The pages listed below provide slides, useful links, and other information about presentations by MAFLT faculty. Our students and alumni have presented with faculty and on their own at ACTFL, NCOLCTL, MIWLA, Central States, SCOLT, NABE, and other state, regional and national conferences.
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Moving beyond banning AI in language classes
How are you using ChatGPT in language teaching? Do you ban it or take advantage of it? This presentation covers recent trends, ethical questions, and a range of recommended activities.
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Assessing Intercultural Competence – Extempore Extravaganza 2023
As part of Extempore’s summer virtual conference, Dr. Lanier presented on using group reflections to assess intercultural competence.
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LCTL Special Interest Group – ACTFL Webinar
The National LCTL Resource Center and the ViVID Project Professional Development for Instructors of Less-Commonly-Taught Languages ACTFL Special Interest Group Webinar | June 29, 2023 Presenters: Dr. Emily Heidrich Uebel Dr. Amanda Lanier Dr. Bruna Sommer Farias LCTL Instructors ViVID Project LCTL SIG Slides Participate LCTL Instructor Needs and Challenges? Click to Respond Anytime Click…
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Data Literacy and Data-Driven Decision Making for Language Teachers
AAAL 2023
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Lexical Bundles in Genre-Specific Writing: Results from an Intervention Study
AAAL 2023
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MAFLT at SCOLT 2023
SCOLT 2023
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Genre Pedagogies for the World Language Classroom
CERCLL Webinar | January 2023
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Comprehensible Grammar Webinar
… and Other Oxymorons Language Teachers Can Embrace – Dr. Lanier’s webinar for Voces Digital Series, January 2023
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Possible Selves: Crafting Motivation in LCTLs
ACTFL 2022
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Make Virtual Community a Reality
MIWLA 2022
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Opening the Silos #LanguagesWithoutWalls
How language departments can collaborate and grow as a community despite the differences between target languages. | Extempore Extravaganza 2022
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Department of One: How Isolated Teachers Connect and Collaborate
CSCTFL 2022
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Re-Imagining Virtual Interaction in Gather.Town
MWALLT 2022
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Ecology and Vitality of Language Programs
ACTFL 2021
Foreign Language Excellence Exchange
https://flexchange.commons.msu.edu
Student-Faculty Presentations





SCOLT 2023
Betty Brown & Bruna Sommer-Farias
MIWLA 2022
Make virtual community a reality: Strategies for teacher networking
Lanier, A., Brown, B., Henderson, T., & Schmidt, T.
Central States 2022
Department of one: How isolated language teachers cope and collaborate
Jaime Danks & Amanda Lanier
ACTFL 2021
Ecology and Vitality of Language Programs:
Advocating for Japanese language teaching
Brown, B., Himata Paris, Y., Whiting-Kipper, T., and Lanier, A.
ACTFL 2019
Making Authentic Texts Comprehensible with Corpus Analysis Tools
Presenters: Amanda Lanier, Agnieszka Makles, Courtney Mayes, & Maggie Rutkowski
Access slides and resources here: Google Site
ACTFL 2019
Reaching Intercultural Competence with Story-Based Methods
Presenters: Rachel Emery, Bill Langley, & Amanda Lanier
Access slides and resources here: Google Site
NCOLCTL 2018
Cultivating Intercultural Competence Before, During, and After Immersion
Presenters: Young Oak Morgan and Amanda Lanier
Access slides and videos here: Google Site
Presentations with Dr. Lanier – Reference List
Lanier, A., Brown, B., Henderson, T., & Schmidt, T. (October, 2022). Make virtual community a reality: Strategies for teacher networking. Michigan World Language Association (MIWLA).
Danks, J. & Lanier, A. (March, 2022). Department of one: How isolated language teachers cope and collaborate. Central States Conference on Teaching Foreign Languages (CSCTFL).
Brown, B., Himata Paris, Y., Whiting-Kipper, T., and Lanier, A. (November, 2021). Ecology and vitality of language programs: Advocating for Japanese language teaching. Paper at American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Virtual Convention & Expo. Access materials at: sites.google.com/msu.edu/ecology-vitality-actfl2021/home
Lanier, A., Makles, A., Mayes, C., & Rutkowski, M. (November, 2019). Learner autonomy and authentic texts. Paper at American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in Washington, D.C.
Emery, R., Langley, B., & Lanier, A. (November, 2019). Reaching intercultural competence with story-based methods. Paper at American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in Washington, D.C.
Lanier, A. & Andrews, A. (March, 2019). Comprehensible input vs standardized testing: what can learners achieve? Paper at the Southeast Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) in Myrtle Beach, SC.
Morgan, Y., & Lanier, A. (April, 2018). Promoting intercultural competence before, during, and after language immersion. Paper accepted for presentation at the National Council for Less-Commonly-Taught Languages in Herndon, VA.
Other Student Presentations (to be updated)
Kari Seymour and Andrew Burke – Extempore Extravaganza 2023
Joe Leibson (Class of 2016) presented his work on the use of NearPod in the classroom at the 2015 ACTFL convention in San Diego. For more details, watch his video presentation here.
Tammy Schmidt
Francesca Regalado