Center for Language Studies

Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning

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Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning

As an institutional member of the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (CLTL), Brown's faculty meet regularly with other language faculty from the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University and Yale University.

The CLTL annual symposium is held at the beginning of May while the annual workshop typically takes place in October. Faculty are invited to present at these professional conferences and are encouraged to attend.

CLTL Workshops and Symposia

Brown: Meaning Through Sound: Rediscovering Listening in the Language Classroom (2021)
Princeton: Owning the L2 Curriculum (2021)
Columbia: Language Education in a Time of Crisis: Innovation, Adaptation, Transformation (2019)
Yale: Project-Based Language Teaching and Learning (2019)
Columbia: “Working at the Intersection of Language and Culture in the Digital Age: Social Network Approaches (SNA) to the pedagogy of language teaching” (2018)
Yale: Community-based language education (2017)
Brown: Genre-based Pedagogies (2016)
Columbia: “Language Learning and Teaching with Urban and Linguistic Landscapes” (2016)
Cornell: Who owns content? Issues in content-based instruction (2014)
Chicago: Bridges to everywhere (2014)
Brown: “Working at the Intersection of Language and Culture in the Digital Age: Practical Approaches to the Pedagogy of Cultural Learning” (2013)
Yale: Rethinking the Language Center in the Age of Globalization (2012)
Columbia: What Future for the Less Commonly Taught Languages? (2011)

CLTL Grants

CLS annually invites applications to the consortium-funded, campus-based grants. Faculty who teach languages at Brown and who are active CLS affiliates may apply.

Proposal must ultimately promote the teaching and learning of languages at Brown and may include funding requests for

curricular innovation projects and the development of instructional materials to be used within the Brown curriculum
research or travel, if allowed, that may lead to a conference presentation or publication
fees to present or attend a conference for professional development
inviting guest lecturers and convening workshops relevant to language teaching and learning (travel if allowed and honorarium)
purchase of materials, supplies and memberships for research and teaching purposes
compensation for your time and effort to complete the project

For complete details about applying for the 2023-24 grant cycle, Brown faculty my access these guidelines. This link provides more information on grants previously awarded.