Bringing teachers together around great reads
Dec. 2, 2021
4:00 - 5:30 pm PST
Join us for a community read and discussion of Professor Anna Mendoza's blog entry
What is “postmethod” language teaching and why has it been so influential?
4:00 - 5:30 pm PST
Join us for a community read and discussion of Professor Anna Mendoza's blog entry
What is “postmethod” language teaching and why has it been so influential?
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Professors Anna Mendoza and Jayson Parba (University of Hawai'i at Manoa) will lead us in exploring how postmethod language teaching can empower HL teachers to better serve the needs of their learners.
Participants are also invited to share their thoughts on other blog entries in Annamend (https://annamend.com/blog ), in particular, Why are the challenges to maintaining national linguistic diversity? — Globally relevant lessons from heritage language education in the U.S., where Prof. Mendoza summarizes key ideas from the HLX launch panel discussion and offers her takeaways.
Dr. Anna Mendoza (PhD, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. She is interested in bi/multilingualism in primary and secondary education. Her work has appeared in Modern Language Journal, Foreign Language Annals, Applied Linguistics Review, and International Journal of Multilingualism. She maintains a blog summarizing research on translanguaging that has an average of 700-800 visitors each month from around the world. https://annamend.com/blog
Dr. Jayson Parba (PhD, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) is an Instructor and the Coordinator in the Filipino Language and Philippine Literature Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His research interests include critical language teaching, language ideologies, multilingualism, and heritage language teaching. He has published in Critical Inquiry in Language Studies,Linguistics and Education, International Journal of Multilingualism, and Asian Journal of English Language Teaching, among others.