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Category: Announcements
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 | …
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 …
