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Sharing Less Commonly Taught Languages in Higher Education Collaboration and Innovation

Edited By Emily Heidrich Uebel, Angelika Kraemer, Luca Giupponi Copyright 2024
    264 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This edited volume highlights how institutions, programs, and less commonly taught language (LCTL) instructors can collaborate and think across institutional boundaries, bringing together voices representing different approaches to LCTL sharing to highlight affordances and challenges across institutions in this collection of essays. Sharing Less Commonly Taught Languages in Higher Education showcases how innovation and reform can make LCTL programs and courses more attractive to students whose interests and needs might be overlooked in traditional language programs. The volume focuses on how institutions, programs, and LCTL instructors can work together, collaborating and thinking across institutional boundaries to explore innovative solutions for offering a wider range of languages and levels.

    With challenges including instructor isolation, difficulty in offering advanced courses or sustaining course sequences, and minimal availability of pedagogical materials compared to commonly taught languages to overcome, this collection is a vital resource for language educators and language program administrators.

    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　

      2. Katherine Galvin, Keith Marshall, and Laurel Rosch

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

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

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

      4. Christopher Kaiser

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

      5. 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

      6. 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

      7. 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

      8. Ani Kokobobo

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

      9. Eduardo Lage-Otero

      Part III: Case Studies

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

      10. Vance Schaefer and Tamara Warhol

    10. Sharing the Teaching of Kaqchikel Maya Across Universities

      11. Emily Tummons

    11. Sharing African Language Courses: Embracing Initiatives with Caution

      12. Kazeem Sanuth

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

      13. Hanada Al-Masri and Cheryl Johnson

    13. The Portuguese Language Working Group: A Successful Partnership

      14. 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

      15. Adela Lechintan-Siefer

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

      16. Catherine C. Baumann, Ahmet Dursun, and Phuong Nguyen

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

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

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

    Angelika Kraemer and Danielle Steider

    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.

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