Yesterday’s 10-min. Tech Talks seemed a bit more relaxed than normal, almost as if time had expanded on that wet winter day, or as if the chicken had forsaken its timekeeping duties… But no, it was in fact the quick,…
As a number of language faculty and CLS staff prepare to participate in the upcoming Conference on Heritage/Community Languages at UCLA–which focuses primarily on the situation of language learners in the United States–another day of significance for heritage and community language…
I’m in the middle of reading David E. Nye’s historical treatment of a philosophical and cultural construct as it has evolved over time and place, and it’s got me thinking about online learning and the classroom in a slightly different…
Several brave souls trudged through the snow and sleet on Wednesday, Feb. 5, for our inaugural 10-minute Tech Talks event. They were rewarded by three inspiring presentations–Anna Iacovella on using Facebook to extend learning in her Italian classes, Dinny Aletheiani…
Update from 2/1/2014: This post was written one week before the Jan. 31 workshop for using the Berkeley Library of Foreign Language Film Clips. The handout for that event can be downloaded here. The questions at the end of this…
The organizers of the April 25-26 Chicago Language Symposium, “Bridges to Everywhere: Language Learning Collaborations”, are soliciting proposals from Yale language faculty, as well as other members of the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, the Committee on Institutional Collaboration,…