Upcoming Events

Beatrice Dupuy | Making Meaning Visible: Infographics and Multimodal Literacy in the L2 Classroom

Talk 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,...

Marta González-Lloret | No Longer Optional: Technology and Pragmatics at the Heart of Language Teaching

Talk No Longer Optional: Technology and Pragmatics at the Heart of Language Teaching Marta González-Lloret University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Professor & Chair, Dept. of LLEA, Cooperative Graduate Faculty, Dept. of SLS

This talk highlights the importance of learning the pragmatics of a Second or Foreign language for successful interaction, particularly in digitized, global, and multicultural contexts, and especially at a time of sociocultural tensions and...

L2Journal Special Issue Event: Essays in Honour of Claire Kramsch

In Conversation Multilingual and Intercultural Perspectives in Language Learning: Essays in Honour of Claire Kramsch

The next special issue of L2 Journal, guest edited by Drs. Simon Coffey and Zhu Hua, is entitled Multilingual and Intercultural Perspectives in Language Learning: Essays in Honour of Claire Kramsch and will be published in late September. Join the guest...

Events

Upcoming Events

To Study or Not to Study Language: Student Perspectives and Potential Responses

Panel To Study or Not to Study Language: Student Perspectives and Potential Responses

As part of ongoing efforts to bolster recruitment and retention efforts within language education, we need to understand what students are thinking: Why are students taking language courses? Why are students not taking language courses?

In this panel, we’ll hear from scholars and practitioners who are actively investigating these questions and who have created initiatives that respond directly to student needs and beliefs, with a...

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

August 20, 2024
Workshop 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...

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

August 20, 2024
Talk 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...

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

Talk 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...

Rodney H. Jones | Human-Machine Loops and the Future of Creativity, Literature and Culture

Talk Human-Machine Loops and the Future of Creativity, Literature and Culture Rodney H. Jones University of Reading

In this talk, I consider the future of creativity, literature and culture through the lens of recent posthumanist approaches to language and education (Pennycook, 2017). The rise of generative AI has sparked debates, both in the humanities and in the cognitive sciences, about the potential effects of technology on human culture and creativity (Brinkmann et al., 2023; Jones, 2024). But such debates are not entirely new. Human culture has always emerged...

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...