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NLRC personnel met up with colleagues at the Shared LCTL Symposium and the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) conference in late April (highlights below)!
We are continuing with NLRC professional development opportunities this summer, including the summer OLT courses listed further below in our newsletter. Take a look at the bottom of the email for other professional development opportunities!
New to our newsletter? Explore all eleven of our projects in our three core areas of professional development, open resources, and strategic collaboration on our website!
Apply to be a ViVID Fellow!
The Virtual Video-Based Inquiry for Development of Teachers of Less Commonly Taught Languages (ViVID) Project is now recruiting fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Join a cohort of practicing LCTL instructors in reflective teaching and peer mentoring! Did we mention that this is paid?? ViVID Fellow receive a stipend of $100/month for participation in the project. The final amount depends on the NLRC funding for this upcoming year, but we anticipate each fellow will receive $900-1000.
Find out more on the ViVID page!
SLCTLS and NCOLCTL Highlights
NLRC members presented a colloquium and feedback session called "Introducing the National Less Commonly Taught Languages Resource Center" at the 2023 NCOLCTL Conference, held from April 21-23 in Chicago.
In addition, MSU's long-standing collaborative symposium with the University of Chicago, the Shared LCTL Symposium was be held as a pre-conference event of the NCOLCTL Conference on April 20th. A recap of the SLCTLS panels are forthcoming on the SLCTLS website.
NLRC News Highlight: OLT Innovation Awards
Congratulations to all of our winners and honorable mentions for the inaugural MAFLT LCTL Innovation Awards!
- Best Innovation Award Jingjing Ji, Northwestern University
- Best OER Award Eduardo Viana da Silva, University of Washington
- Best Classroom Innovation Award Min-Min Liang, MIT
- OER Honorable Mention Jeannette Okur, University of Texas at Austin
- Classroom Innovation Honorable Mention Kristin Bidoshi, Union College
Read more about each innovation on the Award Announcement (NLRC Blog).
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SUMMER OLT OPPORTUNITIES
Learn more about our Summer 2023 Online Language Teaching courses!
Creating Engaging Materials
Develop in-depth expertise for developing engaging online materials. Build a portfolio of 3-6 sets of materials in a variety of domains of your choice (vocabulary or grammar, reading or listening, and culture or pragmatics) for use in your online or hybrid courses.
Summer session starts: June 5
Teaching the Whole Class: Technology for Differentiated Instruction
Leverage course design principles and learning technologies to facilitate proficiency development for class sections with heterogeneous learners (differing proficiency levels, heritage, abilities, backgrounds, etc.).
Summer session starts: July 10
Upcoming deadlines for summer course applications:
- Creating Engaging Materials: May 22nd
- Teaching the Whole Class: June 26th
Many of our fellow Language Resource Centers and National Resource Centers as well as some of our collaborative partners have their own professional development opportunities. This section highlights those opportunities.
- CARLA has many summer institutes for professional development.
- If you are interested in their summer 2024 opportunities, keep in mind that there is a scholarship for LCTL instructors!
- CERCLL is holding the International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence in February 2024 - the call for papers closes July 21, 2023.
- The Coalition of Community-Based Heritage Language Schools will hold a hybrid conference October 13-14, 2023, featuring the NLRC's own Felix Kronenberg as a plenary speaker! Registration is now open.
- The NALRC has summer institutes, focused on instructors of African languages.
- The ACTFL LCTL Special Interest Group (SIG) is holding a webinar for members on Wednesday, May 17th about "Strategic Scaffolding to Maximize Language Use," presented by Catherine Baumann (University of Chicago)! The webinar is free for SIG members. (If you are a member of ACTFL, you can join as many SIGs as you want!)
