The English-Speaking Union National Championship held its prepared speech heats on March 22nd, 2024. The competition followed an adjudication process to determine the participants advancing to the grand finale. Jacqueline Einer was the Head of the Jury Panel and the other SL instructors were members of the jury. 

Review: Current Issues in Teaching the Spoken Language by Serpil Öz

A Good Teaching Practice in SL: SL MASS (Mastering Academic Speaking Skills)

Museum Expressions

The theme for FOCI-XXIV was “Collaboration of Wits and Wires: Unlocking the Opportunities of AI in Curriculum Development.”

I am writing this post to share my enriching experience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Language Institute (MEDLI) this summer as a Turkish instructor. MEDLI is one of the programs within the Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI) at UW-Madison, offering intensive courses in over 30 less-commonly-taught languages (LCTLs) for undergraduates, graduate students, professionals, and non-traditional students from across the US.

Route 2 student Ganjina Mirzoeva received the Silver Certificate in the Global Round of The Wevoi Public Speaking Competition

Suggestions for Teaching Writing in the Age of GenAI

In this blog post, I want to share my story meeting GenAI and embrace it as if I found my lost sibling. Yeah, this has a bit of exaggeration, but the truth is despite some ups and downs my relationship with this emerging technology is going well right now and let me give some details. 

SL in BALEAP 2023: Observations, Impressions & Experience