Language U
12 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -A podcast about language, literacy, multilingualism, English as additional language, and more, in university contexts. Sponsored by the Centre for English Language Learning, Teaching, & Research at Simon Fraser University.
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Episodes
The Sentence with Peter Wayne Moe
February 05, 2022 01:16 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBPeter Wayne Moe is an Associate Professor of English and Writing at Seattle Pacific University and author of the book Touching This Leviathan, a book about whales (and language, and writing, and much more)*. In this interview, we discuss Peter's article "A Sequence for Teaching the Sentence," published in Teaching English in the Two-Year College in 2018 and what teaching sentences can do in the composition classroom. (*We also, incredibly, played together in the rhythm section of a jazz ba...
Language U Season 2: Coming in 2022!
December 14, 2021 18:35 - 2 minutes - 3.24 MBLanguage U is rebooting in 2022! Contact me at the email address here if you'd like to be a guest on an upcoming episode! https://www.sfu.ca/education/faculty-profiles/jhenghartse.html
S1E4 Credit ESL with Julia Williams
December 13, 2021 16:33 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBLanguage U talks to Julia Williams, Director of English Language Studies and Coordinator of Applied Language Studies at the University of Waterloo, about the nuts and bolts of creating for-credit English- language courses and programs at the university level, and the reasons more universities are choosing to do so. Originally published in 2018.
S1E3 Creativity and Academic Writing with Erika Thorkelson
December 13, 2021 16:27 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBLanguage U talks to Erika Thorkleson, a freelance writer and writing tutor and instructor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, about the connections between creative and academic writing and her work teaching writing at a uniquely art-focused university. Originally published in 2017.
S1E2 Conceding Composition with Ryan Skinnell
December 13, 2021 16:24 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBLanguage U talks to Ryan Skinnell, professor at San Jose State University and author of Conceding Composition: A Crooked History of Composition’s Institutional Fortunes. We learn about his research on the history of a composition program at Arizona State University and how this perennial first-year writing course functions within higher education institutions. This is Episode 2 of Season 1, originally published in 2017.
S1E1 Academic Editing with Roma Ilnyckyj
December 12, 2021 17:00 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBLanguage U talks to Roma Ilnyckyj, an editor at the science communications company Talk Science to Me, about her work as an editor of scientific and other academic language, the ethics of editing student work and the complicated relationship between editing and writing, especially with work by multilingual writers. Originally published in 2016, this is episode 1 of season 1.
Credit ESL with Julia Williams
January 10, 2018 00:23 - 28.7 MBLanguage U talks to Julia Williams, Director of English Language Studies and Coordinator of Applied Language Studies at the University of Waterloo, about the nuts and bolts of creating for-credit English-language courses and programs at the university level, and the reasons more universities are choosing to do so.
Creativity and Academic Writing with Erika Thorkelson
June 02, 2017 22:16 - 26.5 MBLanguage U talks to Erika Thorkleson, a freelance writer and writing tutor and instructor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, about the connections between creative and academic writing and her work teaching writing at a uniquely art-focused university.
Conceding Composition with Ryan Skinnell
April 04, 2017 23:44 - 23.6 MBLanguage U talks to Ryan Skinnell, professor at San Jose State University and author of Conceding Composition: A Crooked History of Composition’s Institutional Fortunes. We learn about his research on the history of a composition program at Arizona State University and how this perennial first-year writing course functions within higher education institutions.
Academic Editing with Roma Ilnyckyj
December 19, 2016 21:56 - 26.4 MBLanguage U talks to Roma Ilnyckyj, an editor at the science communications company Talk Science to Me, about her work as an editor of scientific and other academic language, the ethics of editing student work and the complicated relationship between editing and writing, especially with work by multilingual writers.
Academic Writing in Canada with Dr. Anthony Paré
September 26, 2016 21:12 - 22.9 MBWe talk to Dr. Anthony Paré about how academic writing is taught at universities in Canada, how that differs from the way it is done in the United States, and why the belief that the writing centre is a place to “send the broken students” persists.
The Multilingual University with Dr. Saskia Stille
August 30, 2016 16:00 - 26.1 MBIn the first episode of Language U, we ask Dr. Saskia Stille what exactly the “multilingual university” is, and listen to an excerpt of a talk she gave about multilingualism and English learning in CELLTR earlier this year.