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…
Community Ideas At the AATG Presidents Meeting, which I attended as AATG-CT vice-president, we learnt about three successful inter-disciplinary projects that involved students and teachers. The Maine chapter presented “Deutsche Woche in Bar Harbor”, a one week immersion project with…
The Heritage Meets Heritage project made its off-campus debut at a round-table discussion at ACTFL 2016. This project, a study of identity, motivation and inter-language relationships among heritage speakers of Greek, Korean, Russian and Spanish, has been an adventure in learning…
The time has come for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 2016 Annual Convention and World Languages Expo, and Yale’s language teaching and research community is well represented. Below are relevant titles and abstracts copied from…
Thanks to the generous support of the CLS travel fund, I was able to participate at the annual conference of American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), held on November 21-23, 2014 in San Antonio, TX. It was…
I was able to attend the ACTFL convention this year, the theme of which was ‘Reaching Global Competence’. As those who have attended an ACTFL convention before will know, the number of attendees, the number of presentations and the physical…
I attended the ACTFL conference in Orlando, FL, on November 22-24, 2013, serving as the chair of the panel “Genre and Style in Chinese Teaching” and presenting my paper “Shumianyu (formal written Chinese) and its relevance to teaching advanced Chinese…