Calligrapher Elinor Holand accepted my invitation to give a workshop on Arabic script calligraphy. We, our summer students of Beginner Arabic I as well as our guests from the Yale community learned a lot, experienced a lot and of course appreciated the…
Oh…PI.
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…
Study Abroad Ideas from the CHICAGO LANGUAGE SYMPOSIUM 2015, April 17-18, 2015 DePaul University
The motto of the conference, “Contexts and Language Learning: Situated Learning in the 21st Century” inspired quite a few contributions on ‘authentic’ situated learning in study abroad contexts that attempted to go beyond the home university instructor-led course abroad (including…
When left to their own devices, students dig culture.
As part of their final Oral Project, I asked my Students of Beginner Arabic II to create a video guided by an arm’s length list of criteria (linguistic and nonlinguistic). Incorporating a cultural element was one of the items on that list…
Yale Languages at Bulldog Days
On Tuesday, April 21, Angie Gleason, Minjin Hashbat, and Dave Malinowski of the CLS joined dozens and dozens of Yale faculty and staff welcoming hundreds of prospective freshmen and their parents to information tables in Payne Whitney Gym, part of…
iPad Class Set – Call for Proposals Summer 2015
The Yale Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), in partnership with the Bass Library and ITS, is offering two sets of 20 iPad Airs (32GB, WI-Fi-only) and two sets of 20 iPad Minis (16GB, WI-Fi-only) for instructional use during both…