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College for Kids

The Language Institute offers language workshops at College for Kids

Russian workshop with Dianna Murphy picture 1

Russian workshop with Dianna Murphy picture 4

Russian workshop with Dianna Murphy picture 5

Spanish language and Guatemalan textile workshop with Catherine Reiland

Spanish language and Guatemalan textile workshop with Catherine Reiland

Student models clothing from Cobán, Guatemala

 

College for Kids is a summer program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Education Outreach

 June 20-July 8, 2005

The Language Institute presents:

A is for Apple, M is for Manzana, and я is for яблоко

Fifth graders from around Dane County explore their world through language!  Each day, they learn about a different language and culture.

Isabelle Drewelow, graduate student in the Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition, serves as facilitator each day. Guest presenters introduce students to diverse world languages:

  • Sookyung Cho, Korean
  • Isabelle Drewelow, French
  • Vanessa Fitzgibbon, Portuguese
  • Elena Hsu, Chinese
  • Jina Lee, Korean
  • Anna Lewandowski, Swahili
  • Dianna Murphy, Russian
  • Catherine Reiland, Spanish
  • Rand Valentine, Ojibwe


 

 
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Upcoming

 

2008-09 Language Institute Lecture Series Culture, Literature and Language: Power and Pedagogies

Lecture: Land of the Free, Home of the Phraselator: The Weaponization of Language
Mary Louise Pratt, New York University
12:00 pm, Thursday, November 6
Room TBD

The first in a series of public lectures sponsored by the Language Institute on Culture, Literature and Language: Power and Pedagogies. Learn more >

Lecture: On the Division of 'Prosodic' and 'Non-Prosodic' Resources in Talk-in-Interaction
Gareth Walker, University of Sheffield
4:00 pm, Monday, November 10
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive

A significant amount of work published over the last twenty five years or so has shown how the phonetic design of talk-in-interaction is bound up with its sequential organisation. However, it is the consideration of prosodic--rather than general phonetic--features which seem to dominate current thinking. In this talk, Walker will set out some reasons for dealing with the phonetic design of talk in its totality. Learn more >


 

 



 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 


 

 
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