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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.
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Apr 30, 2025
Apr 30, 2025
38 min
Sara Lee closes out our season discussing strategies for supporting neurodiverse language learners and how these design principles create better learning outcomes for the entire classroom.
Watch Sara's workshop: https://youtu.be/hhB0Bg_3-bw
Neurodiversity reading list: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CD7TP7FCcSmEt7Jms3hu7Jwi6xBkhRVC/view?usp=sharing
#Scheidebecher

Apr 23, 2025
Apr 23, 2025
18 min
Dr. Katie Fiorella is the director of the Cornell Migrations Program. We discuss the policies and outcomes related to the movement of living things across borders, and learn about how this initiative has developed since we first discussed it in 2020.
https://einaudi.cornell.edu/programs/migrations-program
Subscribe to the Migrations mailing list: https://cornell.us16.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=da35890acf22b2437aeb5bb67&id=c45499fc3f
#oyaore

Apr 16, 2025
Apr 16, 2025
20 min
We celebrate the LRC's annual Sweet Poetry event with two returning guests: poet and Japanese literature and media scholar Andrew Campana, and the LRC's Engagement and Outreach Coordinator, Ashley Griffith.
https://lrc.cornell.edu/sweet-poetry
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/expanding-verse/paper
“Speaking of Speaking of Language” by Angelika Kraemer
Performed by Angelika Kraemer and Sam Lupowitz
Underscore: “Nordisk Guld” by Simon Bjarning
#図々しい
#sala

Apr 9, 2025
Apr 9, 2025
15 min
We will learn all about Cornell's Language House and how it benefits campus life from residence hall director Monti Wilkins.
https://cornell.campusgroups.com/tonimorrison/home/
https://lrc.cornell.edu/news/language-house-opens-students-learning-asl
#bonsoir

Apr 2, 2025
Apr 2, 2025
25 min
Dr. Daniel Kaufman is the co-founder and co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a non-profit dedicated to documenting Indigenous, minority, and endangered languages, supporting linguistic diversity in New York City and beyond. We speak with him about language documentation, community collaboration, and more.
Language City book: https://groveatlantic.com/book/language-city/
Facebook/Instagram: @elalliance
#wagübürigu

Mar 26, 2025
Mar 26, 2025
24 min
We speak with Olga Verlato, a Klarman Fellow in Near Eastern Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences here at Cornell. She talks about the role played by language in history, politics, and education in modern Egypt and the surrounding region.
https://neareasternstudies.cornell.edu/olga-verlato
Additional audio courtesy “Sounds of Cairo.”
https://www.youtube.com/@soundsofcairo4715
#روبابيكيا

Mar 17, 2025
Mar 17, 2025
31 min
Gláucia Silva follows up on her recent talk, “Linguistic Perception and Production in Heritage Language.”
Instagram: @glauciaumd
#peteca

Mar 12, 2025
Mar 12, 2025
33 min
Blaine and Von Ray discuss TPRS, “Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling,” and the results they’ve had via this method.
#esobvio
#cariño

Mar 5, 2025
Mar 5, 2025
25 min
Adriana Lima is the residence hall director at Cornell's Latino Living Center, a residential program house on campus. She shares the history and current events of the LLC, and discusses its benefits to campus life.
https://cornell.campusgroups.com/llc
#cafecito

Feb 26, 2025
Feb 26, 2025
45 min
Kris Knisely is Associate Professor of French and Intercultural Competence at the University of Arizona. He follows up on his recent talk as part of our monthly LRC Speaker Series, Doing It (Gender) Justice: Reimagining Language Education Through Trans Knowledges.
https://www.krisknisely.com/ialle
@krisknisely.bsky.social
Watch a video of Kris's talk at the LRC here: https://youtu.be/TbC6Awun4fM?si=R6NcBLBQ2G_hxc5d
#pamplemousse
Read a transcription of this episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14CJDJp0tD_zQzzl8nYoxiQBLkvundXVHNDb4sQvYllU/edit?usp=sharing
