EVENTS

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Day
January – April 2018 Jan – Apr 2018
Jan
22
Mon
Jan 22 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
4:00 pm
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Join CAL, CeLTA Staff, and the CeLTA Director Search Committee for a research talk by Dr. Felix Kronenberg, Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures, Director of the Language Learning Center, Rhodes College, Memphis Tennessee. Research Talk[...]
B342 Wells Hall
Jan
22
Mon
Jan 22 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
5:00 pm
Tickets
Our kids programs are open to children ages 6-12 and are designed to provide a fun learning environment that focuses on playful interactions in the target language. It will sensitize children to language learning, help[...]
Wells Hall
Jan
23
Tue
Jan 23 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
4:00 pm
Tickets
Join CAL, CeLTA Staff, and the CeLTA Director Search Committee for a “CeLTA Vision Talk” from Dr. Felix Kronenberg, Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures, Director of the Language Learning Center, Rhodes College, Memphis Tennessee. After the[...]
B135 CeLTA Space
Jan
24
Wed
Jan 24 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
1:00 pm
Tickets
Presenters: Drs. Paula Winke and Emily Heidrich In this workshop, we will review current theoretical issues in language placement testing that affect all placement testing programs at Michigan State University and beyond. The most import[...]
B125 Wells Hall
Jan
29
Mon
Jan 29 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
11:00 am
Tickets
Come to the CeLTA space to practice your language skills and meet new people. This is an informal, low-pressure atmosphere where you can speak in the target language, ask questions, and learn more about culture.
B135 Wells Hall
Jan
29
Mon
Jan 29 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
4:00 pm
Tickets
Join CAL, CeLTA Staff, and the CeLTA Director Search Committee for a research talk by Dr. Alejandro Cuza-Blanco, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, Director of Linguistics, and Director of the Heritage Language Program in the Department[...]
B342 Wells Hall
Jan
30
Tue
Jan 30 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
4:00 pm
Tickets
Join CAL, CeLTA Staff, and the CeLTA Director Search Committee for a research talk by Dr. Alejandro Cuza-Blanco, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, Director of Linguistics, and Director of the Heritage Language Program in the[...]
B135 CeLTA Space
Jan
31
Wed
Jan 31 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
1:00 pm
Tickets
Presenters: Jeff Maloney and Dan Isbell MSU offers Qualtrics as a service for faculty and graduate students. With this software you can create surveys for a wide range of purposes, especially research. We will discuss[...]
B125 Wells Hall
Feb
5
Mon
Feb 5 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
11:00 am
Tickets
Come to the CeLTA space to practice your language skills and meet new people. This is an informal, low-pressure atmosphere where you can speak in the target language, ask questions, and learn more about culture.
B135 Wells Hall
Feb
7
Wed
Feb 7 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
1:00 pm
Tickets
Presenter: Dr. Shannon Spasova In this session, participants will learn how to create a speaking assignment or assessment using H5P. H5P allows the combination of several activity types to create prompts that include audio, image,[...]
B125 Wells Hall
Feb
12
Mon
Feb 12 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
11:00 am
Tickets
Come to the CeLTA space to practice your language skills and meet new people. This is an informal, low-pressure atmosphere where you can speak in the target language, ask questions, and learn more about culture.
B135 Wells Hall
Feb
14
Wed
Feb 14 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
1:00 pm
Tickets
Presenter: Kristen Mapes In this workshop, we will discuss where you already have an online presence, where you may want to develop a digital identity, and how to do it. We will think through what[...]
Digital Scholarship Lab in the Main Library
Feb
21
Wed
Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
1:00 pm
Tickets
Presenters: Drs. Lynn Wolff and Matthew Handelman In this workshop, we will present a major component of our newly revised third-year German language and culture course that was piloted during the fall 2017 semester: Our work[...]
B135 Wells Hall
Feb
28
Wed
Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
1:00 pm
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Presenter: Sheng Zhang This presentation will touch on effective, research-based methodologies of providing feedback in ESL and world language classrooms. Following this, some online tools that are helpful to provide effective feedback will be introduced[...]
B135 Wells Hall
Feb
28
Wed
Feb 28 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
5:00 pm
Tickets
Wells Hall Atrium
Mar
1
Thu
Apr
1
Sun
Mar 1 – Apr 1 all-day
12:00 am
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Now Available! The next edition of Teaching with Tech arrived on March 1. Go to Teaching with Tech 2017  And view our annual collections here: Teaching with Tech 2016 Teaching with Tech 2015 Teaching with Tech[...]
Mar
14
Wed
Mar 14 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
1:00 pm
Tickets
Presenters: Madeline Shellgren This workshop focuses on various notions of accessibility. We will start with questioning who students are and why that is important to consider. Together, we will also explore ways to make space[...]
Digital Scholarship Lab (2nd floor of the west wing in the MSU Main Library)
Mar
15
Thu
Mar 15 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
3:00 pm
Tickets
Presenter: Dr. Anne Violin-Wigent As part of my current investigation on the effectiveness of explicit instruction, this project investigates the evolution of the accuracy of French liaisons produced by students over a semester. Do they actually[...]
B135 Wells Hall
Mar
16
Fri
Mar 16 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
5:30 pm
Tickets
The 11th annual family literacy event, One World, Many Stories is proud to present Connie Schofield-Morrison’s, I Got the Rhythm, a book about expressing yourself through dance and music and being inspired by the rhythm[...]
East Lansing Public Library
Mar
21
Wed
Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
1:00 pm
Tickets
Presenter: Alissa Cohen This workshop will explore some of the challenges of promoting language study among American school children and look at the CeLTA Fellowship project I conducted this year to address some of these challenges.[...]
B135 Wells Hall
Mar
22
Thu
Mar 22 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
3:00 pm
Tickets
If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing twice: Doing replication research Join us for a workshop on replication research! Dr. Graeme Porte from the University of Granada will lead us through a workshop on[...]
A222 Wells Hall
Apr
1
Sun
Apr 1 all-day
12:00 am
Tickets
Are you thinking about pursuing a graduate degree in language teaching? Consider applying to our 100% online program. Our summer admissions deadline is April 1st. View our admission requirements here: http://maflt.cal.msu.edu/apply/ Want to try a[...]
Wells Hall
Apr
4
Wed
Apr 4 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
1:00 pm
Tickets
Presenters: Drs. Susan Gass, Paula Winke, Koen Van Gorp, and Emily Heidrich Join us to hear updates on the Language Proficiency Flagship Initiative, funded by the National Security Education Program within the Defense Language and[...]
B135 Wells Hall
Apr
5
Thu
Apr 5 @ 5:00 pm
5:00 pm
Tickets
CeLTA Student Interaction Grants provide support in reaching oral proficiency goals over the summer months. Students in Arabic, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish classes 202 or above are eligible. If you are selected, you[...]
Apr
6
Fri
Apr 6 all-day
12:00 am
Tickets
Online enrollment for our spring Immersion Teacher Workshops in French, German, and Spanish ends today. Register at https://camps.cal.msu.edu.
Wells Hall
Apr
11
Wed
Apr 11 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
1:30 pm
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Presenter: Dr. Aline Godfroid In this presentation, I give an interim report on a research project designed to chart the English knowledge of English as a Second Language speakers studying at Michigan State University. The specific aims[...]
B135 Wells Hall
Apr
18
Wed
Apr 18 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
1:00 pm
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Presenter: Drs. Zarema Kumakhova and Shannon Spasova This presentation will show a project that aims to facilitate the use of authentic reading texts throughout the Russian language curriculum. In first- and second-year Russian, students will complete[...]
B135 Wells Hall
Apr
25
Wed
Apr 25 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
1:00 pm
Tickets
Presenter: Dmitrii Pastushenkov The purpose of this project was to develop teaching materials for online tutoring sessions using Zoom. The teaching materials include lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, and recorded online sessions for IELTS Speaking Preparation, TOEFL[...]
B135 Wells Hall
January – April 2018 Jan – Apr 2018