Sharing less commonly taught languages in higher education : collaboration and innovation
/ edited by Emily Heidrich Uebel, Angelika Kraemer, and Luca Giupponi
- 1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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