September 25 - October 4, 1996
This workshop will concentrate on the most serious problem facing Americanists and language teachers abroad--the availability of usable resources to support their teaching and initial research by their students. Problems of identifying and acquiring those resources as well as the long-term availability of materials will be addressed. Participants will discuss traditional and non-traditional primary and secondary print materials and alternative sources of documentation to support curriculum and basic topical research. The workshop is intended for a mix of librarians and university-level teachers involved in or responsible for developing materials in their institutions or departments. It will stress provision of American content materials for both American studies and language teachers. In addition to looking at traditional print materials, participants will use Pro-Quest CD-ROM sources, on-line data, on-line books from the Internet, compact disk data, and archival documentation. Teacher resources will be explored through the introduction to and use of the advanced electronic materials and Internet access available at the CSACL. The faculty includes Deborah Healey, Fredrik Chr. Brøgger and Pamela Wonsek.
All lectures at the Center are recorded and are available for copying. A list of past lectures and the procedures to obtain a copy are available.
Online projects are produced by participants at this workshop. The article ("History, Development and Applications of the Project Approach: An ESP Case Study") provides background information on the project approach to curriculum development. This discussion includes a definition of terms, assumptions behind the project approach, a review of literature including contemporary writers in ESL as well as the roots of the project approach in the progressive education movement of the 1920s. In addition, an application of the project approach is examined as it applied to an oil company in the 1980s, including sample lessons. A projects page is available that includes the following: sources of ideas for projects and project organization including links to projects created in previous workshops; information resources including World Wide Web sites, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) software and the ASC multimedia CD-ROM collection, and some Internet publications; possible organization/components for a project; and steps in the creation of a project.
The movie shown as an evening activity in this workshop is Lean on Me. A paper containing ideas on using film in the classroom is also available, and includes questions and answers about movie production as well as.
For further information, contact the United States Information Service in your
country of residence and/or Martha
Gecek, Associate Director, The American Studies Center of the Salzburg Seminar,
Schloss Leopoldskron, Box 129, A-5010 Salzburg, Austria.
Telephone: +43 (662) 839 830;
Fax: +43 (662) 825 269 / 825 346 / 824 689 / 839 8366