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.
This session will be of interest to language teachers looking for useful and practical ways to assess their students’ intercultural competence. Although Intercultural Communication Competence (ICC) is one of the main goals of immersion education along with bilingualism, biliteracy, and mastery of academic content, the culture goal has received less attention than other goals. Therefore, resources to assess ICC in children are few. This session presents two assessment instruments that can be used by language teachers in their classrooms. The first instrument is a questionnaire, an adaptation of Cuestionario de Auto-Evaluación de la Competencia Intercultural en Alumnado de Primaria (CIAP), which assesses students’ attitudes and perspectives towards other cultures and an appreciation for people with a different cultural background. The second instrument is an Intercultural Task, adapted from the NCSSFL-ACTFL Intercultural Reflection Tool, which allows students to investigate, interact, and reflect on their understanding of their own culture and others.
