Speaker Series

The LRC arranges and sponsors events of intellectual interest to language educators. Each year, we invite four to six speakers to share best practices and engage in conversation.

Join us to gain deeper insights into ongoing trends in teaching methodology and meet nationally and internationally renowned practitioners and researchers. All LRC Speaker Series events meet in G25 Stimson Hall and are also live-streamed on Zoom. All times listed are ET.

The LRC Speaker Series is free and open to the public. Campus visitors and members of the public must adhere to Cornell's public health requirements for events, which include wearing masks while indoors and providing proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test.

Please check the events calendar for upcoming talks. Please also take a brief survey, sharing your ideas and suggestions for future topics and speakers. 

Upcoming talks

Saturday, March 25, 2023
11 am - 12:30 pm
Florencia Henshaw
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Florencia Henshaw

Guiding SLA Principles and Assessment
Part of the Spring 2023 Learning Community on Languages Across the Curriculum

Registration required

Wednesday, April 12, 2023
4:00 pm
Koen Van Gorp
Michigan State University
Koen Van Gorp

Real-World Tasks in the Classroom: Myth or Reality?
Exploring Task-Based Language Teaching

Archive

February 15, 2023 Larisa Kasumagic- Kafedzic
Cornell University,
University of Sarajevo
Larisa Kasumagic-Kafedzic

Language and Peace: Joining Peace Pedagogies and Peace Linguistics in Language Education

November 16, 2022 Cori Crane
University of Alabama
Cori Crane

Creating Pathways of Perspective-Shifting through Structured Critical Reflection

October 28, 2022 Claudia Holguín Mendoza
University of California, Riverside
Claudia Holguín Mendoza

Antiracist Critical Literacy: Methodologies of the Oppressed for Language Education
Part of the CLTL Fall Workshop

September 20, 2022 Stacey Margarita Johnson
Vanderbilt University
Stacey M Johnson

Problem-Based Models for Language and Culture Instruction

August 29, 2022 Luana Reis
University of Pittsburgh
Luana Reis

Black Feminist Poetics and Language Teaching

April 29, 2022 Shyam Sharma
Stony Brook University
Shyam Sharma 2022

Transcending Monolingual Worldviews:
Magnifying the Impact of Knowledge
in Academe and Society

April 13, 2022 Corrine Occhino
Syracuse University
Corrine Occhino

What Everyone Should Know about ASL
and American Deaf Culture

March 15, 2022 Yarden Kedar
Cornell University, 
Beit Berl College Israel
Yarden Kedar

Bilingual Community-Based Language Pedagogy:
An Arab-Jewish Language Café in Jerusalem

February 15, 2022 Christina Rocha
ACS Athens
Christina Rocha

Inquiry-Based Language Learning

November 4, 2021 Mariame Sy
Columbia University
Mariame Sy 2021

Critical Thinking in World Language Teaching

October 4, 2021 Karen Lichtman
Northern Illinois University

 

Karen Lichtman

Acquisition vs. Learning in 2021

September 13, 2021 Jamie Rankin
Princeton University
Jamie Rankin

"How Can I Learn All These Words?"
Research-Based Strategies for Teaching and Learning L2 Vocabulary

September 1, 2021 Elvia Andía Grágeda
The Ohio State University
Elvia Andía Grágeda

Designing (Indigenous) Language Classes Rooted in ACTFL Standards to Promote Spoken Proficiency

May 13, 2021 Eduardo Viana da Silva
University of Washington
Eduardo Viana da Silva

Developing an Open and Inclusionary Language Textbook for Portuguese

April 13, 2021 Bill VanPatten
Bill VanPatten

Barriers to Innovation in Language Teaching

March 17, 2021 Cassandra GlynnPamela Wesely, and Beth Wassell
Glynn Wesely Wassell

Social Justice and the University Language Learner

February 16, 2021 Dustin Crowther
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Dustin Crowther

Addressing Speech Comprehensibility in the L2 Classroom

November 5, 2020 Christopher Hromalik
Onondaga Community College
Christopher Hromalik

Inclusive by Design: Universal Design for Learning and the World Language Classroom

October 7, 2020 Kate Paesani
University of Minnesota
Kate Paesani

Multiliteracies Pedagogy and Teacher Professional Development: From Research to Practice

September 8, 2020 Julio Torres
University of California, Irvine
Julio Torres

The Effects of Instruction on Heritage Language Learners

March 2, 2020 Ali Moeller
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ali Moeller

Pathways to Language and Intercultural Proficiency

November 13, 2019 Amanda Brown
Syracuse University

Immersive versus Non-Immersive Language Teaching:
Experimental Studies in English, French, and Arabic Classrooms

October 8, 2019 Margaret E. Malone
Georgetown University
AELRC ACTFL 

Language Assessment Literacy

September 12, 2019 Edvan Brito
University of Arkansas
Edvan Brito

Using Social and Cultural Issues to Promote Language Learning and Cultural Awareness:
Language Variation, Race, and Migration

April 16, 2019 Charlene Polio
Michigan State University
Charlene Polio

Are Some Languages Really More "Difficult" to Learn?

March 27, 2019 Sarah Mercer
University of Graz,
Austria
Sarah Mercer

The Secret Ingredient of Effective Language Teaching: Teacher Wellbeing

November 16, 2018 Christian Hilchey
University of Texas, Austin
Christian Hilchey

Open Media and the Next Frontier in Open Education

October 25, 2018 Patsy Lightbown
Concordia University
Patsy Lightbown

Putting Form-Focused Instruction in its Place

September 28, 2018 Celeste Kinginger
Penn State University

Language Learning in Intercultural Encounters Abroad

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