The TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) Convention is the largest international English language teaching conference of its kind, featuring over 1000 lecture/discussion sessions given by more than 3000 speakers. Topics included were: curriculum development, language testing and…
Seema Khurana to Give Talk in New Delhi
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.
Universities Fight Back against Copyright Restrictions
The war between publishers and academia over freedom to make fair use of copyrighted materials within the educational context appears to be escalating. In a series of articles published in the June 6th edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education,…
CLS Hosting Workshop on Heritage Language Learners
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…
Spring 2011 CLS Calendar of Events
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…
An Apologia for Language Study
J. Max Mikitish is a sophomore Linguistics major in Silliman College. His main academic interests are historical linguistics, areal linguistics, etymology, and dialectology. He has studied nine languages (7 while at Yale): Spanish, Latin, Hittite, Chinese, Tibetan, Old English, German,…