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The UW-Madison Language Institute is proud to announce outreach programs for 2015-16 that may be of interest to you.

The Experience Languages! program brings middle and high school groups to the UW-Madison campus to observe university language classes, take part in demonstration language lessons taught by UW-Madison instructors, and meet with college students and representatives of language and related programs. In addition, campus tours may be arranged. In 2015-16, we seek participation of school groups interested in experiencing languages *other* than Spanish while on the UW-Madison campus. To indicate interest in this program, please follow this link to fill out a form:

https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_djtSCFXxo6kAMnj

The High School Tutoring in Less Commonly Taught Languages Program connects high school students studying less commonly taught languages with UW-Madison students who are native speakers or at advanced levels of proficiency for weekly conversation practice via videoconferencing technology. In 2014-15, the Language Institute successfully partnered with two schools to provide support for instruction in Arabic and Japanese. To find out more, contact Wendy Johnson (wsjohnso@wisc.edu).

We also want to remind you of our online resource for language study at UW-Madison: languages.wisc.edu. This website contains information about the 40+ languages offered at UW-Madison, related programs such as study abroad and residential experiences, alumni profiles that might be useful for your advocacy efforts, and a page listing UW-Madison outreach programs with a language or international focus and federal programs that support study and teaching of less commonly taught languages: http://languages.wisc.edu/outreach

Finally, please note that World Languages Day will again not be offered this year.

Best wishes to all for a great start to a new academic year!
Wendy Johnson

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Wendy S. Johnson
Assistant Director, Language Institute
Program Coordinator, Second Language Acquisition
1322 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
ph: (608) 262-4077
www.languageinstitute.wisc.edu
sla.wisc.edu