*Lunch provided*
RSVP to losagio@pitt.edu by Monday, September 17, 2012

Graduate students and faculty are invited to participate in this workshop, which will provide training in the theory and application of the multiliteracies approach to teaching advanced-level foreign language courses. Participants will have the chance to develop their own teaching materials.

Heather Willis Allen is an Assistant Professor of French and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also serves as Course Chair for the Elementary French program. Allen’s research interests include language-learning motivation, teacher development, and literacy-based approaches to teaching and learning. Her book-length publications include Educating the Future Foreign Language Professoriate for the 21st Century (Heinle Cengage, 2011), co-edited with Hiram H. Maxim, and Alliages culturels: La société française en transformation (in press, Heinle Cengage), a literacy-based introduction to French culture today textbook co-authored with Sebastien Dubreil. Allen’s research has also appeared in the ADFL Bulletin, Foreign Language Annals, the French Review, Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, the Journal of Studies in International Education, the L2 Journal and the Modern Language Journal. Her next project, contracted with Pearson, is a co-authored introduction to foreign language teaching manual entitled A Multiliteracies Framework for Collegiate Foreign Language Teaching.