Thanks to a travel grant from the CLS at Yale University, I was able to attend the annual MESA meeting held this year in Boston. During the meeting, I attended the following important sessions relevant to the teaching of Arabic…
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Mari Stever Attends AAS 2010 Conference
Report: AAS (Association for Asian Studies) 2010 Conference (March 25-27, 2010 at Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA) This conference is probably the largest one of its kind in the United States, and it attracts many prominent teachers of Japanese in the…
Julia Titus Attends AATSEEL Conference
Thanks to the generous support of the CLS travel fund, I was able to participate at the annual conference of American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) held on Dec.27-30, 2009 in Philadelphia.
Yale Language Faculty Attend First International Heritage Conference at UCLA
Introduction Heritage/community language education is a developing multidisciplinary field at the intersection of demography, sociology, psychology, neuroscience, education and other disciplines. Research in the field seeks to identify the unique needs of heritage language learners. This research is informing the…
Heritage Conference (cont’d)
First International Conference on Heritage/Community/Languages Sybil Alexandrov Thanks to a CLS Travel Grant, I was able to attend and participate in the First International Conference on Heritage/Community/Languages. The conference, hosted by the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA from…
Heritage Conference (cont’d)
Heritage Learners’ Motivations, Expectations, and Language Needs: The Case of Post-secondary Chinese and Korean Language Learners Seungja Choi (Presented at the First International Heritage Language Conference, Feb. 19-21, 2010 at NHLRC) Chinese and Korean are two of the critical languages…