Transformative Language Learning and Teaching in the Language Classroom @ Yale CLS

Transformative Language Learning and Teaching (TLLT), coming out of research and application of transformative education in general education beginning in 1990, can be seen as a paradigm shift from current and past teaching methods and philosophies in L2. This talk will focus briefly on the history as it may pertain to L2, discuss the principles and identifying characteristics of TLLT, and provide several wide-ranging examples of ways in which TLLT is being implemented in academic and government L2 programs nationally and internationally, sharing lessons learned. Followed by Q&A.

Betty Lou Leaver, PhD (Pushkin Institute, Moscow, Russia) recently retired as the Provost at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, where she previously held the role of Associate Provost of Continuing Education and Dean of the Schools of Slavic and Central European Languages. She has also directed L2 programs at NASA and the Foreign Service Institute, served as chief academic officer at the New York Institute of Technology in Amman (Jordan) and spent a decade providing consultation in general education to ministries of education in 24 countries.