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‘language pedagogy’

never going back: what online teaching in the times of covid can add to our teaching toolkits – patrick murphy,

feb. 26, 2021—by mohammad meerzaei  turning a language course into a learning community: patrick murphy, senior lecturer in spanish patrick murphy is a senior lecturer at the department of spanish and portuguese. his work is mainly focused on teaching beginner- and intermediate-level spanish courses. in this interview, murphy looks back at his journey with online teaching, exploring...

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center for second language studies- fall 2020 orientation

aug. 12, 2020—the csls community is invited to attend the virtual csls orientation with guest speaker shannon riggs on “engaging students from a distance.” the orientation will be held over zoom on august 20th from 10am-10:45am. zoom link: https://vanderbilt.zoom.us/j/91745405522

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teaching innovations at vanderbilt: stacey johnson and reflective final exams

feb. 10, 2020—by faith rovenolt, cft undergraduate intern   during spring 2020, the teaching innovations at vanderbilt blog series will highlight teaching innovations that cft staff have implemented and evaluated in their own courses. dr. stacey johnson is passionate about teaching languages, and if there is one teaching technique she is passionate about, it’s reflective exams. for...

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teaching innovations at vanderbilt: daniela d’eugenio and selective technology use

apr. 29, 2019—by faith rovenolt, cft undergraduate intern personal technological devices, such as phones and laptops, are ubiquitous in society as well as the classroom. their use is banned outright by some professors and encouraged by others, but just as outside of the classroom, the exact role and extent they should be used is still being explored....

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teaching in the l2 at the novice level: guidelines for foreign languages teaching assistants

mar. 25, 2019—by josé luis de ramón ruiz, teaching affiliate foreign languages departments are often keenly aware of the importance of maximizing classroom time to offer comprehensible input for their students. however, conducting an entire class in the l2 can be overwhelming for new instructors, especially for those teaching classes at the novice level. will my students...

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book recommendation from cft’s stacey johnson

mar. 13, 2019—if you are one of the many faculty or staff at vanderbilt focusing on immersion initiatives, community engagement, or teaching for global citizenship, one of our newest books at the cft library might be a useful tool in your work. the book is community-based global learning: the theory and practice of ethical engagement at home and...

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ed tech podcast features gabriele dillmann

oct. 29, 2018—in this episode, we feature an interview stacey johnson conducted for her podcast, we teach languages, with gabriele dillmann, associate professor of german at denison university, a small liberal arts college in ohio. gabriele is the director of the great lakes colleges association’s shared languages program. the program features language courses taught at one school in the consortium that...

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leading lines ed tech podcast with ingeborg walther

oct. 11, 2018—this fall, two members of the leading lines team, working completely independently, brought interviews with university educators about shared language programs. in each case, a group of colleges and universities got together to offer online language courses. these are courses that wouldn’t have enough enrollment to run at a single institution, but across three or...

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the center for second language studies to offer four new working groups

sep. 13, 2017—all language teachers and learners are all invited to participate in any (or all) of four csls working groups this year. all have initial meetings in the coming weeks.       students as filmmakers: editing tools in the foreign language classroom first meeting: thursday, sept 14th 3 pm contact: kate schaller this working group...

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leading lines episode 5: digital textbooks and language instruction

oct. 3, 2016—by derek bruff, cft director in our latest leading lines episode, we feature an interview with lee forester, professor of german at hope college, and bill vanpatten, professor of spanish and second language studies at michigan state university. the cft’s stacey m. johnson, assistant director for educational technology, sat down with forester and vanpatten at...

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