Speaking Of Language

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

Melina Ivanchikova and Matt Ouellett, Center for Teaching InnovationGiulia Friso, Senior Research Associate, Plant BiologyIn our 100th episode, we dive into “Teaching & Learning in the Diverse Classroom,” a Massive Open Online Course developed by Cornell’s Center for Teaching Innovation. Two of its creators, Melina Ivanchikova and Matt Ouellett, as well as contributing faculty member Giulia Friso, discuss the importance of incorporating diversity concepts into the teaching of any subject matter. They also provide suggestions for how you can develop these skills in your own teaching, learning, and life.Learn more about the course (and sign up) here.#bigotes#tesoro#gemütlich 

Daniel Gallagher, from Cornell’s Classics department, reflects on his decade of experience living and working as a Latin secretary in the Vatican, and shares the many benefits of learning to speak and converse in a language some may consider “dead.”#sapientia

Professor Beth Lyon, Director of Cornell’s Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic, and Victor Flores, J.D. Candidate and Spanish instructor in our Languages Across the Curriculum Initiative, offer a look into Cornell’s Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic, and the different educational methods they utilize to create access to the American justice system for speakers of Spanish and Indigenous languages. #Vos #Ojalá

Julio Torres joins us from the University of California, Irvine to enlighten us on how language instruction affects heritage speakers. Watch Julio's talk, presented at the Cornell LRC over Zoom, here. #couscous

We kick off our first episode of season 6 with lessons learned over the summer. Sam and Angelika discuss building the LRC's Online Learning Community, and Cornell instructors Thierry Torea and Su George talk about their experiences in building community and engaging students online.  #saucisson

In the final episode of our Spring 2020 season, we speak with three Cornell language students about their transition into remote learning over the course of this semester: Jabari Gambrel (Wolof), JT Miller (Korean), and Skyeler McQueen (German).   #hersugol #그냥 패스 #우리 #zanahorias

Claire Ménard, Naomi Larson, and Munther Younes, lecturers of French, Japanese, and Arabic at Cornell University, share their experiences with the transition to remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. #samak#sharib#wunderbar#がんばろう

Simon Zuberek, the Educational Technologist from the Language Resource Center at Columbia University, investigates the application of virtual, augmented, and extended reality for learning and teaching language and culture.  #verschilmmbessern

Director of the University of Wisconsin System Collaborative Language Program, Lauren Rosen, discusses the lessons, consequences, and potential in moving language instruction into a virtual space. #Gaztelugatxe

Shannon Spasova, Technology Specialist in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement at Michigan State University and Assistant Professor of Russian, speaks with us about useful tools for teaching and learning language online. #очевидно  

David Ortega, Language Technology Specialist in the Center for Language Study at Yale University, discusses strategies for engaging learners remotely. #わびさび #侘寂

As we continue our special focus on language teaching and learning strategies in a virtual space, we welcome Andrew Ross to our podcast. Dr. Ross is the director of the Language Center at Harvard University. He joins us to discuss the role of the language center supporting teachers and students in these times. 

In this episode, we are joined once again by our colleague Chris Kaiser, Program Manager for the Shared Course Initiative, a collaborative agreement among Columbia, Cornell, and Yale Universities to share instruction in the less commonly taught languages. Chris shares several philosophies and strategies for assessing students in a time of social distance.