Speaking of Language

Sam and Angelika revisit what they did last summer. But mostly, they look ahead to trends and current events in language learning, and some of the topics in store for the coming season of the podcast.

 

Information on cuts being made at West Virginia University: 

https://www.actfl.org/news/actfl-statement-on-wvu-plan-to-eliminate-world-language-programs

Change.org petition to protest cuts to world languages at West Virginia University:

https://www.change.org/p/preserve-students-rights-to-study-world-languages-at-wvu

 

The Sophie Washburn French Instructorship:

https://as.cornell.edu/about/sophie-washburn-french-instructorship

#abbiocco
#verschlimmbessern

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Kate Paesani and Mandy Menke discuss their new book, Literacies in Language Education, and the benefits of a literacies-based approach to language instruction.

Companion website: https://carla.umn.edu/literacies/book.html 

Instagram & Twitter: @umn_languages

Twitter: @CARLA_UMN

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/UMNLanguages
 
https://www.facebook.com/carla.umn

#rascacielos 

#escalofríos

#juernes

#débile

#grace

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Koen Van Gorp joins us to talk about task-based language teaching.

https://vangorpk.msu.domains/ 

#schokolare

#supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

 

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Dr. Valerie Fridland, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Nevada, Reno, discusses her new book Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English. Dr. Fridland demonstrates the deep cultural and historical significance of speech patterns that are initially resisted before becoming widely accepted.

https://valeriefridland.com

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/language-in-the-wild

#pumpernickel

#moist

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Florencia Henshaw returns to discuss her book, Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom. She recently gave a talk as part of our monthly LRC Speaker Series on SLA principles and assessment. Her talk was part of our spring learning community that is sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Mellon Foundation. The learning community brings together colleagues from Cornell, Colgate, Skidmore, and Syracuse to exchange best practices in language teaching.

Linktree for Florencia: https://linktr.ee/florenciahenshaw

Florencia's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Unpackinglanguagepedagogy

#gnocchi

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Dr. Richard Kiely is a senior fellow in Cornell's Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, and, among many other things, stewards the design and implementation of the Engaged College Initiative. He discusses transformative learning theory, international community-engaged learning, and dissonance.

Einhorn Center: https://einhorn.cornell.edu/

#häftigt

#lagom

#fika

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Margaret Ransdell-Green is a linguist who has been creating constructed languages, or ConLangs, since the late 1990s. Eric Barker, her husband, is a musician and composer. The two have collaborated on writing music and lyrics in the languages and styles of these fictional peoples.

Margaret's ConLangs: http://www.aeniith.com/

Music video: https://youtu.be/dTp67Xqr2WU

Language Creation Society (LCS): https://conlang.org/ 

Ana Lemma

The songs heard in this episode were "Zhumzhu" and "Phatakap."

#積ん読
#mingqun
#akleng

 

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Xiaoyan Li enlightens us on her role in developing an AI agent that helps enforce equal participation for native speakers and second language learners in online discussions.

#tschüss

Improving Non-Native Speakers' Participation with an Automatic Agent in Multilingual Groups - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3567562

https://infosci.cornell.edu/

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Cory Duclos, Director of the Keck Center for Language Study at Colgate University and a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, joins Sam and Angelika this week. One of his current research projects is concerned with ethics of data gathering online.

https://fltmag.com/interview-project-9-artificial-intelligence/ 

#moleque

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Joe Dale is an independent languages consultant from the UK who works with a range of organizations such as Network for Languages, ALL, The British Council, the BBC, Skype, Microsoft, and The Guardian, who described him as an "MFL guru." Joe is no stranger to podcasting as co-host of his own, the #mfltwitterati, and we're excited to hear about his broad experience with language teaching and technology around the world.

@JoeDale on Twitter

https://mfltwitteratipodcast.com/ 

https://ppli.ie/resource/mfl-teachers-talk-podcast/

#pamplemousse

#grenouille

#JeCrèveLaDalle

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