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The NLRC hosted site visitors from the U.S. Department of Education International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) office on April 3-4! Through meetings with MSU's other Title VI National Resource Centers (African Studies Center, Asian Studies Center, and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies) as well as the International Business Center (CIBER), the IFLE program officers were able to get a fuller picture of the strong collaborative efforts of the Title VI centers on campus!
We are looking forward to a month filled with exciting NLRC projects - the new OLT course on Differentiated Instruction begins today (April 10th) and we will be meeting colleagues at the Shared LCTL Symposium and the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) conference!
Check out the section of professional development opportunities at the end of this newsletter for information on upcoming in-person and online workshops!
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Want to attend an in-person workshop? The LCTL and Indigenous Languages Partnership at Michigan State University is excited to offer a two-day, in-person workshop for teachers of less commonly taught languages.
The workshop will take place in person at Michigan State University on Thursday, May 11th and Friday, May 12th. This workshop is open to 15 LCTL instructors. Attendees will receive up to $700 reimbursement of travel and lodging expenses.
If you are interested in being selected as a participant, apply by Friday, April 14th.
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!
Last chance to register! Come join us at SLCTLS and NCOLCTL!
NLRC members will be presenting 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 will be held as a pre-conference event of the NCOLCTL Conference on April 20th.
We hope to see you there!
NLRC Social Media Highlight: Teach-a-LCTL
The NLRC's Teach-A-LCTL project team has been hard at work, gathering existing resources and finding collaborative partners, including our colleagues at the top-ranked College of Education at MSU. See our post on Twitter, where we highlight workshops facilitated by a graduate student in MSU’s Curriculum, Instruction and Teacher Education (CITE) program!
Are you following our social media? Take a look!
SUMMER OLT OPPORTUNITIES
Learn more about our Summer 2023 Online Language Teaching courses!
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.
Summer session starts: May 22
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
Deadlines for summer course applications:
- Oral Communicative Tasks: May 8th
- Creating Engaging Materials: May 22nd
- Teaching the Whole Class: June 26th
Many of our fellow Language Resource Centers and National Resource Centers have their own professional development opportunities. While we can't list all options, here are few upcoming opportunities:
- CALPER - The last presentation in the Spring 2023 Webinar Series "Advances in World Language Pedagogy" is on April 19th!
- CARLA - The last presentation in the Spring 2023 Presentation Series is on April 12th!
- Registration for CARLA's summer institutes is open!
- CERCLL
- Second Language Digital Literacies Symposium (L2DL) (April 17-22)
Opportunity for LCTL Learners: Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institute
The Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI) at UW-Madison offer the opportunity for participants to gain a year of language study in 8 weeks in one of over 30 Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs). Applications are open now!!
