TESOL International: Getting Started with Project-Based Language Learning

Name: TESOL International: Getting Started with Project-Based Language Learning
Start: 2025-02-12T00:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-02-12T23:59:59-07:00
Location: Virtual event

Getting Started with Project-Based Language Learning

Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) offers a framework for designing powerful, culturally contextualized experiences that create opportunities for learners to use their language to address real world needs that are personally meaningful to them. PBLL engages learners in investigating, over an extended time, a complex real-world issue to benefit an authentic audience. From design to implementation, we will walk through the steps to creating a meaningful and successful project. Additionally, we will explore ways that technology can be used to support project design and implementation.

Outcomes

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

gain a deeper understanding of the key elements of high quality Project-Based Learning in the language classroom and be able to differentiate between PBLL and “doing projects”.
identify tech tools that can support project design and implementation.

Presenter

Rachel Mamiya Hernandez is a Language and Technology Faculty Specialist at the Center for Language & Technology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She has over 15 years of experience teaching Spanish and Portuguese at the university level. She holds a BA in Latin American Studies, an MA in Second Language Studies with a concentration in Language Teaching, and a PhD in Learning Design and Technology. Some of her professional interests include language acquisition and teaching, project-based learning, online intercultural exchanges, social justice, learning technologies and instructional design.