The Language Flagship
Teacher Training Series
The Flagship Video Workshops:
Preparing Students for the Professional Level
The fall and winter 2021-22 Flagship Student Video Workshops provide instructors at Flagship and partner universities and centers with opportunities to discuss and expand their understanding of the linguistic and cultural development of Capstone students of Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese and Russian as they progress through ILR 2+, 3 and 3+ proficiency ranges with special attention to the development of target-language linguistic, cultural and professional presentational skills.
The Flagship Video Resource enables teachers to examine and discuss the specific communication and socio-pragmatic strategy selections offered by Flagship Capstone students, as well as their demonstrated levels of lexical and grammatical control and cultural referencing. The video recordings were produced on-location as part of each student’s end-of-semester formal presentation and/or media interview, and have been subsequently catalogued and archived in the Flagship Video Resource Site. A selection of the videos in each language has also been transcribed, translated, and coded. Workshop participants will evaluate video/speech materials in both language-general and language-specific sessions with a view toward sharing and strengthening instructional best practices and identifying areas of curricular need.
Teacher Training Workshops
Arabic
Chinese
Russian
Korean and Portuguese
Overseas Centers
Workshop Goals
To assist faculty in gaining a richer and more nuanced understanding of the language production, cultural understanding, and professional communication skills attained by current Flagship capstone students in different target languages.
To assist faculty in using the performance-based linguistic and cultural data in the videos for review and strengthening of existing curricula and instructional practices.
Develop new teaching strategies and curricular support activities for preparing students as high-functioning professionals in the target language and culture, and strengthen curricular articulation of domestic and overseas program instruction.
Eligibility
Teachers of intermediate and advanced-level language students are likely to find these workshops of relevance and of particular interest. To participate in a Workshop, you must be a member of the Flagship community, a current faculty member or instructor participating in the ROTC Project Global Officer programs, a member of the faculty of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, a Language Training Center (LTC), or a critical language instructor from another federally funded center or program.