ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|52 pages
Sharing Structures and Established Consortia
chapter 1|14 pages
Consortial Course Sharing
chapter 3|11 pages
The Shared Course Initiative
part II|56 pages
Curriculum Development and Building Program Capacity
chapter 5|15 pages
Language Learning Through Three Iconic Cities
chapter 6|13 pages
Articulating Visions of South Asian Less Commonly Taught Language Instruction for Sustainable Growth
chapter 7|11 pages
Building Less Commonly Taught Language Pipelines
part III|66 pages
Case Studies
chapter 9|15 pages
Out of Challenges Come Opportunities
chapter 12|10 pages
Inter-Institutional Collaboration in Arabic Language Instruction
part IV|62 pages
Sharing Strategies