Sharing Less Commonly Taught Languages in Higher Education Collaboration and Innovation

Introduction: Sharing Less Commonly Taught Languages in the 21st Century

Emily Heidrich Uebel, Angelika Kraemer, and Luca Giupponi

Part I: Sharing Structures and Established Consortia

1. Consortial Course Sharing: A Look at the History and Foundations of the Big Ten Academic Alliance CourseShare Program　

Katherine Galvin, Keith Marshall, and Laurel Rosch

2. Scaling up Sustainably: Affordances and Challenges of Shared Language Courses

Lauren Rosen, Nicholas Swinehart, Stephanie Treat, and Mia Li

3. The Shared Course Initiative: Less Commonly Taught Language Collaboration at Columbia, Cornell, and Yale

Christopher Kaiser

4. Ten Years of Collaboration: The Duke-UVA-Vanderbilt Consortium

Deborah S. Reisinger, Nathalie Dieu-Porter, and Miao-Fen Tseng

Part II: Curriculum Development and Building Program Capacity

5. Language Learning Through Three Iconic Cities: A Shared Approach to Curriculum Development in Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkish

Ragy Mikhaeel, Oya Topçuoğlu Judd, Hanna Tzuker-Seltzer, and Franziska Lys

6. Articulating Visions of South Asian Less Commonly Taught Language Instruction for Sustainable Growth

Mithilesh Mishra, Shaheen Parveen, Syed Ekhteyar Ali, and Sarah Beckham

7. Building Less Commonly Taught Language Pipelines: Sharing Russian Language Online with Kansas High School Students

Ani Kokobobo

8. Expanding Language Programs via Institutional Partners: Notes from a Small Island

Eduardo Lage-Otero

Part III: Case Studies

9. Out of Challenges Come Opportunities: Innovative Collaboration in Teaching East Asian Languages

Vance Schaefer and Tamara Warhol

10. Sharing the Teaching of Kaqchikel Maya Across Universities

Emily Tummons

11. Sharing African Language Courses: Embracing Initiatives with Caution

Kazeem Sanuth

12. Inter-Institutional Collaboration in Arabic Language Instruction: Successes and Challenges

Hanada Al-Masri and Cheryl Johnson

13. The Portuguese Language Working Group: A Successful Partnership

Ana Maria Fiuza Lima and Raquel Castro Goebel

Part IV: Sharing Strategies

14. Intercultural Language Learning Communities: Teaching Strategies in the Shared Less Commonly Taught Language Classroom

Adela Lechintan-Siefer

15. Building a Sustainable Less Commonly Taught Language Community of Practice Through Assessment-Driven Reverse Design

Catherine C. Baumann, Ahmet Dursun, and Phuong Nguyen

16. Languages Without Borders: Promoting Equitable Access to Language Education

Michele Anciaux Aoki, Russell Hugo, Veronica Trapani-Huebner, and Bridget Yaden

17. Building a Community of Practice: Pathways to Less Commonly Taught Languages Sharing

Biography

Emily Heidrich Uebel is the Associate Executive Director of the National Less Commonly Taught Languages Resource Center and an Academic Specialist at Michigan State University, USA.

Angelika Kraemer is the Director of the Language Resource Center at Cornell University, USA, and the Cornell University Director of the Shared Course Initiative.

Luca Giupponi is the Technology Director for the National Less Commonly Taught Languages Resource Center and an Educational Technology Specialist at the Center for Language Teaching Advancement at Michigan State University, USA.