Seventh International Conference on Immersion and Dual Language Education

Symposia Session

English/Spanish (not language specific)

This workshop will show how to apply the teaching methodology of Project Based Language Learning (PBLL) through two projects that took place in high school advanced Spanish classes within the Bridge Program in Utah. Presenters will walk the audience through all the steps and scaffolding necessary for a successful project and product. The audience will actively participate in the process.

The purpose of this workshop is to offer educators hands on examples of already implemented projects in the language classroom based on the teaching methodology: Project Based Language Learning (PBLL). There will be a brief overview of the theoretical framework of PBLL, however, this presentation will focus on the real classroom experiences. PBLL has proven to be a highly engaging and motivating teaching method that has yielded great results in the advanced language classroom within the Bridge Program in Utah. The Bridge Program is a unique course that offers upper division university classes to high school students in a high school setting following a co-teaching model of high school and university instructor.

During this workshop, the audience will be exposed to two different projects that produced a single final product shared by the students in their community. The first project is based on visual arts and how to raise cultural awareness in a community through art. The second project studied the identity and traditions and how to preserve the lost voices in a community.  

Participants in this workshop will learn the process involved in designing and scaffolding a project which is based on the learning methodology of Project Based Language Learning (PBLL) in their classrooms according to the proficiency level of their students. Participants will be able to use the examples presented in this workshop as reference for their future Project Based Language Learning (PBLL) projects.