Days 1 & 2 will focus on teaching film in Spanish language classrooms. The goals are two-fold: we will consider how cinema may support learning objectives related to cultural competency and language learning at the intermediate level while also working to advance students’ multimedia literacy. We will review the basics of cinematic form in order to develop frameworks of analysis that incorporate an understanding of film as a visual language. The workshop will include case studies with age-appr

Days 1 & 2 will focus on teaching film in Spanish language classrooms. The goals are two-fold: we will consider how cinema may support learning objectives related to cultural competency and language learning at the intermediate level while also working to advance students’ multimedia literacy. We will review the basics of cinematic form in order to develop frameworks of analysis that incorporate an understanding of film as a visual language. The workshop will include case studies with age-appropriate materials. Days 3 & 4 will focus on The Use of Poetry and Short Fiction in the Spanish L2 classroom: In this workshop we will consider the benefits and difficulties of using poetry and short stories in the Spanish language classroom. We will examine how the incorporation of these literary genres can help to create project-oriented tasks in which students expand both their active and incidental vocabularies, learn to recognize and use new grammatical structures and, most importantly, begin to use and play with the language in creative ways—including writing their own short creative texts.