[MGSA-L] 7th Biennial MGSA Pedagogy Workshop: "Foreign Language Literacy"

Amanatidou, Elissavet elsa_amanatidou at brown.edu
Fri Oct 7 12:43:43 PDT 2016


Dear colleagues,
With less than a month to go, I would urge you to register for the
symposium, if you intend to attend.
Please register
<https://www.brown.edu/academics/modern-greek/literacy-workshop/registration>
now.
Registration is free but required.

The 7th Biennial MGSA Pedagogy Workshop, focused on "Foreign Language
Literacy" <https://www.brown.edu/academics/modern-greek/literacy-workshop/>
Friday-Saturday, November 4–5, 2016
at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island


*Keynote Presentation, Friday, 5–6pm
<https://www.brown.edu/academics/modern-greek/literacy-workshop/friday-november-4-schedule>*:
"Teaching Languages and Literacies for Communicative Competence and Beyond:
Toward a Relational Pedagogy," by Rick Kern (Professor and Director of the
UC-Berkeley Language Center, and author of Language, Literacy, and
Technology (Cambridge UP, 2015).

*Saturday's sessions
<https://www.brown.edu/academics/modern-greek/literacy-workshop/node/13> *will
be structured workshop presentations and activities by members of the
steering committee and a round table discussion in which new projects
relating to language literacy instruction are presented by Dimitris
Antoniou and Karen VanDyck (Columbia U), Maria Hadjipolycarpou (Columbia
U), and Themistoklis Aravossitas (U Toronto).

The workshop is organized with local support from the Brown Modern Greek
Studies Program <https://www.brown.edu/academics/modern-greek/> and MGSA
<http://www.mgsa.org/>. The keynote address on Friday has been kindly
co-sponsored by the Brown Department of Classics
<https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/>, the Brown Center for Language
Studies <https://www.brown.edu/academics/language-studies/>, the Brown
Modern Greek Studies Program <https://www.brown.edu/academics/modern-greek/>,
and the MGSA <http://www.mgsa.org/>.

The steering committee members are:

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   Artemis Leontis, University of Michigan (MGSA UC chair)
   -

   Elsa Amanatidou, Brown University (MGSA UC member and workshop organizer)
   -

   Despina Margomenou, University of Michigan (MGSA UC member)
   -

   Vassiliki Rapti, Emerson College (MGSA UC member)
   -

   George Syrimis, Yale University (former workshop organizer and Steering
   Committee member)


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*Elsa AmanatidouSenior Lecturer, Department of Classics*

*Director, Modern Greek StudiesWilbour Hall, 102 A*





*Brown UniversityProvidence, RI 02912t: 401.863.7482f: 401.863.2551*
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