Dr. Andreea Cervatiuc’s public lecture, Learning and Teaching Vocabulary in an Additional Language will be followed by the workshop Developing Activities and Materials for Learning and Teaching Vocabulary in an Additional Language, facilitated by Dr. Andreea Cervatiuc, Dr. Luisa Canuto, Dr. Qian Wang, and Dr. Jason Lieblang.
This event brings together academics and students from Language & Literacy Education; French, Hispanic & Italian Studies; Asian Studies; Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, and from other departments.
The event is organized by the The UBC Language Cluster; free and open to the public.
If you are planning to attend, please email Andreea at andreea.cervatiuc@ubc.ca. Please RSVP by December 5, 2018.
Public Lecture: Learning and Teaching Vocabulary in an Additional Language
Date and Time: Monday, December 10, 2018, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: Dodson Room, 3rd floor, Irving K. Learning Centre, 1961 East Mall, UBC
This lecture proposes a framework for understanding and supporting the development of vocabulary in an additional language. The target audience for this lecture consists of practicing or aspiring teachers of additional languages (e.g. English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Mandarin, etc.), linguists, researchers, students, and teacher trainers. The lecture explores various classifications of lexical items, types of vocabulary knowledge, word frequency lists, and text coverage. It unpacks the intricacies of the process of learning vocabulary in an additional language and explains what teachers can do to accelerate their students’ vocabulary acquisition rate. The proposed framework for vocabulary development combines explicit instruction, incidental learning, and independent strategy development.
Keynote Speaker’s Bio
Dr. Andreea Cervatiuc is an Instructor in the Department of Language & Literacy Education (LLED) of the Faculty of Education at UBC and the Coordinator of the Online MEd in Teaching English as a Second Language. She is the recipient of the TESOL Award for Distinguished Research, the International Award for Outstanding TESOL Article, and the Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Calgary. Her scholarship focuses on learning and teaching additional language vocabulary, second language acquisition and teaching, curriculum development, language assessment, online education, and multilingualism.
Workshop: Developing Activities and Materials for Learning and Teaching Vocabulary in an Additional Language
• Dr. Andreea Cervatiuc, Department of Language & Literacy Education (LLED), Faculty of Education, UBC
• Dr. Luisa Canuto, Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts, UBC
• Dr. Qian Wang, Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, UBC
• Dr. Jason Lieblang, Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, Faculty of Arts, UBC
Date and Time: Monday, December 10, 2018, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Dodson Room, 3rd floor, Irving K. Learning Centre, 1961 East Mall, UBC
The goal of this workshop is for participants to demonstrate an understanding of and apply some of the principles for learning and teaching vocabulary in an additional language explained in the keynote lecture given by Dr. Andreea Cervatiuc. The workshop consists of a hands-on session, in which participants develop a series of vocabulary learning activities and materials for their own classes.