"Encouraging optimal language practice through communicative approaches to language learning"

The Language Resource Center is pleased to announce that on Friday October 9th at 2:00 in Philosophy 301 Dr. Carol Numrich will give a presentation titled:  “Encouraging optimal language practice through communicative approaches to language learning.”

The goal of the presentation is to refresh our knowledge of communicative approaches in second or foreign language learning by comparing didactic versus collaborative modes of teaching.  To increase effective teacher-student and student-student interactions in our classes, we will explore alternative question types, classroom settings and tasks.  These activities facilitate acquisition of the second language and prepare students for authentic language use.

Dr. Carol Numrich is currently a Senior Lecturer in Columbia University’s American Language Program (ALP), where she teaches intermediate and advanced ESL classes, leads curriculum-planning teams, and is the instructor of Methods in Language Teaching and Teaching English Grammar in the post-baccalaureate TESOL Certificate Program.  She has published several listening textbooks, including Consider the Issues, Face the Issues, Raise the Issues, and Tuning In, and is co-editor of the multi-skill, theme-based NorthStar series.