Spring 2014 ILETC Events

Spring has sprung! (The Spring 2014 semester, at least.)

Here’s what we have on the ILETC calendar for Spring 2014:

ILETC Forum: What Everyone Should Know About Language Education with Bill VanPatten (Michigan State University)
March 21, 2014, 4:30 PM
Lecture on the principles of SLA that inform language instruction.

Language Education and Globalization with Claire Kramsch and Monica Heller
April 3, 2014, 6:30 PM
Skylight Room (Rm. 9100), The Graduate Center (CUNY)
A forum on the role of language in the construction of social difference and social inequality in the post-nationalist, globalizing new economy.
Topics & Speakers: “Teaching Foreign Languages in an Era of Globalization” by Claire Kramsch, University of California, Berkeley; “Language Education and Late Capitalism” by Monica Heller, University of Toronto.
Organized by ILETC and the PhD Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages. Co-sponsored by the PhD Program in Urban Education and the PhD Program in Anthropology.

Multilingual Practices in Foreign Language Study
April 4, 2014, 9 AM–12 PM
Skylight Room (Rm. 9100), The Graduate Center (CUNY)
A guided exploration of strategies for the teaching of culture in the context of language classes, led by Dr. Claire Kramsch of UC-Berkeley.
Organized by ILETC and the PhD Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages. Co-sponsored by the PhD Program in Urban Education and the PhD Program in Anthropology.

For more information or to reserve a place at any ILETC event, email ILETC@gc.cuny.edu or call 212-817-2083.