My name is Andrea Parra and I am a Professor of Spanish (Teaching) in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where I have been teaching for over twenty years. I teach primarily intermediate-level Spanish language classes and have assisted in directing the Spanish and Portuguese language programs as well as in the drafting of language program learner outcomes. At USC, our faculty have actively sought to incorporate ACTFL standards in our core curriculum. We are currently in the process of publishing an online textbook for the initial three-semester Spanish language sequence.
Andrea Parra
University of Southern California (CA)
All Sessions by Andrea Parra
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June 28: Pathways to Performance & Feedback
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TELL: Performance & Feedback
Integrated Performance Assessments
TELL: Performance & FeedbackThis presentation will focus on Integrated Performance Assessments (IPAs) and their use in the classroom. The very structure of the IPA aligns with all of the criteria highlighted above. Each IPA features three tasks, each of which reflects one of the three modes of communication--Interpretive, Interpersonal, and Presentational. The tasks are organized around a particular theme or content area and create a natural progression in the acquisition and use of language in the real world. Students are provided with rich input, which enables them to complete the subsequent task. Interpretive tasks that include readings, videos and images, are followed by interpersonal tasks based on the designated theme. One component of the IPA might also focus on a targeted grammatical structure as well. Students often complete the set of activities with a presentational task, which can take the form of a written or oral text. IPAs can be designed for novice, intermediate, and advanced levels of proficiency, and can be used with scoring rubrics that rate performance in terms of whether the performance meets expectations, exceeds expectations, or does not meet expectations for the task. Participants will learn about the basic structure of IPAs and will be shown a variety of IPAs for different levels of proficiency.Performance & Feedback
Helping People Understand Each Other and the World Around Them
The National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) is a unit of the University of Maryland. For more than three decades, we have focused on partnerships with educational institutions and organizations, governments agencies, organizations, and individual scholars and policy makers. Our primary means of realizing our mission is through strengthening people’s knowledge of world languages, especially those less commonly taught in the United States.