The Connecticut Council for Language Teachers (CT COLT) ran and organized a two-day summer institute in June 2019. Hostesses Lea Graner Kennedy, Kathleen Archibald and language education expert Greg Duncan led one hundred and some world language educators on a…
Distance Language Teaching Program at Yale CLS
In Fall of 2018 and Spring of 2019 and in eight-three-hour sessions, myself and a group of graduate students, language lectors, and Foreign Language Teaching Assistants completed the Distance Language Teaching Program offered by the Center for Language Study at…
“It’s not about the tools themselves…” Al Ani, Iacovella, Illakowicz tech talks
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…
Yale presentations at ACTFL 2017
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…
Students reflect on visit to the Beinecke Library
During Summer Session B, class of Arabic 120 (Summer 2017) visited the Beinecke Library to get a close look and a detailed account of a variety of Arabic manuscripts amongst the collection available in the library. After the class visit…
Steve Thorne at CLS: “Living language and effortful engagement”
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,”…