Talk 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
Talk Inclusive Pedagogies & Methodologies for the Language Classroom Maya Smith Professor of French, Associate Dean for Equity, Justice and Inclusion, University of Washington
Friday, March 13, 2026 B-4 Dwinelle & Zoom, 3-5 pm...
Talk 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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Workshop 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...
David Gramling University of British Columbia