2022 SPRING CLTL WORKSHOP

Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (CLTL) 2022 Spring Workshop

Title: “Future Thinking on Language Teaching and Learning”

Dates: Friday, April 29, 2022

Website: https://hwpi.harvard.edu/cltl2022/home 

Dear Colleagues,  

We’re very pleased to let you know that registration is open for the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning’s Spring 2022 Symposium, hosted by Harvard University.  As Harvard is still being cautious about large in-person gatherings involving non-Harvard participants, requiring testing in many cases, the Symposium will be held virtually via Zoom.   The Symposium will run from 9am – 5pm EST, with a few comfort breaks and lunch, ending with a roundtable event with our discussants. 

The past two years have presented extraordinary challenges for the teaching of languages, literatures, and cultures across the world.  Educators have had to adapt to meet learners’ needs, to innovate with the help of technology, and, in this latest phase of the pandemic crisis, to envision a lasting set of methodologies and practices that effectively leverage resources, techniques, and collaborative tools. The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning is uniquely positioned to examine and shape the emerging trends across our institutions and beyond. Acknowledging the critical importance of this work, Harvard University invites our colleagues from the Consortium to join us for this symposium on the changing landscape of language pedagogy, writ large. 

“Future Thinking on Language Teaching and Learning” will frame the questions in the areas of engagement, assessment, interaction, spaces, texts and writing, adaptive teaching methods, and translation that confront us as a profession and propose potential responses.  It is our hope that this symposium will mark a starting point for further and deeper discussions among Consortial members and help us define threads of common interest to work on together over the coming years. 

We are delighted to welcome the following speakers to join us for this event (in alphabetical order, with working titles for their presentations):

• Sonia Colina (Arizona) – Regents Professor and Director of the National Center for Interpretation, “Translation and language teaching.”

• Rick Kern (UC Berkeley) – Director of the Berkeley Language Center, “Imagining the future for language, literacy, and technology.”

• Kim Potowski (UI -Chicago) – Professor of Spanish Linguistics, “Heritage language teaching: Where should we be heading and how can we get there?”

• Steven Thorne (Portland State University) – Professor of Second Language Acquisition, “Adaptive, agentive, and amplifying affordances for language learning.”

• Bridget Yaden (Pacific Lutheran University) - Past President of ACTFL, Language Resource Center Director; “Access and Articulation through Proficiency:  Second Language Teaching and Learning at the Post-secondary Level.” 

Please see the Symposium website at https://hwpi.harvard.edu/cltl2022/home.  The Registration and Contact page contains a link to the registration form.  We are intending to use a webinar format for the Symposium; please be sure to use an e-mail address linked to your Zoom account to register.  We would like to make the registration available first and foremost to Consortium members; please sign up as soon as you can.  As we get closer to the date, we intend to publish the link to selected venues so that other institutions may also join us.

Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions you may have regarding the Symposium – we are very much looking forward to seeing you all there!

Best,

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