Research Institute for the Study of Language in an Urban Society, CUNY Graduate Center

Events: 2009

RISLUS Reports: Niesha Ziehmke

Increasing Efficacy in Academic English Instruction: A Case Study Seeking the Correct Balance between Contrastive Analysis Focus on Form and Sociolinguistic Awareness Raising
Monday, March 30, 2009
Room C201, the CUNY Graduate Center
(365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th St.)
You can see more information here.

RISLUS Reports: Guus Extra

Dealing with increasing linguistic diversity in multicultural Europe
Monday, April 27, 2009
Room C198, the CUNY Graduate Center
(365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th St.)
You can see more information here.

RISLUS Research Forum

RISLUS Research Forum 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Room. 9204 & 9205, the CUNY Graduate Center
(365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th St.)
You can see more information here.

The past RISLUS Research Forums
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Past Events

RISLUS Research Forum

RISLUS Research Forum 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
Room. 9204 & 9205, the CUNY Graduate Center
(365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th St.)
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The past RISLUS Research Forums
2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |

RISLUS Reports

RISLUS Reports, Friday, November 14, at 4:00 p.m., Room C197
Laura Callahan, the City College, CUNY and Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center, RISLUS Research Fellow
Outgroup Use of an Ingroup Language: Spanish and English in U.S. Service Encounters
Download the abstract here.

Abstract
This presentation offers an examination of Spanish in the United States as a language of selected uses and selected users, along with the factors that can influence U.S. Latinos' acceptance of its use by other Latinos and by non-Latinos. The presentation also has relevance to intercultural pragmatics in the area of interactions between native and non-native speakers, and by extension, to second language instruction in pragmatics... (read more here)

Other events

Event: Institute for Language Education Policy Reception & Book Party at the AERA conference
This event celebrates the work of the Institute and also the publication of this book
Host:    Multilingual Matters (publisher)
Date:    Wednesday, March 26
Time:    4-6 pm
Location: Sortie
329 West 51st Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)
New York, NY 10019

Event: Booktalk: English Learners Left Behind, with Kate Menken
This event is a discussion about the book.
Host:    Teachers College Library
Date:    Wednesday, April 9
Time:    4-6 pm
Location: Gottesman Libraries, Room 306 Russell Hall (inside the library)
Teachers College, Columbia University
525 West 120th Street (between Broadway & Amsterdam)
Further Information: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/calendar/index.htm?EventID=4759

Please RSVP for this event by sending an e-mail to Jennifer Govan: govan@tc.edu

The book, based largely on research conducted in New York City high schools, is about the many ways that the federal education legislation “No Child Left Behind” impacts the instruction and educational experiences of immigrant students learning English in public schools.

News

- 18 February 2009: RISLUS Fellow Laura Callahan has just published a book with Macmillan Publishers. The book is entitled, "Spanish and English in U.S. Service Encounters." Robert Train, Director of the Language & Culture Learning Center at Sonoma State University says, “The comprehensive topic of this study-- an examination of service encounters as a way to better understand the sociolinguistic and identitary complexity surrounding use and non-use of Spanish in the US-- is a very timely one that deserves attention. Dr. Callahan offers a reader-friendly, theoretically-informed and data-rich perspective.”

- 24 January 2009: Elaine Klein was quoted, and her research cited, in a New York Times Article about the demographics of schoolchildren in New York City.

- RISLUS Fellow Kate Menken has been awarded a $182,000 grant from the New York City Department of Education. The project Title is: "Meeting the Needs of Long-Term English Language Learners in High School, Phase II." Kate Menken is the principal investigator and Professor Tatyana Kleyn, from the City College of New York, is a member of the research team. Research Assistants are: Nelson Flores (Urban Education), Alexander Funk (Linguistics), and Nabin Chae (Urban Education) of the CUNY Graduate Center.