Bridging Research and Practice
Professional Development Resources for L2 Teaching and Learning
In this workshop we discuss: – the needs and challenges of intercultural language teaching; – the use of spoken data in a medical Chinese course; – and the development of a corpus of medical Chinese speech. Download presentation
Liang Fu (CLIC, Rice University): 1) shares her approach to a Chinese language course for health professionals (CHIN 319), with an emphasis on interactional competence (IC); 2) explains how the students were guided to discover the interactive features and social
Victoria Abad (CLIC, Rice University): 1) showcases the Spanish language course for health professionals, with emphasis on the incorporation of interactional competence (IC); 2) addresses the challenges of introducing IC; 3) guides languages teachers through the process of introducing IC; 4) presents lesson