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oapen-20.500.12657-861782023-12-16T02:25:11Z Sharing Less Commonly Taught Languages in Higher Education Heidrich Uebel, Emily Kraemer, Angelika Giupponi, Luca Languages;Language instructors;LCTLs;LCTL programs;language institutes;language programs;language resources;less commonly taught languages bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CJ Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) This edited volume highlights how institutions, programs, and less commonly taught language (LCTL) instructors can collaborate and think across institutional boundaries, bringing together voices representing different approaches to LCTL sharing to highlight affordances and challenges across institutions in this collection of essays. Sharing Less Commonly Taught Languages in Higher Education showcases how innovation and reform can make LCTL programs and courses more attractive to students whose interests and needs might be overlooked in traditional language programs. The volume focuses on how institutions, programs, and LCTL instructors can work together, collaborating and thinking across institutional boundaries to explore innovative solutions for offering a wider range of languages and levels. With challenges including instructor isolation, difficulty in offering advanced courses or sustaining course sequences, and minimal availability of pedagogical materials compared to commonly taught languages to overcome, this collection is a vital resource for language educators and language program administrators. 2023-12-15T10:49:45Z 2023-12-15T10:49:45Z 2024 book 9781032394176 9781032394206 9781003349631 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86178 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781003835349.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003349631 10.4324/9781003349631 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 0cdc3d7c-5c59-49ed-9dba-ad641acd8fd1 9781032394176 9781032394206 9781003349631 Routledge 265 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation open access
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This edited volume highlights how institutions, programs, and less commonly taught language (LCTL) instructors can collaborate and think across institutional boundaries, bringing together voices representing different approaches to LCTL sharing to highlight affordances and challenges across institutions in this collection of essays. Sharing Less Commonly Taught Languages in Higher Education showcases how innovation and reform can make LCTL programs and courses more attractive to students whose interests and needs might be overlooked in traditional language programs. The volume focuses on how institutions, programs, and LCTL instructors can work together, collaborating and thinking across institutional boundaries to explore innovative solutions for offering a wider range of languages and levels.
With challenges including instructor isolation, difficulty in offering advanced courses or sustaining course sequences, and minimal availability of pedagogical materials compared to commonly taught languages to overcome, this collection is a vital resource for language educators and language program administrators.
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