Speaking Of Language

Katie Blake tells us how her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Cornell led to her work on Amazon’s Alexa AI, and takes us under the hood of the popular digital assistant. https://katherineblake.github.io  #눈치

Dr. Cori Crane closes out our season by diving deeper into her recent talk at the LRC on utilizing reflection for language and culture learning.  http://www.coricrane.com/ #freudenfreude  

Sam and Angelika meet with Dr. Sam Tilsen, an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Cornell. He and his collaborator, Dr. James Sethna, were recently awarded one of the College of Arts and Sciences’ New Frontiers Grants for their research on dialects. https://conf.ling.cornell.edu/ #clique #fiddlesticks

As another Thanksgiving break approaches, Language Resource Center staff and their colleagues reflect on who they are grateful for. In order of appearance: Sam Lupowitz, LRC Media Manager Angelika Kraemer, LRC Director Kelly Zeng Ho, LRC Student Assistant Emma Britton, LRC Learning Initiatives Coordinator Xue Shao, LRC Student Assistant Julia Felice, Engagement Specialist, Intergroup Dialogue Project at Cornell University Sebastian Young, LRC Student Assistant Angela Chen, LRC Student Assistant #stillstillgrateful

Dr. Claudia Holguín Mendoza gave a keynote as part of this year’s Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning Workshop on Language Pedagogy. Her talk discussed Antiracist Critical Literacy and Methodologies of the Oppressed for Language Education. She follows up on opportunities to reimagine language teaching with critical literacy and student support at the forefront.  https://csll.ucr.edu/ https://pedagogiascriticas.ucr.edu/ #HogodolagadaCogodomogodoeguedestagadas

Julia de Aragón is a board member of the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County (where Cornell University sits). She sits down with Sam and Angelika to describe the programs and resources this volunteer organization offers our local community. Facebook: Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County LCA Listserv: LCA-Ithaca@googlegroups.com Website: lca-of-tc.org   #batata  

Dr. Peidong Sun of Cornell's history department discusses her course titled Fashion and Politics in Twentieth-Century China. She also shares details of her time studying in China and France, as well as her numerous upcoming book projects. #béton

We are joined by Alexander Adrogué, Isabela Perez, and Frida Herrera, students from Cornell's Spanish for Heritage Speakers courses, as well as course coordinator and instructor Mary K Redmond. We'll hear about the students' experience and what they gained in terms of language and cultural skills and awareness.  #choripan #espantapájaro #caca #macanudo

Isabel Choinowski and Dennis Wegner, Ph.D. candidates in German Studies at Cornell, discuss avant-garde puppetry, gender-inclusive pronouns, Sprachcafé, and more. https://german.cornell.edu/isabel-choinowski  ​​https://german.cornell.edu/dennis-wegner  #Kakerlake #ZackZack

Bruno Shirley, a graduate student in the Department of Asian Studies here at Cornell, discusses his research into Buddhist intellectual histories of political thought and his accompanying study of Sinhala, Tamil, and other less commonly taught languages. #अम्बा #අඹ

We meet with Thamora Fishel, Chencong Zhu, Irfan Asgani, and Maks Tkachuk, members of the team from FLIP, Cornell’s Foreign Language Introduction Program. They share the background of the organization and their plans for community outreach. https://einaudi.cornell.edu/ #စားပြီးပြီလား #Їжа #SudahMakanBelum? #你吃了吗？

Dr. Stacey Johnson follows up on her talk (part of our monthly LRC Speaker Series) about problem-based models for language and culture instruction and describes the transformative power of the language classroom. https://problembasedculture.wordpress.com/blog/ #bra

Amalia Skilton, a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at Cornell University, discusses her research in the Ticuna language in Peru and what it can tell us about the nature of human communication. #[wa̰tɨmɨ̃]

Luana Reis unpacks her recent talk for the monthly LRC Speaker Series, Black Feminist Poetics and Language Teaching. Luana discusses bringing poetry and social justice into the language classroom, and even shares some original poetry with us. @luanamoreirareis lreis@pitt.edu @ADDverse+poesia https://www.instagram.com/addversepoesia #piquenique

Sam and Angelika return from another summer break, ready to tackle burning questions about language classes and the students who take them – and even love them!   #schmetterling

In our final episode of the semester, we speak with Dr. Shyam Sharma, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at the State University of New York in Stony Brook. He gave a talk as part of our monthly LRC Speaker Series on Transcending Monolingual Worldviews. We dive deeper into how to magnify the impact of knowledge in academia and society, as he shares ideas for rejecting a hegemony of English (or any state-imposed language) and embracing human connection through a multilingual experience. https://shyamsharma.net/ https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/mic/resources/language-justice-in-higher-ed.php#Description #stillarriving

Derina Samuel, Jody Gabler, Jayasri Srinivasan, Mila Veshcherevich, and Alice Wu from Cornell’s International Teaching Assistant Program tell us about the support services they offer to our international graduate student community. ITAP on the web: https://teaching.cornell.edu/graduate-students/ITAP #alcachofa #преподавательница #tiftuf #sisu #chongololo

We meet Emma Britton, the new Learning Initiatives Coordinator at the Cornell University Language Resource Center, and discuss the hegemony of English as well as her experience learning Azerbaijani. #BuQarpızSancılandıranlardanımış

Dr. Corrine Occhino joins us to follow up on her talk, “What Everyone Should Know about American Sign Language and American Deaf Culture.” We discuss language deprivation in Deaf children, the phenomenon of Deaf Gain, and how hearing folks can help make a more inclusive world for their Deaf community members. Read a transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lh5TY8lUUEVrh4G8HLvCD2RA04cY1u4Dhfe37fuLrOI/edit?usp=sharing And see two of Corrine's favorite signs in ASL here: https://youtu.be/gQgK3HeyXo8  ASL for Free: https://www.gallaudet.edu/asl-connect/asl-for-free/ Also on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/aslconnect/ SignSchool: https://www.signschool.com/ ASL at Home: https://www.aslathome.org/ The ASL App: https://www.instagram.com/theaslapp/ #ASL #CHAMP #DEAFBING

Aliou Gambrel (a senior) and Kevin Kwong (a graduate student) have spent the last few years learning languages in multiple modalities: in person with other students, connecting individually over Zoom, and through the hybrid video-linked classrooms of Cornell, Yale, and Columbia’s Shared Course Initiative. Here’s what they had to say about their varied experiences as language students. #elmagyaráz #bopp