On April 11, 2010 I presented at the NeMLA Conference, Montreal 2010 on 19th Century Italian Writing, National History, Literary Genres and Linguistic Norms, together with seven colleagues from various national and international academic intuitions. We read and discussed our…
Category: Conference Reports
Muhammad Aziz Attends MESA Meeting
In the following, you will find a brief description of the panels I attended from Sunday 23rd November – Tuesday 25th November 2009 held at the annual MESA convention in Boston.
Ghassan Husseinali Attends MESA Meeting
Thanks to a travel grant from the CLS at Yale University, I was able to attend the annual MESA meeting held this year in Boston. During the meeting, I attended the following important sessions relevant to the teaching of Arabic…
Mari Stever Attends AAS 2010 Conference
Report: AAS (Association for Asian Studies) 2010 Conference (March 25-27, 2010 at Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA) This conference is probably the largest one of its kind in the United States, and it attracts many prominent teachers of Japanese in the…
Julia Titus Attends AATSEEL Conference
Thanks to the generous support of the CLS travel fund, I was able to participate at the annual conference of American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) held on Dec.27-30, 2009 in Philadelphia.
Yale Language Faculty Attend First International Heritage Conference at UCLA
Introduction Heritage/community language education is a developing multidisciplinary field at the intersection of demography, sociology, psychology, neuroscience, education and other disciplines. Research in the field seeks to identify the unique needs of heritage language learners. This research is informing the…
Heritage Conference (cont’d)
First International Conference on Heritage/Community/Languages Sybil Alexandrov Thanks to a CLS Travel Grant, I was able to attend and participate in the First International Conference on Heritage/Community/Languages. The conference, hosted by the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA from…
Heritage Conference (cont’d)
Heritage Learners’ Motivations, Expectations, and Language Needs: The Case of Post-secondary Chinese and Korean Language Learners Seungja Choi (Presented at the First International Heritage Language Conference, Feb. 19-21, 2010 at NHLRC) Chinese and Korean are two of the critical languages…
Heritage Conference (cont’d)
First International Heritage Language Conference Report from Julia Titus Thanks to the generous support of the CLS, I had a wonderful professional opportunity to participate at the First International Heritage Language Conference held on February 19-21, 2010 in UCLA. This…
Heritage Conference (cont’d)
Report of the NHRC First International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages, February 19-21, 2010 at UCLA Peisong Xu This was indeed a very successful and well organized conference in the field of heritage language teaching. There were many interesting panels and…
Yale Language Faculty Attend ACTFL Meeting in San Diego
ACTFL Meeting in San Diego Session Report by Marion Gehlker “Neuer Blick, neue Stimmen: Interkulturelles Leben und Wirken in Berlin” (New Visions, New Voices: Intercultural Living in Berlin”) This panel was a report on the AATG Alle lemen Deutsch (Everybody…
ACTFL Meeting (cont’d)
Conference Report by Haiwen Wang, Lector, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures I attended the ACTFL-CLTA 2009 Annual Conference which was held in San Diegol, California on November 20-22, 2009. On November 21,~I presented my project, “Advanced Colloquial Mandarin…
ACTFL Meeting (cont’d)
“Best Practices and New Horizons for Teacher Training in Italian,” ACTFL 2009 By Risa Sodi I applied my CLS Travel Grant towards travel to San Diego for a panel on “Best Practices and New Horizons for Teacher Training in…
ACTFL Meeting (cont’d)
Report of Presentation by Jianhua Shen On November 20-21, 2009, I attended and presented at the ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) 2009 conference that was held in San Diego, CA. There were more than 49 panels…
ACTFL Meeting (cont’d)
2009 ACTFL Annual Conference Report by Fan Liu, EALL I went to the ACTFL 2009 annual conference from November 19, 2009 to November 22, 2009. I gave a presentation regarding making movie clips and its multi-function in Chinese teaching, and went…
Ninghui Liang Attends International Conference on Chinese Pedagogy
Report on Attending the the 7th International Conference on Chinese Language Pedagogy By Ninghui Liang I attended the 7th International Conference on Chinese Language Pedagogy, held at Guilin, China from August 1-4, 2009. This conference is hosted jointly by Guangxi…
Cifuentes and Garcia Attend AATSP Conference in Albuquerque
The weekend of July 11-12,2009, Yovanna Cifuentes and Maripaz Garcia, both Lectors in the Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, attended and presented at the annual conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) in Albuquerque, New…
Report on Consortium Conference at Brown University (Marion Gehlker)
Report on Consortium Conference at Brown University on Reassessing the Foreign Language Curriculum in the Age of Globalization, April 5, 2008 By Marion Gehlker, Dept. of Germanic Languages & Literatures Presentations during the second half of the conference which I…
Consortium for Language Teaching & Learning at Brown University (Laura Chiesa)
Report on the Consortium for Language Teaching & Learning at Brown University: Reassessing the Foreign Language Curriculum in the Age of Globalization (Responses to the MLA Report on Foreign Languages and Higher Education) By Laura Chiesa The intellectual vitality of…
CLS Panel Discussion Re MLA Language Recommendations (Arthur Mitchell)
Report on CLS Panel Discussion Re the MLA Language Recommendations
By Arthur Mitchell
The true effectiveness of language study in cultivating cultural understanding and self-awareness seems to me to be rooted in that thrilling and yet potentially traumatic experience (at least for many Americans) of actually entering into and engaging a community of foreign language speakers. This experience consists, on the one hand, of the struggle of having to use an alternate and unfamiliar system for producing and comprehending meaning and, on the other, the subtle transformations of the self that necessarily occur through the assimilation of this alternate system. To the extent that language education ignores the experience of speaking the foreign language within the foreign society, to the extent that it discounts the transformational impact of engaging a foreign community within its own language – i.e. the way that language is constitutive through its instrumentality – it forfeits the most important cultural lessons that language learning has to offer.