Coming up in Spring 2023
Committed to Change Initiative
- Workshop for language educators: Anticipating Disability: Design Strategies for Inclusive World Language Teaching, Wade Edwards, Longwood University, 1:00-3:00 pm, Friday, March 31, 2023, 1418 Van Hise Hall
Other Events
- Language Collaboratory lightning talk: A Multilingual Oral History Project, Claire Frances and Azul Trejo Zetina, University of Iowa, 3:30-4:00 pm, Monday, April 3, on Zoom
- Information session for language students: Make a Difference: Teach! Information Session to Introduce the New UW-Madison Teaching Certification and MS Program for World Languages, 4:00 pm, Thursday, April 6, 1418 Van Hise Hall
- Language Collaboratory lightning talk: From Language Students to Duolinguists, Parker Henry and Elisa Camps Troncoso, Duolingo, 3:30-4:00 pm, Thursday, April 20, on Zoom
- Workshop for language educators and researchers: Translating Google Translate: How Students Actually Use Machine Translation and What That Means for World Language Instruction, Kimberly Vinall and Emily Hellmich, University of California, Berkeley, 5:00-6:00 pm, Thursday, April 20, on Zoom
- Brownbag for language graduate students: Teaching at a Community College, Carolina Bailey, Sarah Fritz, and Hicham El Majdi, Madison Area Technical College, 5:00-6:00pm, Thursday, April 27, Zoom
Past Events in Spring 2023
Committed to Change Initiative
- Invited talk: An Educational Model for Black Linguistic & Cultural Reparations, Anne Charity Hudley, Stanford University, 3:00-4:00 pm CST, Thursday, February 2, 2023, on Zoom
Other Events
- Presentation for Language Sciences’ Linguistics Fridays series: Educating the Educated: Raising Language Awareness on Campus, Jeffrey Reaser, North Carolina State University, 3:00-4:00 pm, Friday, February 24, on Zoom
- Series of online talks Language Collaboratory – Understanding Success in Undergraduate Language Certificates: Success Rates and Their Implications, Amanda Dalola and Adolfo Carillo Cabello, University of Minnesota, 3:30-4:00 pm, Monday, February 20, recording coming soon
- Workshop for language TAs: Pair and Group Work in the Language Classroom, 12:00-1:00 pm, Friday, February 17, 1418 Van Hise Hall
Past Events in Fall 2022
Committed to Change Initiative
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- Workshop for language educators: Critical Race Pedagogy for Antiracist, Equity-minded, and Inclusive World Language Teaching, Uju Anya, Carnegie Mellon University, 1:00-4:00 pm, Friday, October 28, 1135 Nancy Nicholas Hall
Brownbags and Talks
Assessment-Driven Pedagogy and Recognizing Student Language Proficiency, Catherine Baumann, University of Chicago
- How Assessment Informs Pedagogy, Drives Innovation, and Empowers Instructors, brownbag for language program directors, faculty, and instructors, 12:00 pm, Friday, December 2, 1418 Van Hise Hall
- Give Them What They Want – Especially if It’s Real-World Language Proficiency!, talk for language educators, 4:00 pm, Friday, December 2, 1418 Van Hise Hall
Language Collaboratory series of online talks and conversations for language educators, co-sponsored by a number of Big 10 institutions. Fall 2022 theme: postgraduate student success.
- Language Collaboratory – Postgraduate Success for Language Learning: Framing Questions and Undergraduate Student Perspectives, Dianna Murphy, UW-Madison and Claire Frances, University of Iowa, 3:30 pm, Monday, October 3, on Zoom; session recording
- Language Collaboratory – Designing a New Language Curriculum From the Ground Up, Felix A. Kronenberg, Michigan State University and Wonneken Wanske, Cégep Heritage College and University of Ottawa, 3:30 pm, Thursday, October 27, on Zoom; session recording
- Language Collaboratory – Marketable Language Competencies, Rebekah Paré, Washington University in St. Louis, 3:30 pm, Thursday, November 3, on Zoom; session recording
- Language Collaboratory – Lead with Language: Putting Language Skills to Work, Kaitlin Koehler, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Toni Landis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 3:30 pm, Thursday, December 1, on Zoom; session recording
Second Language Acquisition PhD Program Lecture Series
- Understanding and Analyzing Narratives in Context, Anna De Fina, Georgetown University, 3:00 pm, Friday, November 4, 1418 Van Hise Hall
- Narrative Analysis as a Research Method for Studying Language and Identity, Christina Higgins, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 4:00 pm, Friday, October 21 on Zoom; recording coming soon
Other Events
- Culture and the Language Classroom: Revisiting Interdepartmental Orientation Workshop for New Language Instructors, workshop for new and continuing language TAs, 1:30 pm, Wednesday, November 30, 1418 Van Hise Hall
Fall 2022 Teaching Academy retreat, Addressing Linguistic Bias to Support All Learners, 9:00-11:30 am, Friday, September 30, Gordon Commons and on Zoom
Welcome (Back) Social, 3:00 pm, Friday, September 23, 1418 Van Hise Hall
Interdepartmental Orientation Workshop for New UW-Madison Language Instructors, August 29-30, Van Hise 104; 3rd floor classrooms in Van Hise Hall