4-3-20 UConn ECE Italian Workshop
Date and time
Location
Storrs Campus
Oak Hall Room 236 Storrs, CT 06269Description
On Friday, April 3rd Early College Experience and the UConn Italian Faculty invite all certified UConn ECE Italian instructors to attend the annual professional development conference. For a campus map please see maps.uconn.edu. You can also use most map apps on your phone for walking directions once you get to campus.
Tutti a tavola a giocare!
Tools for Game-Based Language Teaching and Learning
With special guest speaker Camilla Zamboni, Wesleyan University
“Teaching Italian through Games: Practical Approaches for a Gameful Pedagogy” Camilla Zamboni, Wesleyan University
Camilla Zamboni is Assistant Professor of the practice at Wesleyan University, where she creates and coordinates the Italian Language Program. She has published in the Berkeley Language Center’s L2 Journal and has collaborated with Cengage Learning’s textbook Piazza.
In the past two decades, crowdfunding and renewed interest in games (board games, role-playing games, and instructional games) have created an increased and diverse gaming production, which has become the subject of several studies, articles, and projects related to all areas of education, including second-language/L2 acquisition. In an effort to explore how a game-informed pedagogy can work in Italian language and culture classrooms and to highlight analog gaming approaches that have worked inside and outside the language classroom, this workshop will explore the basics of Game-Based Learning (GBL) applied to second-language/L2 acquisition, as well as present a selection of classroom projects informed by its principles. The focus of the workshop will be on why and how analog games can be effective tools for language learning: examples will include board games and role-playing games, and invite participants to discuss the application of gaming principles to second-language/L2 acquisition
Full agenda details to be posted soon!
Both breakfast and lunch will be provoded.
Parking: Please park in the South parking garage and bring your ticket from the garage for a validation stamp. If you park elsewhere you may be ticketed or towed at your own expense. For a campus map please see: maps.uconn.edu.
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UConn Early College Experience (ECE) is a concurrent enrollment program that allows motivated high school students to take UConn courses at their high schools for both high school and college credit. Every course taken through UConn ECE is equivalent to the same course at the University of Connecticut. Students benefit by taking college courses in a setting that is both familiar and conducive to learning.
High school instructors who have been certified through the University of Connecticut teach UConn ECE courses.
Established in 1955, UConn Early College Experience is the nation's longest running concurrent enrollment program and is nationally accredited by The National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP).