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 …
Category: Announcements
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 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 …
Collaborative Curriculum Development: Workshop for Heritage Spanish Courses
Workshop Description The Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context (ILETC) invites CUNY Spanish language instructors who teach heritage or mixed L2/heritage courses to participate in a year-long workshop aimed …
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 …