2027 Call for CLTL Fall Workshop Proposals
Deadline: February 1, 2027
The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (CLTL) is inviting proposals for a workshop on language pedagogy to be held during the Fall of 2027 on one of its member campuses. The CLTL offers funding of up to $10,000 to support the workshop. Additional funding may be available depending on the nature and scope of the proposal.
All proposals need to be submitted to your campus representative, who will then pass along up to 3 proposals from their institution to the Consortium.
Proposals must be submitted by a member of the language faculty of one of the member institutions (Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Penn, Princeton, or Yale). Proposing teams must coordinate with the Consortium representative on their respective campus to ensure compliance with the guidelines below. Consortium representatives must approve the submission by their institution. Note that costs are reimbursed by the Consortium post-event; ensure that you have a funding source able to defray initial expenses prior to reimbursement (typically one to two weeks after submission of the expense report).
The proposed workshop should be one or one-and-one-half days in length and either:
- focus on a pedagogical issue across languages (e.g., assessment, project-based learning, use of technology, heritage learning, etc.) OR
- focus on a pedagogical issue pertaining to a specific language and involve faculty from two or more Consortium institutions.
While both types of proposals are encouraged, preference will be given to proposals that actively involve language faculty from multiple institutions, target multiple languages, or reflect ongoing or proposed collaborative activities across two or more institutions. Since these events are envisioned as faculty workshops, there is an expectation of significant active involvement or hands-on work by the participants. The funding is not intended for lectures, conferences, or symposia, although a workshop might feature an invited speaker to provide the broader theoretical context for the event. Individual or panel presentations should not form the preponderance of workshop activities.
CLTL funding can be used to:
- pay for materials
- defray costs of refreshments, meals, and room rental
- support interpretation and other affordances for participants requiring accommodation
- cover costs to host a speaker (including travel and lodging)
Your proposal should:
- provide a brief overview and convincing rationale and outcomes that identify the topic and its relevance to current pedagogical and theoretical issues (each of these three sections should be no longer than 350 words)
- have a significant hands-on focus, allowing participants to actively engage with the topic (ideal range of attendees is 50-60, with a suggested upper limit of 80)
- include a detailed schedule for the workshop, including proposed speakers, activities, and topics
- include a brief bio of each of the organizers (up to 100 words each)
- contain a detailed line-item budget
- include a letter of support from the department chair of the "host" language department (i.e., the home department of the primary organizer(s) of the workshop)
- describe plans for accessibility, such as ASL interpretation or other affordances for audience members who require such
- be submitted as a Word document
Should you be awarded the funding, you must:
- plan and carry out all aspects of the workshop
- keep track of all expenses to be reimbursed, and submit a detailed, itemized invoice to the Consortium in a timely fashion
- write a short report summarizing the workshop
- carry out an evaluation of the workshop and attach completed evaluations to your report
- submit this report or any papers or talks from the workshop to be posted on the CLTL website
Each campus can submit up to 3 proposals. Interested candidates are urged to consult with their campus CLTL representative before and during the writing process.
The CLTL board will select one proposal to fund from the pool of proposals submitted. Deadline for submission of proposals is February 1, 2027. Please submit your proposal to the Consortium representative on your campus:
Brown University: Jeremy Lehnen (jeremy_lehnen@brown.edu)
University of Chicago: Cathy Baumann (ccbauman@uchicago.edu)
Columbia University: Chris Kaiser (ck2831@columbia.edu)
Cornell University: Angelika Kraemer (akraemer@cornell.edu)
Harvard University: Mary DiSalvo (disalvo@fas.harvard.edu)
MIT: Per Urlaub (urlaub@mit.edu)
University of Pennsylvania: Christina Frei (cefrei@sas.upenn.edu)
Princeton University: Alberto Bruzos Moro (abruzos@princeton.edu)
Yale University: Fernando Rubio (fernando.rubio@yale.edu)
Workshop history:
- October 2013, Brown University, "Working at the Intersection of Language and Culture in the Digital Age: Practical Approaches to the Pedagogy of Cultural Learning"
- October 2016, Columbia University, "Language Learning and Teaching with Urban and Linguistic Landscapes"
- October 2018, Columbia University, "Working at the Intersection of Language and Culture in the Digital Age: Social Network Approaches (SNA) to the Pedagogy of Language Teaching"
- October 2019, Yale University, Project-Based Language Teaching and Learning
- October 2021, Brown University, "Meaning through Sound: Rediscovering Listening in the Language Classroom"
- October 2022, Cornell University, "Connecting Language Teaching and Social Justice: A Call for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"
- October 2023, Princeton University, Current and Future Trends in AI: Practical Applications for Language Teaching."
- October 2024, Yale University, "Fostering a Community of Practice: An Initiative to Build an OER Repository of Teaching and Learning Modules"
- October 2025, Yale University, "Mentoring and Educating the Next Generation of Language Faculty"
- In 2026, the CLTL hosted three workshops: