Schedule Overview
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OVERVIEW
Thursday May 7
The cost is $20 and includes transportation to Temple Square and back. For more details, please see our Excursions tab.
Friday May 8, 2015
Saturday May 9, 2015
Sunday May 10, 2015 (no FrontRunner service to SLC Airport)
Thursday May 7
- Pre-Conference Workshops (BYU Campus)
- Evening Excursion (6:15 until shortly after 10)
The cost is $20 and includes transportation to Temple Square and back. For more details, please see our Excursions tab.
Friday May 8, 2015
- Conference Sessions
- Poster Session
- Plenary Speaker: Rolf Bremmer
- Welcome Reception
Saturday May 9, 2015
- Conference Sessions
- Poster Session
- Special Sessions for Teachers
- Immersion Lunch for Teachers
- Plenary Speaker: Johanna Watzinger-Tharp
- Banquet
Sunday May 10, 2015 (no FrontRunner service to SLC Airport)
- Music and the Spoken Word (7:30 a.m. until 12 p.m.)
- Moab and Arches National Park (6 a.m. until later in evening)
Workshop Overview
Morning Session (10am-noon):
Assessing Students using Placement Tests (Troy L. Cox, Ph.D.), B002 JFSB
This workshop will explore some common methodologies for placing students with developmental growth in language ability. Participants will be given different 24 student profiles and will work in groups to intuitively place the students into six different class levels. The presenter will then discuss classification errors (false negative and false positive) and their relationship to different scoring models (conjunctive, compensatory, weighted compensatory, partial compensatory and cluster analysis) used in decision-making processes. Using case study data, the different scoring models will be presented and participants will see how the number of students in each class level can vary widely based on the scoring model chosen. Participants can then compare their intuitive placement decisions with placement level distributions of the different paradigms. Finally, strategies for mixed ability level classes will be discussed.This is a practical workshop for anyone in language program coordination as well as those going onto the job market. (Lunch is not included and can be purchases in Cougar Eat on campus. This workshop is free of charge; Transportation via hotel shuttle to BYU campus.)
Afternoon Sessions (1-5pm), Pick one of two workshops listed below:
WORKSHOP #1 (STATISTICS), B161 JFSB
Introduction to Mixed-effects Models for the Statistically Hesitant (David S. Eddington, Ph.D.)
Going Beyond p-values: Making Your Statistical Methods More Rigorous and Robust (Jesse A. Egbert, Ph.D.)
How to carry out preliminary data analysis to get a sense of your data, choosing the correct analysis based on the data, and going beyond the p-value to using effect size, etc. to determine results. Participants will also learn how to conduct a Mixed Model Analysis using SPSS. The workshop is very hands on, and the first part of the workshop will allow participants to try out tests on their own data.
WORKSHOP #2 (PROFICIENCY), B002 JFSB
The ACTFL Oral Proficiency Guidelines in Research and Teaching (Troy L. Cox, Ph.D.)
Student-led Oral Proficiency Interviews (Jessica Bryan, M.A.)
This workshop begins with a detailed overview to proficiency and how the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines inform language teaching and learning. Participants will also learn how to facilitate student-led OPIs to help them assess their students' language abilities an an effective and straight-forward way.
The workshops are especially intended to help new scholars and graduate students prepare for thesis and dissertation research and/or to go onto the job market (since many graduates will find jobs requiring some language teaching). They would also benefit those already teaching, training teachers, and mentoring graduate students.
Cost for afternoon workshops: $15. Includes refreshment break mid-afternoon, A shuttle will transport participants between the Downtown Marriott and BYU Campus. Departure from Marriott at lunch and return from BYU after workshops end at 5pm. (For those attending the Morning Workshop, we will arrange for a shuttle from the hotel in the morning. Please let us know if you will attend the morning session as well!)
Other demonstrations, including LinguaeLive, that can help enhance our language teaching and research opportunities in second language acquisition, including peer-to-peer (tandem partnerships) language learning.
Assessing Students using Placement Tests (Troy L. Cox, Ph.D.), B002 JFSB
This workshop will explore some common methodologies for placing students with developmental growth in language ability. Participants will be given different 24 student profiles and will work in groups to intuitively place the students into six different class levels. The presenter will then discuss classification errors (false negative and false positive) and their relationship to different scoring models (conjunctive, compensatory, weighted compensatory, partial compensatory and cluster analysis) used in decision-making processes. Using case study data, the different scoring models will be presented and participants will see how the number of students in each class level can vary widely based on the scoring model chosen. Participants can then compare their intuitive placement decisions with placement level distributions of the different paradigms. Finally, strategies for mixed ability level classes will be discussed.This is a practical workshop for anyone in language program coordination as well as those going onto the job market. (Lunch is not included and can be purchases in Cougar Eat on campus. This workshop is free of charge; Transportation via hotel shuttle to BYU campus.)
Afternoon Sessions (1-5pm), Pick one of two workshops listed below:
WORKSHOP #1 (STATISTICS), B161 JFSB
Introduction to Mixed-effects Models for the Statistically Hesitant (David S. Eddington, Ph.D.)
Going Beyond p-values: Making Your Statistical Methods More Rigorous and Robust (Jesse A. Egbert, Ph.D.)
How to carry out preliminary data analysis to get a sense of your data, choosing the correct analysis based on the data, and going beyond the p-value to using effect size, etc. to determine results. Participants will also learn how to conduct a Mixed Model Analysis using SPSS. The workshop is very hands on, and the first part of the workshop will allow participants to try out tests on their own data.
WORKSHOP #2 (PROFICIENCY), B002 JFSB
The ACTFL Oral Proficiency Guidelines in Research and Teaching (Troy L. Cox, Ph.D.)
Student-led Oral Proficiency Interviews (Jessica Bryan, M.A.)
This workshop begins with a detailed overview to proficiency and how the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines inform language teaching and learning. Participants will also learn how to facilitate student-led OPIs to help them assess their students' language abilities an an effective and straight-forward way.
The workshops are especially intended to help new scholars and graduate students prepare for thesis and dissertation research and/or to go onto the job market (since many graduates will find jobs requiring some language teaching). They would also benefit those already teaching, training teachers, and mentoring graduate students.
Cost for afternoon workshops: $15. Includes refreshment break mid-afternoon, A shuttle will transport participants between the Downtown Marriott and BYU Campus. Departure from Marriott at lunch and return from BYU after workshops end at 5pm. (For those attending the Morning Workshop, we will arrange for a shuttle from the hotel in the morning. Please let us know if you will attend the morning session as well!)
Other demonstrations, including LinguaeLive, that can help enhance our language teaching and research opportunities in second language acquisition, including peer-to-peer (tandem partnerships) language learning.
