Episodes

Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
S4E9 - Alternatives in Language Education: Cornell's Prison Education Program
Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
In this episode, two Cornell colleagues join us to discuss their experiences teaching language to incarcerated students. Makda Weatherspoon is a Senior Lecturer of Arabic, and Tess Wheelwright is the Academic Director of the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP).
Learn more about CPEP at https://cpep.cornell.edu/

Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
S4E8 - Leah Sweet - Museums and Language Teaching
Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
Leah Sweet, the Lynch Curatorial Coordinator for Academic Programs at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on Cornell’s campus, discusses how museums can be integrated into language teaching. She also touches on the current Johnson exhibition of contemporary art about the movement of people across the globe.
Learn more about the Johnson Museum, including current, past, and upcoming exhibits, at https://museum.cornell.edu/

Wednesday Oct 16, 2019
S4E7 - Margaret Malone - Language Assessment Literacy
Wednesday Oct 16, 2019
Wednesday Oct 16, 2019
Margaret Malone is the Director of the Assessment and Evaluation Language Resource Center at Georgetown University, a Research Professor at Georgetown, and she is also the Director of ACTFL’s Center for Assessment, Research and Development. She was on campus as part of our monthly LRC Speaker Series and gave a talk titled “What do students and instructors need to understand about language assessment and what do language assessment developers and researchers need to know about students and instructors?” We continue to discuss strategies for overcoming the potential disconnect between test users and test developers in language assessment in this episode.
A video of Meg's talk is available at lrc.cornell.edu/speaker-series and on the LRC's YouTube channel.

Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
S4E6 - Allyssa Ford - 🎶 In the Navy 🎶
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Allyssa Ford, a student at Cornell’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, discusses her experience as a linguist for the United States Navy, and her time in their intensive language school as well as working with civilian language analysts in the NSA.

Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
S4E5 - Nisa Burns - Heritage Learning, Multilingualism, and Global Change
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Cornell undergraduate Nisa Burns shares her experiences learning multiple Southeast Asian languages and how study abroad has influenced her future aspirations for language revitalization.

Wednesday Sep 25, 2019
S4E4 - Candace Black - State-Level Developments in World Language Education
Wednesday Sep 25, 2019
Wednesday Sep 25, 2019

Wednesday Sep 18, 2019
S4E3 - Edvan Brito - Language Variation, Race, and Migration
Wednesday Sep 18, 2019
Wednesday Sep 18, 2019
Edvan Brito joins us to discuss what the Brazilian settlements called favelas can teach us about how language, race, and geography intersect.
Dr. Brito is Assistant Professor and Director of the Portuguese Program at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He was on Cornell's campus as part of the monthly LRC Speaker Series, and gave a talk titled “Using Social and Cultural Issues to Promote Language Learning and Cultural Awareness: Language Variation, Race, and Migration.”

Wednesday Sep 11, 2019
S4E2 - Joseph Rhyne & Ryan Hearn - Do You Speak Torfan?
Wednesday Sep 11, 2019
Wednesday Sep 11, 2019
This week, we take a trip to the movies as we investigate how two Cornell PhD students created an alien language for the blockbuster film Captain Marvel. LRC Media Manager Sam Lupowitz speaks with Joseph Rhyne and Ryan Hearn, two PhD candidates in Linguistics at Cornell. Joseph and Ryan created the “ConLang,” or “Constructed Language,” of the planet Torfa for this entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which stars Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson.

Wednesday Sep 04, 2019
S4E1 - I Know What You Did Last Summer
Wednesday Sep 04, 2019
Wednesday Sep 04, 2019
Speaking of Language returns for a new academic year! Cornell LRC Director Angelika Kraemer fills us in on lessons learned during summer travels to conferences, both domestic and international. Media Development Manager Sam Lupowitz remembers by the end that he went on his honeymoon.
Call for chapter submissions to the 2021 Language Center Handbook.

Wednesday May 01, 2019
S3E13 - The Importance of Language Learning: An Undergraduate Perspective
Wednesday May 01, 2019
Wednesday May 01, 2019
Cornell undergraduates Hezekiah Thompson and Justin Kang talk about what they have gained from their language learning experiences, and their advice for incoming freshmen, or any prospective language student.
With this episode, our third season of Speaking of Language comes to an end. We will be back in September with new topics and guests. In the meantime, you can listen to our archived shows on our website at lrc.cornell.edu, on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts. We wish all our listeners a wonderful summer.