The Yale Italian Department has again swept the American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) College Essay Contest. Both 2011 winners will receive a $500 award. They are: 1. For Italian-language essays, Agustin Paniagua ’12, “Il Mezzogiorno di Lampedusa e…
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CLS Hosts Week-Long IIW Workshop
The CLS sponsors an Instructional Innovation Workshop (“IIW”) in May for faculty who wish to explore ways in which the use of multimedia materials can enhance language teaching and learning. The workshop includes hands-on demonstrations of digital video tools and…
ELP Lectors, Anna Moldawa and Jim Tierney, Attend TESOL Convention
The TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) Convention is the largest international English language teaching conference of its kind, featuring over 1000 lecture/discussion sessions given by more than 3000 speakers. Topics included were: curriculum development, language testing and…
Seema Khurana to Give Talk in New Delhi
Seema Khurana will be making a presentation in New Delhi on June 29th titled “Finally a national language – Hinglish.” A handout for her presentation is reproduced here.
Universities Fight Back against Copyright Restrictions
The war between publishers and academia over freedom to make fair use of copyrighted materials within the educational context appears to be escalating. In a series of articles published in the June 6th edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education,…
Pilar Asensio and Ame Cividanes Attend NERALLT Conference
Conference: NERALLT 2011 Spring Conference: Pedagogy and Technology: Collaboration between Language Faculty and Instructional Technologists in the 21st Century March 24-25, 2011 at Connecticut College Attended by: Pilar Asensio and Ame Cividanes Recently, thanks to a CLS Travel Grant, Pilar…
Risa Sodi Attends NECTFL Conference
On April 2, 2011, I traveled to Baltimore on a CLS Travel Grant to attend the 2011 Northeast Conference on Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL) and to participate in a panel titled “Based on a True Story”: Real Content for…
CLS Hosting Workshop on Heritage Language Learners
The CLS will be hosting a week-long instructional innovation workshop on heritage language learners from Monday, May 16th, through Friday, May 20th. The first two days are open to all interested language instructors, with keynote speakers Olga Kagan, Director of the…
Spring 2011 CLS Calendar of Events
Date and Time Event Fri., 11-Feb-2011 3 -5 p.m. FLAS workshop on assessment (CLS Room 100) Mon., 14-Feb-2011 12:30-2:00 p.m. Introduction to Berkeley film clip archive (CLS Room 100) Thurs., 17-Feb-2011 12:30-1:30 p.m. Brown Bag: Heritage Language Interest Group (CLS…
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 January 6-9, 2011 in Pasadena, California. AATSEEL…
Yale Language Faculty Well-Represented at ACTFL
Muhammad Aziz On Saturday, November 20, I attended several sessions in the morning, but I did not feel that there was anything striking that needs to be mentioned. In the afternoon, some of the Arabic presenters, unfortunately, did not show…
ACTFL (Continued)
Marion Gehlker Friday, November 19 “The Lives of Others”: Classroom Approaches to the Film In this one-hour session we were given interesting background information on the popular and well-known movie “The Lives of Others,” such as statistics on the East…
ACTFL (Continued)
Ling Mu In the field of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, research has heavily tilted toward proficiency tests, whereas testing as a vital component in Chinese curriculums has not received adequate attention. At the 2011 ACTFL conference, I organized…
ACTFL (Continued)
Mari Stever All the conferences I have attended in the past 15 years or so have been the ones that focused on Asia related topics, not just those specific to Japanese. It was eye opening and fascinating to be amongst…
ACTFL (Continued)
Suzanne Young At the ACTFL conference in Boston on November 18–21, I saw many presentations that showed how teachers are enriching their understanding of language teaching. Nicole Mills, of Harvard, discussed her study of language instructors who engage in action…
Hsiu-hsien Chan Attends TCCRISLS at Columbia
The First Teachers College, Columbia University Roundtable in Second Language Studies (TCCRISLS) was held on October 1-2, 2010 in New York City. I attended and presented my research at the poster session at the TCCRISLS conference with the support of…
An Apologia for Language Study
J. Max Mikitish is a sophomore Linguistics major in Silliman College. His main academic interests are historical linguistics, areal linguistics, etymology, and dialectology. He has studied nine languages (7 while at Yale): Spanish, Latin, Hittite, Chinese, Tibetan, Old English, German,…
Fall 2010 Calendar of CLS Events
Date and Time Event Thurs, 23-Sep-10 2:30-3:30 p.m. Demo of Chinese Language Learning Software, with Tom Kidd from Qooco (CLS Room 100) Fri., 24-Sep-10 12:30-1:30 p.m. Classes V2 Familiarization Session with Gloria Hardman (CLS Library, Room 106)
CLS Pedagogy Workshop for Foreign Language Teaching Fellows and Instructors
2010 SCHEDULE Tuesday, August 24 8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast CLS Library 9:00-9:15 Welcome & Overview of workshop CLS, Room 100 9:15-10:00 Language Lesson Demo followed by discussion Sandra Sanneh, Senior Lector II, African Languages Vincent Cangiano, Coordinator, Fields Program, CLS CLS,…
Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning Workshop on Technological Models for Hybrid and Distance Collaborations
The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning was established to enhance the quality of language teaching and learning on its member campuses, to consolidate and build upon the strengths of the members’ programs, to prepare undergraduate and graduate students for…
2010 – 2011 Calendar of External Events
Date Event Jun 24-26, 2010 American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK), 15th Annual Conference and Workshop: Reconceptualizing Korean Teaching: Blueprints for Program Development from K to 16 and Beyond, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (http://eastasian.artsci.wustl.edu/AATK)
Yale Faculty Attend Association of Teachers of Japanese 2010 Annual Conference
AAS/ATJ 2010 Annual Conference Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Philadelphia PA March 25~27, 2010 Yoshiko Maruyama Senior Lector Japanese Program, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures Among the presentations, I will report on one tool, Dokkai Assistant, which should be useful…
AAS/ATJ (continued)
Report on the ATJ and AAS Conference Hiroyo Nishimura Senior Lector of Japanese Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures The conference began with a full day of concurrent sessions on literature, linguistics, language pedagogy, second language acquisition, and other…
Yale Language Faculty Attend Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum
The report of the 17th PJPF (Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum), held on May 8-9 at Princeton Koichi Hiroe Senior Lector, Japanese East Asian Languages and Literatures The traditional Japanese orthography employs three different sets of letters in writing: two sets…
PJPF (continued)
Report from the Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum (May 8-9, 2010 at Princeton University) Yukie Mammoto Lector of Japanese language Dept. of EALL I would like to write about a couple of things that I found interesting at the Princeton Japanese…
PJPF (continued)
Report from the 17th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum (May 8-9,2010 at Princeton University) Michiaki Murata Senior Lector of Japanese language Dept. of EALL The main theme of the PJPF was “Innovative Approach to Kanji Education.” Kanji, i.e. Chinese characters, is…
Ame Cividanes Attends UC Consortium for Language and Learning
Recently, thanks to receiving a CLS Travel Grant, I had the honor of attending and presenting in the UC Consortium for Languages and Learning in April. For the first time, the West and East Coast Consortia combined to host a…
Anna Iacovella Attends NeMLA Meeting in Montreal
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…
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…