technology & foreign language teaching transformations : technology , foreign languages , and undergraduate education the consortium for language teaching and learning and the section on foreign languages & literatures at the massachusetts institute of technology are pleased to announce a national conference , october 23-25 , 1998 . intended for foreign language faculty , administrators , directors of humanities computing , and language laboratory directors , this conference will examine the transformations of the foreign language classroom , the role of the teacher , the institutional mission , the curriculum , and the infrastructure in the light of developments in multimedia computer technology . the conference will not be an occasion for demonstrating hardware and software . instead , it seeks to pose new questions about fundamental changes that all foreign language programs and all institutions are currently undergoing . speakers will include jacqueline brown ( princeton university ) , gilberte furstenberg ( massachusetts institute of technology ) , henry jenkins ( massachusetts institute of technology ) , william a . johnson ( bucknell university ) , yoko koike ( haverford college ) , claire kramsch ( university of california at berkeley ) , karen landahl ( university of chicago ) , james s . noblitt ( university of north carolina at chapel hill ) , slava paperno ( cornell university ) , and thomas thornton ( massachusetts institute of technology ) . the conference will be held at the massachusetts institute of technology , cambridge , massachusetts , beginning friday afternoon , october 23 , 1998 , and concluding mid-day , sunday , october 25 , 1998 . the registration form is available as a downloadable adobe acrobat . pdf file , 49k . at : http : / / web . mit . edu / fll / www / conf98 /
