Yale offers about 50 languages for study in the classroom, and many more through the DILS program at the CLS. With classes starting tomorrow, Aug. 27, and shopping period underway for the next two weeks, it’s a great time to decide…
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Notes on distance teaching and learning from UW-Madison
[updated 8-19 10:00am] [updated 8-18 9:00am] I’ve arrived and settled in at UW’s annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, from today to Thursday (Aug 12-14). I’ve come with a few hats on: at a general level, trying to glean…
Images from the May 12 Distance Education Symposium
From May 12-15, the CLS hosted a symposium and workshop exploring concepts and developing practices to support the Yale-Columbia-Cornell Shared Course Initiative. The May 12 symposium, entitled “The SCI in Context: New Directions in Distance Education” and held in Yale’s…
How does blogging fit in to L2 learning…today?
Blogging for second language learning has been a topic of discussion for over 10 years. Just as we discussed in our April 3 Brown Bag on blogging in the L2 classroom (and reviewed in Bob Godwin-Jones’ May 2003 Emerging Technologies…
Summer professional development opportunity roundup
It’s hard to believe spring is right around the corner with the cold weather we’ve been having in New Haven and across the East Coast. Yet, a steady stream of announcements about professional development opportunities for language educators during summer…
Irreducible differences and legitimacy gaps: Observations from the BLC colloquium
On Friday I had the pleasure of joining many colleagues and friends at UC Berkeley for the first and last sessions of a one-day colloquium organized by Claire Kramsch and Lihua Zhang, entitled “The legitimacy gap: Multilingual native language teachers…