Culture Shock: Developing Authentic Materials for Increasing Foreign Language Proficiency

With Danilo Aquino, Laila Familiar, Thomas J. Garza, Mark Hopkins, and Antonella DelFattore Olson

Learn how to develop materials and activities that will increase your students’ cultural literacy and proficiency in a motivating and engaging manner. Examples will be given in Arabic, Czech, Italian, and Russian; however the workshop is applicable to all language classrooms. A hands-on session will follow the presentations...bring your laptop!