Speaking Of Language

Bill VanPatten, the Diva of Second Language Acquisition, returns to Speaking of Language to chat about revolution and his recent talk for our monthly LRC Speaker Series, "Barriers to Innovation in Language Teaching. #monpetitchou Watch Dr. VanPatten's talk here.

Nancy Martinsen of Cornell’s Asian and Asian American Center describes the joys and challenges of being an international student in the United States, and what we can do to support these students. #matapang   A3C website Including International Students in Online Teaching @cornella3c @isu.cornell

We learn about the Planet Word Museum in Washington, D.C. and its innovative exhibits on the wonders of the English language, with its Curator of Programming, Rebecca Roberts. #serendipity https://planetwordmuseum.org/for-educators/

Giulia Andreoni, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University with a major concentration in Italian literature, suggests ways to incorporate music and drama into language teaching and learning. #sun

Cassandra Glynn, Pamela Wesely, and Beth Wassell, authors of Words and Actions: Teaching Languages through the Lens of Social Justice, discuss how we can rethink and transform our teaching to better serve our students and our world. #rembobiner #tiquismiquis #gemütlich #schickimicki

N‘Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba shares the lessons of three decades in Africana Studies at Cornell University. Global Comparative Education: Journal of WCCES – https://www.theworldcouncil.net/gce-editorial-team.html  World Voices Nexus: the WCCES Chronicle – https://www.worldcces.org/  Find information on conversation hours for Cornell's African languages (Igbo, KiSwahili, and Yoruba) at https://lrc.cornell.edu/conversation-hours

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, ChineseJerry Guo for Su George, ChineseChristine Sit for Yuanyuan Duan, Chinese Corinna You for Damien Tissot, French Ria Castaneda for Aleksandar Bošković, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian Jack LiufuChristopher ChandraAidan Ackerman for Dan Gallagher, Latin

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

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

Julio Rodríguez joins us to discuss AMPLIFY, a resource aggregator of professional learning experiences for world language education. https://thelanguageflagship.tech/pl/  #Gemütlichkeit #itdepends

David Forman talks all things Yiddish at Cornell, and shares some history of the language in New York and the United States in general. Join David for Yiddish Conversation Hour on Fridays from 12-1pm. אַן אַלרײַטניק# קענען זיך אין די שוואַתצע פּינטעלעך זײַן אַ קענער אין די שוואַרצע פּינטעלעך

Steve Henhawk shares his mission to maintain and proliferate the language and culture of the Cayuga, or Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ, the indigenous people who first inhabited the land on which Cornell University now sits.#ohwęjí:yo:

Kate Paesani joins us to follow up her talk, “Multiliteracies Pedagogy and Teacher Professional Development: From Research to Practice.” We’ll learn how educators can integrate multiliteracies into their curriculum.https://fllite.org/https://newlearningonline.com/https://carla.umn.edu/literacies/index.html#libellule#kindness