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This interactive, collaborative session will provide a brief overview of the linguistic, ethnic, and cultural landscape of North Africa. It will present the Amazigh…
Indigenous Video Archiving in North Africa:…
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For many language learners, the main obstacle is not grammar or pronunciation, but the overwhelming amount of vocabulary to be learned. After all, most native speakers…
Choose Your Words Carefully: Transforming…
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In this presentation, we will share the development process of a fine-tuned Large Language Model (LLM) designed specifically for beginner-level Japanese learners. While…
Optimizing LLMs for Beginning-Level Language…
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This presentation argues in support of incorporating spatial and kinetic elements into the Western literary tradition, emphasizing the role of ASL poetry in mainstream…
Your Eyes, My Hands: The Role of ASL Poetry in…
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Digital and multimedia storytelling assignments can capture students' attention, provide avenues for personal and creative expression, and encourage critical…
Digital Storytelling in the L2 Classroom
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In this presentation, I introduce an online pedagogical tool that aims to assist beginner-level French instructors in teaching pronunciation, while also providing…
An Inclusive French Pronunciation Online Tool…
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In this project, we recorded brief videos of Spanish speakers acting as physicians and patients during a medical encounter. Then we annotated the videos to complement,…
Creating Annotated Videos of Mock Medical…
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Developing A Computer Adaptive Chinese Language Placement Test This project seeks to enhance our existing Chinese language placement test through the development of an…
Make Every Test A Right Test
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This talk identifies three dominant paradigms of research in the field of linguistic landscape (the study of multilingualism in public spaces), while drawing lessons…
Language Teaching with the Linguistic Landscape…
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We present three digital resources for language pedagogy built on empirical research, all of which are freely and publicly available. The goal is to make the results of…
Digital Resources Bridging the Gap Between…
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Writing is a highly complex task that integrates cognitive processing, deployment of linguistic skills, and an awareness of the social context in which written…
Learning to Write, Writing to Learn
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Second language writing is a highly complex cognitive activity where learners engage in thinking about the content, planning the language, and executing appropriately to…
Developing and Deploying a Korean Text Analysis…
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For years, second language teachers and practitioners have known that commercially produced language teaching textbooks provide inauthentic language samples, which sound…
Bringing Spanishes into the language classroom…
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Many Russophone heritage students cite 'identity' as the principal reason for studying the language; they come to class to explore and assess the deep-rooted…
Code of the World: A Digital Storytelling Project…
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After experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic and a global movement for social justice, we all face this one question: How can we connect and reconnect with others? This…
The Life Story Project: How can we make…
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This session will present some examples of projects that engaged our students with the Hispanic community for the Business & Legal Spanish course. The goal of this…
Service-Learning Projects in Business & Legal…
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