Language and language choices play a significant yet often unacknowledged role in fostering inequality. This is evident where insufficient services in “minority” languages result in disparities and lack of opportunities for speakers of those languages. On September 23, 2016, the…
Multilingualism and Language Empowerment: A Response to Inequality, A Graduate Center Symposium
Join us for a discussion of bilingualism in the classroom, in the community, and in legislation at the upcoming Graduate Center Symposium: Multilingualism and Language Empowerment: A Response to Inequality When: Friday, September 23, 2016, 9 am to 5 pmWhere: Skylight…
Announcing Call for Proposals – Multilingualism and Language Empowerment: a Response to Inequality
We are pleased to present Multilingualism and Language Empowerment: a Response to Inequality, a Graduate Center Symposium. The event will be held on Friday, September 23, 2016, from 9 am–3 pm at Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center. Proposals for a…
SLA Lab Director Gita Martohardjono profiled in Scienceline
The director of the Second Language Acquisition Lab, Gita Martohardjono, was profiled in Scienceline on April 11, 2016. Click here to see the full article.
Jennifer Chard Hamano and Christen N. Madsen II speak at The United Nations Symposium on Language and the Sustainable Development Goals
Jennifer Chard Hamano and Christen N. Madsen II will present work from the SLA Lab at The United Nations Symposium on Language and the Sustainable Development Goals. They will discuss assessment policies and practices developed in the SLA Lab and…
Christen N. Madsen II presents paper at Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Processing Conference
Christen N. Madsen presents findings from the first phase of the Second-Generation Bilinguals Project at the Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Processing Conference (SVALP) at Virginia Tech on April 1, 2016: Processing and cross-linguistic influence: An ERP study of second-generation bilinguals…
Ian Phillips & Christen N. Madsen II present paper at PLC40
Ian Phillips and Christen N. Madsen II present findings from the first phase of the Second-Generation Bilinguals Project at The 40th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC40) at the University of Pennsylvania on March 19, 2016: Measuring Cross-Linguistic Influence in First-…
Serving the ‘Highest of High-Risk Students’
In 2004, Elaine Klein, now an associate professor emerita of Linguistics at the Graduate Center and Queens College, noticed something troubling while observing a high school class in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. Klein, who has many years of experience…
Michelle Johnson Presents paper at the Theorizing the Web Conference
Michelle Johnson will present her paper, Language is Power: Vernacular Literacy Practices Becoming Mainstream with Twitter April 25, 2014 at the Theorizing the Web Conference.
Michelle Johnson presents paper at the Digital Media and Learning Conference
Michelle Johnson will present her paper, Using twitter to Define Bilingual Literacy in a Networked World on March 6, 2014 at the Digital Media and Learning Conference.
