Full Description
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.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Licence (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Sharing Structures and Established Consortia
1. Consortial Course Sharing: A Look at the History and Foundations of the Big Ten Academic Alliance CourseShare Program
2. Scaling up Sustainably: Affordances and Challenges of Shared Language Courses
3. The Shared Course Initiative: Less Commonly Taught Language Collaboration at Columbia, Cornell, and Yale
4. Ten Years of Collaboration: The Duke-UVA-Vanderbilt Consortium
Part II: Curriculum Development and Building Program Capacity
5. Language Learning Through Three Iconic Cities: A Shared Approach to Curriculum Development in Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkish
6. Articulating Visions of South Asian Less Commonly Taught Language Instruction for Sustainable Growth
7. Building Less Commonly Taught Language Pipelines: Sharing Russian Language Online with Kansas High School Students
8. Expanding Language Programs via Institutional Partners: Notes from a Small Island
Part III: Case Studies
9. Out of Challenges Come Opportunities: Innovative Collaboration in Teaching East Asian Languages
10. Sharing the Teaching of Kaqchikel Maya Across Universities
11. Sharing African Language Courses: Embracing Initiatives with Caution
12. Inter-Institutional Collaboration in Arabic Language Instruction: Successes and Challenges
13. The Portuguese Language Working Group: A Successful Partnership
Part IV: Sharing Strategies
14. Intercultural Language Learning Communities: Teaching Strategies in the Shared Less Commonly Taught Language Classroom
15. Building a Sustainable Less Commonly Taught Language Community of Practice Through Assessment-Driven Reverse Design
16. Languages Without Borders: Promoting Equitable Access to Language Education
17.Building a Community of Practice: Pathways to Less Commonly Taught Languages Sharing
