With shy smiles but determined enthusiasm, students from diverse backgrounds and eighteen different Heritage Languages gathered to be part of the “Heritage Meets Heritage” event in its new fo...
If like me you teach in a post-secondary educational Institution, then the Spring semester for the Academic Year 2021 has just started for you. This means that up to this moment we have spent wee...
For the first time, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages held its annual convention virtually in November of 2020. As with most professional conferences this year, the conven...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2020/12/18/on-actfl-first-virtual-convention-highlighting-success/
With the start of Fall 2020 rapidly approaching, you have surely prepared and modified your syllabi, online class materials, synchronous tasks, asynchronous assignments as well as assessments and...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2020/08/16/enjoy-a-perfect-zoom-class-session-every-time/
Equality, social justice and inclusion; three essential and powerful values in any community. They are so powerful that the need for them was recently, despite a global pandemic, able to mobilize...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2020/06/10/inclusion-the-heart-of-language-teaching/
Since March 2020, ACTFL started offering numerous resources to help language instructors prepare for remote teaching (click here for more information). ACTFL also started offering free webinars. ...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2020/05/26/considerations-for-remote-teaching/
Source: Center for Language Study at Yale (Yale CLS) Title: Various Resources for Online Teaching. Link: Yale Canvas course: Language Faculty Peer Support Network FY20 ******************** Source...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2020/04/07/resources-for-online-teaching/
Yale, like many universities in the country, started the first day of distant teaching today. Whether you have been teaching online for a day or a decade, reflecting on the teaching process looks...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2020/03/23/reflection-on-distant-teaching/
Many – if not all – educational institutions in the world are dealing with an unpredictable situation where they need to take various measures to help prevent any chances of the spread of COV...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2020/03/12/teachable-opportunities-with-covid-19/
The problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of the image, according to cultural theorist W.J.T. Mitchell (1995). The power of the visual, he states, is greater than ever before, and th...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2019/11/19/using-art-in-teaching-world-languages/
There comes a time when every instructor finds that for her/him to advance their role in the pedagogical process, they need horizons that are wider than the four walls of their classroom. Expandi...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2019/11/06/teacher-leadership-opening-new-horizons-for-better-instruction/
According to Rachel Mamiya Hernandez “Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) uses meaningful inquiry to engage students with language, communities, and content. This project aimed to connect le...
In a perfect New England Fall weather, the Center of Language Study at Yale hosted the annual conference of The New England Regional Association for Language Learning Technology (NERALLT) on Yale...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2019/10/20/yale-hosts-nerallt-conference/
The Connecticut Council for Language Teachers (CT COLT) ran and organized a two-day summer institute in June 2019. Hostesses Lea Graner Kennedy, Kathleen Archibald and language education expert G...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2019/06/29/proficiency-based-curriculum-design/
In Fall of 2018 and Spring of 2019 and in eight-three-hour sessions, myself and a group of graduate students, language lectors, and Foreign Language Teaching Assistants completed the Distance Lan...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2019/04/24/distance-language-teaching-program-at-yale-cls/
When asking Google what a word cloud is, this definition appeared: A word could is an image composed of words used in a particular text or subject, in which the size of each word indicates its fr...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2018/12/18/looking-back-at-2018-growing-and-learning/
Back in the Groove.After a two – week break, going back to a language class is never easy. We have all been… Posted by The Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Yale Univer...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2018/03/28/back-in-the-groove-day-one-after-the-break/
This semester’s technology events program kicked off last Tuesday, Jan. 23rd, with 10-minute Tech Talks–short, informal presentations or conversations by language instructors about a technolo...
I applied for the CLS Fellowship in Fall of 2016 with hopes of getting a one course release and using the time to focus on my project. With complete focus on using online resources to enhance the...
The annual ACTFL Convention will take place in Nashville, TN, from November 17-19, and Yale will be well-represented! Below are the presenters, titles and abstracts copied from the online conven...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2017/11/11/yale-presentations-at-actfl-2017/
During Summer Session B, class of Arabic 120 (Summer 2017) visited the Beinecke Library to get a close look and a detailed account of a variety of Arabic manuscripts amongst the collection availa...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2017/08/08/students-reflect-on-beinecke-visit/
On Thursday, April 6, the CLS was happy to welcome Steve Thorne, Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition at Portland State University’s Department of World Languages and Literatures...
March 2 update: slides from the event, with links to all sites shown, can be accessed here. On Thursday, March 2, the CLS Brown Bag lunchtime series will feature a discussion about how Yale langu...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2017/02/23/learning-from-the-languages-of-new-haven/
On Friday, February 9, faculty participants in the May 2016 Instructional Innovation Workshop (IIW) held a poster presentation event at the CLS. Their posters illustrated innovative language teac...
Community Ideas At the AATG Presidents Meeting, which I attended as AATG-CT vice-president, we learnt about three successful inter-disciplinary projects that involved students and teachers. The M...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2016/12/11/actfl-2016-ideas-for-the-classroom/
With the end of the semester upon us, it’s a great time to take stock of teaching and technology accomplishments in 2016, and to look forward to goals and projects for next year. I’ve put a f...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2016/12/08/time-for-tech-winter-break/
The Heritage Meets Heritage project made its off-campus debut at a round-table discussion at ACTFL 2016. This project, a study of identity, motivation and inter-language relationships among he...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2016/12/03/heritage-meets-heritage-at-actfl-2016/
The time has come for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 2016 Annual Convention and World Languages Expo, and Yale’s language teaching and research community is w...
Here are a few notes from the October 13 lunchtime discussion in the CLS Library, facilitated by Suzanne Young. I joined a bit late and when some strategies for reflection were already put up on ...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2016/10/13/notes-from-the-reflective-teaching-brown-bag-1013/
Text and images by Minjin Hashbat, Tarana Jafarova, and Gregg Lauer On Wednesday, May 18, the Yale World CLASS (Culture and Language After School Studies) program for high school students conclud...
https://blog.cls.yale.edu/2016/05/21/world-class-festival-2016/