Episodes
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
S11E11 - Valerie Fridland - When “Bad” Language Makes us Better Communicators
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
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://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/language-in-the-wild
#pumpernickel
#moist
Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MNOKZHZhfURnToBj7o7LSjHwXaVyuXkaDGUFN-91pV8/edit?usp=sharing
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
S11E10 - Florencia Henshaw - Guiding SLA Principles and Assessment
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
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
Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DRpJyznWMGOMY5FnW4bNi_uvs-LoUcvkJJGbCVwc490/edit?usp=sharing
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
S11E9 - Richard Kiely - Transformative Learning, Community Engagement, and Dissonance
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
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
Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jDa2qCbN4xGltbXkf76lUDs9t2jKIbFnjb3pAMtPft8/edit?usp=sharing
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
S11E8 - Margaret Ransdell-Green & Eric Barker - Constructing Language and Culture
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
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
Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jWKrNg9c4Nl_xOV9jH5Bixs5xPnWPXtoHq1IZpfOWqg/edit?usp=sharing
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
S11E7 - Xiaoyan Li - AI and Turn-Taking in Online Discussions
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
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
Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1adKq1yDCNWM6PZCKMzdxR6u6cGQaukLQhXtmB-Vt5PQ/edit?usp=sharing
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
S11E6 - Cory Duclos - Data, Ethics, and AI
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
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
Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pEuGwXn5T7dS5SnlzbqXcbb0o6Vp28DZHeTsJR62XRg/edit?usp=sharing
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
S11E5 - Joe Dale - Educational Technology in Language Learning
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
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
Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VtO8FVdtectMV8GJdgUooOITL3Hhk3tX3LTgyeCwsQs/edit?usp=sharing
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
S11E4 - Larisa Kasumagić- Kafedžić - Peace Pedagogy and Language Education
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Larisa Kasumagić- Kafedžić, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellow at Cornell from the University of Sarajevo, explores how language instructors can embrace a pedagogy of peace, justice, and conflict resolution.
#居眠り
Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/152KmTZB7aRUW45TMWOmA8eu0_WCTKXxLjIvu3MAZY7k/edit?usp=sharing
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
S11E3 - Claire Frances & Giovanni Zimotti - ChatGPT, AI, and Second Language Writing
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Claire Frances and Giovanni Zimotti of the University of Iowa discuss their research into ChatGPT, one of the recent artificial intelligence programs garnering attention in and out of academia. The pair recently published an article in FLTMAG about Chat GPT's potential impact on writing in language education.
https://fltmag.com/chatgpt-second-language-writing/
www.giovannizimotti.com
https://clcl.uiowa.edu/
#J’aiD’autresChatsÀFouetter
#y’all
Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13eXare1Bg6hFEWpoobQjdWkPD3K1ce1n2ZG55o-7obg/edit?usp=sharing
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
S11E2 - Alan van den Arend - Active Learning in Language Teaching
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Alan van den Arend discusses how we can rethink approaches to translation and pedagogy to better connect with students.
Correction: ALI was founded by Alex and Laura Hanson (not Harrison)
https://classics.cornell.edu/alan-van-den-arend
#boterham
Read a transcription of this episode here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZUrJnTjedNSwbnRovZ2Em3s7pMWv4UnyxRjVQ9t85tg/edit?usp=sharing