About the Language Institute
The administrative home of the Doctoral Program in Second Language Acqusition (SLA), the Language Institute spearheads collaborative projects and instructional initiatives inluding:
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programs such as World Languages Day for Wisconsin K-12 schoosl and the broader community;
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course and curriculum development initiatives such as distance, online language courses, including online Chinese courses for business professionals, online Chinese courses for high school students, instructional materials development in languages such as Kazakh, Russian, Persian, Swahili and Uzbek;
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research studies on foreign language education such as the the 2009-12 study, funded by the U.S. Department of Education International Research and Studies Program, to investigate the alignment of postsecondary student goals with the goals of the U.S. Standards for Foreign Language Learning, and the 2009-10 pilot study, with International Academic Programs, to research the long-term impact of study abroad;
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workshops and invited lectures, include the 2009-10 lecture series The Pain of Language: Language and Migration.
The Language Institute is an initiative of the College of Letters and Science, with substantial support from the Division of International Studies.
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