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Center for Language Studies http://www.cls.yale.edu/
The CLS has moved to its interim location at 212 York Street -
located down a U-shaped driveway, between the Yale Daily News and
the Drama School/University Theater. All CLS facilities, including
two Multimedia Classrooms/Labs (serving as classrooms, public clusters
and testing facilities), a Faculty Development Lab for development
of instructional materials,
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a digital video editing station, as well as other technological, administrative,
and instructional facilities are housed together in one newly renovated
building. The CLS will be at 212 York for at least a year, while renovations
to their permanent home are underway at 370 Temple/1 Hillhouse. Most
services and resources associated with the Language Lab have been
integrated into the CLS, while others are being upgraded or rethought
entirely.
A major change involves Oral ProductionTesting where a computer-based
system will replace the Sony lab console equipment. The CLS will
offer the new Oral Production Testing services in its two Multimedia
Classroom/Labs (MCLs) at 212 York St. Under the direction of a proctor,
students will log in to computers with headphones and microphones.
The tests comprises questions with a combination of audio, video,
images and text. Student responses will be recorded electronically
and these responses will be securely transferred to a CLS server
for later access by graders.
The Directed Independent Language Study program (DILS)
The Center for Language Study has established the Directed Independent
Language Study program (DILS) to give students the opportunity to
study languages that are not currently offered through traditional
classroom instruction at Yale.
The program is based on a carefully structured relationship among
the student, a native-speaker Language Partner, appropriate instructional
materials (text and audio, video and software when available), and
an outside examiner. Students in the program will be expected to
adhere to a daily schedule of work on their own with the instructional
materials, and they will be scheduled to meet for practice sessions
with the Language Partner for one or two sessions per week. They
will be tested at least once a semester by an outside examiner,
a qualified college or university instructor of the target language.
There is no "teacher" in the program, as that term is
usually understood in other instructional contexts. It is central
to the success of the program that students clearly understand what
is expected of them in such an independent learning environment:
they must be self-directed and self-disciplined, and they must be
willing and able to assume full responsibility for their learning.
DILS is open to qualified undergraduate, graduate and professional
students. Interested students should visit the Web site at http://www.cls.yale.edu/dils/,
or contact Maria Kosinski, Director of DILS, at dils@yale.edu.
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