school of education

(Victoria)

PUBLIC LECTURE

A Bilingual Curriculum for a Monolingual Context: Research on its Impact

Speaker:

A/Professor Claudia Luca Ordez

Ed.D (Harvard University) Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Abstract A true bilingual curriculum uses students context and interests to develop communicative skills, connects learning in both languages and supports constructivist and communicative learning principles. This approach reveals positive changes in the nature of the language learning environments created throughout the school, in the students learning in both languages, and in the participant teachers professional development. Claudia Luca Ordez presents the characteristics and impacts of a bilingual curriculum designed with the help of Spanish and English teachers of a school in a medium-sized Colombian city.

Date:

Thursday 1 December 2011 Mercy Lecture Theatre, ACU Melbourne Campus, 115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy
(Car Parking available off Little Napier Street)

Venue:

Claudia Luca Ordez

Program:

Bio Claudia Luca Ordez is presently Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages, at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She has a Master in Applied Linguistics from Universidad de los Andes, Bogot (1980), and has a Master and Doctor of Education from Harvard University Graduate School of Education (2000). In her work in curriculum development and research, she looks for the best ways to achieve actual bilingualism through education in a monolingual sociolinguistic context.

Claudia Luca Ordez Drinks and Finger Food

6:00pm - 7.00pm

5:00pm - 6.00pm

RSVP:

Pamela Whitehead by 14 November 2011 e: Pamela.Whitehead@acu.edu.au p: +61 3 9953 3354

www.acu.edu.au/education