This semester’s technology events program kicked off last Tuesday, Jan. 23rd, with 10-minute Tech Talks–short, informal presentations or conversations by language instructors about a technology-related innovation, application, or question, with time for feedback and discussion with peers. In particular, this…
The annual ACTFL Convention will take place in Nashville, TN, from November 17-19, and Yale will be well-represented! Below are the presenters, titles and abstracts copied from the online convention program. If you’re not traveling to Nashville for the conference this…
On Thursday, April 6, the CLS was happy to welcome Steve Thorne, Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition at Portland State University’s Department of World Languages and Literatures. In his lunchtime lecture, “Living language and effortful engagement as catalysts for language learning,”…
March 2 update: slides from the event, with links to all sites shown, can be accessed here. On Thursday, March 2, the CLS Brown Bag lunchtime series will feature a discussion about how Yale language students and instructors can learn…
On Friday, February 9, faculty participants in the May 2016 Instructional Innovation Workshop (IIW) held a poster presentation event at the CLS. Their posters illustrated innovative language teaching and learning projects in various community-based contexts, including heritage schools, public libraries,…
With the end of the semester upon us, it’s a great time to take stock of teaching and technology accomplishments in 2016, and to look forward to goals and projects for next year. I’ve put a few resources together here…
The time has come for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 2016 Annual Convention and World Languages Expo, and Yale’s language teaching and research community is well represented. Below are relevant titles and abstracts copied from…
Here are a few notes from the October 13 lunchtime discussion in the CLS Library, facilitated by Suzanne Young. I joined a bit late and when some strategies for reflection were already put up on the whiteboard, distilled from the…
Text and images by Minjin Hashbat, Tarana Jafarova, and Gregg Lauer On Wednesday, May 18, the Yale World CLASS (Culture and Language After School Studies) program for high school students concluded the 9-month long program on Yale campus during which…
Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of joining the LAUD Symposium, a biennial linguistics event in Landau, Germany organized by Martin Pütz and colleagues at the University of Koblenz-Landau. Following past years’ topics that included intercultural pragmatics, cognitive psycholinguistics,…
Last night was the annual Yale Hindi Debate, bringing together participants from near and far to debate this year’s motion, “Our Generation is Too Coddled.” The event took place in Luce Hall, and we were able to capture and share…
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,…
In March, the CLS hosted a Brown Bag and workshop (see blog post here) where we discussed possibilities for creating online materials–annotated documents, instructional videos, and more–for language instructors to extend the reach of the classroom and open up class time for activities…
Between today and Monday (3/3 and 3/7), the CLS is hosting a sequence of two events on online materials development, and invites all language instructors at Yale to participate. Please see the bottom of this post for more on how…
On Monday this week, the CLS hosted its first 10-minute Tech Talks of the year, welcoming three speakers for short presentations and discussion about technologies in use for second language teaching and learning. The talks began with CLS Language Testing…
For those of you who are interested in the activities of CALICO, the Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, we’re re-posting a recent update message to members from the group’s president, Phil Hubbard. Happy 2016 CALICO members and friends! I thought I…
Last Friday, December 18, the CLS was proud to host a symposium in honor of the countless and extraordinary contributions made to language study at Yale University by Joe Gordon, Deputy Dean of Yale College and Dean of Undergraduate Education.…
On Thursday afternoon, October 29, the language community at Yale was treated to a provocative lecture by Carl Blyth on the underpinnings and applications of a pedagogy of languaculture in the L2 classroom. Blyth, Associate Professor of French at the University…
On Tuesday, October 27, the CLS will host its second 10-minute Tech Talks of the year, at a fantastic time for reflecting on how and why technology can be used for language teaching and learning: Tuesday is the second day…
I just came across a useful article by William Fenton in PC Mag, reflecting on future trends in online education in light of happenings at the recent Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning-organized Learning With MOOCs II conference: “Online Education:…
What is action research, why do it, and how is it done? These three questions were the focus of last Thursday’s (October 8) Brown Bag at the CLS, where language faculty, graduate students, and staff gathered to discuss the definitions,…
Yesterday Per Urlaub, of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, visited the CLS for a special talk on curricular change in university foreign language departments. Entitled “From Communicative Competence to Critical Literacy: Genre, Proficiency Levels, Strategies,” the…
Last Tuesday through Friday, the CLS hosted an intensive Pedagogy Workshop aimed at helping new language instructors at Yale prepare for their first semesters of teaching. Over 35 graduate students and Fulbright Language Teaching Assistants gathered for group sessions on…
On Tuesday, April 21, Angie Gleason, Minjin Hashbat, and Dave Malinowski of the CLS joined dozens and dozens of Yale faculty and staff welcoming hundreds of prospective freshmen and their parents to information tables in Payne Whitney Gym, part of…
Heading to another conference (AAAL in Toronto) is a strange time to be blogging about a conference from last weekend, but the Georgetown Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics was too good not to want to revisit what I learned and somehow…
On February 18 and 19 the CLS hosted two days of informal lunchtime talks by Yale language faculty on technologies they use in their teaching. The first day featured Sybil Alexandrov (Spanish), Shiri Goren (Hebrew), and Ninghui Liang (Chinese) giving…
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…
On February 26, the CLS Thursday Brown Bag series received a special guest in Mirjam Hauck, member of the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at The Open University, and for the current term with SUNY’s Center for Collaborative Online International Learning.…
On Friday, February 6, the CLS welcomed Stéphane Charitos, Director of Columbia University’s Language Resource Center, and Andrew Ross, Head of Learning Support Services at Arizona State University’s School of International Letters & Cultures, for a presentation on an exciting initiaitve in community-based…
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,…
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…
Last Wednesday we had our first sesison of 10-minute Tech Talks, with 20 people present to talk about what technologies they were most excited about or challenged by in 2014, and what they’re looking forward to in 2015. This was…
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,…
As we did last year, Yale language faculty and CLS staff paid a visit to the Yale University Art Gallery this past week, for a special Brown Bag on using art in language teaching. After a general orientation, participants headed…
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…