COUNCIL ON LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION

2016-2017 Yearly Overview

COUNCIL BUSINESS MEETINGS

WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Council on Language Instruction Fall Orientation Workshop
  Friday, 16 September 2016 | 8:30 am – 12:00 pm (Breakfast will be served in G22) | Annenberg Hall G15
  
  Speaker: Susan Gass, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages (Michigan State University)
  
  Presentation: “Your Attention Please! Do Captions Increase Language Learning?.“
  
  Morning Session
  This presentation will focus on the classroom use of listening-based videos with a particular focus on the use of captions for language teaching/learning in foreign language classrooms. Dr. Gass will present results from studies in which the focus was on differences in how captions are used and their relative usefulness depending on language, proficiency, and order of presentation (with and without captions). This research includings an examination of  eye-tracking data from English learners of Spanish and Chinese and Arabic learners of English. The eye-tracking data, coupled with working memory data, provides insight into the attentional focus of captions and the potentially resultant split-attention effect. The presentation will end with a discussion of pedagogical implications.
  
  Workshop Session
  Building on the idea of attention,  the focus will be on speaking activities and the Interactionist Approach. Speaking activities are often used to reinforce what has been learned. However, in this workshop, the focus will be on speaking activities that are used to promote language learning. We will see particular examples of how we can use speaking as a way of learning with constructs such as attention, interaction, and feedback being primary in the discussion.

• Linguistics Symposium: The Future of Language Science
  Friday, September 30, 2016 | 2:30 pm – 6:00 pm 
  
  Speaker: Michael Tanenhaus, Director of the Center for Language Sciences (University of Rochester) 
  
  To cap off Northwestern's Department of Linguistics' first half century, we will reflect on where the field is now and where it will be going over the next 50 years. Michael Tanenhaus will be the keynote speaker. There will also be a poster session featuring undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral alumni of the department.

• Linguistics & Council on Language Instruction: Multilingualism & Language Learning
  Wednesday, 30 November 2016 | 3:00 – 6:00 pm 
  
  Speaker: Boaz Keysar, Professor, Department of Psychology (University of Chicago)
  
  *This replaces the annual CLI Fall December Workshop

• Council on Language Instruction Winter Workshop 2017
  

  CLI Winter Workshop
  Wednesday, March 8, 2017 8:45-11:30 a.m.
  Kresge 1515 (Breakfast in Kresge 1525)

  8:45-9:15 Breakfast
  9:15-10:00 Thomas Simpson “What We Learn When We Teach Language”
  10:15-10:30 Margaret Dempster "Modules of Pedagogy and Methodology at the Alliance Française - Paris"
  10:15-10:30 Break
  10:30-11:30 Susanna Calkins “Motivating and Engaging Students”

• Year-End Reception and Teaching Award Ceremony
  Thursday, 1 June 2017 | 3:00 – 5:00 pm | Location: TBD
  
  Topic: TBD

CHICAGO LANGUAGE SYMPOSIUM 2017

Chicago Language Symposium 2017
Saturday, 22 April 2017 | Northwestern University

DEADLINES

If applying for department/program funds, applicants must follow up with their department/program chair and make sure that their chair forwards the application along with their support before the CLI deadlines.