Language Professionals Resources

Listed below are various resources on language in South Asia for educators and facilitators to use. Please email Sarah Beckham (sbeckham@wisc.edu) with any questions or concerns.

• University of Arizona Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion in Second Language Teaching (DEI-SLT) Website 
  • Visit the web page here: https://deislt.arizona.edu/

• Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI)’s Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) 2021 Career Fair at UW-Madison
  • Watch recordings of the career fair here: https://lctlcareers.wisc.edu/lctl-2021/

• Princeton University’s Center for Language Study’s Second Language Curriculum Development Symposium 2021
  • Watch recordings of the symposium here: https://mediacentral.princeton.edu/channel/CLTL%2BSymposium%2B2021/212934673

• Columbia University’s South Asia Institute’s Summer 2021 Online Hindi Pedagogy Workshop
  • Visit the webpage and apply here: https://sai.columbia.edu/summer-2021-online-hindi-pedagogy-workshop

• The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota
  • Watch a recording of their virtual event “A Journey of Organizational Transformation through Radical Listening” on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNtEEZG3SVw&ab_channel=CARLAUMN
  • Watch their recordings and read their handouts from past presentations and workshops here: https://carla.umn.edu/presentations/recordings.html#av_cl_b_y
  • Visit their website here: https://carla.umn.edu/index.html

• University of Arizona’s Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) Webinar recordings
  • Watch/download Fall 2020: Social Justice and Literacy-Based Planning webinars here: https://cercll.arizona.edu/blog/fall2020/
  • Watch “Exploring Multimodal Literacies through the Linguistic Landscape in the L2 Classroom” and download the presentation slides here: https://cercll.arizona.edu/event/dubreil/
  • Watch “Reading Multimodally: Guiding LS Learners to Interpret Everyday Web Texts” and download the presentation slides here: https://cercll.arizona.edu/event/kmichelson/
  • Watch “Translation in the Multilingual Language Classroom: Rationale, Roles and Activity Design” and download the presentation slides here: https://cercll.arizona.edu/event/colinaalbrecht/
  • Watch “Vlogging Abroad: L2 Multimodal Composing for Language Learning and Cultural Reflection” and download the presentation slides here: https://cercll.arizona.edu/event/namgott/
  • Watch “Teaching Languages for Intercultural Citizenship and Social Justice” and download presentation slides here: https://cercll.arizona.edu/event/mwagner/

• Association for Asian Studies’ “Education about Asia” Teaching Resource Journal
  • Explore their resources here: https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/

• Michigan State University’s Center for Language Teaching Advancement Shared LCTL 2020 Symposium
  • Watch a recording of the virtual event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9RMn03aBCk
  • Access additional event materials here: https://sites.google.com/msu.edu/slctls/previous-slctls

• United Sates Department of State’s Federally-funded Programs for Study of Foreign Languages
  • Explore program opportunities here: https://studyabroad.state.gov/languages/all-programs

• Speaking of Language Podcast from the Language Resource Center at Cornell University
  • Listen to S6E6: Kate Paesani: “Multiliteracies Pedagogy and Teacher Professional Development” here: https://speakingoflanguage.podbean.com/e/s6e6-kate-paesani-multiliteracies-pedagogy-and-teacher-professional-development/

• University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Language Institute
  • Visit their website and subscribe to their email list here: https://languageinstitute.wisc.edu/uw-madisons-languages/

• The Language Collaboratory: Advancing Intercollegiate Dialogue on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures
  • Janaya Lasker-Ferretti, University of Michigan, “The Hands-Off Approach to Student Presentations: Gallery Walks in Intermediate Language Classes”
  • Brian Barnett, Emily Groepper, & Katrien Vanpee, University of Minnesota, “Exploring Guided and Independent Learning Practices to Promote Learner Autonomy and Self-Regulation”

• Laura Marshall, Assistant Director, Russian Flagship Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison- “Embrace the Engagement Experiment: Keys to Co-curricular Success During the Pandemic”
  • Read the essay here: https://fltmag.com/embrace-the-engagement-experiment/

• University of Arizona CERCLL: Incorporating Translation in the World Language Classroom, A Teacher’s Guide to Best Practice By Sonia Colina and Sarah Albrecht
  • Access the handbook here: https://opentextbooks.library.arizona.edu/scolina/