DAY 1: October 22, 2021 (Friday)

4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. EST Fall 2021 Workshop Opening

• Welcome by Jane Sokolosky, Director, Center for Language Studies, Brown University

• Welcome by Stéphane Charitos, Director, Language Resource Center, Columbia University

• ASL Interpretation is provided.

4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. EST Keynote Presentation with Q&A

• Elvis Wagner, Temple University, an author of seminal scholarship and empirical research on language acquisition, assessment and listening

• ASL Interpretation is provided.

5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. EST Welcome Networking Event

• Please join fellow language colleagues for virtual conversations. Zoom rooms will be arranged according to different languages but please feel free to room hop or stay with your own language.

DAY 2: October 23, 2021 (Saturday)

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. EST Panel I with Q & A and discussion

• Meejeong Song, Korean (Cornell University)

“The Redesign of Listening Materials Using MBLA (Mobile-Based Listening Aid)”

• Orit Yeret (Yale University)

“What do you SEE? What do you HEAR? What do you UNDERSTAND?”

• Verónica Moraga (The University of Chicago)

“Listening To Your Community”

10:00 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. EST Break

10:10 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. EST Panel II with Q & A and discussion

• Janet Sedlar (The University of Chicago)

“​​Listening Comprehension in Study-Abroad Settings: Unscripted Audio Recordings as the Foundation of a Study Abroad Spanish Course in Barcelona”

• Ruth Adler Ben-Yehuda (Brown University)

“Strategies in Developing Listening Comprehension Skills”

• Rym Bettaieb & Reem Faraj (Columbia University)

“Interactive Activities for Self-Assessment, Evaluation and Reflection”

11:10 a.m. – 11:20 a.m. EST Break

11:20 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. EST Panel III with Q & A and discussion

• Diana Palenzuela-Rodrigo (The University of Chicago)

“Rethinking listening comprehension strategies: TalkAbroad as a resource for intercultural understanding”

• Angela Lee-Smith (Yale University)

“Building Listening Repertoires for Language Learners: Multimodal Podcast Repository”

• Shiva Rahmani (The University of Chicago)

“A music-mediated language experience in F2F, online and hybrid classes”

• Nandipa Sipengane (Yale University)

“YouTube Reactions in the L2 Classroom”

12:20 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. EST Lunch break

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST Hands-on Breakout Session I

• Facilitator - Elsa Belmont Flores (Brown University)

“Listening through Film: Navigating Unfamiliar Accents"

• Facilitator - Grit Matthias Phelps (Cornell University)

“Implementation of Technology in L2 Listening"

• Facilitator - Claire Menard (Cornell University)

“Life does not come with subtitles – how subtitles can help students develop an organic relationship with listening skills”

2:00 p.m. – 2:10 p.m. EST Break

2:10 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. EST Hands-on Breakout Session II

• Facilitator - Olufeyisayo Soetan (Brown University)

"Teaching Tones: Achieving Competence through Listening and Performance"

• Facilitator - Gunhild Lischke (Cornell University) & Isabel Choinowski (Cornell University)

“I think she said … Cooperative listening”

• Facilitator- Lulei Su (Brown University) & Fan Liu (Yale University)

"Devices and Resources for Creating Audio Files"

3:10 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. EST Panel Discussion Concluding Remarks