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Just to Be Clear
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November 30, 2020
Episode 4: Are You What You Speak?
<p>To learn more about what it means to be multilingual, Curriculum Specialist Kim Edmunds interviews Dr. Eva Fernández, Associate Provost for Innovation and Student Success at Queens College, CUNY. You’ll also meet Baruch graduate student Li Ma, who tells us about her experience speaking multiple languages and the rewards and challenges of academic life.</p> <p><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/934816030%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-6RdavTdpW4C&color=%23a05be3&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"></iframe></p> <div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/tools-for-clear-speech" title="Tools for Clear Speech" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tools for Clear Speech</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/tools-for-clear-speech/jtbc-episode-4-are-you-what-you-speak/s-6RdavTdpW4C" title="JTBC Episode 4 - Are You What You Speak?" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener noreferrer">JTBC Episode 4 – Are You What You Speak?</a></div> <p><a href="https://jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2020/11/JTBC-Ep-4-Transcript-Are-You-What-You-Speak.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Download the episode transcript here.</a></p> <h3>Check out the Episode 4 English Supplemental Materials</h3> <p><a class="floating-box" href="https://jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/vocabulary-and-idioms-from-episode-4/">Vocabulary and Idioms from Episode 4</a><a class="floating-box" href="https://jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/listening-for-transitions-episode-4/">Listen for Transitions</a><a class="floating-box" href="https://jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/speaking-interview-skills-episode-4/">Build Your Interviewing Skills</a> </p> <h3></h3> <h3></h3> <h3>Who’s on this episode?</h3> <p><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2020/11/Eva-Ferna%CC%81ndez-Photo-150x150.jpeg?resize=150%2C197&ssl=1" alt="An image of Dr. Eva Fernández" width="150" height="197" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1334" /></a><span style="font-size: small;line-height: 120%"><strong>Eva M. Fernández </strong>is Associate Provost for Innovation and Student Success (Assistant Vice President) at Queens College, where she works to support innovation in teaching, experiential education, and student success. Here PhD is in Linguistics, from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research is on cross-linguistic aspects of sentence processing, with a focus on syntactic ambiguity and the contribution of prosody to syntactic disambiguation. Another focus is the impact of the second language on the first language of bilinguals. She has also done some work on technology in higher education and is interested in measures of student success.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;line-height: 120%"><strong>Further reading from Dr. Fernández and colleagues:</strong><br /> Behrens, S. J. & Fernández, E. M. (in press). Linguistically-informed pedagogy in higher education: A role for teaching and learning centers. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching.<br /> <br /> Davison, A., Fernández, E. M., & Goldhaber, S. L. (2010). Academic discourse on a multilingual campus. In J. Summerfield, C. Smith, & E. Martineau (Eds.), Making teaching and learning matter: transformative spaces in higher education (pp. 171-193). Dordrecht: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-90-481-9166-6_10.<br /> <br /> Fernández, E. M. & Souza, R. (2016). Walking bilinguals across language boundaries: On-line and off-line techniques. In Heredia, R., Altarriba, J., & Cieslicka, A. B. (Eds.), Methods in bilingual reading comprehension research (pp. 33-60). The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series 1. New York, NY: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-2993-1_3</span></p> <p><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2020/11/PXL_20201018_192227883.PORTRAIT-01.COVER_3-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C197&ssl=1" alt="Image of Kim Edmunds" width="150" height="197" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1367" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/files.blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2020/11/PXL_20201018_192227883.PORTRAIT-01.COVER_3.jpg?resize=227%2C300&ssl=1 227w, https://i0.wp.com/files.blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2020/11/PXL_20201018_192227883.PORTRAIT-01.COVER_3.jpg?resize=774%2C1024&ssl=1 774w, https://i0.wp.com/files.blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2020/11/PXL_20201018_192227883.PORTRAIT-01.COVER_3.jpg?resize=768%2C1016&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/files.blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2020/11/PXL_20201018_192227883.PORTRAIT-01.COVER_3.jpg?resize=1161%2C1536&ssl=1 1161w, https://i0.wp.com/files.blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2020/11/PXL_20201018_192227883.PORTRAIT-01.COVER_3.jpg?w=1548&ssl=1 1548w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /><span style="font-size: small;line-height: 120%"><strong>Kim Edmunds</strong> is the TfCS Curriculum Specialist. She holds an MA in TESOL from Teachers College, Columbia University and a BA in Linguistics and Creative Writing from Emory University. She has been working with ESL learners in various capacities for over 8 years, specializing in teaching speaking and pronunciation skills. At Baruch, she enjoys pursuing her interests in phonetics and phonology, working with English learners in higher education settings, and sharing her passion for finding a voice in a new language. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the Hunter College Master’s in TESOL program and in The New School’s Certificate in Teaching English.</span></p> <p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2020/11/6B7B5213-_20201123_173635-1-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C197&ssl=1" width="150" height="197" alt="Speech Consultant Jessica Coyle" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1316" /><span style="font-size: small;line-height: 120%"><strong>Jessica Coyle</strong> is a TfCS Speech Consultant. Jessica received a BA in International Studies from The University of Dayton and a MA in TESOL from The New School University. After teaching English in France and Korea for several years, she has spend the past six years at universities here in the greatest city in the world. She is a passionate language-learner, fitness enthusiast, guinea pig mom, and improviser. She would love to travel to every country in the world, and her favorite phoneme is /s/. She updates the @tfcsbaruch Instagram account – send it a message and say hi!</span></p> <h3>Our featured student, Li Ma:</h3> <p><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2020/11/LiMa-181x300.jpg?resize=230%2C440&ssl=1" width="230" height="440" alt="An image of our student interviewee, Li Ma" width="181" height="300" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-1296" /></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;line-height: 120%"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/55497864@N00/15152326690" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Featured image: “Autumn Triangles #7”</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/55497864@N00" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brett Jordan</a> is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&atype=rich" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CC BY 2.0</a></span></p>
September 9, 2019
Episode 3: Decoding Fluency
<p>To investigate exactly what “fluency” is, Curriculum Specialist Kim Edmunds and Speech Consultant Carolyn Saylor-Lööf interview Professor Alan Kennedy of the Columbia University American Language Program.</p> <p><iframe loading="lazy" width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/671311877&color=%23bf99e6&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"></iframe><br /> <a href="https://jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2019/08/JTBC-Ep.-3-Decoding-Fluency-PDF-Transcript.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Download the episode transcript here.</a></p> <h3>Check out the Episode 3 English Supplemental Materials</h3> <p><a class="floating-box" href="https://jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/vocabulary-and-idioms-from-episode-3/">Learn Vocabulary and Idioms from Episode 3</a><a class="floating-box" href="https://jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/build-fluency-with-a-4-3-2-speaking-task/">Build Fluency with a 4/3/2 Speaking Task</a><a class="floating-box" href="https://jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/practice-listening-for-details-in-episode-3/">Practice Listening for Details in Episode 3</a> </p> <h3></h3> <h3><strong>Bonus!</strong></h3> <p> Tools for Clear Speech has online practice with <strong><a href="https://tfcs.baruch.cuny.edu/linking-and-connected-speech/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">connected speech</a></strong> and <strong><a href="https://tfcs.baruch.cuny.edu/thought-groups/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">thought groups</a></strong>, two pronunciation techniques that can improve the perception of fluency!</p> <h3></h3> <h3>Who’s on this episode?</h3> <p><a href="https://jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/episode-3-decoding-fluency/alan-s-kennedy/#main" rel="attachment wp-att-1217"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2019/07/Alan-S.-Kennedy-200x300.jpg?resize=150%2C197&ssl=1" alt="Photo of Alan Kennedy, Columbia University" width="150" height="197" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1217"/></a><span style="font-size: small;line-height: 120%"><strong>Alan S. Kennedy</strong> is a Lecture in Language at Columbia University’s American Language Program. He is also the coordinator of the university’s International Teaching Assistants program. His articles have been published in Language magazine, TESOL Journal and Investigating English Pronunciation. He is the co-author of three English for Academic Purposes textbooks, and gives presentations on language education around the world.</span></p> <p> <br /> <img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2019/09/Carolyn-bio-pic-2020-300x300.jpeg?resize=150%2C197&ssl=1" alt="Speech Consultant Carolyn Saylor-Loof" width="150" height="197" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1283" /></a><span style="font-size: small;line-height: 120%"><strong>Carolyn Saylor-Lööf</strong> has been working in the ESL profession since 1991, primarily as a university lecturer, but also as a teacher-trainer and program coordinator. She has taught in Japan, the Czech Republic, Germany, Sweden, and Holland. After many years abroad she has recently returned to her hometown of New York and is currently an adjunct faculty member in the American Language Program at Columbia University. She holds a BA in Psychology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and an MA in TESL from Saint Michael’s College in Vermont, along with a TESL Certificate from Seattle University. Her areas of interest are current pronunciation changes in English, culture-based conversation strategies, and intercultural communication.</span></p> <p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2018/04/kim-bio-pic.jpg?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2018/04/kim-bio-pic.jpg?resize=150%2C197&ssl=1" alt="Kim Edmunds bio pic" width="150" height="197" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-397" /></a><span style="font-size: small;line-height: 120%"><strong>Kim Edmunds</strong> is the TfCS Curriculum Specialist. She holds an MA in TESOL from Teachers College, Columbia University and a BA in Linguistics and Creative Writing from Emory University. She has been working with ESL learners in various capacities for over 8 years, specializing in teaching speaking and pronunciation skills. At Baruch, she enjoys pursuing her interests in phonetics and phonology, working with English learners in higher education settings, and sharing her passion for finding a voice in a new language. She is also an adjunct faculty member at the NYU School of Professional Studies American Language Institute, and in the Hunter College Master’s in TESOL program.</span></p> <h3>Our featured student, Megumi Ohkubo:</h3> <p><a href="https://jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/episode-3-decoding-fluency/img_20190523_134440/#main" rel="attachment wp-att-1230"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2019/07/IMG_20190523_134440-768x1024.jpg?resize=375%2C501&ssl=1" alt="Megumi" width="375" height="501" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1230" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/files.blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2019/07/IMG_20190523_134440.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/files.blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2019/07/IMG_20190523_134440.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1 225w, https://i0.wp.com/files.blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2019/07/IMG_20190523_134440.jpg?w=1536&ssl=1 1536w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px" /></a></p>
December 18, 2018
Episode 2: Use it or Lose it
<p>TfCS Speech Consultants Alex Hadden and Andras Molnar chat about the most effective ways to learn a language abroad, sharing some of their personal experiences along the way. </p> <p><iframe loading="lazy" width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/544021500&color=%23bf99e6&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"></iframe><a href="https://jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2018/03/JTBC-Ep.-2-Use-it-or-Lose-it-PDF-Transcript.pdf" target="_blank">Download the transcript for Episode 2 here</a>.</p> <h3>Check out the Episode 2 English Supplemental Materials</h3> <p><a class="floating-box" href="https://jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/vocabulary-and-idioms-from-episode-2/">Learn Vocabulary and Idioms from Episode 2</a><a class="floating-box" href="https://jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/listen-for-connected-speech-episode-2/">Listen for Connected Speech</a><a class="floating-box" href="https://jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/practice-speaking-and-self-monitoring-episode-2/">Practice Speaking and Self-Monitoring</a> <a class="floating-box" href="https://jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/pragmatics-teaching-resources/"</a>Instructor Resources on Teaching Pragmatics</a><br /> </p> <h3>Who’s on this episode?</h3> <p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2018/11/alex-bio-pic.jpg?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2018/11/alex-bio-pic.jpg?resize=180%2C192&ssl=1" alt="Image of TfCS Speech Consultant Alex Hadden" width="180" height="192" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1001" /></a><span style="font-size: small;line-height: 50%"><strong>Alex Hadden</strong> holds an MA in TESOL from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. She has taught and trained English teachers in both the United States and abroad in such diverse countries as Guatemala, Rwanda, Vietnam, Thailand, and China. Her specialty is English pronunciation. Currently, she teaches at Koç University College of Social Sciences and Humanities in Istanbul, Turkey.</span></td> <p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2018/11/andras-bio-pic.jpg?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2018/11/andras-bio-pic.jpg?resize=180%2C206&ssl=1" alt="Image of TfCS Speech Consultant Andras Molnar" width="180" height="206" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1000" /></a><span style="font-size: small;line-height: 50%"><strong>Andras Molnar</strong> graduated from Teachers College, Columbia University with a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics. With extensive experience teaching English in Japan, China, Taiwan, and the U.S., as well as teaching Japanese at Hunter College in NYC, he is currently a professor in the Human Sciences Department of Kinjo Gakuin University in Nagoya, Japan. His interests are focused around maximizing language exposure in study abroad settings, as well as sociolinguistics and enhancing language learning with technology. When not playing the taiko drums he enjoys meeting new people and hearing new perspectives. </span></p> <h3>Hello from Turkey and Japan! Video updates from Alex and Andras</h3> <p><iframe loading="lazy" width="230" height="129" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6pmA8wWUPmo" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /> <iframe loading="lazy" width="230" height="129" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OTKmtv7UjQ4" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <h3></h3> <h3>Our featured student, Victor Chavez:</h3> <p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2018/03/victor-1-e1541789303683.jpeg?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/jtbc.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/5443/files/2018/03/victor-1-225x300.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1" alt="Image of Victor Chavez from JTBC Episode 2" width="225" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1027" /></a> Victor, originally from Peru, has been living in the US for over a decade, and recently graduated from Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business. It was a pleasure to have him on JTBC and hear about his experiences learning English and conquering his degree, as well as talk about his values and plans for the future. Good luck, Victor!</p> <p>Below are a few short extras from Victor’s interview that we wanted to include:</p> <p><strong>On when his wife met his family in Peru:</strong><br /> <iframe loading="lazy" width="100%" height="20" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/537893397&color=%23bf99e6&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true"></iframe></p> <p><strong>On his study habits:</strong><br /> <iframe loading="lazy" width="100%" height="20" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/537883431&color=%23bf99e6&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true"></iframe></p>
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