Language Teaching Colloquium
Zoom Meeting 203 508 3989Each week, a Columbia language instructor will present an idea, a tool, or a challenge related to teaching online, and the attendees will be able to give constructive feedback and share their own experiences. During the second, less formal, portion of the Colloquium the participants will share what they are encountering in their classrooms as […]
Reading Group
Zoom Meeting 847 208 7081The LRC Reading Group will be hosted on Wednesdays, once per month. The readings will be linked to articles suggested by our invited guests, and will help our community prepare to welcome and engage with our guest speakers. You may join us in Zoom ID: 847 208 7081
LRC Invited Speaker: Dr. Sébastien Dubreil, Carnegie Mellon University
Zoom Meeting 203 508 3989Using games to build a learning community in the L2 classroom with Dr. Sébastien Dubreil Carnegie Mellon Unviversity Since the COVID‐19 pandemic has led to a radical transformation of the educational landscape, educators have had to manage the transition to a wide variety of models, including just about every variation between all online teaching and […]
LRC Instructional Innovation Grant – Project Presentations
Zoom Meeting 847 208 7081Presentations of the projects developed by Columbia language faculty with the assistance of the LRC Instructional Innovation Grants. The presentations showcase the following projects completed in the Spring 2020 semester: Elementary Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Digital Textbook: Stage 1 by Aleksandar Boskovic Recording of Vietnamese Language Audio Material by Chung Nguyen Project on Advanced Chinese Supplementary Teaching Materials by […]
Yale CLS Virtual Brown Bag Series: Dr. Florencia Henshaw
Successful teaching strategies for online language courses with Dr. Florencia Henshaw University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all educators have been faced with the challenge of determining how best to utilize available technologies to provide students with quality web-based instruction. Although literature on computer-assisted language learning abounds, teaching online courses that […]
Language Teaching Colloquium
Zoom Meeting 203 508 3989Each week, a Columbia language instructor will present an idea, a tool, or a challenge related to teaching online, and the attendees will be able to give constructive feedback and share their own experiences. During the second, less formal, portion of the Colloquium the participants will share what they are encountering in their classrooms as […]
Instructional Innovation Workshop
Zoom Meeting 847 208 7081Our Instructional Innovation Workshops on pedagogy and technology in the virtual language classroom address the needs and interests of the language community. Some of the topics considered for this semester include: advanced Canvas functionality, working with non-Latin-based writing systems, and implementing project-based learning. You are invited to join us in Zoom ID: 847 208 7081
Yale Virtual Brown Bag Workshop Series
Please join us for our weekly Brown Bag on Thursday, October 22, 2020 from 12:45 – 1:45. Chris Kaiser (Program Manager, Columbia University Language Resource Center), and Mary Jo Lubrano (Associate Director, Yale University Center for Language Study), will discuss results and reflections from the Shared Course Initiative. The discussion will center on the longer-term […]
Language Teaching Colloquium
Zoom Meeting 203 508 3989Each week, a Columbia language instructor will present an idea, a tool, or a challenge related to teaching online, and the attendees will be able to give constructive feedback and share their own experiences. During the second, less formal, portion of the Colloquium the participants will share what they are encountering in their classrooms as […]
Instructional Innovation Workshop
Zoom Meeting 847 208 7081Our Instructional Innovation Workshops on pedagogy and technology in the virtual language classroom address the needs and interests of the language community. Some of the topics considered for this semester include: advanced Canvas functionality, working with non-Latin-based writing systems, and implementing project-based learning. You are invited to join us in Zoom ID: 847 208 7081
Yale CLS Virtual Brown Bag Series: Dr. Carl Blyth
Open Foreign Language Education: The Rise of a New Knowledge Ecology Compared with STEM fields, foreign language (FL) education and second language acquisition (SLA) have been slow to embrace Open Education (OE) and the new knowledge ecologies it produces. FL educators may have been hesitant to participate in the OE movement due to a lack […]