2011 CFP: Pedagogy

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American: “Suddenly Everyone Has a Cherokee Great-Grandmother: Teaching Native Literatures”

Composition: “Captions, Slogans, and Stares (Oh, My!): Image as Argument in College Writing”; “‘Community’ in Composition Instruction”; “Leading Lines: Social Networking as Impetus for Scholarly Formation”; “Writing Assessment Inside and Outside the English Department”

Italian: “Didattica 2.0: Teaching Italian With a Web 2.0 perspective”; “New Trends in Teaching Italian with Technologies”

LGBTQ: “LGBTQ Studies and Pedagogy”

Professional: “College ‘Dropouts’: Teachers’ Journeys From the Ivory Tower to the Trenches”

Transnational Literatures: “Censored Literature”; “Intersections of language and culture: Sprachgemisch, métissage & code-switching”; “World Literature/Global Empathy”

World Literatures (non-European Languages): “Arabic Studies: Challenges and Successes”; “Teaching Culture of Less-Commonly Taught Languages”

Artistic Adventures: Introducing the Visual Arts in the XXI Century Classroom
This panel explores the use of fine arts, photography, and short films (‘cortometrajes’) in the foreign language classroom. We welcome papers that explore the ways in which the use of the visual arts enrich and enhance the learning process by providing students with cultural, historical and political materials through the arts. Please submit your electronic proposals to either Chair of this Panel: Dr. Margarita Sanchez or Dr. Katica Urbanc; msanchez@wagner.edu / kurbanc@wagner.edu
Best Practices in Online Teaching: Language and Literature Courses (Roundtable)
During this roundtable, we will discuss innovative teaching strategies in online language and literature courses. We will especially focus on the current trend towards online beginning language courses. Whether you are a skeptic, an “early adopter,” or a seasoned online teacher, we welcome your story as we explore the challenges and successes of online teaching in language and literature courses. Send your 250-300 word abstract and copy of a recent CV to: Chelsea Ray @ chelsea.d.ray@maine.edu.
Connecting Language and Literature: Standards-Based Instruction in Higher Ed. (Roundtable)
This round table will provide a forum for discussion of the importance of incorporating national standards into the second-language college classroom. We will familiarize the audience with the national standards and explain how they can be used to develop effective articulation between elementary language classes and upper level literature and civilization classes. Karen Hess de Sanchez, khsanchez@gmail.com
The Future of Open Content Education is Now: Social Learning and Scholarship
The increasing popularity of Web 2.0 technologies and future trends as enlisted in ‘The Horizon Reports’ has created a continuous need to evaluate and rethink their application and methodologies. This panel invites papers addressing key issues of using technology in the classroom, such as: project-specific course design and outcomes, collaboration (academic, cross-institutional and external), assessment and scholarship credit, and mobile devices delivery, etc. Please send 250-word abstracts to Andrés Villagrá avillagra@pace.eduEXTENDED TO 10/10
Getting to Advanced Low: Preparation for the Oral Proficiency Interview
The purpose of this panel is to present the challenges of institutions suddenly faced with student preparation for the Oral Proficiency Interview and to examine specific practices and implementations. Studies on oral proficiency testing and efficacy of the test will be included in the panel presentations and discussion, as well as personal experience and case studies in the advancement of student oral proficiency. Please email 250-500 word abstract to Mirta Barrea-Marlys at mbarrea@monmouth.edu. EXTENDED TO OCT. 10/10
Problem Based Learning: Strategies, Struggles, and Successes (Roundtable)
Problem Based Learning (PBL) devises challenging, open-ended problems for students to solve collaboratively. How do we define and configure PBL, which originated in the sciences, for classes in the humanities? This roundtable session invites participants to share strategies, struggles and successes using PBL in literature classes. Please send abstracts of 500-700 words to Karen Stein, University of Rhode Island, karen.whd@gmail.com.
(Re)Teaching the Spanish Classics: Integrating Technology, the Web, and Film (Roundtable)
The purpose of this roundtable is to explore and share current approaches to teaching the classics of Spanish Medieval and Golden Age literature (ex. Don Quixote, La Celestina). This session will focus on the resources and methodologies that make these literary works more authentic to the student. A critical examination of websites/films and their value in the classic literature classroom will be included. Please send a 250-500 word abstract to Mirta Barrea-Marlys, Monmouth University, mbarrea@monmouth.edu. EXTENDED TO 10/10
Rethinking Teaching in Lean Times (Roundtable)
Hiring is frozen. Lines are going unfilled. As budgets shrink, the challenges of teaching in a lean economy are all too clear and present. But times of financial crisis are also times of opportunity. This roundtable solicits proposals for new ideas, approaches, methods, assignments that seek to shift the conversation from “how can we continue to teach the same way with a shrinking budget?” to “in these lean times, how can we teach in new, more effective ways?” Please send 250-word abstracts to Steve Canaday <sbcanaday@aacc.edu>.
Teaching Translation in the 21st Century (Roundtable)
The goal of this roundtable is to discuss the manifold functions of translation in the classroom, both as a resource and as the main focus of a course. Topics can include, but not be limited to, the teaching of translation at the undergraduate and graduate levels; the role of technology in translation training; the connection between theory and practice; the use of translation as a teaching tool in literature and language classes at all levels. Please e-mail 250-word abstracts to Marella Feltrin-Morris, Ithaca College, mfeltrinmorris@ithaca.edu
Teaching Writing in the Digital Age: Literacy, Access, and Community (Roundtable)
The purpose of this roundtable is to debate and explore the complex interrelationships between notions of literacy, access, and community and the pedagogical implications they bring to the 21st Century composition classroom. Possible topics include new definitions of literacy, ethical and material questions of access, and the impact of technology on the formation of communities within and beyond the classroom. Send 250-300 word abstracts to lynn.reid14@gmail.com.