2025 CLTA Conference San Diego: Full Schedule

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L03 Designing engaging and meaningful Tasks in the World Language classroom

Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT

Want to engage learners in meaningful tasks that motivate their learning while guiding them toward higher proficiency? Come see how you can create fun and engaging real-world tasks that get students excited about learning while incorporating World-Readiness standards and proficiency guidelines.

Presenters

Oraib Mango

Professor, CSUSB

Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Loft 1

Interest Session

Major Focus Global Competence, Communication Standards
Appropriate Level All Levels
Language Focus Arabic
Session conducted in: English

8:00am PDT

L06 Build Communication Using Creativity and Collaboration

Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT

Shutters East 1

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This session explores how to engage students in the Spanish classroom to help them build communicative proficiency. Participants will take part in instructional strategies and practices that are at the heart many programs. Using creativity and collaboration, they will determine how to utilize these successfully in their own classrooms to motivate their students to communicate.

Presenters

Rich Sayers

Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Shutters East 1

Interest Session

Major Focus Communication Standards
Appropriate Level Secondary (9-12)
Language Focus Spanish
Session conducted in: English

8:00am PDT

L07 Unlocking the Power of Reading: Strategies for Pre-Reading, Reading, and Post-Reading Success

Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT

Shutters West 2

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Empower language teachers with effective strategies for boosting student reading comprehension. This session covers pre-reading, reading, and post-reading techniques to activate prior knowledge, set reading purposes, and encourage reflection. Gain practical tools to help students become confident, skilled second-language readers.

Presenters

Dahiana Castro

French /Spanish teacherCI practitioner who loves learning new strategies that promote litercy and increase target language use in the classroom.

Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Shutters West 2

Interest Session

Major Focus Framework, Communication Standards
Appropriate Level Secondary (9-12)
Language Focus All languages
Session conducted in: English

8:00am PDT

L08 Socratic Seminar in the world language classroom

Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT

Courtyard 1

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We will explore how to scaffold and structure classroom discussions through Socratic Seminar. It is a way to have authentic student led, student to student, interpersonal practice. Socratic Seminar incorporates the interpretive and interpersonal modes of communication and allows students to make meaning of texts and use the target language to deepen their understanding.

Presenters

Leigh Murrell

Spanish Teacher, Del Norte High School

Leigh Murrell is an AP Spanish teacher at Del Norte High School in Poway USD. She graduated from SDSU with her Masters Degree in Educational Technology and is a fellow of SAILN. Leigh has over 20 years of experience in education as a teacher, technology integrationist and instructional... Read More →

Sunday March 9, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Courtyard 1

Interest Session

Major Focus Communication Standards
Appropriate Level All Levels
Language Focus All languages
Session conducted in: English

10:00am PDT

M03 Sparking Academic Talk to Build Bridges and Unlock Minds

Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT

Brickstones

This session equips educators with strategies to facilitate academic conversations that enhance critical thinking, problem-solving, social-emotional growth, and communication skills. It emphasizes scaffolding and real-life connections to foster engagement, collaboration, and a language-rich environment in dual language immersion settings. Participants will gain practical tools to lead impactful classroom discussions.

Presenters

Yongzhen (Jennifer) Wu

Mandarin Instructional Coach, Guy Emanuele Elementary School

Hello, I'm Jennifer Wu, an enthusiastic and dedicated educator with a passion for fostering professional growth and creating impactful learning experiences.With over 18 years of teaching experience in both elementary and secondary education in China and the USA, I've had the privilege... Read More →

Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Brickstones

Interest Session

Major Focus Communication Standards
Appropriate Level All Levels
Language Focus All languages
Session conducted in: English

10:00am PDT

M06 Why do some learners benefit from feedback while others do not? Insights from a feedback literacy perspective.

Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT

Great Room 8

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Why do some students benefit from teacher feedback on written texts for learning, while others do not? This session will introduce the concept of feedback literacy to explore the multifaceted nature of students’ responses to feedback. Participants will discuss and share strategies to enhance student learning through written feedback.

Presenters

Jun Takahashi

Assistant professor, San Diego State University

Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Great Room 8

Interest Session

Major Focus Framework, Communication Standards
Appropriate Level College/University
Language Focus Japanese
Session conducted in: English, Target Language

10:00am PDT

M07 Interactive Tools and Cultural Connections: Transforming the Dual and World Language Classroom

Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT

Great Room 6

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In this interactive session, participants will explore strategies to engage students while using technology, real-life cultural contexts, and small-group activities. By examining students' work samples and participating in some engaging activities, attendees will discover the power of students engaging and its positive impact on their learning outcomes.

Presenters

Layla Bahar Al-Aloom

Maria Kouli

Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Great Room 6

Interest Session

Major Focus Communication Standards, Cultures Standards
Appropriate Level All Levels
Language Focus Arabic
Session conducted in: English

10:00am PDT

M08 Enhancing Reading Comprehension in World Language Classroom Using Authentic Resources

Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT

Shutters East 1

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Discover the power of connecting subject matter to enhance reading comprehension in world languages! Learn practical strategies from our experiences in university immersion language classes and explore activities that foster literacy skills, broaden perspectives, and promote academic success. Leave with a toolkit of techniques to enrich your world language instruction.

Presenters

Shahnaz Ahmadeian Fard

Ghadah Al Saadi

LARC SDSU

Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT
Shutters East 1

Interest Session

Major Focus Communication Standards, Connections Standards
Appropriate Level All Levels
Language Focus All languages
Session conducted in: English

10:00am PDT

M11 A Day at The Museum: Using PBLL to Design Engaging Language Experiences (Part 1)

Sunday March 9, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am PDT

Courtyard 1

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Project-based language learning (PBLL) has been shown to motivate students, but designing projects can be an arduous process. This session uses a museum project inspired by PBLL to provide a template for designing engaging projects that extend beyond the classroom and foster global connectedness even when it is not feasible to include all elements of traditional PBLL.

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