This semester the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) is sponsoring a series of film screenings featuring visits with filmmakers, open to the public. Please check out these exciting events, and contact Margherita Tortora with any questions. Click the…
Language Tables – Spring 2015
Are you looking to practice your conversation skills? Join a language table today! Sharpen your skills with your instructor and other students over a meal. Below is a schedule of some available language tables. Click here for a downloadable PDF…
Resources from the Spring 2015 Project-Based Language Learning online institute
Several Yale faculty and CLS staff have enrolled in the special Spring 2015 Fundamentals of Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Online Institute from the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Over five sessions on consecutive Wednesday evenings,…
On the myth of neutral technology
In the wake of last week’s news that a Yale police officer drew his gun on an (unarmed) African-American Yale student under highly questionable circumstances, I felt compelled to turn back to a recent article in The Atlantic that had caught…
Looking forward: Language learning in the linguistic landscape
It’s an exciting time to be thinking about linguistic landscape in language teaching in the U.S. Next May the annual linguistic landscape workshop, which has been held the last 6 years in Israel, Italy, France, Ethiopia, Belgium, and South Africa,…
Fall ’14 Dining Hall language tables begin
As reported by the Yale Daily News today (Oct. 1), language tables have returned to the dining halls, so if you’re in French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Russian or Hebrew, or want to start your own table, speak with your instructors and…