From May 12-15, the CLS hosted a symposium and workshop exploring concepts and developing practices to support the Yale-Columbia-Cornell Shared Course Initiative. The May 12 symposium, entitled “The SCI in Context: New Directions in Distance Education” and held in Yale’s…
Blogging for second language learning has been a topic of discussion for over 10 years. Just as we discussed in our April 3 Brown Bag on blogging in the L2 classroom (and reviewed in Bob Godwin-Jones’ May 2003 Emerging Technologies…
We held our first Language Fair for students to showcase the wealth of language courses taught at Yale and to show students what can be done with foreign language skills. All language departments participated in the fair and it was…
Thanks to the generous support of the Center for Language Study, I was able to attend the annual meeting of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL 42), Leiden, the Netherlands, February 14-16, 2014. The North American Conference on…
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…
Yesterday’s 10-min. Tech Talks seemed a bit more relaxed than normal, almost as if time had expanded on that wet winter day, or as if the chicken had forsaken its timekeeping duties… But no, it was in fact the quick,…
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…
Several brave souls trudged through the snow and sleet on Wednesday, Feb. 5, for our inaugural 10-minute Tech Talks event. They were rewarded by three inspiring presentations–Anna Iacovella on using Facebook to extend learning in her Italian classes, Dinny Aletheiani…
Update from 2/1/2014: This post was written one week before the Jan. 31 workshop for using the Berkeley Library of Foreign Language Film Clips. The handout for that event can be downloaded here. The questions at the end of this…
The organizers of the April 25-26 Chicago Language Symposium, “Bridges to Everywhere: Language Learning Collaborations”, are soliciting proposals from Yale language faculty, as well as other members of the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, the Committee on Institutional Collaboration,…
At the January 16th CLS workshop, Gloria Hardman, with the assistance of Alina Nevins, explained how to use the online ClassesV2 Gradebook. Judging from the multiple and audible “Ah-hah!” moments, many found the information useful. During my teaching career I…
Last Wednesday (12/4) we had the last of our three Ten-Minute Tech Talks for this semester. Russ and I were both expecting that, with the final days of the semester underway and exams just around the corner, we might not…
Today was the second of our “Ten-Minute Tech Talks” this semester. We were glad to see more than 20 folks join us for presentations and discussion that built in momentum as the hour passed. As before, we were joined by…
This past Wednesday, Russ and I hosted the first of three “Ten-Minute Tech Talk” lunchtime events at the CLS library. The idea behind the talks is to give a number of people the chance to share teaching experiences, techniques, challenges,…
Yesterday’s CLS Brown Bag series visit to the Yale University Art Gallery was a real eye-opener for me–it was my first visit to this highly touted space after more than three months here in New Haven. And, from the looks…
Last Wednesday, UC Irvine Professor of German and German Language Program Director Glenn Levine gave the first in a series of lunchtime lectures at the CLS, raising more questions about the quality of U.S. university students’ German study abroad experiences…
The CLS Pedagogy Workshop takes place on August 21-24, from 8:30 to 1:00. In the workshop, new language lectors and TFs work across languages to share teaching strategies and practical ideas for the classroom. For more information, contact Suzanne Young. For the…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Date and Time Event Thurs, 22-Sep 12:30-1:30 p.m. Technology Workshop: Digitizing film / Media Gallery (Room B21) Mon. 26-Sep 12:30-2:00 p.m. Professional Development Workshop (Library Room 106) Thurs, 06-Oct 12:30-1:30 p.m. Brown Bag: Using Facebook Groups in the Language Classroom…
2011 SCHEDULE Tuesday, August 23 8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast CLS Library 9:00-9:15 Welcome & Overview of workshop CLS Staff CLS, Room 100 9:15-9:45 Language Lesson Demo followed by discussion Blake Wentworth, Lector, South Asian Studies Vincent Cangiano, Coordinator, Fields Program,…
Date Event Jun 23-25, 2011 American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK), 16th Annual Conference and Workshop: “A Fresh Look at Korean Learners: Adapting to Changes and New Trends”, Yale University (https://webspace.yale.edu/aatk2011/) Oct 13-14, 2011 New England Regional Association for…
The CLS will be holding its annual Pedagogy Workshop from Tuesday, August 23rd, through Friday, August 26th. Sessions will be held from 8:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. in room 100 at 370 Temple Street. The workshop is for foreign language…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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)
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,…
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…
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)
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 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…