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ACTFL (Continued)

Mari Stever All the conferences I have attended in the past 15 years or so have been the ones that focused on Asia related topics, not just those specific to Japanese.  It was eye opening and fascinating to be amongst…

ACTFL (Continued)

Suzanne Young At the ACTFL conference in Boston on November 18–21, I saw many presentations that showed how teachers are enriching their understanding of language teaching. Nicole Mills, of Harvard, discussed her study of language instructors who engage in action…

Hsiu-hsien Chan Attends TCCRISLS at Columbia

The First Teachers College, Columbia University Roundtable in Second Language Studies (TCCRISLS) was held on October 1-2, 2010 in New York City. I attended and presented my research at the poster session at the TCCRISLS conference with the support of…

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,…

Fall 2010 Calendar of CLS Events

Date and Time Event Thurs, 23-Sep-10 2:30-3:30 p.m. Demo of Chinese Language Learning Software, with Tom Kidd from Qooco (CLS  Room 100) Fri., 24-Sep-10 12:30-1:30 p.m. Classes V2 Familiarization Session with Gloria Hardman (CLS Library, Room 106)