BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5327-79f703c38cf1eef8467fc692fb62e3e4@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260623T145902Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210123T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210123T120000 SUMMARY:Interactive Workshop on Task-Based Language Teaching DESCRIPTION:\nThis interactive workshop\, sponsored by the German Gradua te Student Association and led by Dr. Lara Bryfonski (Georgetown Univers ity)\, is \;designed to provide language teachers and researchers th e opportunity to apply concepts from the presentation to their own teach ing or research domains.\n\nWhile traditional approaches to language ins truction organize syllabi and curricula around grammar points\, task-bas ed language teaching (TBLT) utilizes authentic tasks driven by the needs of the learners\, and resulting linguistic forms\, as the units of inst ruction (Long\, 1985\, 2015). The aim of TBLT pedagogy is to provide stu dents with the linguistic skills they need to engage in meaningful inter actions outside the classroom. Since its inception\, TBLT has gained pop ularity as an alternative to traditional approaches to language teaching and has been implemented and evaluated in contexts worldwide (e.g. Shin tani (2016) with young learners in Japan\; Müller-Hartmann &\; Schoc ker-von Ditfurth (2011) in Germany\, Van den Branden (2006) program-wide in Flanders\, Belgium). \;\n\nLara Bryfonski is assistant professor of linguistics at Georgetown University where she conducts research on second language acquisition and task-based language teaching and learnin g. She has published and presented her research on a variety of topics i n second language acquisition\, including task-based language teaching\, corrective feedback\, materials development\, language learning in stud y abroad\, and methods for second language research. Her publications ap pear in journals such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition\, Langua ge Teaching Research\, \;and the Annual Review of Applied Linguistic s\, as well as a variety of edited collections. Lara is a former ESL/EFL teacher and has taught language students from preschool to adulthood in a variety of contexts in the United States and abroad. She is an experi enced teacher trainer and has worked with NGOs\, public and private scho ols\, governmental and financial organizations\, and universities to pro vide research-based training in language teaching. \n\nRegistration for this event is required. Click here to register and receive Zoom link det ails. \;Please contact Julia Goetze at jzg5860@psu.edu \;with an y questions.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/tblt-0 123/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

This interactiv e workshop, sponsored by the German Graduate Student Association and led by Dr. Lara Bryfonski (Georgetown University), is designed to prov ide language teachers and researchers the opportunity to apply concepts from the presentation to their own teaching or research domains.

W hile traditional approaches to language instruction organize syllabi and curricula around grammar points, task-based language teaching (TBLT) ut ilizes authentic tasks driven by the needs of the learners, and resultin g linguistic forms, as the units of instruction (Long, 1985, 2015). The aim of TBLT pedagogy is to provide students with the linguistic skills t hey need to engage in meaningful interactions outside the classroom. Sin ce its inception, TBLT has gained popularity as an alternative to tradit ional approaches to language teaching and has been implemented and evalu ated in contexts worldwide (e.g. Shintani (2016) with young learners in Japan; Müller-Hartmann & Schocker-von Ditfurth (2011) in Germany, V an den Branden (2006) program-wide in Flanders, Belgium).

Lara Bryfonski is assistant professor of linguistics at Georgetown University where she conducts research on second language acquisition an d task-based language teaching and learning. She has published and prese nted her research on a variety of topics in second language acquisition, including task-based language teaching, corrective feedback, materials development, language learning in study abroad, and methods for second l anguage research. Her publications appear in journals such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Teaching Research, an d the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, as well as a variety of edited collections. Lara is a former ESL/EFL teacher and has t aught language students from preschool to adulthood in a variety of cont exts in the United States and abroad. She is an experienced teacher trai ner and has worked with NGOs, public and private schools, governmental a nd financial organizations, and universities to provide research-based t raining in language teaching.

Registration for this event is requ ired. Click here to re gister and receive Zoom link details. Please contact Julia Goetze a t jzg5860@psu.edu with any que stions.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/tblt-0123/

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