With shy smiles but determined enthusiasm, students from diverse backgrounds and eighteen different Heritage Languages gathered to be part of the “Heritage Meets Heritage” event in its new form. This new format is the brainchild of our colleague Sybil Alexandrov,…
For the first time, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages held its annual convention virtually in November of 2020. As with most professional conferences this year, the convention was held virtually due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.…
According to Rachel Mamiya Hernandez “Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) uses meaningful inquiry to engage students with language, communities, and content. This project aimed to connect learners from different parts of the world in building both traditional and digital literacy skills.”…
In a perfect New England Fall weather, the Center of Language Study at Yale hosted the annual conference of The New England Regional Association for Language Learning Technology (NERALLT) on Yale Campus. Language Education and Globalization; The Evolving Role of…
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…
I applied for the CLS Fellowship in Fall of 2016 with hopes of getting a one course release and using the time to focus on my project. With complete focus on using online resources to enhance the teaching of Levantine…
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,…
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…
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,…
NeMLA’s 47th Convention is happening this Thursday through Sunday in Hartford, CT. “The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) is a scholarly organization for professionals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other modern languages. With more than 2,000 members, NeMLA…
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…
How do we as language instructors create an inclusive environment in our diverse classrooms? What aspects of cultural content or classroom dynamics challenge this effort? What support it? These were the questions that opened our recent brown bag discussion on…
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…
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…
Four days of intensive training averaging about eight hours a day, took me and a dedicated group of eleven other members of language faculty here at Yale on a journey to explore the wonders of the world of the…
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…
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…
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,…
At last Thursday’s Brown Bag, we talked about engaging with art as a way to expand students’ repertoire. We noted that students gain confidence when speaking about art in a public space, they gain a richer sense of the target…
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…
By many measures of variety, the first session of our 10-minute Tech Talks for Fall ’14 was a great success: it brought together lectors and graduate students, faculty from Yale and beyond, and presenters from 6 time zones apart for…