UCA to host foreign language educators

UCA’s Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures will welcome foreign language educators from across the state to campus for the 2007 Annual Conference of the Arkansas Foreign Language Teachers Association, which will be held this Thursday and Friday at the Brewer-Hegeman Conference Center. Faculty conducting workshops on Thursday include Sharon Wilkes, (technology); Shirley Friedman, Ivan Iglesias, and Wendy Dodge (Spanish Immersion); and Dr. Marian Brodman and Dr. Phillip Bailey (French Immersion). AFLTA President and UCA Spanish Lecturer Patricia Carlin will present a session on Friday. Dr. Todd Marshall will discuss the role of comprehensible input on Friday and Dr. Jennifer Parrack will present a talk on mentoring students with Spanish MA graduate students Laura Edwards and J-L Peterson. For more information, call 450-3168.