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Dr. Maya Angela Smith | Inclusive Pedagogies & Methodologies for the Language Classroom

Inclusive Pedagogies & Methodologies for the Language Classroom Dr. Maya Angela SmithMaya Smith pic Professor in French and Italian Studies, University of Washington

Even though French classrooms in the United States are becoming more and more diverse, the French foreign-language curriculum typically continues to present a very narrow and specific model...

Lara Lomicka Anderson | Voices of place: Language Learning Beyond the Classroom

Voices of Place: Language Learning Beyond the Classroom Lara Lomicka Anderson Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Interim Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate School, Jessie Chapman Alcorn Memorial Professor of Foreign Languages, University of South Carolina

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This talk explores place...

Pranav Anand | Thinking Critically about Critical Thinking: Writing, Co-Writing, and Language

Thinking Critically about Critical Thinking: Writing, Co-Writing, and Language Pranav Anand Associate Dean of Research for Humanities Division, and Faculty Director of The Humanities Institute, UC Santa Cruz

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For many humanists, writing is the double of thinking itself. Unsurprisingly, as educators, we have for generations emphasized writing practice as...

September 23, 2024: Roundtable - Language Program Vitality

Roundtable: Language Program Vitality: Building Community

Amidst longstanding concerns about declining enrollments in language study, how can we promote language program vitality? Inspired by the co-edited volume, Language Program Vitality: From Surviving to Thriving in Higher Education (Heidrich Uebel, et. al., 2023), this roundtable features various efforts to sustain or enhance language programs today within higher education.

Specifically, the...

Roundtable: Language Program Vitality

August 20, 2024
Roundtable: Language Program Vitality: Building Community

Amidst longstanding concerns about declining enrollments in language study, how can we promote language program vitality? Inspired by the co-edited volume, Language Program Vitality: From Surviving to Thriving in Higher Education (Heidrich Uebel, et. al., 2023), this roundtable features various efforts to sustain or enhance language programs today within higher education.

Specifically, the presentations comprising this...

Events

2025-26

Fernando Rubio | Rethinking Language Instruction in the Blended Classroom

Rethinking Language Instruction in the Blended Classroom Fernando Rubio Yale University, Center for Language Study

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Blended learning is an educational approach that combines face-to-face instruction with online learning activities in a structured and complementary way. This hybrid model leverages the strengths of both traditional classroom teaching...

David Gramling | Post-Election Workshop: What, How, and Why Will We Be Teaching Additional Languages in 2025? How about in 2125?

August 20, 2024
Post-Election Workshop: What, How, and Why Will We Be Teaching Additional Languages in 2025? How about in 2125? David Gramling pic David Gramling University of British Columbia

Taking the current US Federal election as a touchpoint, this is a hands-on workshop where we will actually make a new Common Framework for Multilingualism in 2025 (and beyond) together, an era when...

Aron Aji | Diving Whole: Translation as Immersive Practice in the World Language Classroom

August 20, 2024
Diving Whole: Translation as Immersive Practice in the World Language Classroom Aron Aji Director of Translation Programs and the Center for Translation and Global Literacy, The University of Iowa

The use of translation in the world language classroom is often perceived as antithetical to the immersive aims of the Communicative Method. In their legitimate criticism of the old grammar/translation method, proponents of the Communicative Method have rightly pointed out that teaching grammar by relying on...

Kimberly Vinall & Emily Hellmich | Research, Theory, and Practice: Imagining AI Technologies in Language Education

Research, Theory, and Practice: Imagining AI Technologies in Language Education Kimberly Vinall BLC Executive Director Emily Hellmich BLC Associate Director

AI tools prompt language teachers to imagine new ways of teaching. They also require students to imagine new ways of learning. These imaginings open new possibilities, but they can also be anxiety-provoking, as they are still largely unknown.

In this presentation, we give initial shape to these imaginings by combining practice with current research and theory. More...