Speaking of Language

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

S6E14 - Rachel Beatty Riedl - Cornell's New Migrations Initiative

Rachel Beatty Riedl, the new director of Cornell's Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, illuminates the Center's new Migrations Initiative, as well as her investigations as a scholar and podcast host into life and politics on the African continent.

Listen to Rachel's podcast, Ufahamu Africa, at https://ufahamuafrica.com. 

#jamm

S6E13 - Sergio Pedro - Pronunciation, Literature, and Music

Sergio Pedro joins us from Ithaca College to discuss some of his favorite language-related topics from pronunciation to Miguel Cervantes, as well as his "other life" as a musician in the Ithaca area.

#barroco

S6E12 - Heather Rowley - Spanish for Migrant Aid

Heather Rowley joins us to discuss how studying Spanish, and her early inclination to teach, led her down a path toward migrant aid, social work, and immigration issues.

#duende

Thanksgiving 2020 Mini-Episode

In honor of Thanksgiving, we asked language students at Cornell to thank their teachers for their hard work, particularly through the transition to remote learning in 2020. We share what a few of them had to say (in their target languages, of course).

In order of appearance:

Nandi Ndoro for Nandipa Sipengane, Zulu

Alejna Gjakmani for Banu Ozer Griffin, Turkish

Maxwell Wang for Zhihong Chen, Chinese
Jerry Guo for Su George, Chinese
Christine Sit for Yuanyuan Duan, Chinese

Corinna You for Damien Tissot, French

Ria Castaneda for Aleksandar Bošković, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian

Jack Liufu
Christopher Chandra
Aidan Ackerman
for Dan Gallagher, Latin

S6E11 - Gregory Green - Study Lao: Developing a Language App

Gregory Green, curator of the John M. Echols Collection on Southeast Asia at the Cornell University Library, talks about his Android app, Study Lao, and the inspiration behind its creation.

#ເງືອກ

S6E10 - Christopher Hromalik - Inclusive by Design: Universal Design for Learning and the World Language Classroom

Christopher Hromalik follows up his talk, “Inclusive by Design: Universal Design for Learning and the World Language Classroom,” with a conversation about Universal Design for Learning and what it means for the language classroom.

To watch Chris's talk and see his presentation slides, please visit our Speaker Series archive at https://lrc.cornell.edu/speaker-series.

View a written transcript of this episode here.

#family