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,…
When asking Google what a word cloud is, this definition appeared: A word could is an image composed of words used in a particular text or subject, in which the size of each word indicates its frequency or importance. I…
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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…
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…
When I heard that a colleague had bought an apartment of 900 square feet, I hear what he was saying, I understand the English words but yet I do not know exactly what they mean. In my classes we never…
I’m in the middle of reading David E. Nye’s historical treatment of a philosophical and cultural construct as it has evolved over time and place, and it’s got me thinking about online learning and the classroom in a slightly different…
Overview I’ve been reading and thinking about play in language learning lately, with an interest both intuitive and intellectual. Before going much farther, I should make a few distinctions clear. The first is that I don’t mean the observation of…
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/