2025


Targeting the transfer of learning in advanced undergraduate language courses. Panel via teleconference: To study or not to study language—student perspectives and potential responses. Berkeley Language Center.

 

May 2025    Second annual workshop on the teaching of foreign language writing. University of

                     Virginia, Center for Teaching Excellence. Charlottesville, VA.

 

April 2025   Invited webinar: Implementing multiliteracies in textbook-driven language curricula. University of Arizona / CERCLL.

 

April 2025   Invited webinar: L2 creativity in the era of generative AI: A Design perspective. Fashion Institute of Techology SUNY, Modern Languages & Cultures.

 

March 2025 Invited workshop: Why multiliteracies now? Toward an inclusive pedagogy for teaching

language, literature, and culture. University of Rhode Island, Dept. of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures. Kingston, RI.





2024

Enacting inclusive writing instruction: A Design orientation. Emory University Language Center. Atlanta, GA.


2023

Rethinking L2 writing instruction: A Design perspective. Invited presentation. The University of Vermont School of World Languages and Cultures. Burlington, VT.


2022

Moving beyond product, process, or genre:  A Design orientation to second language writing instruction. Research colloquium presentation. University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Research and Teaching in Writing. Madison, WI. 


2021


Moving beyond product, process, or genre: Toward a Design orientation to L2 writing instruction. Invited lecture at U. of California Berkeley Language Center. Recording available here.


2020

Integrating the sociocultural dimension of literacy development in undergraduate FL courses. Via teleconference. Harvard University.

 

2018

 

Addressing the language-literature divide through multiliteracies pedagogy. Department of French and Italian, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

 

2017


Moving beyond communicative language teaching: Anchoring lower-division collegiate language instruction in literacy development. Emory University, Department of French and Italian.

 

2015  


Collegiate foreign language teacher development: Challenges and strategies to meet the MLA's call for change. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY.

 

2013


Collegiate foreign language teacher development: Challenges and strategies in meeting the MLA’s call for change. University of Wisconsin-Madison Language Institute. Language Matters: Wisconsin and the World Lecture Series. Madison, WI.


2012


Investigating language-learning motivation: Contributions and challenges of a sociocultural theory perspective. Georgetown University, German Department, Washington, D. C.

 

Foreign language teaching assistant professional development. Challenges and strategies in meeting the 2007 MLA Report’s calls for change. RESET/REBOOT/RECOUP: The new college language and cultural studies symposium. University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX.

 

2010


Goals, motives, and self-perceptions in study abroad: Are students missing the point? (Or are we?) Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Presented with Guy Spielmann.

 

Beyond the four skills: Structuring classroom foreign language instruction with a multiple literacies approach. Emory College Language Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.