Due to the coronavirus pandemic, we were unable to hold the Shared LCTL Symposium 2020 in person and pivoted to an online event. For the first part of SLCTLS 2020, four panelists shared their experiences of the constantly changing educational environment and expectations surrounding online instruction. The second part of SLCTLS 2020 was quick “lightning […]| Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages Partnership
This past August, Koen Van Gorp and Luca Giupponi attended and presented at the EuroCALL 2019 (Computer Assisted Language Learning) Conference in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. The theme for this year’s conference was CALL and Complexity, “constituting a challenge to be embraced. Languages are known to be intrinsically complex linguistically and so are the determinants of learning […]| Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages Partnership
(Republished from the LCTL Partnership News site from early 2018) On December 7-8th, the Michigan State University team welcomed 27 participants from 11 institutions to the second pedagogical workshop hosted as part of the LCTL Partnership. Throughout the workshop, we gave opportunities for all participants to talk, set goals for the workshop and their instruction, […]| Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages Partnership
Stakeholders from across the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and beyond gathered for a full-day Symposium on LCTL instruction at the Big Ten Conference Center in Chicago, IL on Monday, September 11th 2017. On the agenda were updates on collaborative projects across the BTAA, as well as a discussion of some of the most pressing issues […]| Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages Partnership
The first months of the project have been both invigorating and challenging. The project started in earnest with a Kickoff Symposium in September 2016, where constituents of the Big Ten Academic Alliance came together to talk about two Mellon projects…| Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages Partnership