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September 2023
If you or someone you know was hoping to take the "Purposeful Technology Integration" course this fall, don't forget to get your application in by Monday, September 11th!
We are also excited to announce that the NLRC has funding available that could help support YOUR LCTL professional development event! Check out details below!
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Funding for YOUR LCTL Event!
The NLRC is proud to announce funding for LCTL professional development events as part of its Collaborative Professional Development initiative.
We expect funding for events to be in the $200-500 range per award. There are three anticipated application periods each academic year.
Money can be used for speaker fees or for general sponsorship of an event like a webinar, workshop, or conference.
Find out more information on the Collaborative Professional Development page.
Want to chat? Book consulting hours!
Does your language department or academic unit need on-demand specialized expertise? Save money and time by consulting with our highly skilled team at the National LCTL Resource Center. We offer short-term and long-term services in many areas of specialization.
The NLRC offers 20 hours per year of consulting services for free for LCTL programs, departments, and institutions in the U.S., with preference given to minority serving institutions and those that can document a particular need.
Learn more and schedule your 30 minute introductory conversation on our Consulting page!
NLRC News Highlight: NLRC at EUROCALL
The NLRC was represented in a presentation during the LCTL Special Interest Group Symposium at EUROCALL 2023 at the University of Iceland. The theme of the conference was "CALL for All Languages." The presentation highlighted the LCTL and Indigenous Languages Partnership at MSU and how the NLRC is both enhancing and continuing that work, as well as forging a path for its own unique projects.
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OLT OPPORTUNITIES
Learn more about our Fall 2023 Online Language Teaching courses!
Purposeful Technology Integration
Explore novel and alternative technology-supported pedagogical approaches, identify technology-enabled practices with the most transformative potential, and design an intentional “new normal” for what language instruction might look like for you in the near future.
Fall Dates: September 25 – October 14
Oral Communicative Tasks
Engage in best practices for designing and facilitating synchronous and asynchronous oral communicative tasks for both presentational and interpersonal modes of instruction. Design scaffolded task progressions in order to meet all your language objectives in rigorous fashion.
Fall Dates: October 23 – November 17
Upcoming deadlines for fall course applications:
- Purposeful Technology Integration: September 11th
- Oral Communicative Tasks: October 9th
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 some of 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.
- CERCLL posted recordings of the Multiliteracies Takes on Language Teaching webinar series that was held in AY 2022-2023
- 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 NFLRC is co-organizing and co-hosting the Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT) - conference proposals are due September 30, 2023.
- The LCTL and Indigenous Languages Partnership at MSU is holding an in-person workshop on Differentiated Instruction. A modest travel/lodging reimbursement of up to $700 is available. Learn more and apply here by September 22.
- The Language Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has several professional development events online this fall, including topics on AI and language ideologies. Check out the link above for more information!
