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...
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...
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 specific focus...
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 editors,...
Instructional Development Research ProjectsUp-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...