It’s been a busy year in the LRC! Here’s a quick look at our activity by the numbers:
Reservations/scheduled events – 103
Student events: 3 (Leverage your Language, Teach ESL abroad, Maximize your Study Abroad)
Faculty events: 3 (Pre-semester workshop, ACTFL OPI Familiarization Workshop, Language Portfolio work session)
Student employees: 5
Newsletters: 6
Movies added to the collection: 29
Conversation Partners: 40
We look forward to another busy year in 2012-2013!
If you need to take a placement test, or you took a placement test, but don’t know where you placed, please contact us! (lrc@shu.edu)
Expand your horizons! Take a new language!
Maybe your high school didn’t offer courses in Japanese or Russian. Maybe you’re interested in the service trip to El Salvador, and want to learn a bit of Spanish. Maybe you’re thinking of studying abroad in Italy. Whatever the reason, Fall 2012 is the time to start learning a new language.
Check out the elementary level courses offered in the Fall 2012 semester:
ARAB 1101 — Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic
CHIN 1102 — Introductory Chinese I
FREN 1001 — Elementary French I
GERM 1001 — Elementary German I
ITAL 1001 — Elementary Italian I
JAPN 1102 — Introductory Japanese I
LATN 1101 — Elementary Latin I
RUSS 1001 — Elementary Russian I
SPAN 1001 — Elementary Spanish I
Explore your world!
If you aren’t going with SHU to China this summer, make plans to study Chinese in the US! Scholarships available for an intensive summer study program for Mandarin Chinese at Portland State University.
Get out your digital cameras and flip through your digital photo albums! We’re looking for pictures that capture a cultural event or study abroad experience. Do you have a picture of you navigating the Tokyo subway? You and your fellow students at a Spanish aqueduct? Your Italian host family at dinner? Each photo submission must be accompanied by a short description – in the language you’re learning, of course!
(New dates!) Submissions will be accepted starting on Monday, March 26 through Friday, March 30, 2012. Submission guidelines and prize details are here!
Save the date: February 24, 2012 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Get the most out of your study abroad experience by exploring ways to maximize language and culture learning and use. Free copies of “Maximizing Study Abroad” by the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition to first 15 participants. In Fahy Hall 203B.
The New York Times “Room for Debate” feature takes on English as a dominant, global language, and the need for language education in the United States. 6 authors and educators offer different points of view on English as a worldwide language.
