Julia Titus, Senior Lector in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, has published a new course book through Yale University Press. The book consists of an annotated reader of Dostoyevsky’s short story The Meek One. The book, intended for…
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Yale Sweeps AATI 2011 College Essay Contest
The Yale Italian Department has again swept the American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) College Essay Contest. Both 2011 winners will receive a $500 award. They are: 1. For Italian-language essays, Agustin Paniagua ’12, “Il Mezzogiorno di Lampedusa e…
ELP Lectors, Anna Moldawa and Jim Tierney, Attend TESOL Convention
The TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) Convention is the largest international English language teaching conference of its kind, featuring over 1000 lecture/discussion sessions given by more than 3000 speakers. Topics included were: curriculum development, language testing and…
Universities Fight Back against Copyright Restrictions
The war between publishers and academia over freedom to make fair use of copyrighted materials within the educational context appears to be escalating. In a series of articles published in the June 6th edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education,…
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,…
Upcoming Conferences
UPCOMING CONFERENCES 2009-2010 14th Annual Conference and Workshop AATK 2009 June 25-27, 2009 University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) http://www.aatk.org/ AATF ANNUAL CONVENTION July 2-5, 2009, San Jose, California http://frenchteachers.org/convention/default.htm NEALLT/NERALLT Joint Conference October 30-31, 2009 Yale University http://www.neallt.org/neallt-nerallt Second Language…