conference Room11:45am -12:45pmLunch Location: Room 1361:00pm- 1:45pmLocation: Room 136Advocacy Discussion Location: Room 1362:00pm- 2:45pmLocation: Room 136Lynn Knowles“Roundtable Teaching an old dog new tricks “Location: Room 131Amelia Richter “Narrating photos and videos to spark authentic communication & grammar acquisition”Location: Room 132Susan Braidi & Maria Amores“Creating classroom tasks for purposeful communication”Location: Room 134Clara Maria Di Gennaro “?Buen Viaje! A successful journey from traditional to proficiency”2:45pm – 3:00pmLight snacksLocation: Room 1363:15pm- 4:00pmLocation: Room 131 Sadi Phillips “Vocabulary: What is it to know a word?”Location: Room 132Ellie Haizlett ?“Beyond Taco Tuesdays: Analyzing Food as a Strategy to Broaden Students’ Cultural Understandings”Location: Room 134Elena Shimanskaya“Authentic Video in Foreign Language Classroom”4:00pm- 4:30pmClosing plenary session. Location: Main Conference Room4:30 pmExecutive committee meeting immediately follows the conference.Presentation Descriptions:Friday 1:45pm-2:30pmLocation: Room 131 Héctor Guillén, Zoe Morris & Tom Willis“Skype School Program WV- Peru” This presentation will describe the West Virginia State Partnership Program to connect West Virginia schools studying Spanish with students studying English in Peru through Skype. Location: Room 132Jenny Santilli Ph. D“Creating an Effective Rubric”This will be a workshop where teachers will learn how to design a communicative activity, including a task and assessment rubric. Participants should have some familiarity with the ACTFL proficiency standards for interpersonal communication & presentational speaking & writing.Location: Room 134Shannon Halicki Ph.D.“Teaching Food: an Intercultural Bridge to Promote Global Thinking”Food has the potential to be a powerful cultural encounter for students when it is part of a contextualized, reflective framework.? This presentation discusses content and strategies for maximizing the cultural benefits of food in the curriculum, which will promote global citizenship.Friday 3:00pm- 3:45pmLocation: Room 131 Leah Devine “Programming with Scratch in the target language; Technology & Languages – Keys for Success”Do your students want to make computer games? Are you looking for new ways to incorporate technology into meaningful language lessons? Do you want to program, but don’t know where to start? Scratch is a free tool that allows students & teachers to program interactive stories, create games, and design projects. Users can program with & in the target language. Scratch projects can be shared & remixed allowing for feedback, corrections, & creative additions by peers & teachers alike. In this workshop, we will explore scratch.mit.edu and model activities for interactive technology & language based classroom lessons.Location: Room 132Israel Fernando Herrera“?Por una clase de Espa?ol de películas! Parte 1 Nuevas películas, documentales, cortos, y canciones Iberoamericanas.”The 2017 Indiana University Teacher of the Year will present the audience recent Iberoamerican films, shorts, documentaries, songs that teachers can use class. The material involves topics related to human rights, social justice, indigenous traditions, nature & environment, immigration, education, literature & music. Activities will suggest how to incorporate the ACTFL's 3 modes of communication with the films and other material. Presenter will also share ideas about how to organize events with Iberoamerican directors and actors in schools and colleges.Location: Room 134Pablo Garcia Loaeza “Making Connections: Appalachia and Latin America”This presentation will highlight some cultural parallels between Appalachia in general, and West Virginia in particular, and Latin America to propose that relating the unfamiliar to the familiar is an effective way to enhance cross-cultural understanding. More specifically, it will call attention to similarities related to a colonial system of exploitation, which impacts the landscape, the economy, and the perception of people in both regions.Friday 4:00pm- 4:45pmLocation: Room 131 Bill Denham “Digital Picture Books and Wordless Picture Books as Comprehensible Input (CI) for all Proficiency Levels”This presentation will demonstrate how picture books and picture presentations can be used in the FL classroom as comprehensible input. Presenter will demonstrate how these tools can be used for 90%+ language input as well as for grammar instruction that is conceptual, not explicit. Presenter will also demonstrate how, by changing the grammar structure or vocabulary focus, Digital picture books and presentations can be used across the proficiency spectrum. Finally, two tablet apps will be used, Explain Everything and Paper 53, on how to create comprehensible content.Location: Room 132Amelia Richter“Using mini novels to provide CI, build proficiency, and introduce grammar in context”Using novels in the target language in a foreign language classroom seems like something reserved for an advanced level. Inspired by Krashen’s research on Voluntary Reading & the Natural approach, this presentation will take you through strategies that this teacher has used to get students reading mini novels from as young as her 1st grade elementary classes to highschool Spanish 1. The workshop will include strategies of how to introduce a text, build student confidence, provide Comprehensible Input, check for understanding, exercises for student output in the form of interpersonal & presentational conversation & writing. It could transform your classroom & just surprise you at how naturally students can do this with the right scaffolding!Location: Room 134Ms.Hui Shi & Heiko Everwien ter Haseborg, Ph.D.“A Method of Teaching Chinese Tones to English”Currently, thousands of students are participating in Chinese programs in West Virginia. However, the sharp tonal contrast between Chinese and English makes Chinese tones a hard concept to learn for native speakers of English. Data shows that the average tonal accuracy rate of learners of Chinese is approximately 60%, and tonal error is often the cause for misunderstandings in spoken communication. Yet, many teachers of Chinese avoid teaching Chinese tones or do not give enough attention to it. In this session, the presenters will introduce a method to teach Chinese tones. Preliminary research on this teaching method has shown that students’ tonal accuracy improved dramatically after participating in this instruction. Along with the presentation of the instructional method, the presenters will provide teachers with ready-to-use lesson plans and teaching materials.Saturday 2:00pm- 2:45pmLocation: Room 136Lynn Knowles“Roundtable Teaching an old dog new tricks”Presenter will hold an open, judgment-free discussion for practicing teachers who are making changes or want to start making changes away from traditional methods, as well as for practicing teachers who have knowledge and resources to share. Presenter is a teacher, who until recently had been teaching Spanish using very traditional methods (i.e., drill and kill, grammar translation, textbook- en them in practice. Once the presenter started building a PLN primarily through Twitter, they realized very quickly that they had been teaching about Spanish instead of actually teaching Spanish. Location: Room 131Amelia Richter “Narrating photos and videos to spark authentic communication & grammar acquisition”This presentation will give an alternative method of introducing vocabulary and language structures in a more natural and engaging way of using the vocabulary and themes while narrating a video clip or annotating a picture. Examples will be primarily in Spanish but some Italian, as well. The presentation will show how to get the students negotiating and comprehending the language while staying in the target language. Location: Room 132Susan Braidi & Maria Amores“Creating classroom tasks for purposeful communication”This session will focus on using common textbook topics at the beginning level to build a series of interpersonal communication tasks in which students are given the opportunity to express, interpret, and negotiate meaning. Participants will be led through the process of identifying a purpose, building scaffolded tasks for the required language, and designing an appropriate communicative follow-up. The presentation will be in English with techniques that are applicable to all languages.? Location: Room 134Clara Maria Di Gennaro “?Buen Viaje! A successful journey from traditional to proficiency”The presentation will focus on the process of unit design, starting from the comparison of the results of Integrated Performance Assessments from two semesters of Elementary Spanish Presenter Emphasizes creating a student-centered unit in order to maximize learning at each stage of each lesson. The presenter will show a sample unit, new resources, videos of students’ oral interpersonal communication tasks and share ideas that may help participants implement students' proficiency.Saturday 3:15pm- 4:00pmLocation: Room 131 Sadi Phillips “Vocabulary: What is it to know a word”Research shows that students need high exposure to a word (it’s estimated 15-20 times to remember it). So, how can we increase exposure to a word, but also increase the amount of information a student knows about the word? The presentation will focus on vocabulary notebooks and their efficacy in retention of a word. The presentation will explain how to have students compose these entries, and explain the research of why and how having students complete these is an efficient use of time outside the classroom and productive for learner retention. Location: Room 132Ellie Haizlett ?“Beyond Taco Tuesdays: Analyzing Food as a Strategy to Broaden Students’ Cultural Understandings”Nearly every language textbook has a chapter on food, but many do not include thought-provoking lessons to teach food as a representation of culture and the history, politics, justice systems, and religions that create those cultures. This session will explore various teaching strategies using authentic resources to encourage students to think more critically about food. Location: Room 134Elena Shimanskaya Ph. D“Authentic Video in Foreign Language Classroom”This presentation will give ideas as to how to prepare a lesson with an authentic video clip in your class. Presenter will show examples of what to do and NOT to do. The presentation gives advice as to what kinds of video to select and how to prepare pre- and post-viewing activities. The presentation is prepared with all-languages audience in mind.POSTER PRESENTATIONS:Visit The Commons Friday 1:00pm- 1:45pm to view our poster presentations!Dr. Lois Amsel Poster Title: “I Get It!? Comprehensive Target Language”Bill DenhamPoster Title: “The Benefits of having a Professional Learning Plan (PLN)”Hector Guillen Poster Title: “Skype School Program WV- Peru”Amelia RichterPoster Title: “Giving your Students the Emir Sensini Experience”Jenny Santilli Poster Title: “Cemanahuac Scholarship: Grammar, Vocabulary, History, Culture and Spiritualism”About the StrandsThe strands are based on the Core Practices of the American Council on the Teaching Foreign Languages, or ACTFL. Presenters submitted proposals and posters indicating on which Core Practices the presentation focused or if their topic focused on using the language beyond the K-12 classroom. Strand #1: Use the target language as the vehicle and content of instruction.What strategies can teachers use to provide target language input at 90%+? How can teachers, regardless of their own proficiency level, provide target language input at 90%+?Strand #2: Design and carry out interpersonal communication tasks for pair, small group, and whole class instruction.How can teachers design interpersonal communication activities around meaningful topics? How can teachers help students negotiate and interpret meaning? How can teachers create a “communicative classroom?”Strand #3: Design lessons and tasks that have functional goals and objectives, to include activities needed to support and meet communicative objective.How can language teachers use the “Backward Design” model to plan lessons with functional goals and objectives? Strand #4: Teach grammar as a concept and use it in context.How can teachers help students focus on meaning before form? What are some strategies teachers can use to present grammar as a contextualized concept? What do errors indicate about a student’s level of proficiency?Strand #5: Design and carry out interactive reading and listening comprehension tasks using authentic cultural texts and follow-up tasks that promote interpretation.How do the quality of reading and listening exercises increase a student’s measurable written and spoken communication? What is the role of scaffolding in understanding the authentic cultural texts?Strand #6: Provide appropriate feedback in speech and writing tasks.What is effective feedback that increases a student’s proficiency? Is error correction effective? How can students self-monitor their proficiency?Strand #7: Beyond the K-12 ClassroomTopics in this strand help those in higher education and K-12 classroom settings to examine issues in world and classical language programs in West Virginia and beyond. Meet the Presenters:(The following includes the bios submitted.)Maria Amores Maria teaches all levels of Spanish and is from Morgantown, WV. Maria.Amores@mail.wvu.eduSusan Braidi Susan Braidi is the Associate Chair and Professor of the Department of World Languages, Literature, and Linguistics at West Virginia University. She is an ESL teacher from Morgantown, WV. Susan.Braidi@mail.wvu.eduWilliam DenhamBill Denham was born and raised in Arizona. After high school, he lived in Argentina for two years before attending Northern Arizona University. After receiving a degree in Spanish from NAU, Bill went into commission sales in Phoenix, where sixty percent of his customers were Spanish speaking. After moving to West Virginia, he became a teacher through the Transition to Teaching program. He was one of the original leaders of the state’s Spanish immersion camp and it was there that he was introduced to the concept of comprehensible input. Bill has taught Spanish for 9 years, the last three of which have been at Riverside High School. He has produced grammar videos, infographics and digital books that can be found at . You can find him on Twitter @profedenham. Bill is an author of Spanish language picture books, an expectant father and a loving husband.Leah DevineLeah Devine is an online Spanish teacher with the West Virginia Virtual School. In a K-12 blended delivery setting, Devine aides rural WV students in developing second language proficiency. In May of 2017, Devine earned her masters in Instructional Design and Technology from WVU. Devine is the current president of the WV Chapter of AATSP and the secretary of WVFLTA. During the summers, Devine enjoys Spanish Immersion Camps. She participated in the WV Spanish Language Immersion Camp from 2012-2014 and directed a Spanish Immersion Camp in Thomas, WV in the summer of 2016. Each spring, Devine plans and coordinates FISEDI, Spanish Immersion Weekend, with the officers of AATSP-WV for Spanish teachers and adult Spanish learners.She currently teaches Spanish in seven middle & high schools in five WV counties (Greenbrier, Kanawha, Monroe, Randolph, & Summers).?Her schools are: Western Greenbrier Middle School, DuPont Middle School, Mountain View and Peterstown Middle School, Pickens School, and Summers County Middle and High School. Devine taught for six years in face to face classrooms and the second half of her career in online settings. She is currently in her 12th year of teaching.? Ldevine@k12.wv.usClara Maria Di GennaroClara Di Gennaro is an instructor at Edward Waters College, where she teaches Elementary Spanish I and II since 2013.?Mrs. Di Gennaro began her career in education eleven years ago and has taught Italian and Spanish at theInLingua Language Center and the AB International Language Consulting?in Miami, Florida, the?Lenape School District and The Richard Stockton College in New Jersey,?and the University of North Florida. She holds a Master degree in Italian literature and language from the Universitá?degli Studi di Catania, Italy and a Master degree in Hispanic studies from the University of New Orleans. Mrs. Di Gennaro is an active member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), the Modern Languages Association (MLA), the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) and the Global Translator Community of Stanford University, professional associations with which she?cooperates in research and projects related to the field of foreign language teaching. c.digennaro@ewc.eduHéctor GuillénSSG Héctor Guillén is involved in the State Partnership Program (SPP) NCOIC and is the Director of the SPP. The West Virginian National Guard has been partners with Peru for about 20 years now.? hector.h.guillen.mil@mail.milEllie Haizlett Ellie Haizlett is in her fourth year teaching Spanish I-IV at The Linsly School in Wheeling, West Virginia. Her travel experiences to twenty different countries and two years of teaching in Spain often lead to many rich cultural conversations in the classroom. Ellie?received her bachelor's degree from Grove City College and is now a third year master's candidate in Southern Oregon University's Teaching Spanish as a Second Language summer program based in Guanajuato, Mexico. Ellie has shared her love of traveling with Linsly students by leading educational trips to both Spain and Peru. While not in the classroom, she also serves as a dorm mom in the boarding department and a speech and debate team coach.?ehaizlett@Shannon Halicki PhDDr. Shannon Halicki is Dean of the Honors College and a professor of Linguistics and French at West Liberty University.? Her doctoral work was in Second Language Acquisition. She is interested in second language phonology, study abroad, and food anthropology. shalicki@westliberty.eduHeiko Everwien ter Haseborg PhD Originally from Bremen, Germany, Heiko Everwien ter Haseborg joined WVU as a graduate student in 2005. He holds M.A. degrees in Foreign Languages/TESOL and Secondary Education. His doctoral work focused on learner autonomy in foreign language learning. Dr. ter Haseborg has taught a wide range of courses, which follow two general strands. One area of his teaching is concentrated in Curriculum and Instruction. In this field, he has taught courses on curriculum evaluation, cultural diversity, world language curriculum development and assessment, as well as beginning-level courses in WVU’s 5-year teacher education program. Second, he also teaches German language courses for WVU’s Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics. Here, he has taught courses ranging from beginning to advanced German, as well as German history and culture. Dr. ter Haseborg has also co-authored an AP German textbook titled “Neue Blickwinkel”; and, in 2015, he received the Stephen A. Freeman Award for Best Published Article on Language Teaching Techniques. His research interests include world language pedagogy, curriculum development and evaluation, assessment, learner autonomy, applied linguistics, and second language acquisition.Heiko.TerHaseborg@mail.wvu.eduIsrael Fernando Herrera Israel Fernando Herrera is a Senior Lecturer and the Outreach Coordinator for the?Department of Spanish and Portuguese at?Indiana University Bloomington. Mr. Herrera has taught Spanish for more than 15 years at college and high school level. He takes Indiana?high school?students to Spain every summer with the IU Honor Program in Foreign Languages. He teaches?cinema, culture, grammar and conversational courses at Indiana University.?Mr. Herrera has won more than 25 teaching awards including the IU President's Award for Distinguished Teaching, the IU James P. Holland Award for Exemplary Teaching and Service,?the FACET award for Excellence in Teaching, the IU Student Choice Award for Outstanding faculty?and the 2014?Indiana Latino Educator of the Year. Mr. Herrera was instrumental in Indiana to advocate and?incorporate the Seal of Biliteracy, the Dual Language Immersion?grant program and?The Indiana Language Roadmap. He is in this moment the Vice President for the Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association, the Immediate Past President of AATSP Indiana and Executive Board member of the European Association of Spanish Teachers and? AAUP IU. He serves in the Central?States?Conference Advocacy committee and the?ACTFL CInema SIG?board. Herrerai@indiana.eduLynn KnowlesLynn Knowles teaches FLEX and Spanish 1?at Oak Glen Middle School in grades 5-8, and teaches ESL in Hancock County Schools K-12.?This is her 9th year teaching. She is a National Board Certified Teacher and?has an MA in Applied Linguistics from UMass Boston. She serves as the contact point for women's empowerment projects in?Colombia sponsored by?PaxWorks, a U.S.-based 501(c)3.?A self-proclaimed travel junkie, she's visited nine Spanish-speaking countries?and has recently begun a community travel program taking travelers to Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, and in 2018 will head a group to London/Paris/Barcelona. She believes in the power of experiential learning, comprehensible input, and is currently piloting a TPRS-based Spanish?curriculum in grades 6-8. She's a recent Twitter convert/addict and can be found lurking in language ed. discussions?as @ogmsespanol. If Lynn can be at all helpful to you, she'd love for you to contact her at?lmknowles@k12.wv.us.Lois Larman PhDDr. Lois Jarman has been a world language educator for more than eighteen years. She has taught English, French, Spanish, and Latin on a secondary and post-secondary level. Dr. Jarman received her bachelor’s degree from Goucher College, her master’s degree from Hood College, and her doctoral degree in second language acquisition from Shenandoah University. Dr. Jarman has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and South America. She has led student travel tours, hosted exchange students from a number of different countries, and created and directed the Cannes Film Festival student internship program at Shepherd University. To date, Shepherd is the only U.S. institution to have had students working for the French during the festival. Dr. Jarman is currently the director of Shepherd’s Intensive English Language Program. LJARMAN@shepherd.eduPablo Garcia LoaezaPablo García Loaeza is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at West Virginia University. He earned his B.A. in Latin American Literature form the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and graduate degrees in Spanish from the University of Rhode Island (M.A.) and Indiana University Bloomington (Ph.D.). He started teaching literature in 1998 and Spanish as a second language in 1999. At WVU, he regularly teaches advanced Spanish reading and conversation courses, as well as literature and culture courses, from general surveys to more specialized seminars. He also teaches graduates courses in colonial Spanish American literature, Mexican literature, Spanish American poetry, and Spanish American essay, among others. Pablo.Garcia@mail.wvu.eduZoe MorrisSgt. Zoe Morris works at the WVNG Public Affairs Office. Zoe Morris is associated with the West Virginia – Peru partnership through the WV National Guard. zoe.n.morris.mil@mail.milSadi?PhillipsSadi Phillips has a bachelor’s degree in World Languages from West Virginia University and is currently in the second year of obtaining a Masters in TESOL at West Virginia University. Sadi teaches French 100 and 101. sadiemery@Amelia RichterAmelia Richter, Vice President of WVFLTA, is in her 12 year teaching, is an adjunct Spanish Professor at Wheeling Jesuit University, and a World Language teacher for Ohio county schools at Warwood Middle & Elementary Schools. Amelia teaches primarily Spanish; however, at the elementary level, she introduces students to Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, ASL, German, and Italian. Before joining Ohio county, she taught 8 years in Marshall County teaching Span 1- AP. Amelia pursued a Masters in Spanish through la Universidad de San Luis in Madrid, Spain before transferring to New Mexico State University graduating with a Masters in Spanish Linguistics with a concentration in Second Language Acquisition.? It was during the NMSU program that Amelia explored the ACTFL standards, and discovered the Natural Communicative Approach of her hero Stephen Krashen! She has since been on a 5-year journey revamping her teaching to model building proficiency through providing comprehensible input. Most recently, inspired by Krashen’s research on literacy, Amelia has incorporated novels in the classroom. Additionally, Amelia has been studying Italian for 14 years. When not teaching, Amelia officiates volleyball, and is anticipating Baby Richter #3 with her daughters Juliana, Ava, and her husband.Jenny Santilli Ph. D.Dr. Jenny L. Santilli, NBCT has been teaching Spanish for 35 years and taught English for two years in Kuwait. She teaches Spanish II and III at Bridgeport High School and facilitates professional development for Harrison County’s world language teachers. She serves on her school’s curriculum and leadership teams and mentors NBCT candidates. She also mentors two novice teachers through the ACTFL mentoring program. She has served numerous positions on the WVFLTA Executive Board and was named the 2015 WVFLTA Teacher of the Year. She was this year’s Cemanahuac Educational Institute scholarship winner and studied for two weeks in Cuernavaca, México. jsantilli@k12.wv.usHui Shi Hui Shi is a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Education and Human Services at West Virginia University (WVU).?She received two master’s degrees in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from WVU and in Higher Education, Politics and Culture from Beijing Science and Technology University. After an eleven year-career as a business woman with world leading companies, she returned to the teaching field in 2011 as a Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher. She is currently a Chinese instructor for the WVU Continuing Education department and has been an instructor for the WV STARTALK program for three years. It was during her six years of teaching Chinese that she discovered discrepancies between theory on Chinese tones on one side, and pedagogical practice and students’ perception of Chinese tones, on the other side. She then decided to establish her own model of teaching Chines tones to American English Speakers. hushi@mix.wvu.eduElena Shimanskaya, PhDElena Shimanskaya is an Assistant Professor of French Applied Linguistics and Basic French Program Coordinator at West Virginia University. She received her PhD in Second Language Acquisition in 2015 from the University of Iowa and her MA in theoretical linguistics from Syracuse University (2009). She taught basic, intermediate, and advanced college-level French courses including Structure and Communication, Phonetics and Pronunciation, and Structure of Modern French. She also taught linguistics including such courses as Language Across Cultures, Second Language Acquisition, and Structure of Romance Languages at the University of Oklahoma. As the supervisor of graduate student teaching assistants at West Virginia University she mentors teaching assistants, observes first and second year French classes, organizes professional development sessions for teaching assistants, and extracurricular activities for undergraduate students studying French. In the summer of 2016 she attended ACTFL training to become an Oral Proficiency Interviewer and has submitted her final round of independent OPI interviews in the summer of 2017. elenashimanskaya.faculty.wvu.edu Tom WillisTom Willis is co-owner of the historic Glen Ferris Inn located on the banks of the Kanawha River in scenic Glen Ferris, WV. The Inn, which overlooks the expansive Kanawha Falls, has hosted Presidents Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, Rutherford B. Hayes, and William McKinley as well as numerous Governors, Senators, Congressmen, Generals and businessmen among others, including one-time regular, Henry Clay. In addition to running a business in WV, Tom has served in the West Virginia National Guard since 2000. As a Major, he currently serves above his rank as the acting Commander of a Special Forces Battalion. While a Green Beret, Tom has served all over the United States and the world including: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Costa Rica, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kuwait, Macedonia, Panama, Peru and Qatar. Previously, Tom has been a Principal with The Willis Group, a real estate development firm (2003-present), worked at Baker & McKenzie as an international business attorney (1999-2003), and clerked at the United States Tax Court (1998-1999). Tom, a published author, speaks French, Spanish and Russian. He and his wife Sara, of Skopje, Macedonia, live with their three children and family pets in Hedgesville, WV.2017 Winner of Cemanahuac Educational Institute ScholarshipJenny L. Santilli Ph. D, NBCT3810018478500 Check out Jenny’s poster presentation about her experience participating in this Spanish immersion program in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She will also be doing a presentation session about creating rubrics.50450471357Previous West Virginia Outstanding Teacher Award Winners 00Previous West Virginia Outstanding Teacher Award Winners YearHonoree K-12Honoree University or Higher Ed1982Roger Smith - Ripley HS1983Clara White - Fairmont Sr. HS1984Terri Marlow - Parkersburg HS1985Robin Snyder - St. Albans HS1986Eniko Pfunder - Bridgeport Jr. HS1987Janet Rea - St. Mary's HS1988Ede Ashworth - Brooke HS1989Paulette Metcalf - Morgantown HS1990Margaret Ragni - Linsly School1991Bernice Husk - Mt. de Chantal1992Denise McNeel - Pocahontas Co.1993Gertraud Irwin - Morgantown HS1994Joyce McGeehan - Brooke HS1995Kelly Moore - Mt. de Chantal1996None1997Joanne Fawcett - Magnolia HSPauline Nelson - Bethany1998Brad Martin - Elkins HS1999Teresa Law - Parkersburg HSMary Frye - WV State University2000Margaret Dolan - Wheeling Park HSJuergen Schlunk - WVU2001Debora Nicholson - Bridgeport HS2002David Marlow - Parkersburg HS2003James Cimino Fairmont Senior HS2004Nicoletta Villa Sella - Linsly School2005Joseph McBride, Woodrow Wilson HSSandra Dixon - WVU2006None 2007Nancy Ryan, Hedgesville HS?2008John AverillValerie Lastinger, WVU2009Marchetía Bailey?Rebecca Conner, WVSU2010Blanca SkaggsHarald Menz, Bethany2011Anna MegyesiMaria Amores, WVU2012Mary Jane WilliamsAngel Tuninetti, WVU2013Shirlene GrosecloseJulie Sellers, FSU2014Michelle LeverseeDel Chrol, MU2015Jenny Santilli2016Liz Daigle2017Association Meetings: Choose a language meeting to attend. You need not be a member of the association. *Required attendance for Concord University creditAmerican Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese (AATSP) Room 132American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) Room 134American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Room 136American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) Room 134American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) Room 131Chinese Language Teacher’s Association (CLTA) Room 131Teachers of Latin and Greek or Classical Associations. Room 134WVFLTA Cultural Mini-Grants 2017-2018West Virginia World Language teachers have the opportunity to obtain Cultural Mini-Grants to increase language and cultural proficiency in their classrooms, schools, and communities.?Grants of up to $300 per school for a total of up to $3000 will be awarded by the West Virginia Foreign Language Teacher's Association during the 2017-2018 school year. West Virginia World Language teachers of grades pre-K to adult are invited to apply. Funds will be awarded for cultural projects that lead to great understanding of the diverse cultures of the world.?Grants were not distributed for the 2016-2017 school year due to a lack of coordination by the organizer. Those who applied during that cycle will get first preference for this year’s awards. Additional information and application can be found at: Title: WVFLTA WL Prof. Key to Future Credit Hours:3Agency: West Virginia Foreign Language Teachers’ AssociationCourse Date: October 20-21, 2017Assignment(s):Saturday, November 11th, 2017Location: Bridge Valley CTC Advanced Technology Center, South Charleston, WV October 20-21, 2017Grading Policy:P= PassF= Fail Costs: $99 for 3 hours of non-degree graduate credit. Registration collected at WVFLTA conference. Conference ExpectationsLearn strategies to augment proficiency levels in world language classrooms.Foster ideas for developing proficiency in world language work with teachers and industry professionals.Training ExpectationsFull attendance at all conference proceedings is expected.AssignmentsFeatured Workshops Dr. Stephen Krashen (Friday and Saturday mornings at 10:00am)Provide a summary of the two (2) workshops. (Three-four paragraphs total) Concurrent Conference SessionsProvide a summary of four (4) concurrent sessions. (Four paragraphs total) NOTE: There are 5 concurrent sessions with 3-4 workshop choices per session (3 sessions Friday; 2 Saturday)MeetingsProvide a summary of two (2) of the following four (4) meetings. (One paragraph per activity; two paragraphs total)One (1) Language Association Meeting One (1) “Culture Comes Alive” social event (Friday evening)One (1) “Ed Camp” Saturday Morning NOTE: Discuss a topic you found interesting and how it applies to your teachingOne (1) Advocacy Panel Discussion NOTE: Provide a summary of the discussion and an idea you would like to implement. Poster Presentations Provide a summary of three (3) poster presentations. (Two-three paragraphs total) Include one (1) photo of each of the three (3) poster presentations you feature NOTE: Total number of Poster Presentations currently unknownVendors/Sponsors Provide a summary of two (2) vendor/sponsor booths. (Two-three paragraphs total)Include one (1) photo of each of the two (2) vendor booths you feature NOTE: Total number of Vendors currently unknownApplication of LearningIn three-four (3-4) paragraphs, provide three (3) examples on how you could/would apply something learned at the West Virginia Foreign Language Teachers’ Association Conference in your classroom.Value of WVFLTAPlease write a short paragraph about what you personally found most valuable about WVFLTA and our annual conference. What would you tell another teacher if you were trying to recruit the to attend?Submission ProceduresThe due date for the above assignments is Saturday, November 11th, 2017 by 11:59pm.All assignments should be submitted via an email attachment to: econner@concord.eduSubject line of the email should read: 2017 WVFLTACC your submission to wvflta@Credit Related Questions: Name: Erin Conner (Program Manager) Phone: (304) 384-5130 E-Mail: econner@concord.edu *See Leah Devine for registration paperwork and to submit payment.Are you ready?Every student deserves to be taught by an accomplished teacher. National Board Certification was designed to develop, retain and recognize accomplished teachers and to generate ongoing improvement in schools nationwide. It is the most respected professional certification available in K-12 education.West VirginiaWest Virginia has a history of strong support for National Board Certification. Teachers interested in pursuing certification will find comprehensive support at the state and county level, including fee reimbursement, candidate support and an annual state salary bonus for National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs). In addition, the designation of National Board Certification on a professional teaching certificate provides an avenue for the state to verify that a teacher meets the definition of a highly qualified teacher.To date, 863 West Virginia teachers have achieved National Board Certification.Future events: (Check website for more information)Emir's Tour 2018March, 15 - Belle, WVMarch, 16 - Parkersburg, WVMarch, 20 - Wellsburg, WVMarch, 21 - Grafton, WVMarch, 22 - Bunker Hill, WVMarch, 22 - Bunker Hill, WVMarch, 22 - Bunker Hill, WVMarch, 23 - Romney PRIVATE CONCERT, WVWV-AATSP Immersion WeekendFin de Semana de Inmersion 2018(Details will be discussed during the chapter meeting Friday afternoon)Connect with West Virginia Foreign Language Teachers Association Executive Committee190436514668500President (2016-2018): Bill Denham130858820305300Twitter: @profedenhamEmail: wdenham@k12.wv.us154085214307000Vice-president (2016-2018): Amelia Richter119443415136500Twitter: @laproferichterFacebook: Amelia Murray Richter11922379095200Facebook Page: Espa?ol con Se?ora RichterInstagram: @muchogustorichter14265522300700Email: arichter@k12.wv.us154085216241300Secretary (2015-2017): Leah Devine 142655219406600Facebook: Leah DevineEmail: Ldevine@k12.wv.us142655212900300Treasurer (2015-2017): Shirlene GrosecloseEmail: sgrosecl@k12.wv.us96935217887500Member at Large (2016-2019): Elena ShimanskayaEmail: elena.shimanskaya@mail.wvu.edu142655211381200Members at Large (2015-2018): Marjorie SnyderEmail: m.snyder@k12.wv.usMember at Large (2017-2020): Open154085218063300Member at Large (2015-2018): Nicoletta SellaEmail: nsella@142655211557000WVDE Representative: Deborah NicholsonEmail: dlnichol@k12.wv.usFLES Representative: Judith Gallegos de Lasker142655218239200Classics Representative: E. Del ChrolEmail: chrol@marshall.eduAATF President: Liz DaigleGerman Representative: Harold MenzAATSP-WV President: Leah Devine99314018097500Volunteers:Ashley Vititoe, listserve coordinator, Email: avititoe@k12.wv.us508635198120001000125444500 Jessie Roberts, WVFLTA Website, Email: jroberts@k12.wv.us Blanca Skaggs, Teacher of the Year Committee Chair, Email: bskaggs@k12.wv.us*We will be holding elections for Secretary, Treasurer, and Member at Large.-690538-49339500 WVFLTA ON SOCIAL119507010223500 #WVFLTATwitter: @WVFLTA-6223017272000 Website: 10807701841500Facebook: WVFLTA107950020193100Instagram: @WVFLTAReferences: ACTFL Sensini Matters of the Sky Fair Trade , Stephen D. Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition. Prentice- Hall International, 1987. Krashen, Stephen D. Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning. Prentice- Hall International, 1988. Krashen, Stephen D. The Case for Comprehensible Input (Language Magazine, 2017) 2017-07-26. 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