CUNY Academic Commons

Summer 2025 | Teaching Written Communication with Text-Based Tasks: A Language Pedagogy Training for Second- and Heritage Language Instructors The Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC, one of sixteen  National Language Resource Centers) is offering two virtual language p […]

Spring 2025 | Teaching Written Communication with Text-Based Tasks: A Language Pedagogy Training for Second and Heritage Language Instructors The Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC, one of sixteen National Language Resource Centers) is offering two virtual language […]

Fall 2024 | Teaching with Text-Based Tasks: A Language Pedagogy Training for Second and Heritage Language Instructors The Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC, one of sixteen National Language Resource Centers) is offering two virtual language […]

Fall 2024 | Event on 9/27/2024: The Art of Teaching Italian: A Book Presentation Join ILETC for The Art of Teaching Italian: A Book Presentation by the book’s editor Giulia Guarnieri (Bronx Community College) on Friday, Se […]

ILETC’s LaPEL Team Presents by Invitation at the Interagency Language Roundtable We’re pleased to announce that the LaPEL (Language Placement for Equitable Learning) team has been invited to present our study on using v […]

ILETC's IPAP Team Presenting at HLAW2 | UMass, Amherst We’re pleased to announce that the IPAP (Investigating Pedagogies for Advanced Proficiency) team has been accepted to present our Complexity […]

Fall 2023 | Event on 12/7/2023! "The Speaking Proficiency Outcomes of Face-to-Face and Online Intensive Language Instruction" Come join us on Dec. 7, 2023 at 1:00 PM EST for a presentation by Dianna Murphy and Lidia Gault. This presentation shares findings from a […]

ILETC's IPAP Project Featured in DOE Newsletter! ILETC received recognition in the U.S. Department of Education’s October 2023 IFLE  (International and Foreign Language Education) newsletter fo […]

Read ILETC's Fall 2023 Newsletter! To read the newsletter with active hyperlinks, click here.

ILETC receives U.S. Department of Education grant for their Language Placement for Equitable Learning (LaPEL) project! We’re delighted to announce that the Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context, (ILETC) at the CUNY Graduate Center and the […]

Event on 10/5/2023! "Fitting the Program to the Learners:  Adapting Translation Competence Models to Heritage Speakers" Come join us on Oct. 5, 2023, at 3:00 PM EST, for a presentation by Cristina Lozano Argüelles and Aída Martínez-Gómez. This presentation is p […]

Event on 8/10/2023! Introducing We Authors, an L2 Writing Website We invite you to learn about We Authors | Second-Language Writing (slweauthors.commons.gc.cuny.edu), a website for students enrolled in second l […]

ACTFL Workshop on 12/6/2022! "Developing Interpretive Reading and Listening Proficiency" ILETC invites you to participate in a day-long, virtual ACTFL workshop (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) on text typology, […]

Workshop on 11/11/2022! "Process Writing in the Heritage Language Class: An approach to biliteracy development" Come join us on Friday, November 11, 2022, from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, for an interactive presentation online.    What are the differences be […]

Interactive Presentation in October, 2022! "Bilingual Writing Proficiency of CUNY Students" When working with multilingual students in your heritage language, English comp, or ESL classes, have you ever wondered about these learners’ a […]

ILETC receives funding to bring our National Language Resource Center, CILC, back to CUNY! We are pleased to announce that ILETC has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Education to reopen the Center for Integrated […]

Introducing We Authors Dear CUNY Heritage Language Instructors, We invite you to learn about We Authors (https://weauthors.commons.gc.cuny.edu/), a website for […]

8th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language Statistics

A Model for Campus Collaborations: Considerations for Spanish Heritage Success (Lina Reznicek-Parrado, Adrienne Gonzales)To watch the presentation, enter password nsshl2021 below:

“Ahora cuéntamelo tú”: Narrative Abilities in School-Age Heritage Spanish (Javier Jasso, Cecilia Perez)To watch the presentation, enter password nsshl2021 below: