Language Institute Language and Technology Projects

Distance Learning

Giannini Online Chinese Program: Online Chinese courses for high school students (coming soon!)
National Online Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Teacher Training Initiative: Methods courses for postsecondary instructors of LCTLs
Online Language Initiative: Distance, online language courses for working professionals
Utamaduni Online: An advanced level course in Swahili language and culture

Materials Development in Less Commonly Taught Languages

Software for language instructors

Multimedia LessonBuilder and Annotator: Authoring tools for developing video-based online language lessons
Wimba Voice Tools: Web-based software that enables students and instructors to record and send voice messages online

Upcoming

2008-09 Language Institute Lecture Series Culture, Literature and Language: Power and Pedagogies

Lecture: Land of the Free, Home of the Phraselator: The Weaponization of Language
Mary Louise Pratt, New York University
12:00 pm, Thursday, November 6
Room TBD

The first in a series of public lectures sponsored by the Language Institute on Culture, Literature and Language: Power and Pedagogies. Learn more >

Lecture: On the Division of 'Prosodic' and 'Non-Prosodic' Resources in Talk-in-Interaction
Gareth Walker, University of Sheffield
4:00 pm, Monday, November 10
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive

A significant amount of work published over the last twenty five years or so has shown how the phonetic design of talk-in-interaction is bound up with its sequential organisation. However, it is the consideration of prosodic--rather than general phonetic--features which seem to dominate current thinking. In this talk, Walker will set out some reasons for dealing with the phonetic design of talk in its totality. Learn more >