Speaking of Language is a podcast recorded at the Language Resource Center at Cornell University. Each week, we explore a topic related to language pedagogy and second language acquisition.
Sam and Angelika meet with Dr. Sam Tilsen, an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Cornell. He and his collaborator, Dr. James Sethna, were recently awarded one of the College of Arts and Sciences’ New Frontiers Grants for their research on dialects.
https://conf.ling.cornell.edu/
#clique
#fiddlesticks
As another Thanksgiving break approaches, Language Resource Center staff and their colleagues reflect on who they are grateful for.
In order of appearance:
Sam Lupowitz, LRC Media Manager
Angelika Kraemer, LRC Director
Kelly Zeng Ho, LRC Student Assistant
Emma Britton, LRC Learning Initiatives Coordinator
Xue Shao, LRC Student Assistant
Julia Felice, Engagement Specialist, Intergroup Dialogue Project at Cornell University
Sebastian Young, LRC Student Assistant
Angela Chen, LRC Student Assistant
#stillstillgrateful
Dr. Claudia Holguín Mendoza gave a keynote as part of this year’s Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning Workshop on Language Pedagogy. Her talk discussed Antiracist Critical Literacy and Methodologies of the Oppressed for Language Education. She follows up on opportunities to reimagine language teaching with critical literacy and student support at the forefront.
https://pedagogiascriticas.ucr.edu/
#HogodolagadaCogodomogodoeguedestagadas
Julia de Aragón is a board member of the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County (where Cornell University sits). She sits down with Sam and Angelika to describe the programs and resources this volunteer organization offers our local community.
#batata
Dr. Peidong Sun of Cornell's history department discusses her course titled Fashion and Politics in Twentieth-Century China. She also shares details of her time studying in China and France, as well as her numerous upcoming book projects.
#béton
We are joined by Alexander Adrogué, Isabela Perez, and Frida Herrera, students from Cornell's Spanish for Heritage Speakers courses, as well as course coordinator and instructor Mary K Redmond. We'll hear about the students' experience and what they gained in terms of language and cultural skills and awareness.
#choripan
#espantapájaro
#caca
#macanudo
Isabel Choinowski and Dennis Wegner, Ph.D. candidates in German Studies at Cornell, discuss avant-garde puppetry, gender-inclusive pronouns, Sprachcafé, and more.
https://german.cornell.edu/isabel-choinowski
https://german.cornell.edu/dennis-wegner
#Kakerlake
#ZackZack
Bruno Shirley, a graduate student in the Department of Asian Studies here at Cornell, discusses his research into Buddhist intellectual histories of political thought and his accompanying study of Sinhala, Tamil, and other less commonly taught languages.
#अम्बा
#අඹ
We meet with Thamora Fishel, Chencong Zhu, Irfan Asgani, and Maks Tkachuk, members of the team from FLIP, Cornell’s Foreign Language Introduction Program. They share the background of the organization and their plans for community outreach.
#စားပြီးပြီလား
#Їжа
#SudahMakanBelum?
#你吃了吗？
Dr. Stacey Johnson follows up on her talk (part of our monthly LRC Speaker Series) about problem-based models for language and culture instruction and describes the transformative power of the language classroom.
https://problembasedculture.wordpress.com/blog/
#bra
