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From: Stephane_Charitos <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:29:06 -0400
Subject: Conference April 30, 3011 - "What Future for the Less Commonly Taught
Languages?"
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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT - No registration required but please RSVP online at www.lrc.columbia.edu/conference.
The Language Resource Center of Columbia University together with the Columbia
Global Centers and the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning is organizing
a one day conference on the theme of "What Future for the Less Commonly Taught
Languages?" This conference is the first in a planned series of conferences exploring
topics germane to the teaching and learning of less commonly taught languages
the Center will host in the coming years.
The conference aims to bring together language teachers, educators, administrators
and other stakeholders to discuss, and share research, theory, and best practices
on the current state and future of the LCTL as well as initiate a meaningful professional
dialogue on this topic amongst those who are interested in sustaining the teaching
and learning of LCTL at US institutions.
Date: Saturday, April 30, 2011
Location: Kellogg Center, 15th Floor, School of International and Public Affairs,
Columbia University
PLENARY SPEAKER: Scott McGinnis, Academic Advisor and Professor, Defense Language
Institute, Washington Office.
"Lessons Large and Small: Six Models for Field Development in the LCTLs"
The following speakers will present (full program available online):
Dan Davidson - Professor of Russian and Second Language Acquisition at Bryn Mawr
College
"Globalization in U.S. Education: the Case of the Less Commonly Taught Languages
in Schools and Universities"
Maria Carreira - Professor of Spanish at California State University, Long Beach
Preserving the Less Commonly Taught Languages: One size does not fit all"
Nancy Ruther - Associate Director, The MacMillan Center, Yale University
Strategic Interests and Interesting Strategies: T6 and campus language programs"
Alan Timberlake - Professor of Russian and Chair, Slavic Department, Columbia
University
"Globalism and..."
Jean Francois - Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, York College-CUNY
TBA
Taoufik Ben-Amor, Senior Lecturer in Arabic Studies, Columbia University
TBA
CLOSING REMARKS
Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl, Director of the Center for Language Study, Yale University
Some of the topics that will be addressed by the speakers will include:
- How do we conjugate the national priority in LCTL with the overall neglect for
LCTL at many of our institutions?
- How do we address the systemic lack of funding for LCTL within our academic
institutions?
- What structures should we put in place in order to better develop and sustain
LCTL?
- What role do heritage learners and bilingual speakers play in reinforcing LCTL
programs?
- How can technology help us overcome some of the barriers that prohibit us from
achieving critical mass in some LCTL?
- Is the rise of some LCTL (Chinese, Arabic, etc.) accomplished at the detriment
of other LCTL in terms of institutional support?
- Is the emergence of lingua franca among the LCTL synonymous with diminishing
support for other LCTL in the same geographic area?
- How can we better coordinate our efforts to promote the teaching and learning
of LCTL regionally as well as nationally?
All are welcome to attend. No registration required but please RSVP online at
www.lrc.columbia.edu/conference.
For more information, contact Stephane Charitos at [log in to unmask]
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Stephane Charitos, Director
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