language and culture

The Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor Working Group on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) invites you to attend a panel discussion on starting or growing a CLAC program. Dr. Stephen Straight and Dr. Suronda Gonzalez will discuss administrative, logistical, and cultural challenges and opportunities that affect CLAC programs. CLAC is a curricular framework that provides opportunities to develop and apply language and intercultural competence within all academic disciplines through the use of multilingual resources and the inclusion of multiple cultural perspectives. Dr. Stephen Straight is Professor Emeritus at Binghamton University and one of the original promoters and ...

A workshop for faculty and staff with Language Flagship programs to learn about intercultural roundtables developed for overseas Language Flagship capstone programs in Arabic and Russian, and to consider how the roundtable model might be implemented in other instructional contexts. Workshop facilitators: Valerie Anishchenkova, Director, Flagship Culture Initiative; University of Maryland Arabic Flagship Dan E. Davidson, Senior Academic Advisor; President (Emeritus), American Councils Alex Groce, Russian Overseas Flagship Program Manager and former Resident Director Maria Lekic, Academic Director, Russian Overseas Flagship Program Laila Familiar, Academic Director, Arabic Overseas Flagship Program Dianna Murphy, Co-Director, Russian Flagship, University of Wisconsin; Associate Director, ...

A workshop for faculty and staff with Language Flagship programs to learn about scenario-based, intercultural online learning modules developed for students of Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian, and to discuss ideas for implementing the modules in the curriculum of local programs. Workshop facilitators were: Valerie Anishchenkova, Director, Flagship Culture Initiative; University of Maryland Arabic Flagship Karen Evans-Romaine, Co-Director, Russian Flagship, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Associate Director, Flagship Culture Initiative Dianna Murphy, Co-Director, Russian Flagship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, FCI Associate Director William J. Comer, Director, Russian Flagship, Portland State University Gulnara Glowacki, Senior Lecturer (Kazakh), University of Wisconsin -Madison Michael Turner, Assistant ...

How can technology be used to provide authentic opportunities for cross-cultural learning? Being able to communicate effectively requires more than being able to read, write, speak and understand another language. It also requires sensitivity to the culture to which the language belongs. Technology can provides authentic opportunities for cross-cultural learning.