L2TREC TITLE VI NATIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE RESOURCE CENTER
GOAL #4
ORGANIZE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR LANGUAGE EDUCATORS TO PROMOTE MODELS AND PRACTICES GROUNDED IN AN ARTICULATED VISION OF K-16 LANGUAGE LEARNING.
- L2TReC will supplement its current professional development offerings with events
for language educators that promote models and practices grounded in an articulated
vision of K-16 language learning. All workshops will be open to local and out of state
participants. Planned events:
- Professional development opportunities for native speakers of Nepali, Tongan and Samoan.
- Train high school and college instructors to develop series of activities that follow the Foreign Languages and the Literary in the Everyday (FLLITE—Years 1, 3) and the Project-Based Learning (PBLL—Years 2, 4) models through a combination of webinars and in-person summer workshops.
- Workshops for K-9 teachers on the pedagogical uses of the MuSSeL corpus.
- Summer workshops for K12 instructors of Chinese, French and Spanish.
TARGET LANGUAGE WORKSHOPS
- Some of these trainings will be conducted in the target languages, a practice largely unique to the Utah K-12 teacher professional development programs. Contact L2TReC@utah.edu for registration information.
 In 1990, the Department of Education established the first Language Resource Centers (LRCs) at U.S. universities in response to the growing national need for expertise and competence
in foreign languages. Now, twenty-five years later, Title VI of the Higher Education
Act supports sixteen LRCs, creating a national network of resources to promote and improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages. (NATIONAL LRC SITE) |