The Yale Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), in partnership with the Bass Library and ITS, is offering two sets of 20 iPad Airs (32GB, WI-Fi-only) and two sets of 20 iPad Minis (16GB, WI-Fi-only) for instructional use during both…
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…
Attending the 2014 Chicago Language Symposium has been a great opportunity for me especially because it made me realize how much depth there is in teaching languages in current times. In addition to the past approaches and techniques used by…
Has it ever happened to anyone to receive some information and think: “I could use that!”? Well, that has happened to me. I was introduced by a group of colleagues to www.polleverywhere.com. I was part of an exercise where the…
On Wednesday, March 5, 2014, we had our third Ten-minute Tech Talk event of the Spring 2014 semester, which was attended by 16 people. Elka Kristonagy from the English Language Program opened the meeting with VoiceThread, a web-based application that…
Adobe is offering a free six week course “Creativity in Today’s Classroom” to explore how you can use the Creative Cloud suite to bring creativity into the classroom and engage your students. Class starts on March 2nd and runs through…
On Monday last week, my colleague Dave Malinowski and I were able to sit in on Yale’s first Online Education Open Forum of the year. The event was live-tweeted by @Yale_Online (scroll down to Jan. 27 tweets), and videos of the presentations, such as those by…
As a person at the intersection of applied linguistics and instructional technology, I was very excited about attending the NERALLT Conference that took place at Saint Anselm College on October 24-25, 2013. As Dave Malinowski and I were driving through…
I participated in an intensive 2-day workshop on “Implementing literacy-based instruction in collegiate FL programs”, jointly offered by CERCLL (Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy), the Title VI Language Resource Center at the University of Arizona, and…
I was able to present at the UC Language Consortium’s 6th Biennial Conference in April 2012. The title of my presentation was “Effective Strategies for Weaving Literature in the Intermediate Level Language Curriculum.” The focus of my talk was on…
OPI (Oral Proficiency Interview) Workshop 2012 (May 14-18, 2012 at Wellesley College) I tried a few times to attend the OPI workshop during the past three years or so, but for different reasons, it didn’t happen. So when I heard…
Monday, May 14 (Room 100) 8:30-9:00 Breakfast 9:00-12:00 Workshop with Meg Malone v Part I: Assessment: Background Knowledge Activity 1: Self-Assessment Assessment Defined Performance assessment defined Assessing Oral Proficiency v Part II: Students’ Oral Proficiency How long does it take…
UC Consortium Conference, San Diego, April 19-22, 2012 I will report on three presentations I found most interesting: 1. MULTILINGUAL PRACTICES IN THE MONOLINGUAL CLASSROOM, by Claire Kramsch, Professor, Department of German, UC Berkeley After summarizing major developments in FLL+T…
Please make plans to attend the Instructional Innovation Workshop on Testing and Assessment in Language Learning Two days of workshops and lectures presented by Meg Malone, Senior Testing Associate, Center for Applied Linguistics and Cathy Baumann, Director of Assessment and…
I attended the conference “Exploring Approaches to Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum”, March 9-10, 2012, at the University of Minnesota. CLAC (Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum) is a relatively new movement. The 2012 meeting was CLAC’s seventh conference…
Date Event Jun 29-Jul 1, 2012 American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK), 17th Annual Conference and Workshop: “Exploring the New Wave in Korean Teaching and Learning,” , Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/korean/aatk2012/) TBA New England Regional Association…
Karen von Kunes, senior lector in Slavic languages and literatures, has been included in the Princeton Review’s new book “300 Best Professors.” The book’s selections are based on reviews from RateMyProfessors.com. The book is designed to highlight “professors who have…
Report of Yukie Mammoto I attended the annual conference of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) in Toronto on March 15, 2012. There were many informative presentations in the conference. I went to the panel “Development of teaching…
Thursday, March 29, 7:30pm Scialla (Francesco Bruni, 2011), 95min, 35mm Friday, March 30, 7:30pm Benvenuti al sud (Luca Miniero, 2010) 102min, 35mm Saturday, March 31, 7:30pm Terraferma (Emanuele Crialese, 2011) 88min, 35mm Sunday, April 1, 1:30pm Basilicata Coast to Coast (Rocco Papaleo, 2012) 105min,…
“Digital Technologies Give Dying Languages New Life“
Here is a link to an article by Russell A. Berman, the 2011 President of the MLAand professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Stanford University: http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/05/my-view-why-language-study-should-be-part-of-your-college-experience/
Here is a link to a collection of TED talks on a variety of linguistics-related topics as compiled in a blog hosted by Bachelors Degree Online: http://www.bachelorsdegreeonline.com/blog/2011/20-terrific-ted-talks-for-language-lovers/.
I was able to participate at the annual conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), held on November 17-20, 2011 in Washington, DC. ASEEES, a nonprofit, non-political, scholarly society, is the leading private organization in…
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) meeting was held on November 18-20, 2011 in Denver, Colorado. The Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) meeting was held in conjunction with the ACTFL annual conference. The annual CLTA meeting…
I attended the ACTFL-CLTA 2011 Annual Conference in Denver, CO, November 18-20. I joined the panel “Controversial, Self-selected, Localized: Teaching Materials for Communicative Competence Development” as a discussant and led a discussion after the presentations on November 19. The panel…