Teachers have the option of earning three graduate credit hours by registering in an online companion course:
Foreign Language and Literatures 4399
Standards-Based Foreign Language Instruction:
Making Use of the ACTFL Standards for Foreign Language
Learning by Integrating Culture into the Spanish Classroom
This course is designed to prepare high-school teachers of Spanish to integrate the ACTFL Standard 2: "Cultures" into classroom instruction. Teachers in the course will be introduced to the relationship of language and culture using sociolinguistic and educational perspectives, will examine the role of culture in a language classroom, will discuss methods of teaching culture in the language classroom, and will travel to Barcelona, Spain to gather artifacts that will be used to develop a culture-based teaching unit. Teachers in this course will acquire knowledge about the relationship between culture and language, language acquisition, and the ACTFL Standard 2: "Cultures."
Visit the Registration and Fee Information page for details on registering for the tour and the course.
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For more information, contact:
Dr. Deborah Baldini
(314) 516-5911
deborah_baldini@umsl.edu |
