AATF Convention San Diego 2024

Come learn how lagniappe – a Cajun word meaning “something extra given as a gift” – can lead your students to develop their own virtual cross-cultural dialogue. Watching a documentary about identity, while sharing it with another, naturally builds connection. This presentation offers one model of how a documentary about Cajun French identity through language led to my students interviewing the filmmaker, meeting his students, then developing a student-run weekly language exchange that now boasts consecutive-year participants.