It was good to see everyone who was out for today’s Brown Bag on distance language teaching, and hear the lively discussion around the presentations by our guest panel of Yale language instructors. A big thank-you again to:
- Krystyna Illakowicz, who discussed teaching Advanced Polish in the Yale-Columbia-Cornell Shared Course Initiative (SCI) last term
- Maria Kaliambou, Beginning Modern Greek in the SCI
- Sandra Sanneh, isiZulu in the SCI
- Chris Kaiser, who shared some of his experiences teaching Italian to Yale-NUS students in Singapore (you can read more about the partnership here)
- Minjin Hashbat, Russian for Yale-NUS
For anyone who’d like to explore distance and online language teaching more, here are a few resources we think you might find interesting:
- National Foreign Language Resource Center (2015). Webinar: Designing Interaction for Online Language Learning
- Online Learning Consortium – Events, webinars, learning materials and more)
- NFLRC Teaching Resources – Huge, searchable repository of open-access materials for teaching languages
- FLTMag – Online magazine on technology integration in language teaching and learning (see, for instance, Fernando Rubio’s “Boundless Education: The Case of a Spanish MOOC“)
As always, comments and discussion welcome!