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 …
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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 …
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/CILC Director Dr. Gatti Interviewed in the Growing with Proficiency Podcast!
We are pleased to announce that ILETC/CILC Director Alberta Gatti has been interviewed by Claudia Elliot about heritage language teaching in a two-part series on the Growing with Proficiency Podcast …
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 | …
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 …
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 – …
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 …
Linguistic Diversity in Higher Education Symposium
The CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Avenue New York Room 9204/9205 May 2, 2019 9.00 am—6.00pm The symposium is an opportunity for scholars, practitioners, administrators, and students to engage in conversations …
Podcast Projects for Heritage Language Learners
April 12, 2019 Room 9204 The Graduate Center 11:00am – 1:00pm Presenter: Elena Foulis, The Ohio State University Lecture Description: Podcasts are an increasingly popular way to learn about an …
When Heritage and Second Language Learners Come Together
February 15, 2019 Room 9206 The Graduate Center 10:30am – 12:30pm Presenter: Maria Carreira Lecture description: Research by the National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC) shows that more often than …
Error Correction in Language Classrooms: Balancing Research and Realities
October 29, 2018 Room 9207 The Graduate Center 4:30 – 5:30pm Presenter: Lourdes Ortega Workshop description: Correcting grammar errors in speaking or writing is thought to be part of every …
Back from ACTFL 2016!
The weekend of November 18-20, CILC was honored and excited to present several of our projects at the Annual Convention and World Languages Exposition of the American Council on the …
HT News: Fall 2016
From the desk of Valeria Belmonti. Greetings from the Heritage Telecollaboration team! We hope that everyone had as enjoyable and productive a summer as we did. Below are some updates …
Fall 2016 ILETC Events
Welcome to Fall 2016! ILETC is looking forward to a semester filled with stimulating and illuminating public events. Here’s what we have on the calendar so far: Multilingualism and Language Empowerment: A Response to Inequality …
HT News: June 2016
From the desk of Valeria Belmonti. Greetings from the Heritage Telecollaboration team! We have had a very productive end of the Spring semester and would like to share some information …
Updates from the HT Team!
Greetings from the Heritage Telecollaboration team at CILC! We are thrilled to share that on Friday, February 26th our center hosted a talk on assessment by Dr. Lorena Llosa of …
Developing the Writing Skills of Spanish Heritage Learners
Who? Instructors of Spanish heritage learners who have completed the ACTFL Writing Guidelines Familiarization Workshop When? Half-day: 6/2 What? This workshop delineates recommendations for the teaching of writing to Spanish heritage writers who …
Lorena Llosa to Talk in GC’s Skylight Room
Join us as NYU Professor of Education Lorena Llosa comes to the GC to talk about Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom on Friday, February 26 at 2 PM. Her talk will …
Spring 2017 ILETC Events
Welcome to Spring 2017! ILETC is looking forward to a semester filled with stimulating and illuminating public events. Here’s what we have on the calendar so far: Lectures Analyzing the Role of Ideology in Arabic Language …
ACTFL & Community-College-Language Forum 2016
The LCCN team was excited to attend and present at ACTFL 2015 in San Diego, where we enjoyed a number of interesting conversations about community college language education. In that …
Heritage Telecollaboration Update: November 2015
Greetings from the Heritage Telecollaboration team at CILC! We are excited to tell you about a very special event coming up next week and several promising telecollaboration projects in the pilot …
