The Annual Summer Bridge Program Institute kicks off the university/high school co-teaching partnership for the 22-23 school year, focusing on teaching and learning for the upcoming Bridge Program 3116 courses. This institute will include all languages of the University of Utah Bridge Program.

This workshop aims to prepare current and future Dual Language Immersion (DLI) teachers to create authentic teaching materials for DLI classrooms using learner corpora. The 6-hour in-person workshop will include lectures and practice sessions on the following topics: analyzing sample corpus-informed teaching materials in various languages; using corpus linguistic tools and techniques; developing corpus-informed activities based on corpus search results.

This two-day workshop will focus on teaching film in Spanish language classrooms. The basics of cinematic form will be reviewed in order to develop frameworks of analysis that incorporate an understanding of film as a visual language. After examining questions of genre, content, and style, we will review strategies for the pedagogical applications of film analysis and develop assignments and activities that focus on cinema’s unique power to represent cultural identity and social change..

This summer institute, designed especially for K-12 Dual Language Immersion (DLI) practitioners, will introduce participants to the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines, which have served as a framework for language assessment and instruction across levels since their initial publication in 1982. Participants will examine how the proficiency levels and sublevels have been defined and, also, how they have evolved over time from focusing on oral language assessment to include all modes of communication. The presenters will also share research on assessing performance toward proficiency of DLI students.