Faculty Presentations and Publications

Penn Lauder CIBER supports faculty in developing new skills, creating innovations in their curricula and pedagogy, and sharing the results of their new models in a variety of venues -- e.g., with their colleagues at Penn, at conferences, with other institutions. We also support their efforts to publish and to attend courses, workshops, and institutes.

Penn Lauder CIBER-supported presentations at conferences and workshops include the following:

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

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Lauder Institute faculty members Claire Babanoury-Grange (French) and Emiko Nagatomo (Japanese) presented papers on utilizing videoconferencing for foreign language instruction at the 2003 ACTFL Conference in Philadelphia.

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American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)

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Penn Lauder CIBER business language consultant Maria Antonia (Toni) Cowles chaired a panel on Innovative Designs in Spanish and Portuguese Business Language Programs at the 2005 AATSP Conference in New York City. As part of the panel, Lauder Institute faculty members Glauco Ortolano (Portuguese) and David J. Robinson (Spanish) presented papers on "Quasi-live Tools for Teaching Portuguese Language and Brazilian Business Culture" and "Sociolinguistic Issues in Spanish Business Language," respectively. Toni Cowles also gave a presentation on "How and What: Teaching a Portuguese Business Communication Program" for the panel on Innovative Approaches to Teaching Portuguese.

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Chinese Language Teachers' Association of Greater New York

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Penn Lauder CIBER Chinese Survival Skills instructor Wan-wen Kuo presented at the Chinese Language Teacher Association of Greater New York in 2005. Her paper, "The Development of an Online Chinese Project," detailed the educational methodologies she applied in creating our Online Chinese Project.

Ms. Kuo's presentation was based on her earlier publication, "Survival Skills in Foreign Languages for Business Practitioners: The Development of an Online Chinese Project," in the Journal of Language for International Business (Vol. 16:1, 2005).

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CIBER Business Language Conference

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Penn Lauder CIBER provides annual support to the CIBER Business Language Conference, one of the largest gatherings of business language educators in the country. Several members of the University of Pennsylvania's faculty have been invited to present at this conference. In 2005, Penn Lauder CIBER provided funding for five Penn faculty members to teach specialized business language workshops and present original papers. The 2006 CIBER Business Language Conference will be held at the Georgia Institute of Technology, April 6-9, 2006.

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Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers

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University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences and Lauder Institute faculty member Dr. Maria Bourlatskaya (Slavic Languages, Russian) attended the Second Annual Workshop on Teaching and Learning to Near-native Levels of Language Proficiency, hosted by the Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers (CDLC) at Howard University in November 2004.

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