Event Date
Event Date
Location
Olson 53A
Location: Olson 53A
Time: 3:00 PM
Description: As universities have increasingly fallen under the pressures of globalization and privatization, departments of foreign languages, literatures, and cultures have often followed suit. This has led many programs to emphasize the soft skills and fast competencies they might offer to students—who are positioned as first and foremost future players in a “global marketplace.” At the same time an uncomfortable paradox plagues national and institutional discourses on foreign language learning. While there seems to be widespread agreement that “global perspectives” and “intercultural competence” are vital for education today, foreign language study has seen a loss of financial support across campuses and government programs. Set within this context of “crisis,” this talk proposes that foreign language educators might best react with optimism and posits three alternative perspectives to the dominating frameworks of global markets and neoliberal optimization.
Chantelle Warner is Associate Professor for German Studies and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. She currently serves as co-director of the Center for Educational Resources for Culture, Language, and Literacy, a Title VI Language Resource Center, and is founding co-editor of the journal Critical Multilingualism Studies.
Time: 3:00 PM
Description: As universities have increasingly fallen under the pressures of globalization and privatization, departments of foreign languages, literatures, and cultures have often followed suit. This has led many programs to emphasize the soft skills and fast competencies they might offer to students—who are positioned as first and foremost future players in a “global marketplace.” At the same time an uncomfortable paradox plagues national and institutional discourses on foreign language learning. While there seems to be widespread agreement that “global perspectives” and “intercultural competence” are vital for education today, foreign language study has seen a loss of financial support across campuses and government programs. Set within this context of “crisis,” this talk proposes that foreign language educators might best react with optimism and posits three alternative perspectives to the dominating frameworks of global markets and neoliberal optimization.
Chantelle Warner is Associate Professor for German Studies and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. She currently serves as co-director of the Center for Educational Resources for Culture, Language, and Literacy, a Title VI Language Resource Center, and is founding co-editor of the journal Critical Multilingualism Studies.