2022 – Fourth Edition

4th Second-Language Learning & Disabilities Conference

Conference Schedule

Conference Videos

Day 1

Welcome Note & Approaching Inclusion in Our Classrooms

Christopher Maurer,PhD, Chair Ad Interim of Romance Studies, Professor of Spanish, María Datel & Elena Carrión Guerrero, Senior Lecturers in Spanish. Boston University

Keynote: Disabilities, Wellbeing, and Belonging: Being at Home in World Language Studies

Tammy Berberi, PhD, University of Minnesota

Day 2

Resources for Educators at BU

Lorre Wolfe, PhD, Boston University

The Inclusion of Neurodivergent Students

Wade Edwards, PhD. Longwood University, VA.

Best Practices for Inclusive Cinema and Education

Miguel Ángel Font Bisier Film Director & Author, Spain

Deconstructing Normativity: The Responsibilities of Spanish Instructors to Students With Learning Disabilities

Javier Sánchez-Messas, Qatar University

Reflections on Implicit Bias in Inclusive Foreign Language Education: Exploring Pre-Service Teachers’ Reactions to an Implicit Association Test on Specific Learning Differences

Joanna Pfingsthorn, PhD & Ana Rovai, University of Bremen, Germany

Creating Inclusive Language Acquisition with Microinstruction

Lindsay Mitchell, Pinkerton Academy

Comprehensible Output in EFL Conversion Classes: Strategies for Language Processing in Non Traditional Groups

Juliana Luna Freire & Nicolly Gouveia Correia De Freitas, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil