Columbia LRC

Instructional Innovation Workshop
2021-02-24 10:00 - 11:00, 2021-03-24 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-03-31 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-04-07 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom Meeting 847 208 7081
Our Instructional Innovation Workshops on pedagogy and technology in the language classroom address the needs and interests of Columbia’s language community. This semester’s theme is “Visualizing the Distance Classroom” and it covers topics ranging from hosting virtual conversation hours via proximity chat platforms, through creating class projects by leveraging various video tools.

Language Teaching Colloquium
2021-02-26 10:00 - 11:00, 2021-03-12 10:00 - 11:00, 2021-03-19 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-03-26 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-04-02 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom Meeting 203 508 3989
The purpose of the Language Teaching Colloquium is to gain a clearer sense of our shared challenges, and to come up with effective solutions to them. In our current time of disconnect, we are atomized and siloed, and this weekly event will allow participants to gain a wide perspective on what is happening across languages and departments.
Each week, an idea, a tool, or a challenge related to teaching online will be presented. In response, 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 we move through the semester.
Following the Colloquium, we invite everyone to participate in our weekly virtual social hour, hosted until 5pm.
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"The Harvard Language Exchange: Toward Community-focused Informal Language Learning" with Dr. Andrew Ross and Dr. Mary DiSalvo
2021-03-04 07:45 - 08:45 | Virtual Event
The Language Exchange began in the Fall of 2019 as a simple idea: to match members of the Harvard community, broadly conceived, who wanted to exchange language practice. Using a Google form and shared spreadsheet, the Harvard Language Center staff began to grow a modest list of users. When COVID forced Harvard to turn to remote instruction and then online teaching and learning, we recognized the importance of the Language Exchange as a community-building tool. With the design support and technical expertise of Harvard IT, they have recently launched a new purpose-built Language Exchange site, which currently has over 300 users.
In this presentation, the guest speakers will outline the needs case for informal language learning opportunities, describe the history of the project, show the site from user and administrator perspectives, and offer some thoughts on the potential impact of this platform for community-building across a widely varying population of users.

"Post-pandemic language teaching: Our window of opportunity" with Dr. Bryan Smith
2021-03-10 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom Meeting 847 208 7081
“Post-pandemic language teaching: Our window of opportunity” with Dr. Bryan Smith
Abstract:
Starting from the assumption that post-pandemic language teaching will not look quite like it did in a pre-COVID world, I will consider how emergency remote teaching and the subsequent move to online language teaching will likely result in technology-enhanced language learning becoming the norm moving forward. In doing this, I will share experiences, predictions, and fears gathered from L2 classroom teachers, language learners, L2 researchers, language resource center directors, and industry, and will explore how we might take advantage of lessons learned during this time in a way that is consistent with and informs instructed second language acquisition.
Bio:
Bryan Smith is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English at Arizona State University, where he directs the Graduate Certificate in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL). He is co-editor of the CALICO Journal and serves on the editorial advisory boards of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Computer Assisted Language Learning, the EUROCALL Review, the Journal of Virtual Exchange, and Language Learning & Technology. He conducts research at the nexus of CALL and instructed SLA and has focused on topics such as learner interaction, learner attention to form, the effects of teacher corrective feedback, and learner alignment during task-based interaction. His current work focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to affect language teaching and learning moving forward, task-based learner-learner multi-modal interaction via mobile devices, and learners’ incidental focus on form. He regularly employs methods and techniques such as eye-tracking that capture learner process data. His published research has appeared in journals such as the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, CALICO Journal, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Computers in Human Behavior, Language Learning & Technology, Language Teaching, TESOL Quarterly, The Modern Language Journal, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and System, among others.

Invited Guest Lecture: Steven Leveen @ Yale CLS
2021-03-18 08:45 - 09:45
The details about the Invited Guest Lectures are forthcoming.

LRC Invited Guest Lecture: Rus Gant
2021-04-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom Meeting 203 508 3989
Title and abstract are forthcoming.

LRC Instructional Innovation Grant – Project Presentations
2021-04-14 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom Meeting 203 508 3989
Presentations 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 2021 semester:

“Elementary Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Online Workbook” by Aleksandar Boskovic
“The Columbia Corpus of Spanish Conversations: 10 New Clips” by Guadalupe Ruiz Fajardo
“Listen and Learn: Using Academic Podcasting to Support Foreign Language Learning” by Zhongqi Shi

Invited Guest Lecture: Rebecca Oxford @ Yale CLS
2021-04-15 08:45 - 09:45 | Virtual Event

Invited Guest Lecture: Stacey Bournes @ Yale CLS
2021-04-22 08:45 - 09:45 | Virtual Event

Pedagogy Workshop - Session 1
2021-09-30 11:00 - 12:00 | Language Resource Center, 353 IAB, 420 W 118th Street, New York, NY, 10027, United States
The purpose of this series of workshops is to reexamine the role of listening comprehension in today’s language classroom. In the course of the five planned workshops, we will try to define listening comprehension, and discuss some of the ways in which it can be productively incorporated in the language curriculum. At the end of this series we will consider a few ways in which listening comprehension can best be assessed.

Pedagogy Workshop - Session 1
2021-10-01 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event

Technology Workshop
2021-10-06 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-10-20 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-11-03 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-11-17 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual Event
The LRC Technology Workshops examine thoughtful and creative uses of educational technology in the language classroom. Each session focuses on a salient aspect of classroom instruction and examines how it can be enhanced through the use of technology. The Technology Workshops complement our Pedagogy Workshops in exploring how technology can mediate language pedagogy. This semester we focus on listening comprehension and the digital tools that can be employed in its service.

Yale CLS Invited Guest Talk: Catherine Baumann
2021-10-14 08:45 - 09:30 | Virtual Event

2021 CLTL Workshop: Meaning Through Sound: Rediscovering Listening in the Language Classroom
2021-10-21 - 2021-10-23 | Virtual Event
The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (CLTL) is pleased to announce the Fall 2021 Workshop “Meaning Through Sound: Rediscovering Listening in the Language Classroom.” The workshop will begin on Friday, October 22, 2021, with a keynote by Elvis Wagner, Temple University, and be followed on Saturday, October 23, by the one-day event that includes panel presentations in the morning and an afternoon filled with interactive hands-on breakout sessions.

Yale CLS Invited Guest Talk: Hiram Maxim
2021-10-28 08:45 - 09:45 | Virtual Event
The title and abstract are forthcoming.

Pedagogy Workshop - Session 2
2021-10-28 11:00 - 12:00 | Language Resource Center, 353 IAB, 420 W 118th Street, New York, NY, 10027, United States

Pedagogy Workshop - Session 2
2021-10-29 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event

Invited Guest Talk - TBA
2021-11-05 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual Event
Every 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 us recent findings and ideas on the topic.

Pedagogy Workshop - Session 3
2021-11-11 10:00 - 11:00 | Language Resource Center, 353 IAB, 420 W 118th Street, New York, NY, 10027, United States

Pedagogy Workshop - Session 3
2021-11-12 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual Event
