The panel chaired by Scott Windham, associate professor of German, was part of the national conference of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages held in late November.
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Scott Windham, associate professor of German in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, chaired a panel on literacy instruction at the national conference of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages held in late November in Washington, D.C.
In the context of second-language instruction, literacy is defined as the use of language for purposes of social interaction—whether personal, professional, or public.
Windham and his co-panelists — Marianna Ryshina-Pankova of Georgetown University and Eckhard Kuhn-Osius of Hunter College — distilled a decade of theoretical and practical research into concrete teaching methods and strategies, with a particular emphasis on the role of grammar as a meaning-making resource.
The panel evolved from Windham’s research during his term as CATL Scholar in 2017-19.