Conference Program
Last updated: March 20, 2023
Friday, March 24
Saturday, March 25
Consult this conference program for session dates and times. View session descriptions in the Abstracts of Presentations section. Conference attendees will be able to pre-register for sessions through the event app (coming soon).
In-person attendees will have access to both in-person and virtual sessions. There will be designated space to join virtual sessions at the conference site, but attendees must use their own devices, including headphones. Virtual attendees will have access to virtual sessions only.
Friday, March 24
| Time | Room | ID – Session Title | Presenters | Language of Presentation |
| 08:30 – 09:30 | Metropolitan Centre/West | 2024 – Post-Pivot Language Teaching: What Next? (Keynote) | Mary Grantham O’Brien | English |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Dockside 8 | 1008 – ¡Fenomenales y presentes! Furthering our definitions of inclusive high school Spanish classes | Jimmy Steele | English |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Metropolitan East | 4015 – Des vidéos pour progresser en français sur Francolab | Aurélie Garnier | French |
| 10:15 – 11:15 | Zoom | 825 – Innovative Solutions for an Old Problem: Horizontal Collaborations for French Teacher Recruitment and Retention | Joanne Robertson | English / French |
| 10:15 – 11:15 | Zoom | 114 – The 3 Es of 21st century teaching; Engage, Edutainment & Evaluate | Glenn Cake | English / French |
| 10:15 – 11:15 | Zoom | 687 – Amusons-nous à explorer la langue française! | Annette Gagliano | French |
| 10:15 – 11:15 | Richmond | 742 – Expanding oral language assessment: narrative microstructure | Diana Burchell, Patricia Cleave | English / French |
| 10:15 – 11:15 | Dockside 1 | 869 – Establishing Bilingual Programs in a School Division | Mais Helwah, Jordan Foster | English |
| 10:15 – 11:15 | Dockside 2 | 986 – Choosing Books for Your German Classroom | Roswita Dressler, Katherine Mueller | English / German |
| 10:15 – 11:15 | Dockside 6 | 982 – Poetry in ESL: Passion and Possibilities for Language Learning | Philippa Parks | English |
| 10:15 – 11:15 | Queen’s Quay | 631 – The Chaos-Free Classroom | Kathleen Hilchey | English |
| 10:15 – 11:45 | Dockside 5 | 782 – Let’s talk research – Trends for the future of FSL | Samantha Van Geel, Amanda Battistuzzi, Robert Grant, Adam Kaszuba, Cameron Smith, Stephanie Arnott | English / French |
| 10:15 – 11:45 | Dockside 4 | 815 – Activités de littératie dans la classe d’immersion de l’élémentaire | Ian Foster | French |
| 10:15 – 11:45 | Marine | 658 – L’identité professionnelle L2/L+: Comment développer sa légitimité et confiance | Monica Tang | English / French |
| 10:15 – 11:45 | Dockside 9 | 638 – Building bridges between research and practice: Supporting students with exceptionalities in French immersion | Tamara Sorenson Duncan, Kim Lockhart | English |
| 10:15 – 11:45 | Dockside 3 | 620 – Leading an Inclusive French Immersion School | Mark Duwyn | English |
| 10:15 – 11:45 | Bay | 416 – French Escape Rooms – Learning while having fun! | Kristen Bastien, Jennifer Murray | English |
| 10:15 – 11:45 | Wellington | 1200 – L2 Teacher Education, Recruitment, and Retention: que révèle la recherche | Mimi Masson | English / French |
| 10:15 – 11:45 | Regatta | 823 – Honorer l’apprentissage de chaque élève : Évaluer les compétences curriculaires et le contenu des normes d’apprentissage du curriculum | Shauna Néro | French |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Zoom | 729 – An autoethnography of French Immersion Learning Resource Teacher and Mom | Andrea Chalifour | English / French |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Zoom | 783 – Critical perspectives of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in a Canadian context | Taylor Boreland, Muriel Peguret, Cecile Robertson | English |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Zoom | 1300 – Lip Sync Battles: An Engaging, Authentic Project for L+ | Stephanie Jackson | English |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Dockside 8 | 534 – Collaboration and Innovation in English as an Additional Language (EAL) in New Brunswick | Paula Kristmanson, Kathy Whynot, Mallory Cunningham | English |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Dockside 1 | 87 – Differentiated Instructions for Young Learners in Online MSL Classrooms: An Action-Oriented Case Study | Chuan Liu | English |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Richmond | 685 – Equitable, Inclusive Practice Through Formative Assessment | Claire Thorton-Burrows | English |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Queen’s Quay | 757 – Formative Assessment of Prospective FSL Teachers’ Language Proficiency | Stefan Merchant, David Jack | English |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Dockside 6 | 1210 – À propos de l’ACPLS : How CASLT Supports Second Language Teachers | Katherine Mueller | English / French |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Dockside 2 | 809 – Promoting Real-Life Experiences in Secondary FSL Classrooms | Judith Nyman, Charles Benyair, Vanessa Coutu | English |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Metropolitan East | 4010 – Play-based learning tools for French and Spanish | Carole Freynet-Gagné | English |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Metropolitan East | 4005 – Why Laurentien is your obvious and sustainable choice for YEARBOOKS and STUDENT PLANNERS across Canada | James Aymar | English |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Dockside 1 | 785 – Erfolgreicher Online und Blended Unterricht mit „Momente“ | Anna Ralston | German |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Queen’s Quay | 769 – In the Hot Seat: A Comprehensible Input demo | Terri-Ann Gawthroupe, Elodie Channa | English / French |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Richmond | 749 – Explorer les enjeux : identité, bien-être et la rétention des enseignants de français langue seconde débutants | Karla Culligan, Jessica Bouchie, Alex Hernandez, Jadine Krist | French |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Dockside 4 | 731 – Making oral language the star: using the Neurolinguistic Approach to support students’ oral language development | Katherine Mueller, Roswita Dressler | English |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Dockside 6 | 707 – IDÉLLO : des ressources clefs en main pour le Français Cadre et Immersion | Barbara Franchi Johnson | French |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Dockside 5 | 626 – Engaging Language Learners in Voting Rights | Camille Blanchard-Séguin | English / French |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Dockside 8 | 660 – CPF Advocacy-Oriented Research for a Bright Bilingual Future: In the early years, building linguistic security and online learning | Nicole Thibault, Dr. Wendy Carr, Derrek Bentley | English / French |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Zoom | 786 – Blended Language Programming: Leveraging Technology to Increase Equity and Foster Connections in Language Teaching | Stephanie MacNeill, Emily Ledwell | English |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Wellington | 604 – You Don’t Have To Be An Expert: Equitable Classrooms and Social Justice Education in FSL | Jennifer Bairos | English |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Dockside 3 | 651 – Building Thinking Classrooms: Modern Learning in Secondary FSL | Rubina Sharma-Mohan | English |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Bay | 716 – Cinq principes de l’apprentissage dans la salle de classe de français langue seconde | Lesley Doell | French |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Marine | 792 – Developing Action-oriented Scenarios with Various Learning Needs in Mind | Danielle Hunter | English / French |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Dockside 9 | 814 – Conversation Routines for Online and In-Person L+ Classrooms | Dionne LeBlanc, Jordan Foster, Stephanie Jackson | English |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Regatta | 794 – Leadership Moves (in) Second Language Education | Elizabeth Hoerath | English |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Zoom | 615 – An interactive genre-based, task-based approach to advance equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in FSL classrooms | Usha Viswanathan, Jesse Philippe | English / French |
| 13:30 – 15:45 | Dockside 2 | 779 – Teaching French IN FRENCH! – Structuring learning and lessons in the target language | Angela Berry | English |
| 13:30 – 15:45 | Zoom | 759 – Supporting Survivors of Trauma: From Formal Education in an Elementary School to Informal Education in a Refugee Camp | Lindsay Butler-Hashimi | English |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Metropolitan East | 4020 – Structured Literacy with Je lis, je lis littératie | Kevin Martindale, Steven Silva, Marisa Moser | English |
| 14:45 – 15:15 | Metropolitan East | 4035 – YMCA Summer Work Student Exchange | Kai Kachan | English |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Dockside 1 | 988 – Getting Readers Active in the Spanish Classroom | Steven Langlois | English |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Richmond | 791 – Bring Students Anywhere: VR & AR in FSL | Erin Coulson | English / French |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Zoom | 795 – Beyond Borders in the Classroom: Cultural ESL Activities in Virtual Reality for Writing at the High School Level | Robin Couture-Matte | English |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Bay | 562 – Making Math Meaningful and Motivating for Our Learners / Rendre les maths signifiants et motivants | Tara Dryburgh, Kindra Harte | English / French |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Dockside 9 | 814.1 – Routines de conversation pour les classes de L+ en ligne et en personne | Jordan Foster, Jordan Foster, Stephanie Jackson | French |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Queen’s Quay | 753 – How to Help Our Most Dysregulated Students | Kathleen Hilchey | English |
| 14:45 – 16:15 | Dockside 5 | 269 – 70 activités motivantes de lecture et plus | Christine Thibaudier-Ness | French |
| 14:45 – 16:15 | Dockside 3 | 804 – Stress Less: Use the Literacy Loop to Prepare Students for Second Language Testing | Anja Dressler Araujo | English |
| 14:45 – 16:15 | Wellington | 766 – Teaching with CI – I want my students to communicate! | Tabatha Luft | English |
| 14:45 – 16:15 | Marine | 822 – Language Learning Centres Are for Every Age! Using Manipulatives and Games to Engage All Language Learners | Shauna Néro | English |
| 14:45 – 16:15 | Dockside 6 | 813 – Cadres de l’approche intégrée en immersion française : l’incontournabilité des littératies langagière et disciplinaire | Jean-Pierre Decorby, Gwendolyn Shone | French |
| 14:45 – 17:00 | Regatta | 777 – Identifying gaps in FSL teacher preparation: Reporting findings from the CASLT FSL Teacher Education project | Stephanie Arnott, Amanda Battistuzzi, Karla Culligan, Joseph Dicks, Paula Kristmanson, Josée Le Bouthillier, Mimi Masson, Cameron Smith, Valia Spiliotopoulos, Meike Wernicke | English / French |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Metropolitan East | 4030 – L’ACPI : la seule association canadienne dédié spécifiquement aux professionnels de l’immersion | Lesley Doell | French |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Zoom | 788 – La collaboration par la technologie – Comment motiver des élèves en français langue seconde | Vera Ryan, Stephanie Burke | French |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Dockside 1 | 1050 – Todes somos latines: a focus on the afrolatinx community in the Spanish classroom | Flor Aviles | English / Spanish |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Richmond | 415 – High-yield teaching strategies that support concept-based instruction | Dr. Megan Sénéchal | English / French |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Dockside 2 | 708 – IDÉLLO présente : « Perspectives Autochtones » | Barbara Franchi Johnson | French |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Dockside 4 | 730 – La confiance en développement: L’enseignement de mathématiques en immersion française à l’élémentaire | Julianne Gerbrandt | French |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Zoom | 768 – Mes expériences avec la compétence interculturelle en classe de Français Langue Étrangère | Renata Mello | English / French |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Zoom | 1010 – The Plurilingual Shift in (language) Education: Science over Snake Oil | Quinton Stotz | English |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Bay | 596 – L’approche neuro-linguistique? C’est le comment du CECR | Antonia Cetin | French |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Queen’s Quay | 610 – Get Them Talking! – Using oral activities and games to build language skills in your L2 classroom | Kate Powless | English |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Dockside 9 | 657 – Enseigner la langue pour créer une identité positive et légitime | Monica Tang | French |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Dockside 8 | 764 – Teaching Skills Across the Grades: Saving Time & Sanity | Kaitlyn Reid | English |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Wellington | 663 – Thinking Outside the Box: Creative Strategies for Reaching Quiet, Disengaged, Struggling Students | Lorena Gallego, Susanne Remane, Suzanne Wali | English |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Dockside 3 | 334 – Welcome to Garrettville: Promoting second language acquisition through content-based instruction in the elementary classroom | Melissa Garrett | English / French |
Saturday, March 25
| Time | Room | ID – Session Title | Presenters | Language of Presentation |
| 08:30 – 09:30 | Metropolitan Centre/West | 2025 – Balancing Life with Humour (Keynote) | Kate Davis | English |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Dockside 8 | 773 – Canadian Sign Languages: Creating Future Partnership in Employment Opportunities | Gary Malkowski, Beverly Buchanan | ASL |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Dockside 5 | 438 – Dans la zone – Le flow en enseignement des langues secondes | Marc-Albert Paquette, Nancy Langlois | English / French |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Marine | 623 – Bringing the New CEFR Companion Volume (CEFR 2020) to Life in the Classroom | Danielle Hunter | English |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Queen’s Quay | 643 – Support language development in English language learners with exceptional needs | Tamara Sorenson Duncan | English |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Dockside 2 | 784 – Diversität und Plurikulturalität – Deutschunterricht am Puls der Zeit | Anna Ralston | German |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Bay | 793 – Using Digital Portfolios to Support French as a Second Language Students | Genevieve Bisson | English / French |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Zoom | 780 – Jaser en français : accompagnement didactique et plans de leçon pour l’enseignement du français informel dans des situations quotidiennes | Mirela Cherciov, Laura Hermans-Nymark, Esabella Gio, Pauline Le Bot | French |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Dockside 9 | 659 – Culturally Responsive and Relevant Pedagogy in Secondary FSL: Critical Literacy and the Book Club Model | Rubina Sharma-Mohan | English |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Dockside 1 | 737 – The COVID-19 Pandemic and Second Language Teaching in Canada: Impacts and Enduring Innovations | Roswita Dressler, Rochelle Guida | English |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Zoom | 989 – Getting Readers Active in ESL | Steven Langlois | English |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Dockside 4 | 624 – Assessment-Learning Maps! Single-point rubrics! Proficiency scales and more! | Kindra Harte | English |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Regatta | 820 – Developing Teachers’ leadership in and for L2 programs: Take your place at the table! | Shauna Néro | English |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Dockside 6 | 750 – Jeux de maths comme outil de motivation et différenciation en immersion française au niveau intermédiaire | Karla Culligan | French |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Zoom | 359 – Retrieval, interleaving and spacing in the MFL classroom | Jennifer Wozniak-Rush | English / French |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Wellington | 717 – A message to our leaders in Education: Come and discover the mysteries and fundamentals of supporting FSL teaching and learning! | Denis Cousineau, Antonia Cetin | English |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Dockside 3 | 558 – La révolution frespañol: Dismantling whiteness in French and Spanish towards decolonization | Jean Wan, Mina Dahesh | English / French |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Richmond | 748 – Toward a shared vision on language development in the context of the ongoing FSL teacher shortage | Stephanie Arnott, Michael Salvatori, Dr. Wendy Carr, Mark Duwyn, Ryan Furlong, Nicole Thibault | English / French |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Wellington | 597 – Ralentir pour gagner du temps: augmenter le bien-être des élèves et des enseignants | Antonia Cetin | French |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Dockside 1 | 1012 – La pandémie de COVID-19 et l’enseignement des langues secondes au Canada : répercussions et innovations durables | Roswita Dressler, Rochelle Guida | French |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Zoom | 119 – Teaching Spanish -Resources and more! How to motivate our students to become fluent! | Kindra Harte | English |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Richmond | 613 – Microprogramme collégial flexible et innovant en enseignement du FLS : une profession en pleine croissance ! | Nicole Poirier, Rebecca Huot | French |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Dockside 3 | 616 – Education Support Teachers for EAL in New Brunswick: The How and Why of Their Success | Kathy Whynot, Tegan Taylor, Laura Taylor, Kristine Cormier, Krista Cabel | English |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Zoom | 439 – Quand la langue parle au coeur : How to foster a safe intercultural space in the second language classroom | Raphaella Dixon, Marc-Albert Paquette | English / French |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Dockside 6 | 754 – FSL teacher language proficiency: Research into an innovative approach in New Brunswick | Laura Hermans-Nymark, Fiona Stewart | English / French |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Dockside 4 | 675 – Language learning and community service learning: an example of transversal competences in action | Laura Ambrosio | English / French |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Queen’s Quay | 627 – Task-Based Learning at High School Using the CEFR | Heath Currie | English |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Dockside 2 | 733 – Des activités d’écoute pour soutenir l’acquisition de la langue seconde | Josée Le Bouthillier, Renée Bourgoin | French |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Marine | 677 – Integrating Plurilingual Mediation into Action-oriented Tasks | Danielle Hunter | English |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Dockside 8 | 797 – Single-Stream Core French? Je ne pourrais pas… | Leah Abbey | English |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Bay | 770 – Physical education and French oral production (NLA) | Trevor Cassidy | English / French |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Dockside 9 | 972 – Fostering a Student-Centred Classroom With a Focus on Social Emotional Learning: Practical Tips and Tricks | Kalli Lirette, Lauren Olson, Stephanie Jackson | English |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Zoom | 636 – A Toi la Parole/ Let’s get students talking! | Glenn Cake | English |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Dockside 5 | 776 – Innovating FSL teacher preparation: Perspectives from two Ontario Faculties of Education | Stephanie Arnott, Gail Prasad, Adam Kaszuba, Marika Kunnas, Taylor Boreland, Robert Grant, Diana Burchell | English / French |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Metropolitan East | 4025 – Livres décodables et ressources pour soutenir la science de la lecture | Mélanie Lortie | French |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Dockside 1 | 567 – La Zone pédagogique de l’ACPI : l’outil par excellence destiné aux professionnels de l’immersion | Lesley Doell | French |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Richmond | 722 – Assessing using Canadian Language Benchmarks: What it means for me | Charles Gibbs | English / French |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Zoom | 622 – Elements of Traditional Indigenous Teaching Useful to L2 Didactics | Pierre Demers | English |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Dockside 4 | 738 – Le rôle de l’enseignement explicite pour le développement de l’oral | Renée Bourgoin, Josée Le Bouthillier | French |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Dockside 9 | 972.1 – Favoriser une classe axée sur l’élève avec un accent mis sur l’apprentissage socio-émotionnel : conseils et astuces pratiques | Kalli Lirette, Lauren Olson, Stephanie Jackson | French |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Dockside 6 | 726 – Catch The Wave! -Telenovelas and more! Engaging our Spanish students! | Kindra Harte | English |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Dockside 2 | 983 – Media Literacy in the ESL Classroom | Philippa Parks | English |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Zoom | 1000 – Storytelling: A Fun Way to Engage & Transfer in Mandarin Learning | Ping Li | Mandarin / English |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Queen’s Quay | 608 – Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Using a Structured Literacy Approach in the FSL Classroom | Kim Lockhart | English |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Dockside 8 | 594 – L’évaluation formative et transmission des résultats | Miriam Semeniuk | French |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Marine | 821 – Boucler la boucle: Applying the Neuro-linguistic Approach to build foundational skills in Core French | Shauna Néro | English / French |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Dockside 3 | 602 – Languages Learning for Everyone: Basics to American Sign Language | Alina Ovsiy | English |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Dockside 5 | 839 – Play-based pedagogy – a fun yet serious approach to developing oral communication! | Carole Freynet-Gagne | English / French |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Bay | 645 – L’évaluation équitable qui valorise l’élève en français langue seconde – langue additionnelle | Sylvia Moll, Heather Norton | French |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Wellington | 630 – L’enseignement de l’écriture de textes courants au primaire | Léo-James Lévesque | French |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Dockside 1 | 790 – Testing teachers’ assumption that student personality impacts their response to and experience of corrective feedback. | Alina Lemak | English |
| 15:15 – 16:15 | Zoom | 710 – Endangered Sign Languages Documentation: A Creation of Maritime Sign Language Digital Dictionary | Beverly Buchanan | ASL |
| 15:15 – 16:15 | Dockside 4 | 812 – L’approche interculturelle dans les programmes d’immersion française : apprécier, s’appropier! | Gwendolyn Shone, Jean-Pierre Decorby | French |
| 15:15 – 16:15 | Regatta | 844 – Building Competent and Engaged Readers in French Immersion | Angeline Humber | English |
| 15:15 – 16:15 | Dockside 2 | 762 – Weaving the culture strand… One year later | Elodie Channa | English / French |
| 15:15 – 16:15 | Richmond | 706 – Disrupting FSL Instruction: Critical Reflection, Intentional Planning, and Thoughtful Resource Selection | Amanda Cloutier, Rubina Sharma-Mohan, Mimi Masson | English |
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