MIT Global Languages

12/22/2020

Read about Tutmonda -- an experimental learning community at MIT for first-year students with a passion for learning foreign languages and cultures.
http://mitgsl.mit.edu/news/tutmonda-experimental-virtual-first-year-learning-community-fall-2020

12/22/2020

A festive treat... a global gingerbread bake-along with scholarly tidbits from humanities faculty!

Gingerbread has a long history in European cultures dating back to medieval times. In some respects, it's also global; relying on ginger and other spices from Asia, while using European baking techniq

12/14/2020

Japanese lecturers are working to make their curriculum available online to learners around teh globe through OpenCourseWare http://mitgsl.mit.edu/news/mit-lecturers-collaborate-opencourseware-refresh-online-japanese-offerings

12/14/2020

Read what student blogger has to say about Global Language's Freshman Learning Community (FLC)! She calls it "engaging frosh done right"!
https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/global-languages-freshman-learning-community/

12/14/2020

MIT Global Languages invites submissions for the Isabelle de Courtivron Prize seeks student writing submissions on immigrant, diaspora, bicultural, bilingual, and/or mixed-race experiences. The prize was established to reward high-quality undergraduate writing (creative or expository) and to honor distinguished Professor Emerita Isabelle de Courtivron.

http://mitgsl.mit.edu/news/student-writing-sought-immigrant-diaspora-bicultural-bilingual-andor-mixed-race-experiences

12/14/2020

MIT students meet counterparts at UTokyo for online discussion
http://mitgsl.mit.edu/news/mit-students-meet-counterparts-utokyo-online-discussion

12/14/2020

Global Languages Kang Zhou participates in MIT Teaching + Learning Lab panel discussion about Building Community in the Remote Classroom

https://tll.mit.edu/building-community-in-the-remote-classroom/

12/14/2020

MIT students! Would you like to explore "Three Kingdoms"? French pop music? Spanish for Medicine and Health? Korean VI? Global Languages announces new and special subject offerings for Spring 2021.
http://mitgsl.mit.edu/news/new-and-special-subjects-spring-2021

12/14/2020

"Lessons in remote teaching from award-winning MIT SHASS faculty" include insights from GL Maria Khotimsky and Isadora Nicholas

“​What we do matters; our attitude matters; our enthusiasm and care matters. As teachers and parents, we should realize that despite the…

12/14/2020

Global Languages Chinese instructors featured in 'World Journal' article on the recent conference of the NE Chinese Language Teachers Association!

新英格蘭地區中文教師協會(NECLTA)日前在Zoom平台上舉行第九屆年會暨中文教學國際會議，來自美、中、歐洲近70個學...