This is the official program for SWCOLT/UFLA 2023. Join us Friday and Saturday, February 24 & 25, 2023 at the Salt Lake Marriott Downtown at City Creek in Salt Lake City, Utah. Pre-conference workshops are scheduled for Thursday, February 23, 2023. Register for the conference and reserve a hotel room at this link: Information & Registration.
PARKING INFORMATION If you will be driving to SWCOLT 2023, please be aware of the following:
The daily parking fee is $5 for conference attendees. Park in the Marriott garage and come to the Registration area for SWCOLT. Uou will receive a voucher in the hotel. When you are ready to leave at the end of the day, pay for parking at the kiosk located next to the elevators in the hotel lobby--before going to your car. Do not go to your car first and attempt to use the voucher to pay upon exiting the garage.
In this session we discuss ways to identify and address the reasons why students of Spanish sometimes don't learn some of the most basic language structures even after years of exposure to and study of the target language. We present the results of a study that looks at acquisition of basic grammatical structures by students enrolled in a Spanish Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program. We focus on the acquisition of gender and number agreement, a basic feature of Spanish grammar that students still struggle with even after years of participation in the program. The presentation gives attendees an opportunity to understand the challenges involved and then practice designing activities that expedite the acquisition of this grammatical feature.
