In which #langchat connects our community

Barbara Lindsey | April 21, 2011


Every Thursday night (8-9 p.m. EST: Time zone converter) for the past four months language educators across the United States have been meeting online to discuss and share ways to improve their professional practice. They do this using Twitter, the free online service that allows you to send out public or private messages of 140 [...]

In which 10 Twitter applications might change your global mind and possibly your language classroom

Kevin Gaugler | July 10, 2009


In spite of all the talk about Twitter in connection with the Iranian elections and all things international as of late, I doubt that many of my university colleagues will be including Twitter on a syllabus this fall. I’ve talked before about the “Twitter Cycle” or the fact that, at first glance, Twitter appears trivial, and even, [...]

cAsTa Ways: An Interview with Enza Antenos-Conforti

Barbara Lindsey | May 25, 2009


On the Friday leading into the Memorial Weekend here in the U.S., Kevin and I had the pleasure of speaking with Enza Antenos-Conforti, a professor of Italian at Montclair State University in New Jersey. You’ll notice some issues with the recording in a few sections, but we hope they won’t detract from the quality of [...]

In which the whole world is all atwitter

Barbara Lindsey | March 17, 2009


I spent November 5th, election night in the United States, with about a thousand people. I wasn’t downtown in some large convention hall with a group of my friends. In fact, I had never met any of these folks before that night. They hailed from all over the world and the one thing that connected [...]

In which the forgotten “C” is remembered

Kevin Gaugler | January 7, 2009


If you teach a foreign language in the United States, you are probably familiar with ACTFL’s National Standards for Foreign Language Education. In all honesty, remembering the standards, also known as the five C’s, has been like remembering the seven dwarfs for me. I can usually name off all but one when pressed, but could [...]