Sat, 11/21: 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM CST
Practice-Oriented Paper Presentations
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
Room: Room 213A
Applicable Language
Non-language specific
German
Korean
Language of Presentation
English
Partner/ACTFL SIG
Not Applicable
Audience Level
Post-Secondary
Keywords
Career, Community, or Global Connections
Curriculum and Instruction
Interdisciplinary
Presentations
Using STEM to Develop Language Proficiency and Academic Discourse
This practice-oriented presentation shows how STEM-related themes (environmental sciences, natural hazards, technology), can serve as a sustained organizing framework for intermediate-level language instruction across world languages.
Audience Level
Post-Secondary
English
Researcher
Antonella Cassia, University Miami
One Classroom, Many Careers: Teaching Language in an Accelerated Job Market
Preparing students for international careers in a fast-changing job market is increasingly complex. This paper presents an Intermediate-High lesson sequence using authentic and AI-supported research, culminating in realistic assessment-center tasks that build up-to-date professional German, transferable job market skills, and learner confidence.
Audience Level
Post-Secondary
English
Researcher
Friederike Knuepling, Humboldt Universitaet Berlin
Enacting Critical Global Literacy Through ESG in a Business Language Course
This presentation illustrates how critical global literacies are enacted in a Korean for Business course through an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) project. It offers practical insights for world language educators to support students' global awareness, global connections, critical text analysis, and social action.
Audience Level
Post-Secondary
English
Researcher
Haewon Cho, University of Pennsylvania
Co-Presenter
Eunae Kim, University of Miami