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Title | Article: Outsourcing Language Learning |
Body | From http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/22/languages Outsourcing Language Learning — Jennifer Epstein January 22, 2010 Almost a decade ago, Drake University stirred up controversy by eliminating its foreign language departments and thereby the jobs of faculty in French, German and Italian, even those with tenure. Traditional lecture and language lab instruction was replaced with the Drake University Language Acquisition Program (DULAP): small discussion groups led by on-campus native speakers, a weekly session with a scholar of the language, a one-semester course on language acquisition and the use of several Web-based learning technologies. The Sage Colleges, with campuses in Albany and Troy, New York, adopted the Drake program’s structure last fall to begin offering Italian. During the first semester of the Sage Language Acquisition Program, students met three days each week for conversation with a native speaker “language partner” and a few other students, one day a week with an “outside examiner” – a Ph.D. in Italian -- and one day to discuss language acquisition strategies and course technology with the college's French professor. Read the full article at http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/22/languages |
Source | Inside Higher Ed |
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