Speaking of Language

We revisit Cornell’s World Languages Day, which took place earlier this month. Participant Anna Marchetti is a senior in high school in Victor, NY (just under two hours northwest of Ithaca), and student volunteer Sebastian Young is a sophomore here at Cornell and one of our LRC student assistants. https://lrc.cornell.edu/world-languages-day #animero #yaourter Read a transcription of this episode h...

Dr. Catherine Baumann follows up on her talk from our monthly LRC Speaker Series. Cathy dives into reverse design and how to better center language curricula and lessons around the goals and needs of students. https://languages.uchicago.edu/2021/03/04/cathy-baumanns-interview-on-reverse-design/ #skärgård Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gW5Ixdh7m8Ylhd1...

Simon Zuberek returns to Speaking of Language. Simon is a senior educational technologist, linguist, and language educator, and we will talk today about corpora, data, and their applications and validity in the language classroom. https://www.zuberek.net/ #ubuntu Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18SuIN2HnClTltRU4uFQTTzJNo1ZArQxGrDG81-5fUeI/edit?usp=shar...

McKenna Norton and Jack Donnellan are undergraduates in the Class of 2025 cohort of Cornell's Robert S. Harrison College Scholar Program. They describe their projects that focus on responses to alienation across cultures and on the role of language in the application of the rule of law around the world. https://as.cornell.edu/education/college-scholar-program   https://as.cornell.edu/mckenna-norto...

Dr. Mari Noda talks about the “game” of language learning, and how each of us can endeavor to “fail better” in our interactions with other cultures. https://nihongonow.byu.edu/   Watch the video of Mari's talk: https://youtu.be/2l5ufdeKoD8 #やっぱり Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NrGae2RGdY9qYtnOPyfYQTgO9Z9fJ4CdVou2Wd44KNg/edit?usp=sharing  

We meet some of the teams behind two other Cornell-based language and culture podcasts. Daniel Bass and Shavin Seneviratne are the co-hosts of The Next Monsoon, a series by Cornell's South Asia Program examining artistic and cultural responses to climate change in South Asia. Francine Barchett and Emily Falica are involved with Gatty Lecture Rewind, a podcast by the Southeast Asia Program centered...

We are joined by Daniel Walter, Assistant Professor of German and Linguistics at Emory University. Dr. Walter recently published the book titled Psycholinguistic Approaches to Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Linking Theory, Findings, and Practice, and we will dive into his work on our podcast today. #Fernweh Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ueP...

Meet Hilary Yarger, the newest member of the team here at the Cornell University Language Resource Center. We discuss what drew Hilary to the LRC and what she hopes to accomplish as our Engagement and Outreach Coordinator. We'll also hear some of her original music, and perhaps even a classic 90s jam. Included in this episode: excerpt from "Hazy Devotion," Hilary's MA thesis project.  https://hila...

What can be learned from Indigenous languages and cultures? Dr. Américo Mendoza-Mori recently visited from Harvard University to give a talk as a part of our LRC Speaker Series. He explores the impact of making space for marginalized people and traditions. https://scholar.harvard.edu/americo Follow @ameriqo on social media. #yapa Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/d...

Sam and Angelika revisit what they did last summer. But mostly, they look ahead to trends and current events in language learning, and some of the topics in store for the coming season of the podcast.   Information on cuts being made at West Virginia University:  https://www.actfl.org/news/actfl-statement-on-wvu-plan-to-eliminate-world-language-programs Change.org petition to protest cuts to world...

Kate Paesani and Mandy Menke discuss their new book, Literacies in Language Education, and the benefits of a literacies-based approach to language instruction. Companion website: https://carla.umn.edu/literacies/book.html   Instagram & Twitter: @umn_languages Twitter: @CARLA_UMN Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UMNLanguages   https://www.facebook.com/carla.umn #rascacielos  #escalofríos #jue...

Koen Van Gorp joins us to talk about task-based language teaching. https://vangorpk.msu.domains/   #schokolare #supercalifragilisticexpialidocious   Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I1QUOtiTB34QokJ2HwtApY_5JqrtjF4HxjpDvI0Xf60/edit?usp=sharing  

Dr. Valerie Fridland, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Nevada, Reno, discusses her new book Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English. Dr. Fridland demonstrates the deep cultural and historical significance of speech patterns that are initially resisted before becoming widely accepted. https://valeriefridland.com https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/language-in-the...

Florencia Henshaw returns to discuss her book, Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom. She recently gave a talk as part of our monthly LRC Speaker Series on SLA principles and assessment. Her talk was part of our spring learning community that is sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Mellon Foundation. The learning community bri...

Dr. Richard Kiely is a senior fellow in Cornell's Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, and, among many other things, stewards the design and implementation of the Engaged College Initiative. He discusses transformative learning theory, international community-engaged learning, and dissonance. Einhorn Center: https://einhorn.cornell.edu/ #häftigt #lagom #fika Read a transcription of this episod...

Margaret Ransdell-Green is a linguist who has been creating constructed languages, or ConLangs, since the late 1990s. Eric Barker, her husband, is a musician and composer. The two have collaborated on writing music and lyrics in the languages and styles of these fictional peoples. Margaret's ConLangs: http://www.aeniith.com/ Music video: https://youtu.be/dTp67Xqr2WU Language Creation Society (LCS)...

Xiaoyan Li enlightens us on her role in developing an AI agent that helps enforce equal participation for native speakers and second language learners in online discussions. #tschüss Improving Non-Native Speakers' Participation with an Automatic Agent in Multilingual Groups - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3567562 https://infosci.cornell.edu/ Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs...

Cory Duclos, Director of the Keck Center for Language Study at Colgate University and a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, joins Sam and Angelika this week. One of his current research projects is concerned with ethics of data gathering online. https://fltmag.com/interview-project-9-artificial-intelligence/   #moleque Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pEuG...

Joe Dale is an independent languages consultant from the UK who works with a range of organizations such as Network for Languages, ALL, The British Council, the BBC, Skype, Microsoft, and The Guardian, who described him as an "MFL guru." Joe is no stranger to podcasting as co-host of his own, the #mfltwitterati, and we're excited to hear about his broad experience with language teaching and techno...

Larisa Kasumagić- Kafedžić, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellow at Cornell from the University of Sarajevo, explores how language instructors can embrace a pedagogy of peace, justice, and conflict resolution. https://peacehub.ba/ #居眠り Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/152KmTZB7aRUW45TMWOmA8eu0_WCTKXxLjIvu3MAZY7k/edit?usp=sharing  

Claire Frances and Giovanni Zimotti of the University of Iowa discuss their research into ChatGPT, one of the recent artificial intelligence programs garnering attention in and out of academia. The pair recently published an article in FLTMAG about Chat GPT's potential impact on writing in language education. https://fltmag.com/chatgpt-second-language-writing/ www.giovannizimotti.com https://clcl....

Alan van den Arend discusses how we can rethink approaches to translation and pedagogy to better connect with students. Correction: ALI was founded by Alex and Laura Hanson (not Harrison)  https://classics.cornell.edu/alan-van-den-arend   https://www.perusall.com   #boterham Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZUrJnTjedNSwbnRovZ2Em3s7pMWv4UnyxRjVQ9t85tg/e...

Katie Blake tells us how her Ph. D. in Linguistics from Cornell led to her work on Amazon’s Alexa AI, and takes us under the hood of the popular digital assistant. https://katherineblake.github.io   #눈치 Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zdro1YqIRPty1Q-LCrSSiByKJvJBBS82TSMgeXYrfaY/edit?usp=sharing

Dr. Cori Crane closes out our season by diving deeper into her recent talk at the LRC on utilizing reflection for language and culture learning.  http://www.coricrane.com/ #freudenfreude

Sam and Angelika meet with Dr. Sam Tilsen, an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Cornell. He and his collaborator, Dr. James Sethna, were recently awarded one of the College of Arts and Sciences’ New Frontiers Grants for their research on dialects. https://conf.ling.cornell.edu/ #clique #fiddlesticks