November, 2004

MWALLT 2004 Conference Notes

About twenty-five MWALLT members attended the October 15th-16th Fall 2004 Conference at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Hosted by Jan Marston and Clayton Mitchell, the theme was "Inspiring, Enabling, and Motivating the Language Learner."
 

Sessions ranged from Integration of Games in Chinese Language Instruction, presented by Zhen Zou, University of Minnesota to Auto-Glossing News: Yet Another Attempt to Integrate Current News in to the Foreign Language Curriculum by Tom Plagwitz, Drake University.   See the Full Program listing.
 

Jan presented a session on the innovative and new Drake University Language Acquisition Program (DULAP - http://www.drake.edu/dulap/) that focuses on an independent learning model of language study and Clayton provided a DULAP lab tour. There was much interest in the DULAP program and how it works and lively discussion followed these sessions.
 

True to MWALLT tradition, there was no lack of food and drink events and all found the weekend to be a wonderful professional development and social experience.
 

Thanks to Mingyu Sun who posted some photos of the conference.  http://www.pbase.com/mwallt04/
 

Look for the next MWALLT Conference at Perry High School, Perry, Ohio (just outside of Cleveland) with Amy Dior-Smith hosting.

Jenise Rowekamp, Chief Administrative Officer

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