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X-WR-CALNAME: Language Resource Center Speaker Series - Koen Van Gorp
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DESCRIPTION:"Real-World Tasks in the Classroom: Myth or Reality? Exploring 
 Task-Based Language Teaching"\nKoen Van Gorp\nAssistant Professor and Less
  Commonly Taught Languages Coordinator\, Michigan State University  \n\nTa
 sks are everywhere. They are the things we do in daily life. Long (2016) a
 rgues that task-based language teaching (TBLT) is the strongest empiricall
 y supported teaching approach around. However\, for many instructors of co
 mmonly and less commonly languages\, TBLT is still an innovative approach 
 that deviates from more familiar structure-based or form-focused teaching 
 methods. They find it difficult to incorporate real-world tasks in their c
 lassrooms. Are real-world tasks the only option or can instructors integra
 te more pedagogical tasks? What do they look like and how do they incorpor
 ate (or not) grammar and vocabulary? \n\nThis talk will focus on what make
 s a task different from a traditional language classroom activity or exerc
 ise\, and how real-world and pedagogical tasks can drive classroom (and be
 yond) learning. This talk aims to provide you with the foundational princi
 ples of TBLT so you can make tasks work for students and classrooms.\n \n\
 nBio: Dr. Koen Van Gorp is an Assistant Professor in the Applied Linguisti
 cs program and Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Coordinator in the De
 partment of Linguistics\, Languages\, and Cultures at Michigan State Unive
 rsity. He is also Co-Principal Investigator and Head of Research for the N
 ational LCTL Resource Center (NLRC) and serves as a Research Fellow at the
  Centre for Language and Education (KU Leuven\, Belgium). His main researc
 h interests are task-based language teaching and assessment\, and multilin
 gualism in education. He is founding Co-Editor (together with Kris Van den
  Branden) of TASK. Journal on task-based language teaching and learning an
 d Treasurer of the International Association for Task-Based Language Teach
 ing (IATBLT).\n\nThis event will be held in person in G25 Stimson and will
  also be streamed live over Zoom. Join us at the LRC or on Zoom.\n\nThe ev
 ent is free and open to the public. Campus visitors and members of the pub
 lic must adhere to Cornell's public health requirements for events.
GEO:42.447758;-76.483398
LOCATION:Stimson Hall\, G25
SUMMARY: Language Resource Center Speaker Series - Koen Van Gorp
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/language_resource_center_spe
 aker_series_-_koen_van_gorp
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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