Speaking of Language

S7E10 - Bill VanPatten - Barriers to Innovation in Language Teaching

Bill VanPatten, the Diva of Second Language Acquisition, returns to Speaking of Language to chat about revolution and his recent talk for our monthly LRC Speaker Series, "Barriers to Innovation in Language Teaching.

#monpetitchou

Watch Dr. VanPatten's talk here.

S7E9 - Nancy Martinsen - Mentoring and Supporting International Students

Nancy Martinsen of Cornell’s Asian and Asian American Center describes the joys and challenges of being an international student in the United States, and what we can do to support these students.

#matapang

A3C website

Including International Students in Online Teaching

@cornella3c

@isu.cornell

S7E8 - Rebecca Roberts - Planet Word

We learn about the Planet Word Museum in Washington, D.C. and its innovative exhibits on the wonders of the English language, with its Curator of Programming, Rebecca Roberts.

#serendipity

https://planetwordmuseum.org/for-educators/

S7E7 - Giulia Andreoni - Theater, Music, and Language Learning

Giulia Andreoni, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University with a major concentration in Italian literature, suggests ways to incorporate music and drama into language teaching and learning.

#sun

S7E6 - Social Justice and the University Language Learner

Cassandra Glynn, Pamela Wesely, and Beth Wassell, authors of Words and Actions: Teaching Languages through the Lens of Social Justice, discuss how we can rethink and transform our teaching to better serve our students and our world.

#rembobiner

#tiquismiquis

#gemütlich

#schickimicki

S7E5 - N‘Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba - Africana Studies and African Languages at Cornell

N‘Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba shares the lessons of three decades in Africana Studies at Cornell University.

#ubuntu

Global Comparative Education: Journal of WCCES – https://www.theworldcouncil.net/gce-editorial-team.html 

World Voices Nexus: the WCCES Chronicle – https://www.worldcces.org/ 

Find information on conversation hours for Cornell's African languages (Igbo, KiSwahili, and Yoruba) at https://lrc.cornell.edu/conversation-hours

S7E4 - Le Anne Spino & Karen de Bruin - Employability and Language Proficiency

Le Anne Spino and Karen de Bruin discuss the Proficiency Initiative at the University of Rhode Island and its impact on students and the curriculum.

#cambur

#lekker

Referenced sources:

https://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/2019/summer-fall/reynolds 

https://blog.languagetesting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Increasing-Graduates-Employability-Spino-and-de-Bruin-TLE-Summer-2020.pdf

Language Majors on offer at URI:

Chinese

French

German

Italian

Spanish

Global Languages & Area Studies (tracks in Japanese, Arabic, and Classics)

Minors: 

Portuguese

ASL

Hebrew

Russian

S7E3 - Language Tutoring at Cornell

Jennifer Bokaer-Smith, Bianca Lewis, and Ariana Croese from Cornell’s Learning Strategies Center discuss their growing language tutoring program and its value to the Cornell community.

#avanza

#mi alma

#mi schiallo

S7E2 - Dustin Crowther - Addressing Speech Comprehensibility in the L2 Classroom

Dustin Crowther discusses the ins and outs of intelligibility when speaking a second language, and how it relates to fluency.

#genki

#元気

#sumimasen

#すみません

S7E1 - Kelly Moore - Target Practice: Using the TL from the Get-Go

Kelly Moore, PhD candidate in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell, describes her process of integrating the target language more deeply into her beginner-level language courses, both in person and online.

#negocio