Upcoming Events
Updates are shared on this page and in the following places:
MAFLT Website – News and Latest Posts
MAFLT Twitter Feed – @MSU_MAFLT
My Twitter feed – @LanierTemples
Recent Presentations
Looking for a presentation that I have given at a recent conference or campus event? They appear throughout this site under the relevant topics, and there is a master list here:
Recent titles include:
Creating Community in Online Courses
Reaching Intercultural Competence with Comprehensible Input
Discovering Grammar: Inductive Approaches Using Corpus-Based Tools
Conferences in Our Field
IALLT 2021 Virtual
CALICO 2021 Virtual
GURT 2021 Virtual
FLEx – Foreign Language Excellence Virtual Conference
FLEx Virtual is an internal conference that serves as a course project in FLT 817 Program Development and Administration. Graduate students in the course write proposals, go through peer review, plan their presentations, create slides, present to their peers in a one-day event, and give feedback on content and delivery.
MWALLT 2020 – Hybrid Conference
Saturday, February 8, 2020: The Midwest Association for Language Learning and Technology hosts a hybrid conference every spring, which means that you can attend from one of the many local hubs or from your own living room. Find out more and register here: http://mwallt.org/event-3418228.
ACTFL 2019 Convention & Expo in Washington, D.C.
https://www.actfl.org/convention-expo/schedule-events
MAFLT @ ACTFL
Presentations at ACTFL 2019
Making Authentic Texts Comprehensible with Corpus Analysis Tools
Presenters: Amanda Lanier, Agnieszka Makles,Courtney Mayes, & Maggie Rutkowski
Reaching Intercultural Competence with Story-Based Methods
Presenters: Rachel Emery, Bill Langley, & Amanda Lanier
Alumni Reunion & Networking Event
At last count we had 19 current students and alumni in attendance at ACTFL 2019, and several were able to attend the gathering on Saturday evening. If you are a MAFLT student or alum and planning to attend ACTFL 2020 in San Antonio, I hope you will join us at a similar event there!
CALICO – Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium
2019 Conference in Montreal, Canada
Pre-Conference Workshop:
