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CLLC Announces Two NSEP Boren Fellowship Recipients
Cassandra Olson will study Effects of Economic Diplomacy of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Dispute at Beijing University’s…
NSEP Boren Scholarship Winners 2014-15
The Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures announced today that Vyacheslav (Slava) Dade and Hannah McCandless are recipients of the 2014-2015…
Why It Makes More Sense Than You Know to Learn a Second Language
My wife is Colombian, I grew up in Germany, and I now work in Philadelphia. As I like to joke, that gives me three good reasons to know a language other than English. But the truth is, recent…
At home in U.S., 1 in 5 uses foreign language
WASHINGTON — The number of people in the United States who speak a language other than English at home has nearly tripled in the past three decades, far outpacing overall population growth, new U.…
Cool Kinect move: Reading sign language in real time
Here's another example of how the Kinect works great as a low-cost Swiss Army Knife for human and computer interaction: the multicamera device reads sign language like a champ. Dreamed up by…
Foreign Language Center Announces The SPACE: A Digital Collaborative Classroom
As its name indicates, this classroom-from its design to the selection of furniture and technology-is designed to encourage and facilitate cooperative, collaborative learning between and among…
Comanche Nation College Tries to Rescue a Lost Tribal Language
A two-year tribal college in Lawton, Okla., is using technology to reinvigorate the Comanche language before it dies out.
Two faculty members from Comanche Nation College and Texas Tech…
NSEP Boren Award Announced
The Foreign Language Center is pleased to announce the NSEP Boren Undergraduate Study Abroad Award for 2013-2014. Nathaniel Henry, a double major in Geographic Information…
A 'like' for linguistics: Can social media save Mexico's unwritten languages?
Many indigenous languages alive in Mexico today don't have formal written systems, but a growing number of computer-savvy young people want to Facebook and tweet in their native tongue. Read…