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The Annual Summer Bridge Program Institute kicks off the university/high school co-teaching partnership for the 22-23 school year, focusing on teaching and learning for the upcoming Bridge Program 3116 courses. This institute will include all languages of the University of Utah Bridge Program.

This workshop aims to prepare current and future Dual Language Immersion (DLI) teachers to create authentic teaching materials for DLI classrooms using learner corpora. The 6-hour in-person workshop will include lectures and practice sessions on the following topics: analyzing sample corpus-informed teaching materials in various languages; using corpus linguistic tools and techniques; developing corpus-informed activities based on corpus search results.

This two-day workshop will focus on teaching film in Spanish language classrooms. The basics of cinematic form will be reviewed in order to develop frameworks of analysis that incorporate an understanding of film as a visual language. After examining questions of genre, content, and style, we will review strategies for the pedagogical applications of film analysis and develop assignments and activities that focus on cinema’s unique power to represent cultural identity and social change..

This summer institute, designed especially for K-12 Dual Language Immersion (DLI) practitioners, will introduce participants to the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines, which have served as a framework for language assessment and instruction across levels since their initial publication in 1982. Participants will examine how the proficiency levels and sublevels have been defined and, also, how they have evolved over time from focusing on oral language assessment to include all modes of communication. The presenters will also share research on assessing performance toward proficiency of DLI students.

The 2022 French Teacher Workshop will be held July 26 - 29, 2022 on the University of Utah Campus. French Teacher Workshop, July 26-29, 2022 Faculty: Dr. Anne Lair (University of Utah) and Mme Michèle Harward (Canyons School District)

This workshop will provide training to Bridge Program instructors on the curriculum of the new CHIN 3116 Bridge course offered in 2022-23. The curriculum designers from UVU, WSU and U of U will introduce the new reading texts and teaching resources that they have developed.

Launched in 2020 during the Covid-19 Pandemic, the University of Utah’s Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC) celebrates ongoing viewership in year two of its launch, accessed from over 19 countries.

The DLI Secondary Summer Institute for Teachers 2022 is now Accepting Applications. The application deadline is April 30, 2022. The DLI Secondary Summer Institute for Teachers will prepare in-service and pre-service teachers of DLI languages to deliver effective instruction in immersion programs at the secondary level and to help students progress through the Intermediate level of proficiency towards the goal of Advanced proficiency.

Join the more than 7,000 language educators who have participated in this acclaimed professional development program. In 2022, CARLA will offer online (synchronous and asynchronous) institutes and face-to-face institutes on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis.

The AAUSC Editorial Board is accepting submissions for the open-access, refereed journal, Second Language Research & Practice for Fall 2022.

L2TReC is proud to celebrate with our Director Fernando Rubio as recipient of the MLA Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize, one of eighteen awards that will be presented on Jan. 8, 2022, during the association’s annual convention, to be held in Washington, DC.

L2TReC is proud to celebrate with our own Jill Landes-Lee and Shin Chi Fame Kao, as recipients of awards honoring their accomplishments in teaching and innovation in the language teaching field.

L2TReC is excited to announce that the Multilingual Corpus of Second Language Speech (MuSSeL) has been launched: https://l2trec.utah.edu/learner-corpora/mussel/

How can language programs gather the necessary evidence to continuously improve? Fernando Rubio introduces part two of the focus topic Program Improvement: Setting Benchmarks and Assessing Proficiency in the latest issue of The Language Educator (TLE) magazine.

L2TReC's Fernando Rubio and Jill Landes-Lee join the Joint National Committee for Languages June 2021 Continuing Conversation Series, in a discussion about "Innovative Initiatives for Sustaining and Growing Language Programs in Higher Education."

Utah’s Annual Summer Institute to launch the 2021-22 university and high school co-teaching partnership. There is no cost to attend this workshop. For instructors holding a K-12 teaching license, USBE credit is available.

Fernando Rubio is featured in Reinventing School, Episode 43: Language Learning, Part 1, by Howard Blumenthal, creator of Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

For language teachers interested in learning about Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) and how to integrate projects into your teaching. The University of Utah’s Second Language Teaching and Research Center is offering an in-person summer workshop on PBLL on June 10-11, 2021.

The purpose of this on-demand workshop is to help language teachers use learner corpora (i.e., large collections of texts containing language data produced by L2 learners) to create authentic materials.

The DLI Secondary Summer Institute for Teachers will prepare in-service and pre-service teachers of Arabic, Russian and Spanish to deliver effective instruction in immersion programs at the secondary level and to help students progress through the Intermediate level of proficiency towards the goal of Advanced proficiency. The workshop is funded by the Startalk program and organized by the Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC) at the University of Utah.

This on-demand workshop is an introduction to corpus linguistics as a tool for language teaching. Corpus linguistics uses computer-based tools to analyze large collections of authentic spoken and written texts in an efficient way.

The Summer Language Teacher Workshops are university content workshops, taught in the target language, for all K-12 language teachers. Workshops are designed for adults to engage in deeper cultural learning and in language practice. Participants will read, analyze, and discuss various texts, film and artistic expression, and discuss ways to help students access and analyze ideas presented through these sources. Participants will explore ways to connect their students to cultural and community projects.

Reading fluently in a foreign or second language can be challenging. Past research has shown that reading fluency can influence word recognition and comprehension, but few action research projects have examined reading fluency. This session will report the results of a recently published study (Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Education) that investigated the effects of timed, repeated readings and peer assisted learning strategies (PALS) with Chinese Foreign Language (CFL) learners.

University of Utah Magazine interviews L2TReC's Jill Landes-Lee about Utah's DLI and Bridge Program, which is administered through L2TReC.

These workshops will introduce Chinese AP exam and six AP themes to Chinese DLI teachers including elementary teachers, middle school teachers & new DLI 5/AP teachers who have never attended any AP workshop before.

ACTFL announces Jill Landes-Lee and Johanna Watzinger-Tharp as 2020 awardees of an ACTFL Research Priorities grant. Research Topic: Secondary to Postsecondary Articulation of Dual Language Immersion: Tracking students’ college access and success.

Second Language Research & Practice, the new open-access journal of the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators (AAUSC), addresses postsecondary language education from theoretical, empirical, and practical perspectives. To celebrate the journal’s debut, the co-editors will lead a thirty-minute webinar to orient readers to the journal and its inaugural issue, describe the focus of the journal’s two main rubrics, and explain the submission process. Come learn about why you should read and publish your scholarship in this exciting new journal!

Creating Effective Blended Language Learning Courses - A Research-Based Guide from Planning to Evaluation, published by Cambridge University Press. The authors propose a framework based on four phases, Design, Build, Teach and Evaluate, which facilitates a systematic approach to course development. The volume simplifies the connection between theory and practice, by including examples that readers can relate to and immediately implement as they build or teach a course.

Anne Lair, professor of French, received the Dorothy S. Ludwig Excellence in Teaching Award – Post-Secondary from the American Association of Teachers of French. Lair serves as the French Bridge Curriculum Director, French Coordinator for the State of Utah and Honorary Consul of France in Utah.

The AAUSC Editorial Board is pleased to announce its new open-access, refereed journal, Second Language Research & Practice. We are now accepting submissions for Volume 2, to appear in Fall 2021!

This workshop will provide training to Bridge Program instructors on the curriculum of the new CHIN 3117 Bridge course offered in 2020-21.

These workshops will introduce Chinese AP exam and themes to Chinese DLI teachers - teachers of all grade levels will be encouraged to work together to form a pipeline from elementary school all the way to high school in order to help students be ready for their AP exam.

Utah’s Annual Summer Institute to launch the 2020-21 university and high school co-teaching partnership. There is no cost to attend this workshop.

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic we are moving the conference to March 3-6, 2021. Registration re-opens June 1, 2020!

Due to low enrollment, this workshop has been cancelled. - This Spanish workshop is open to all K12 teachers and being taught by Professors Isabel Dulfano, PhD, and Maria Luisa Spicer-Escalante, PhD.

The French Summer Teacher Workshops are university content workshops, taught in the target language, for all K-12 language teachers.

In China Daily, former Utah Senator Howard Stephenson discusses the unabated interest of studying Chinese as students in the state move their studies on line amid the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Utah French Professor, Anne Lair, interviewed by French Morning for University of Utah's Dual Language Immersion Program

SLRP is a a refereed, open-access journal of the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators (AAUSC) addressing postsecondary language education from theoretical, empirical, and practical perspectives.

New Resources are continually added to the L2TReC efforts to maintain continuous language learning for students. L2TReC offers a collection of resources to aid teachers, parents, caregivers and students as they navigate language learning in non-classroom settings.

This onsite five-day institute, features a two-day weekend break, and is designed for world language educators. During the Institute, participants will flesh out their ideas for a project design they have already subjected to critique.

The Summer Teacher Workshops are university content workshops, taught in the target language, for all K-12 language teachers and Bridge Program instructors.

Utah’s Annual summer institute to launch the 2019-20 university and high school co-teaching partnership. There is no cost to attend this workshop.

French DLI Professional Development Summer Institute All experienced and new French teachers can apply to attend the workshop.

The FLLITE project, a collaboration of COERLL (University of Texas at Austin) and CERCLL (University of Arizona),  helps teachers to bridge the language/literature divide by developing their own literacy lessons as open educational resources (OER).

Spring Workshop for Chinese Bridge Teachers

Unique opportunities sometimes come in inspired ways and unexpected connections.

The Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC) has been awarded a prestigious US Department of Education Title VI Language Resource Center grant.

The Summer Teacher Workshops are university content workshops, taught in the target language, for all K-12 language teachers and Bridge Program instructors.

Checking out our latest Chinese Dual Language Immersion news video here.

The L2TReC team will be participating at the upcoming ACTFL Convention in Nashville.

Successful School Partnerships: The Utah World Language Example

Utah's Advanced language Pathway for Post-AP Language Study.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences released its report on language learning in America on February 28, 2017.

A bilingual magazine features Salt Lake City French Dual Language Immersion Program.

A 5-day workshop specifically designed to meet the needs of faculty teaching in Flagship and Project GO programs

Anne Lair organized two school visits on Friday December 4, 2015, for Mr. Karl Cogard, Attaché for educational affairs, from the French Embassy cultural services, Washington.

Alexandria, VA—The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) will announce the recipient of its annual ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year Award at its Annual Convention in San Diego next month.

L2TReC provides a limited number of Student Research Grants to help fund research projects that address second language acquisition or second language teaching.

Want to learn more about our second language Bridge Program at the University? Click here to watch our latest video.

We invite you to consider submission of an abstract for our co-edited volume on “The Interconnected Language Curriculum: Critical Transitions and Interfaces in Articulated K-16 Contexts