| 4:30 - 5:30 PM |
Afternoon Tea. 2nd Floor, Pre Function Area
Participants are welcome to meet the
speakers and other out of town participants.
|
| Saturday,
January 23, 2010 |
| 8:00
AM |
Registration
& Breakfast. Paris Room, Ground Floor. |
| 9:00 - 9:30 AM
Paris Room
Keynote Speaker |
Liqing Wei
Consul, Education Office, Consulate
General of China in Houston.
|
| 9:30
- 10:00
Paris Room
Plenary
Session
|
Orlando
R. Kelm, The University of Texas
at Austin
Using Technology in Teaching Business Language
in the K-12 Curriculum
|
| 10:30 - 12:00 PM
Paris Room
Plenary Session |
May Hongmei Gao, Kennesaw
State University
Cross Cultural aspects of Business Communications.
Cristian Aquino-Sterling, University
of Pennsylvania
Teaching and Learning in a New Key:
Introducing Business Language Instruction
in K-12 Settings. |
| 12:00 - 1:30 PM |
Lunch. Banquet Pavilion, 2nd floor. |
| 1:30 - 3:30
PM
Concurrent
Sessions |
Spanish:
Paris Room
- Christine Groose,
Introducing Materials on Business in the
K-12 Classroom.
- Zoila Clark
Using Entrepreneurial Characters from Isabel
Allende's Texts in the Spanish for Business
Classroom.
Portuguese:
Bordeaux Room
- Cassia Silva - Key Languages.
Writing Portuguese well for professional success
- Beatriz Cariello, Florida International University
Reviewing "Strategies to preserve the Portuguese language and the Brazilian Identity"
Chinese: Marseille Room
- Orlando Kelm, The University
of Texas at Austin
- May Hongmei Gao, Kennesaw
State University
The Importance of Culture Education for Global Business:
A communication perspective
Japanese: Normandy Room
- Tomoko Takami, University of
Pennsylvania
Teaching Business Japanese: Curriculum and
Material Development
|
| 3:45
- 5:15 PM
Concurrent
Sessions |
Spanish: Paris Room
- Cristian
Aquino-Sterling, University
of Pennsylvania
From Theory into Practice: Modeling the
Design and Implementation of a Proficiency
and Content-based Business Spanish Unit.
Portuguese:
Bordeaux Room
- Orlando Kelm, The University
of Texas at Austin
- Maisa Zakir - University of Miami
Teletandem Brasil: Foreign Languages for All
Chinese: Marseille Room
- Tao
Liu, University of Oklahoma
Japanese: Normandy Room
- Yasuo Uoate, University of
Florida.
- "Simple Ways to Add Business Language Activities to your everyday K-12 Japanese Language Class"
|
