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…
Author: cls
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…
CLS Calendar of Events 2009-2010
Spring 2010 Brown Bag Sessions at the CLS The Center for Language Study announces a new series of one-hour sessions that will highlight current topics and innovations in foreign language teaching and learning. Each one-hour session will offer a brief…
Upcoming Conferences
UPCOMING CONFERENCES 2009-2010 14th Annual Conference and Workshop AATK 2009 June 25-27, 2009 University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) http://www.aatk.org/ AATF ANNUAL CONVENTION July 2-5, 2009, San Jose, California http://frenchteachers.org/convention/default.htm NEALLT/NERALLT Joint Conference October 30-31, 2009 Yale University http://www.neallt.org/neallt-nerallt Second Language…
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…
Program: 2009 NEALLT/NERALLT Conference
Keynote Address by Richard Kern, University of California, Berkeley “Neither Here Nor There: What Happens to Space, Time, and Culture in CMC Videoconferencing Exchanges” This talk explores how space, time, and culture get represented and negotiated in computer-mediated videoconferences between…
Comments Regarding the Conference
Found in Translation: languaging experience in Berkeley and beyond Berkeley to Yale: A week at a distance Written By: daveski on November 6, 2009 http://foundintranslation.berkeley.edu/?p=4984/
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.
The CLS Fall IIG Expo
The first annual CLS Fall IIG Expo proved to be a successful event. The half-day conference on Saturday, November 10th, 2007 got started early with a casual buffet breakfast. There were 40 attendees, 7 Instructional Innovation Grant presentations by Yale…