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L2TReC has hired a new member who is enthusiastic about using research expertise to improve educational practices. Meet @Yejin, our postdoctoral researcher, sharing what why she chose L2TReC and what she aspires to achieve with her projects.

Thursday, December 05, 2024 07:03 PM

We are pleased to announce the successful conclusion of the 9th International Conference on Immersion and Dual Language Education. From the insightfully interactive presentations of Commissioner Green and Professor Davin to the enriching musical performance from Ballet Folklorico Quetzalcoatl, you can read more about the conference experience on the College of Humanities website.

Thursday, November 07, 2024 11:01 PM

L2TReC has a new director! As of July 1, 2024, Dr. Devin Jenkins has assumed duties as Director of the Second Language Teaching and Research Center. Get to know more about Dr. Jenkins and his experience.

Wednesday, July 10, 2024 11:24 PM

On February 29th, Elnaz Kia, in her role as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at L2TReC, delivered a well-received preconference workshop at the 2024 Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT) in Honolulu, HI. She was joined by L2TReC's esteemed former director, Fernando Rubio, and Valerie Sky, an assistant professor of applied linguistics at Cal Poly Pomona. Their collaborative effort was noted for its engagement and attendance, contributing positively to the conference.

Tuesday, April 09, 2024 10:04 PM

L2TReC Research Assistant, Amanda Hoffmann, presents at the 2024 Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT) in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Monday, April 08, 2024 10:30 PM

L2TReC Research Assistant, Miguel Hernández Alonso, presents at the 2024 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference in Houston, TX.

Wednesday, April 03, 2024 07:02 PM

Venez passer quatre jours en français avec nous! Nous reverrons les standards culturels ACTFL-NCSSFL pour que vous les appliquiez à vos leçons. On verra comment utiliser l’Intelligence Artificielle pour rédiger des leçons et des textes. Et puis on mettra un peu de grammaire, d’écriture et de culture dans notre répertoire. Pourquoi pas les Jeux Olympiques de Paris 2024. Comme d’habitude nous répondrons à vos questions. N’oubliez pas d’apporter vos manuels et les leçons que vous aimeriez retoucher. Pour conclure, nous

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 04:25 PM

The National Council for Languages and International Studies has awarded Jill Landes-Lee, Director of the Advanced Language Bridge Program at the University of Utah, with The JNCL-NCLIS ELEVATE Award. This award was established to honor advocates who do significant work in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) within the language and culture learning community.

Thursday, March 14, 2024 08:56 PM

As the state director of Utah's Bridge Program, Landes-Lee and her team have worked to bring language immersion in the classroom to the next level, providing students with course work and material beyond the typical K-12 curriculum to give them a solid foundation for higher education and professional pursuits.

Monday, March 04, 2024 07:00 PM

L2TReC's Postdoctoral Research Associate, Elnaz Kia and Research Assistant Lynn Ricks presented at the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Conference (AATSEEL). The AATSEEL Conference took place on February 15-18 and is centered around the various communicative aspects of the Russian language and Slavic culture.

Tuesday, February 27, 2024 05:11 PM

As part of an ongoing relationship between L2TReC and the MSIS Capstone Program at the David Eccles School of Business, multiple data visualizations representing students that enrolled in a K-12 dual language immersion (DLI) or Bridge language course, and their subsequent umbrella universities, were launched.

Thursday, August 31, 2023 12:47 AM

This workshop aims to prepare current and future Dual Language Immersion (DLI) teachers to create authentic teaching materials for DLI classrooms using learner corpora (i.e., large collections of texts containing language data produced by L2 learners

Thursday, July 13, 2023 07:00 PM

With an understanding of the proficiency framework, participants will apply the guidelines as an organizing principle to DLI classrooms, syllabi, and lesson planning, with the goal of developing lessons, learning tasks, and classroom-based, formative assessments that are consistent with a proficiency-based approach in a dual language immersion context.

Monday, April 24, 2023 08:31 PM

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 3117 courses. Register below according to your language and year of teaching in the Bridge Program.

Friday, March 31, 2023 05:56 PM

The purpose of the L2TReC Student Research Grants Program is to enhance the research education of University of Utah students and promote the research mission of L2TReC via support for student research projects. All University of Utah undergraduate and graduate students studying the acquisition and/or teaching of second languages are eligible to submit proposals.

Wednesday, March 01, 2023 12:39 AM

This webinar aims to introduce language teachers to learner corpora (i.e., large collections of texts containing language data produced by L2 learners) as a source to create authentic pedagogical materials.

Tuesday, February 28, 2023 08:15 PM

The purpose of the L2TReC Student Research Grants Program is to (1) enhance the research education of University of Utah students and (2) promote the research mission of L2TReC via support for student research projects. Application deadlines are October 15 and March 15 of each year; awarded funds must be used within one calendar year.

Tuesday, February 28, 2023 07:59 PM

The 2023 Summer Teacher Workshops at L2TReC at the University of Utah are from May through July, and are for language teachers, dual language immersion educators and corpus and corpora informed teaching.

Wednesday, February 15, 2023 11:22 PM

We are honored to have members of L2TReC presenting at the 2023 Southwest Conference on Language Teaching. The event will take place February 23rd - 25th.

Tuesday, February 14, 2023 02:45 AM

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. The workshop is supported by the LRC Grant of the Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC) at the University of Utah.

Thursday, February 09, 2023 10:48 PM

ACTFL Research Briefs are a new an initiative for sharing research both within and beyond the ACTFL community. These short pieces report what the research shows about key topics, like the importance of early world language study, the impact of world language study on cognitive or academic outcomes, and more.

Saturday, January 28, 2023 08:26 PM

As part of the MSIS Capstone Program at the David Eccles School of Business, L2TReC sponsored their second team in 2022, culminating in the launch of a data visualization tool to show Bridge Language enrollments for students that progress to higher education study @theU.

Wednesday, December 28, 2022 07:00 PM

Second Language Research & Practice, the open-access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators (AAUSC), is accepting manuscripts for Volume 4, to be published in Fall 2023. Please consider submitting your work to the journal! SLRP published research articles and reports and Volume 4 will include a special section on the role of textbooks in postsecondary language education.

Friday, October 21, 2022 10:06 PM

Learn about the variety of degrees, interdisciplinary courses, scholarships, and career opportunities using your language and cultural skills!

Wednesday, September 28, 2022 09:57 PM

Special Envoy to Salt Lake City (Utah), Jessica Gourdon, highlights Utah's French Dual Langauge Immersion Program in France's Le Monde. From Dans l’Utah, une passion stratégique pour l’apprentissage du français

Tuesday, August 02, 2022 04:09 AM

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.

Friday, May 20, 2022 05:12 PM

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.

Friday, April 29, 2022 05:33 PM

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)

Thursday, April 28, 2022 07:43 PM

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.

Thursday, April 28, 2022 06:54 PM

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.

Thursday, April 28, 2022 05:49 PM

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.

Friday, April 22, 2022 11:24 PM

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.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022 08:46 PM

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.

Friday, January 21, 2022 08:58 PM

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

Tuesday, January 11, 2022 05:01 AM

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.

Monday, December 13, 2021 07:21 PM

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.

Thursday, December 02, 2021 09:55 PM

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

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 05:32 AM

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.

Monday, July 26, 2021 09:06 PM

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."

Friday, June 18, 2021 01:16 AM

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.

Friday, June 04, 2021 11:47 PM

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?

Thursday, June 03, 2021 12:12 AM

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.

Friday, April 30, 2021 07:24 PM

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.

Wednesday, April 07, 2021 12:51 AM

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.

Tuesday, April 06, 2021 09:53 PM

The purpose of this webinar 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.

Monday, March 15, 2021 08:07 PM

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.

Friday, February 05, 2021 03:14 AM

This webinar 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.

Monday, February 01, 2021 07:00 AM

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

Tuesday, January 26, 2021 07:21 PM

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.

Monday, December 21, 2020 08:44 PM

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.

Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:45 PM

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!

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 12:15 AM

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.

Tuesday, October 20, 2020 08:00 AM

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.

Tuesday, October 20, 2020 07:00 AM

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!

Sunday, September 20, 2020 07:00 AM

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

Wednesday, June 24, 2020 09:23 PM

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.

Monday, June 15, 2020 07:30 PM

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.

Friday, May 01, 2020 07:39 PM

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

Friday, May 01, 2020 12:17 AM

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.

Tuesday, April 28, 2020 06:02 PM

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.

Sunday, April 26, 2020 09:19 PM

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

Thursday, April 16, 2020 12:01 AM

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.

Wednesday, April 15, 2020 11:38 PM

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.

Saturday, April 11, 2020 06:05 PM

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

Sunday, March 01, 2020 07:00 AM

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.

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 09:39 PM

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

Tuesday, June 18, 2019 09:00 PM

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.

Tuesday, March 12, 2019 09:22 PM

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

Friday, February 01, 2019 11:10 PM

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).

Friday, February 01, 2019 11:03 PM

Spring Workshop for Chinese Bridge Teachers

Wednesday, January 09, 2019 07:07 PM

Unique opportunities sometimes come in inspired ways and unexpected connections.

Tuesday, October 16, 2018 05:54 PM

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

Thursday, September 27, 2018 09:41 PM

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

Friday, April 06, 2018 10:25 PM

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

Wednesday, November 22, 2017 06:24 PM

Thursday, November 02, 2017 08:54 PM

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

Thursday, October 26, 2017 05:31 PM

Successful School Partnerships: The Utah World Language Example

Wednesday, June 14, 2017 05:08 PM

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

Monday, May 08, 2017 06:28 PM

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

Monday, May 08, 2017 06:27 PM

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

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

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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.

Monday, May 08, 2017 06:13 PM

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.

Monday, May 08, 2017 06:08 PM

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

Monday, May 08, 2017 06:05 PM

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

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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

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