Dual-Language Immersion 2026

Workshop Detail

Overview

How can we encourage students to participate in the rich, complex life of the classroom, sharing their wonderings, their thoughts, and their experiences, if they have not yet developed the language skills needed to do so? How can we foster their curiosity and support them as agents of their own learning while helping them develop their unique voices and identities? This full-day workshop addresses that challenge directly. Educators will learn how to plan for and implement extended discourse practices to accelerate language skills development, draw out students' curiosity, promote exploration and inquiry, and support identity formation by allowing student voices to be heard.

Session Outcomes

By the end of the workshop, participants will: 

• Understand why extended classroom conversations matter for language development, inquiry, and student voice 
• Learn practical, research-based strategies to support students’ oral language, curiosity, and participation 
• See real classroom examples of effective teacher talk and discourse scaffolds 
• Practice applying strategies to their own lessons and materials 
• Align discourse practices with standards such as CLASS, SEL, and DLI 
• Leave with a clear, personalized action plan they can use right away 

Speaker

Dr. Robin Harvey is a teacher at heart, dedicated to the idea that language education is a creative, joyful pursuit. She is a Clinical Associate Professor at New York University, where she specializes in training and mentoring language teachers for world language, immersion, and multilingual settings. Dr. Harvey’s expertise is rooted in her years teaching both English (in Taiwan) and Chinese (in NY) in PreK-12 classrooms. She is co-author of Rhythms and Tones: Inventive Songs & Chants for Learning Chinese (动感中文). Her research focuses on inquiry-based pedagogy and literacy development in bilingual and immersion settings. 

• Website: Robin Harvey @ NYU 
• Website: NYU Project Developing Chinese Language Teachers (DCLT) 
• Website: Stories for Teaching Chinese 

Schedule

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Registration Deadline: Monday, September 28, 2026

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