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Track 1 | Program Descriptions |
Four 45-minute workshops | |
2 – 2:45pm AZCNTR 383 | Tech Skills as a Specific Purpose: Developing a Digital Presence for the 21st Century Workplace Chair: Eduardo Caro |
4 – 4:45pm AZCNTR 383 | Cultural Competency for Interpreting Medical Spanish Chair: Carmen King de Ramirez |
5 – 5:45pm AZCNTR 383 | Next Steps: Advancing LSP at Your Institution Chair: Mary Risner |
Track 2 |
One 3-hour workshop |
Designing a Spanish SL Course: A Community Model and Leadership Development Chair: Barbara Lafford |
CIBER Business Language Research Teaching (BLRT) Award Ceremony
6 – 7:30pm
MERCC Second floor balcony
7:30–8:30am, MERCC 145 |
| Business | LSP Program Development/ Technology |
8:30–8:55am | Italian for Business – More Innovative, Creative and Compelling Chair: Jonathan Wood | Emerging LSP Models in French: New Language Programs for Global Careers Chair: Mary Long |
9-9:25am | Language Class as Student-Run Company: “SpeakEasy” Clears a Profit Chair: Jonathan Wood |
Chair: Mary Long |
9:30–9:55am | Recent Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and Paralinguistic Changes in German-speaking Business Contexts Chair: Jonathan Wood | A Proposal for an Integrative Curriculum of Chinese for Specific Purposes Chair: Mary Long |
Business | Culture | Medical Field | |
10:15-10:40am | The ePortfolio: A Learning Tool for Preparing Business Language Students with Employability Skills Chair: Michael Shealy | French for Global Studies Chair: Helene Ossipov | Panel Chair: Mary Long |
10:45-11:10 am | An Attempt to Boost Literacy: The Development of Business Chinese Reader Chair: Michael Shealy | Nicaragua’s Grand Canal: Promised Land or Pipedream? A Case Study in Political and Economic Culture Chair: Mary Risner | |
11:15-11:40am | Think Out of the Box: Exploring Communication Studies and Their Potential Applications to Business Language Instruction Chair: Michael Shealy | STEM.de – STEM.US: Resources for Developing Real-World Competencies in German+STEM Chair: Alexis Vollmer |
Noon-1:15pm MERCC 350 | Anne Abbott Less Specific Purposes for LSP: The Skills Students Need in College |
Business | LSP Program Development | Roundtables | |
1:30-1:55pm | Panel Chair: Alan José | Roundtable Chair: Lourdes Sánchez-López | |
2-2:25pm | Adapting the Liberal Arts Curriculum and LSP for Optimal Student Preparation: An Example of Business Spanish Chair: Sergio Loza | ||
2:30-2:55pm | Infusing Leadership into the Spanish for Business Curriculum Chair: Angélica Amezcua | Roundtable Chair: Rebecca Berber-McNeill | |
3:30-4:45pm | Panel Chair: Rosti Vana | Roundtable Chair: Mary Long |
5-6pm MERCC 350 | Community Expert Panel: Preparing students for bilingual/bi-cultural professions Chair: Carmen King de Ramírez |
7:30-8:30am MERCC 145 |
Culture | Business | Community | |
8:30-8:55am | Using Videos to Develop Intercultural Competence Chair: Eduardo Caro | Uzbek for Business Purposes: Addressing Students’ Learning Objectives Chair: Mary Risner | Roundtable Chair: Mary Long |
9-9:25am | ‘EPPIC’ Success: Supporting Internationals’ Professional Development through English for Specific Purposes Chair: Eduardo Caro | Designing and Teaching a Second-Semester Course in Business French: What to Do Next? Chair: Helene Ossipov | |
9:30-9:55am | Application of the LESCANT Model to Brazil Used in ‘The Seven Keys to Communicating in Brazil: An Intercultural Approach’ Chair: Eduardo Caro | They won’t talk to me! The Case for an Effective Wholly Online Advanced Business Spanish Course Chair: Carmen King de Ramírez | Voice vs. Text Chats: Their Effectiveness for Learning Probing Questions by Non-Native Speaking Nursing Students in Online English for Medical Purposes Courses Chair: Rebecca Berber-McNeill |
Culture | LSP Program Development | Translation | |
10:15-10:40am | Using Videos to Develop Intercultural Competence Chair: Alan José | Corpus-informed Teaching of ESP Vocabulary in an Introductory Engineering Course Chair: Olivia Elias | Roundtable Chair: Barbara Lafford |
10:45-11:10am | Business Case as a Lens to Examine Culture and Society Chair: Alan José | Tailoring a Spanish Major for LSP Chair: Olivia Elias | |
11:15-11:40am | Principles and Theory behind ‘The Seven Keys to Communicating in Brazil: An Intercultural Approach’ Chair: Alan José | Can you translate this? It will take you five minutes: The (mis)perception of Spanish as a Language for Specific Purposes Chair: Olivia Elias |
Noon-1:15 pm MERCC 350 | Clayton Dube Doors Opening or Closing? What China’s New Normal Means for the Chinese and Americans |
Business | LSP Program Development | Interpretation | |
1:30-1:55pm | Building a Different Kind of Bridge: Teaching Business Writing in the Spanish Curriculum Chair: Michael Shealy | An Implementation Report on the New Spanish for Lawyers Program at the University of Miami Chair: Barbara Lafford | |
2-2:25pm | The Case-based Method as a Strategy for Teaching Spanish for Business Chair: Michael Shealy | Theoretical Underpinnings and Practical Application: Spanish for the Professions at ASU, a Case Study Chair: Barbara Lafford | Keys to Understand The Diplomatic Function of Interpreters at the United Nations Chair: Carmen King de Ramírez |
2:45-3:45pm MERCC 350 |