Accentuate the positive: Remote learning and the future of language education

Across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced both teachers and learners to adopt a remote-based delivery mode. This panel brings together language educators and researchers to share their ideas and experience to develop and implement new remote-based teaching/ learning practices.

• Friday 9 October and Saturday 10 October 2020
• 3:00 – 6:00 pm (Canberra, Sydney time)
• Zoom online live presentation
• FREE and ALL Welcome
• Registration essential: https://globallanguagefest.eventbritestudio.com/118421163889

Day 1: Friday 9 October

• “Welcome and introduction” Duck-Young Lee (ANU)
• “Multimedia activities for interactive language and culture education” Eunseon Kim (ANU)
• “Positive transformation to remote language learning” Takako Toda (Waseda)
• “Approaches to Japanese education through remote learning at the University of Helsinki” Sachiko Sosa (Uni of Helsinki)
• “Sight, Sound and Silence: Interactive Activities and Pacing in Remote Language Classroom” Janit Feangfu (ANU)

Day 2: Saturday 10 October:

• “Weaving Stories on the Web through the Lens of Multiliteracies Approach” Jeongyi Lee (Kennesaw State Uni) & Eun Young Won (Uni of Washington)
• “Language Assessment in Remote Language Teaching and Learning” Qian Wang (Uni of British Columbia)
• “Flipped classroom: development and experiences in an ANU Japanese course” by Yuko Kinoshita (ANU)
• Keynote address: “Simulating Embodied Learning Online” Professor Rachel Harrison (SOAS, University of London)

POSTER plus info on a one day session the following week on Virtual Reality and Language Education https://actbilingual.weebly.com/uploads/4/4/9/1/4491774/poster_october_series.pdf