This presentation is part of the conference Teachers across Borders: Global Classrooms and  highlights the importance of repetition as a means of acquiring the muscle memory, the vocabulary, and the grammatical structures necessary to successfully produce impromptu oral language.

Kerri Galloway is  a Spanish teacher at a high school in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA and she is National Board Certified. She has taught Spanish at Montgomery Blair High School for 21 years. She currently teaches Spanish 2 and 3.  She has a Bachelor’s degree in Latin American Studies from Rutgers University. She spent her junior year abroad in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico studying at the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan. She has a Master’s degree in Hispanic Linguistics from the Ohio State University. 

She is in Curitiba  to learn Portuguese with the IPAST (Intensive Portuguese Abroad for Spanish Teachers)  at CELIN – UFPR and she is part of the language teacher education course offered by the university project Teachers across Borders UFPR. 

The  registration confirmation email will be sent a day before the Kerri’s talk . Online participants will receive the Teams link to participate online in this email.  We suggest you to download Teams for free in advance if you plan attending the event online. 

WHEN? June 26 – Thursday evening

TIME: 8 p.m – 9 p.m (Time in Curitiba – check the time difference where you are)

WHERE? Edifício Dom Pedro I – Anfiteatro 500  (5th floor)

FREE registration – CERTIFICATE from UFPR and participation statement from The Ohio State University

Coordenação: Prof Dra.  Angela Maria Hoffmann Walesko

                          Prof. Dra. Adriana C. S de Mattos Brahim

If you have any doubts or comments please, send us an email: 

 teachersacrossbordersufpr@gmail.com

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