ILETC has an exciting announcement: The We Authors writing of a CUNY student (City College of Technology), Eileen Nuñez, entitled “Yo soy el Español”, has been selected by the Santillana Editora …
Author: Alberta Gatti
Spring 2026 | AI and Language Teaching: From Questions to Practice
This hands-on workshop gives faculty practical strategies for navigating AI in the language classroom. Whether you’re wondering what to change about your current activities, how to use AI to build …
Spring 2026 | Introduction to Multiliteracies Pedagogy for Second Language Instructors
The Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC, one of sixteen National Language Resource Centers) is offering a virtual multiliteracies pedagogy workshop this spring for L2 instructors of all languages. This workshop …
Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 | Teaching Written Communication with Text-Based Tasks: Language Pedagogy Trainings for Second Language and Heritage Instructors
The Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC, one of sixteen National Language Resource Centers) is offering two virtual language pedagogy training this year for L2 and heritage instructors. Participants will …
Fall 2025 | Teaching Written Communication with Text-Based Tasks: A Language Pedagogy Training for Second Language Instructors
The Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC, one of sixteen National Language Resource Centers) is offering a virtual language pedagogy training this fall for L2 instructors. Participants will learn how to develop …
Summer 2025 | Teaching Written Communication with Text-Based Tasks: A Language Pedagogy Training for Second- and Heritage Language Instructors
The Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC, one of sixteen National Language Resource Centers) is offering two virtual language pedagogy trainings this summer—one for L2 instructors and one for heritage …
Spring 2025 | Teaching Written Communication with Text-Based Tasks: A Language Pedagogy Training for Second and Heritage Language Instructors
The Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC, one of sixteen National Language Resource Centers) is offering two virtual language pedagogy trainings—one for L2 instructors and one for heritage language instructors—in Spring …
Fall 2024 | Teaching with Text-Based Tasks: A Language Pedagogy Training for Second and Heritage Language Instructors
The Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC, one of sixteen National Language Resource Centers) is offering two virtual language pedagogy trainings—one for L2 instructors in Fall 2024 and one for …
Fall 2024 | Event on 9/27/2024: The Art of Teaching Italian: A Book Presentation
Join ILETC for The Art of Teaching Italian: A Book Presentation by the book’s editor Giulia Guarnieri (Bronx Community College) on Friday, September 27th, 2024, from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM …
ILETC’s LaPEL Team Presents by Invitation at the Interagency Language Roundtable
We’re pleased to announce that the LaPEL (Language Placement for Equitable Learning) team has been invited to present our study on using vocabulary knowledge as a proxy for proficiency level …
ILETC’s IPAP Team Presenting at HLAW2 | UMass, Amherst
We’re pleased to announce that the IPAP (Investigating Pedagogies for Advanced Proficiency) team has been accepted to present our Complexity study at the Heritage Languages Around the World 2 (HLAW2) …
ILETC’s IPAP Project Featured in DOE Newsletter!
ILETC received recognition in the U.S. Department of Education’s October 2023 IFLE (International and Foreign Language Education) newsletter for the IPAP (Investigating Pedagogies for Advanced Proficiency) project! Our segment of …
Read ILETC’s Fall 2023 Newsletter!
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ILETC receives U.S. Department of Education grant for their Language Placement for Equitable Learning (LaPEL) project!
We’re delighted to announce that the Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context, (ILETC) at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Modern Languages and Literatures Department at CUNY John Jay …
Fall 2023 | Event on 12/7/2023! “The Speaking Proficiency Outcomes of Face-to-Face and Online Intensive Language Instruction”
Come join us on Dec. 7, 2023 at 1:00 PM EST for a presentation by Dianna Murphy and Lidia Gault. This presentation shares findings from a mixed-methods research study to …
Event on 10/5/2023! “Fitting the Program to the Learners: Adapting Translation Competence Models to Heritage Speakers”
Come join us on Oct. 5, 2023, at 3:00 PM EST, for a presentation by Cristina Lozano Argüelles and Aída Martínez-Gómez. This presentation is part of the Center for Integrated Language …
Event on 8/10/2023! Introducing We Authors, an L2 Writing Website
We invite you to learn about We Authors | Second-Language Writing (slweauthors.commons.gc.cuny.edu), a website for students enrolled in second language courses across CUNY. A daughter site of We Authors | Heritage …
ACTFL Workshop on 12/6/2022! “Developing Interpretive Reading and Listening Proficiency”
ILETC invites you to participate in a day-long, virtual ACTFL workshop (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) on text typology, led by Professor Cynthia Martin. This workshop will …
Workshop on 11/11/2022! “Process Writing in the Heritage Language Class: An approach to biliteracy development”
Come join us on Friday, November 11, 2022, from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, for an interactive presentation online. What are the differences between traditional writing assignments (prompts-draft-feedback-final copy) and …
Interactive Presentation in October, 2022! “Bilingual Writing Proficiency of CUNY Students”
When working with multilingual students in your heritage language, English comp, or ESL classes, have you ever wondered about these learners’ ability to do things in “the other” language? For …
ILETC receives funding to bring our National Language Resource Center, CILC, back to CUNY!
We are pleased to announce that ILETC has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Education to reopen the Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC), one of only …
Introducing We Authors
Dear CUNY Heritage Language Instructors, We invite you to learn about We Authors (https://weauthors.commons.gc.cuny.edu/), a website for multilingual students enrolled in heritage language courses across CUNY. We Authors provides students …
8th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language Statistics
The 8th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (NSSHL)
Hosted by ILETC, The Graduate Center, CUNY, on Thursday, May 13, to Saturday, May 15, 2021 The National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (NSSHL) is an intellectual forum …
U.S. Department of Education Grant to the Graduate Center Will Help CUNY’s Bilingual Students
More than 86,000 CUNY undergraduates — 38 percent of CUNY’s nearly 230,000 undergraduates — speak a native language other than English. Many of them stand to benefit from a recent …
ILETC Receives U.S. Department of Education Title VI IFLE Grant!
October 13th, 2020 We are pleased to announce that the Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context (ILETC) at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, has been awarded …
Facilitating Student-to-Student Interaction in the Virtual Language Classroom
October 15th, 2020, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Registration is now open. Limited spots available. The Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context (ILETC) is pleased to offer a webinar on …
LaGuardia Community College Receives UISFL Grant for 2020-2022
September 23rd, 2020 LaGuardia Community College has been awarded a United States Department of Education’s Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) program grant. The $170,915 grant will fund the …
ILETC Receives NEH CARES Grant!
The Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context (ILETC) at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, has been awarded an NEH CARES (National Endowment for the Humanities Coronavirus …
Workshops on Methodological Developments in Teaching of Spanish
Methodological Developments in Teaching of Spanish as a Second and Foreign Language A Workshop for Teachers, XIV. Language Programs and Methodology April 25th, 2020 Room TBA Barnard College 10:00am – …
New York State Seal of Biliteracy: Leveraging growth for CUNY language programs
February 21st, 2020 Room 9205 The Graduate Center, CUNY 2:00pm – 4:00pm Dr. Jennifer Eddy Associate Professor of World Language Education at Queens College The New York State Seal of …
ACTFL Convention & Expo Experience 2019
Two CUNY professors who attended the ACTFL Convention and Expo 2019 have shared their experience below. Aine Zimmerman Doctoral Lecturer of German German Department, Hunter College I had an …
ACTFL Workshops
The Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context (ILETC) along with the Office of Academic Initiatives and Strategic Innovation (AISI) invites language instructors to participate in two workshops. Workshop 1: Modified …
ACTFL Convention and Expo 2019
Presentations by CUNY Faculty Professors Eckhard Kuhn-Osius and Yoko Sakurai, (Hunter College), Jennifer Eddy, (Queens College), Evelyn Duran Urrea, (Lehman College), and Alberta Gatti (The Graduate Center) will be …
Lecture and Conversation with Guadalupe Valdés, Ph.D.
April 24th, 2020 Skylight Room, 9th floor The Graduate Center, CUNY 4:00pm – 7:00pm Open to the public The Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context (ILETC) invites Dr. Guadalupe …
