Yale CLS Invited Guest Talk: Catherine Baumann
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Yale CLS Invited Guest Talk: Hiram Maxim
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Invited Guest Talk – TBA
Virtual EventEvery semester, the LRC hosts a series of lectures open to the language community at Columbia. These talks highlight recent research and practices in the field, while allowing for an opportunity to develop relationships with colleagues from other institutions. Our guests this semester work within the area of L2 listening comprehension and will share with […]
Invited Guest Talk – Chung Nguyen
Virtual EventEvery semester, the LRC hosts a series of lectures open to the language community at Columbia. These talks highlight recent research and practices in the field, while allowing for an opportunity to develop relationships with colleagues from other institutions. Our guests this semester work within the area of L2 listening comprehension and will share with […]
Multimodality Befriends L2 Writing with Invited Guest Speaker, Dr. Ana Oskoz
columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/8472087081Please save the date for the upcoming "Multimodality Befriends L2 Writing" event with an invited guest talk featuring Dr. Ana Oskoz of The University of Maryland Baltimore County. The topic of Dr. Oskoz's talk will delve into how the integration of digital multimodal composing in second language (L2) and heritage language (HL) classrooms have expanded […]
Look Who’s Talking: The Use of Dubbing in Advanced Italian Courses, Felice Beneduce
columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/8472087081Please save the date for the upcoming Look Who’s Talking: The Use of Dubbing in Advanced Italian Courses event with distinguished guest speaker Columbia Professor Felice Beneduce. The topic and purpose of his presentation will be to examine the use of dubbing analysis and redubbing as pedagogical instruments in my Advanced Italian Courses at Columbia […]
The Pocket Calculator, Google Translate, and Chat-GPT: From Disruptive Technologies to Curricular Innovation with Invited Guest Speakers, Per Urlaub and Eva Dessein, MIT
304 Hamilton Hall 1130 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NYThis Friday, the Language Resource Center will be holding a talk with invited guest speakers, Professors Per Urlaub and Eva Dessein, MIT. The talk will discuss the disruptive potential of AI technologies such as Google Translate and ChatGPT in foreign language/literacy education. The first part of the talk defines the concept of disruption and uses the […]
Invited Guest Speaker Presentation | Breathing Through Both Nostrils: Introducing Yiddish in the German Classroom
In an effort to bring Yiddish and German closer, graduate students at Columbia University organized two workshops to foster collaboration between the languages and to conduct a sample lesson. This session will highlight the first programmatic steps taken to 1) overcome the isolation of Yiddish within the Germanic department; 2) explore how Yiddish could be […]
Invited Guest Presentation | Engaging Students and Teachers to use their Multilingual Repertoires as a Resource for Learning and Teaching
On Friday, October 27th, guest speakers Jérémi Sauvage and Nathalie Auger, University of Montpellier, France, will be presenting their lecture on Engaging Students and Teachers to Use their Multilingual Repertoires as a Resource for Learning and Teaching: Examples in France and Europe. Multilingualism in Europe, particularly within France, presents a unique blend of challenges and opportunities […]
Invited Guest Speaker | Teaching for Social Justice Through Multiliteracies Pedagogy
304 Hamilton Hall 1130 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NYCome join us on November 3rd at 3pm in Hamilton 304 and on Zoom for a talk with Dr. Kate Paesani (Ph.D., Indiana University) about the intersection between Social Justice and Multiliteracies Pedagogy. "Critical pedagogies that prepare learners to participate in multilingual, multicultural, and multimodal societies are gaining ground in language education. The multiliteracies framework […]
Transforming (Language) Pedagogy in Response to Generative AI: Developing Critical AI Literacy & Instructional Content for Foreign Language Writing
ZoomAs a member of the Modern Language Asssocation (MLA) /CCCC Task Force on Writing and AI (2023), Anna Mills will summarize their first working paper highlighting the benefits and risks of large language models for language, literature, and writing programs. She will share an approach to teaching with AI that supports language development to build […]
Invited Guest Lecture I | Paula Krebs and Lydia Tang, the MLA
503 Hamilton Hall 1130 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NYJoin us as Drs. Krebs and Tang discuss the MLA’s 2023 Report on Foreign Language Enrollment in Higher Education. Since 1958, the Modern Language Association has regularly conducted a census of enrollments in foreign languages at US institutions of higher education. The latest census, conducted in 2021, reveals several notable trends, including an overall drop […]