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Upcoming Events

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...

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...

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Instructional Development Research Projects Up-to-Date Language Applications: A New In-class Activity of Chinese Teaching Zijing Fan Graduate Student, East Asian Languages & Cultures

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Gender in the French Language: A New Course and New Modules Jennifer Kaplan Graduate Student, French

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Teaching Elementary Russian with Lexical Approach Elena Leonenko Graduate Student, Slavic Languages & Literatures

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Inter-Scandinavian Communication Course Design John...