Announcements and Events

On Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 5pm ET, Lara Bryfonksi and Alison Mackey will participate in a Q & A on their book: The Art and Science of Language Teaching with the International Center for Language Studies (ICLS) book club!

Anna Carson, ICLS Vice-President, will lead the session and you’re all welcome to attend and learn about the latest developments in language teaching research, and discover new strategies to best teach your students.

The event will take place online on Wednesday, April 24 at 5pm ET. Here is the link to register: https://lnkd.in/gmC4Y79f

We hope to see you there!

Join us April 17th, at 12 pm ET at the TBLT Task Bank Workshop Series for a discussion on teacher training in TBLT! Email thetaskbank@gmail.com for the zoom link.

This user-friendly book is designed for language teachers of all levels and languages who seek to inform their classroom practices with current research findings on second language acquisition. Ideal for courses on second language learning and teaching, teacher reading groups, and professional development workshops, each chapter begins with a story of a real teaching scenario and a concise summary of what cutting-edge language teaching research says (and what it does not say) about the topic. Throughout the twenty-one chapters, the authors connect language research to the classroom, challenge misunderstandings around language pedagogy, and provide solutions. Each chapter concludes with classroom activities, and instructional strategies that can be used immediately in professional development workshops or in the classroom. Additional resources are available online to supplement the activities found in the book. Applicable across all languages and levels, this book is suitable for teachers of diverse backgrounds teaching in diverse contexts.

Pre-order at Cambridge University Press.

Funded by the NSA, the Georgetown STARTALK: Task-based Training for Critical Language Teachers program was funding again to train K-16 teachers of critical languages (Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian and Russian) about Task-Based Language Teaching.

The program will include a week-long, in-person summer camp on Georgetown University’s campus with pre- and post-camp online components for a total of 120 instructional professional development hours.

Visit startalk.georgetown.edu for more information on how to apply to our 2024 summer camp.

Funded by the NSA, the Georgetown STARTALK: Task-based Training for Critical Language Teachers program trained 25 K-16 teachers of critical languages (Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian and Russian) in summer 2023 about Task-Based Language Teaching and practice. 

The program will include a week-long, in-person summer camp on Georgetown University’s campus with pre- and post-camp online components for a total of 120 instructional professional development hours.

Visit startalk.georgetown.edu for more information.