Language Matters April 20th (1) by DWLLC

Language Matters April 20th

A Newsletter from the Center for Language and Culture Learning

email: dwllc-clcl@uiowa.edu

phone: 319-335-2331

Workshops you won't want to miss!

Solstice Pods! 4/21, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Join us for an hour-long introduction to Solstice, a wireless collaboration tool that facilitates active learning, now equipped in over 300 classrooms. You'll have an opportunity to experience Solstice firsthand and its ability to share smart phones and laptops wirelessly in the classroom, as well as design your own learning activity that incorporates Solstice.

Build Your Own Website! 4/22, 5:30-6:30 in the CLCL

Three of our graduate students in Spanish, Ramona Koob, Azul Trejo Zetina, and Macy Mass, will lead a workshop on how to develop your own Wix website to build a professional profile, or for a course project.

Financial Literacy Fair! 4/26, 11:00-1:00

Portfolios: Portfolium & Pressbooks, Apr 26, 2022, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

If your students will be developing portfolios in class, these tools can help create and organize their work. Portfolium integrates with ICON and allows students to create and organize portfolios that instructors can assess and comment on. Pressbooks is a Wordpress based publishing platform that allows users to create professional looking sites that work in multiple formats, including print.

The Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology offers individual, small group, or departmental training. We also offer training on a variety of instructional technology needs such as ICON, digital media solutions, lecture capture, technology consulting, instructional assessment, TILE, general assignment classrooms, and more. To learn more about the services we offer, please visit our website at teach.its.uiowa.edu. Please contact the ITS Help Desk for more information.

Enabling transformative language learning experiences

, APRIL 28, 2022

Project-based language learning (PBLL) has the potential to result in transformative language learning experiences, which engage students with real-world issues through the construction of meaningful products that are shared with an audience beyond the instructional setting.

This presentation will provide an overview of two constructs that have complementary purposes: one identifies key features of high-quality PBLL design, and the other highlights key professional development areas that support high-quality PBLL implementation.

Using these constructs as reference, we will explore how projects can be designed to result in memorable language learning experiences, and how language centers can enable or support both their design and implementation through specific services and professional

learning.

• Presenter:Julio Rodriguez, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

• Date: Thursday, April 28, 2022

• Time: 12:30pm PT / 1:30pm MT / 2:30pm CT / 3:30pm ET

• Webinar Duration – 1 hour

Webinar Registration HERE

Elianna Kan - April Editors Series in Translation, Tuesday, April 26, 2022

2:00pm to 3:30pm

Elianna Kan (literary agent, translator, writer) joined Regal Hoffmann & Associates in 2017 as a literary agent focused on building a list of Spanish-language and Latinx writers writing in English. Elianna is a native of New Hampshire with a BA in Literary Studies and a background in theater from Middlebury College; she is a native speaker of Russian. Her translations from Spanish into English have appeared in Aperture magazine and various art gallery publications. She teaches

creative writing and literary translation at Columbia University. She is currently based in Mexico City.

This event will be held on Zoom. Contact Jennifer Bjornstad at jenniferbjornstad@uiowa.edu for a link and passcode.

Kendall Storey - April Editors Series in Translation, Thursday, April 28, 2022 2:00pm to 4:45pm Jessup Hall

Kendall Storey is Senior Editor at Catapult and Soft Skull Press. Her recent publications include Anja Kampmann’s High as the Waters Rise, translated by Anne Posten, a National Book Award finalist; Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts, a national bestseller; and Semezdin Mehmedinović’s My Heart, translated by Celia Hawkesworth, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Her other authors with novels forthcoming include Jesse Ball, Brenda Lozano, Chelsea Martin, and Oksana Vasyakina. Previously she worked as Associate Editor at Archipelago Books and was CoDirector of Elsewhere Editions, a nonprofit children's imprint devoted to picture books in translation. At Archipelago, she worked on international successes like Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series and reissues of Antonio Tabucchi, Julio Cortázar, and Magdalena Tulli. She publishes primarily literary fiction and strives to balance her list evenly between books in translation and books written originally in English.

re·sis·tance | rev·o·lu·tion, Thursday, April 21 at 7:30 p.m.

Space Place Theater

The University of Iowa Department of Dance and the International Writing Program (IWP) are collaborating once again – bringing together writers and dance makers – for an exciting evening of performances.

Writers in IWP’s first-ever spring residency were given the prompt re·sis·tance | rev·o·lu·tion. The works you will see this evening were created by graduate student and faculty dance makers in response.

Join us as the performers bring the writers’ words off the page and onto the stage!

Tickets:

This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.

An Evening with Author Min Jin Lee; Reading and Audience Q&A Apr 21, 2022, 8:00 pm, IMU

A Conversation with Amal Kassir, April 28th, 9:30-10:30, Phillips Hall 318

Taduko Workshop: A Japanese Reading Extensive Workshop Apr 22, 2022, University of Iowa Main Library, East Asian Reading Room

In the News!

UI student introduces Ukrainian speaking club on campus Read the Daily Iowan article here!

Philanthropic Resources for the Ukraine Crisis; please see this excellent resource list https://tpi.org/philanthropic-resources-forukraine-crisis/

Conferences

FUTURE THINKING ON LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING,Friday, April 29, 2022

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. Acknowledging the critical importance of this work, Harvard University invites our colleagues from the Consortium to join us on April 29, 2022 for a symposium on the changing landscape of language pedagogy.

“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.

CALICO Annual Conference 2022: Social Justice and Diversity in Computer Assisted Language Learning, May 31 - Jun 4, 2022

One session description:

DescriptionLearning about a culture does not happen in isolation from the place and space where culture is maintained, practiced, and/or contested. Local investigation of a place and space allows instructors to challenge the ideologies of monolithic cultures and engage students in building a holistic understanding of places where the character, history, and needs of a place emerge more vividly (Demarest, 2014; Gruenewald, 2003; Klimanova & Hellmich, 2021; Knapp, 2007). In this workshop we offer an overview of place-based pedagogies and engage participants in culturally rich and linguistically diverse spaces around Seattle to learn how local heritage, cultural practices, and linguistic landscapes can serve as the basis for teaching languages and intercultural concepts.Speakers

• Lara Lomicka Anderson(Speaker)University of South Carolina, Professor of French and Applied Linguistics

• Liudmila Klimanova(Speaker)University of Arizona

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