Yale Center for Language Study

Join us tomorrow for our Spring CLS fellows final presentations from CLS fellows Orit Yeret and Andrew Fisher. We will also be celebrating the retirement of our colleagues followed by a wine and cheese reception.

At tomorrow's Brown Bag, the English Language Program will be introducing Lexi, an AI-powered vocabulary agent developed through a Poorvu Center AI grant to support advanced multilingual students in using academic vocabulary more effectively.

Lexi engages learners in scenario-based interactions with targeted feedback to help move vocabulary from recognition to confident, context-appropriate production. We’ll share the pedagogical framework, design process, and early classroom applications.

Please join us for tomorrow's Brown Bag to hear from Sarab Al Ani (Arabic) and Saori Nozaki (Japanese) about two community-based projects.
Sarab Al Ani's presentation will detail how a comprehensive semester-long community outreach project not only heightens linguistic proficiency but also equips students with professional versatility and practical skills.
Saori Nozaki will present on an English Japanese Bilingual Story Time program for local Japanese-speaking families with children, which was designed and delivered by students in her Japanese class.

Please join us tomorrow to hear from this week's presenters, Fernando Rubio, Alan Mendoza, and Andrea Thompson Guiza, about the CLS's Fellowship program.

In this Brown Bag, a panel of former and current CLS Fellows will discuss the program’s development and open a discussion to find opportunities for collaboration across language departments at the university.

Join us tomorrow to hear from Lauren Carpenter, associate director and lecturer in the Education Studies Program, about micro-reflecting on language teaching. 💭
After briefly learning about micro-reflection's theoretical, pedagogical, and methodological foundation, participants will directly engage in micro-reflection on classroom interaction and will come away with tools that can shed light on the nuances of their own classroom teaching.