Creating the Conditions for Languages to Thrive: Advocacy, Leadership, and Institutional Change Deb Reisinger Dean of Undergraduate Education; Trinity College, Duke University
In “Creating the Conditions”, Reisinger examines how content-based language programs can expand the role and reach of language study within a contemporary liberal arts education. Drawing on established...
Balancing Dichotomies in Pursuit of Disability Inclusive Language Education Dr. Caitlin CornellAccessibility Coordinator and Advocate, College of Arts and Letters; Assistant Director, Center for Language Teaching Advancement, Michigan State University
Language Teaching Excellence at UC Berkeley: A Showcase & Celebration UCB Langauge Faculty
Excellence defines language instruction at UC Berkeley. Join us for an event aimed at showcasing, sharing and, celebrating the excellence in language teaching at UC Berkeley.
The event will feature 5-minute presentations by UC Berkeley language instructors on instructional innovations they are implementing in their classrooms.
Full list of presenters will be available early November.
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.
Dean of Undergraduate Education; Trinity College, Duke University 
