Making Meaning Visible: Infographics and Multimodal Literacy in the L2 Classroom Beatrice Dupuy University of Arizona, Professor, Dept. of French & Italian, Dept. of Public & Applied Humanities, Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Second Language Acquisition & Teaching
Although communication has always been multimodal, the rise of social media and digital tools has transformed the semiotic landscape. Audio, visual, gestural, and spatial designs increasingly integrate with—or even...
Inclusive Pedagogies & Methodologies for the Language Classroom Dr. Maya Angela SmithProfessor 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...
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
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
For many humanists, writing is the double of thinking itself. Unsurprisingly, as educators, we have for generations emphasized writing practice as...
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.
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...
Rethinking Language Instruction in the Blended Classroom Fernando Rubio Yale University, Center for Language Study
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...
Post-Election Workshop: What, How, and Why Will We Be Teaching Additional Languages in 2025? How about in 2125?David GramlingUniversity 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...
David Gramling University of British Columbia