Speaking Of Language

For this year's Thanksgiving special, we are joined by friends and colleagues reading poetry celebrating gratitude. Sara Goto (Freshman, Cornell): Thank You by Shuntaro Tanikawa David Ortega (Language Technology Specialist, Yale): Oda a las gracias by Pablo Neruda Jeremy Urbaniak (Freshman, Cornell):  Krystyna Golovakova (Ukranian instructor, Cornell): Вечірнє сонце, дякую за день! by Lina Kostenko #gratitude Japanese - Sara Goto ありがとう 谷川俊太郎 空 ありがとう 今日も私の上にいてくれて 曇っていても分かるよ 宇宙へと青くひろがっているのが   花 ありがとう 今日も咲いていてくれて 明日は散ってしまうかもしれない でも匂いも色ももう私の一部   お母さん ありがとう 私を生んでくれて 口に出すのは照れくさいから 一度っきりしか言わないけれど   でも誰だろう 何だろう 私に私をくれたのは？ 限りない世界に向かって私は呟く 私 ありがとう   -------------------------------------------------------------   Thank You Shuntaro Tanikawa   Thank you, Sky For being above today too Even when it's cloudy I can tell How your blue spreads far into space   Thank you, Flower For blooming today too Even if you scatter away tomorrow The smells and colours are already a part of me   Thank you, Mother For giving me life Even

Don Vosburg, Academic Technologist of Learning Innovation (and former Language Center Director) at Carleton College in Minnesota, joins us to discuss all things gamification and language learning through gaming.  https://www.carleton.edu/directory/dvosburg/  #Feierabend

We meet with Anthony Ng’ang’a, a representative from the East Africa-based Safal Group. Anthony discusses he Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize, an award to recognize writing and translations in African languages and help proliferate them around the globe. https://www.safalgroup.com/cornell-kiswahili-prize/  https://kiswahiliprize.cornell.edu/  #GutiriWaIregiUtuire  

We revisit Cornell’s World Languages Day, which took place earlier this month. Participant Anna Marchetti is a senior in high school in Victor, NY (just under two hours northwest of Ithaca), and student volunteer Sebastian Young is a sophomore here at Cornell and one of our LRC student assistants. https://lrc.cornell.edu/world-languages-day #animero #yaourter Welcome to a new episode of Speaking of Language. I’m Angelika Kraemer, the Director of the Language Resource Center at Cornell University and I’m Sam Lupowitz, the LRC’s Media Manager. We are excited to talk about our annual World Languages Day event today with two participants. Anna Marchetti [mar’kettee] is a senior in high school in Victor, NY (just under two hours northwest of Ithaca), and Sebastian Young is a sophomore here at Cornell and one of our fabulous LRC student assistants

Dr. Catherine Baumann follows up on her talk from our monthly LRC Speaker Series. Cathy dives into reverse design and how to better center language curricula and lessons around the goals and needs of students. https://languages.uchicago.edu/2021/03/04/cathy-baumanns-interview-on-reverse-design/ #skärgård

Simon Zuberek returns to Speaking of Language. Simon is a senior educational technologist, linguist, and language educator, and we will talk today about corpora, data, and their applications and validity in the language classroom. https://www.zuberek.net/ #ubuntu Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18SuIN2HnClTltRU4uFQTTzJNo1ZArQxGrDG81-5fUeI/edit?usp=sharing

McKenna Norton and Jack Donnellan are undergraduates in the Class of 2025 cohort of Cornell's Robert S. Harrison College Scholar Program. They describe their projects that focus on responses to alienation across cultures and on the role of language in the application of the rule of law around the world. https://as.cornell.edu/education/college-scholar-program  https://as.cornell.edu/mckenna-norton https://as.cornell.edu/jack-donnellan #刀子嘴豆腐心 #يلا

Dr. Mari Noda talks about the “game” of language learning, and how each of us can endeavor to “fail better” in our interactions with other cultures. https://nihongonow.byu.edu/  Watch the video of Mari's talk: https://youtu.be/2l5ufdeKoD8 #やっぱり      

We meet some of the teams behind two other Cornell-based language and culture podcasts. Daniel Bass and Shavin Seneviratne are the co-hosts of The Next Monsoon, a series by Cornell's South Asia Program examining artistic and cultural responses to climate change in South Asia. Francine Barchett and Emily Falica are involved with Gatty Lecture Rewind, a podcast by the Southeast Asia Program centered on conversations and interviews with visiting scholars working in and around that region. Gatty Lecture Rewind: https://gattyrewind.libsyn.com/ The Next Monsoon: https://nextmonsoon.podbean.com/ Listen to a brief trailer for The Next Monsoon: https://nextmonsoon.podbean.com/e/welcome-to-the-next-monsoon-1679507165/ Next Monsoon conference: https://events.cornell.edu/event/the_next_monsoon . Daniel's Monsoon Radio show: https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/monsoon-radio/ #chảnh #ஊர் # נחת #hati-hati  #치맥 

We are joined by Daniel Walter, Assistant Professor of German and Linguistics at Emory University. Dr. Walter recently published the book titled Psycholinguistic Approaches to Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Linking Theory, Findings, and Practice, and we will dive into his work on our podcast today. #Fernweh

Meet Hilary Yarger, the newest member of the team here at the Cornell University Language Resource Center. We discuss what drew Hilary to the LRC and what she hopes to accomplish as our Engagement and Outreach Coordinator. We'll also hear some of her original music, and perhaps even a classic 90s jam. Included in this episode: excerpt from "Hazy Devotion," Hilary's MA thesis project.  https://hilaryyarger.com #間

What can be learned from Indigenous languages and cultures? Dr. Américo Mendoza-Mori recently visited from Harvard University to give a talk as a part of our LRC Speaker Series. He explores the impact of making space for marginalized people and traditions. https://scholar.harvard.edu/americo Follow @ameriqo on social media. #yapa  

Sam and Angelika revisit what they did last summer. But mostly, they look ahead to trends and current events in language learning, and some of the topics in store for the coming season of the podcast.   Information on cuts being made at West Virginia University:  https://www.actfl.org/news/actfl-statement-on-wvu-plan-to-eliminate-world-language-programs Change.org petition to protest cuts to world languages at West Virginia University: https://www.change.org/p/preserve-students-rights-to-study-world-languages-at-wvu   The Sophie Washburn French Instructorship: https://as.cornell.edu/about/sophie-washburn-french-instructorship #abbiocco #verschlimmbessern

Kate Paesani and Mandy Menke discuss their new book, Literacies in Language Education, and the benefits of a literacies-based approach to language instruction. Companion website: https://carla.umn.edu/literacies/book.html  Instagram & Twitter: @umn_languages Twitter: @CARLA_UMN Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UMNLanguages   https://www.facebook.com/carla.umn #rascacielos  #escalofríos #juernes #débile #grace Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jm13pTHFNtBJrMxwR3WQHr2KSgJnpl1OFnOPuObds6Y/edit?usp=sharing

Koen Van Gorp joins us to talk about task-based language teaching. https://vangorpk.msu.domains/  #schokolare #supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

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://valeriefridland.com https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/language-in-the-wild #pumpernickel #moist

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  

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

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

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 https://infosci.cornell.edu/