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LTS Students Katie Carpenter (left) and Christopher Daradics (right) with CASLS Director Dr. Julie Sykes

CASLS and the Language Teaching Studies at the University of Oregon partner each year to support the professional development of LTS students. The LTS is a Master of Arts program aimed at giving up-and-coming leaders in language teaching a theoretical and practical professional foundation in just fifteen months.

Part of that foundation includes internships, and CASLS regularly hosts LTS graduate students as both interns and graduate employees who receive full tuition support. LTS students have worked on LingroToGo (a Spanish language and pragmatics mobile application) Games2Teach (classroom activities to accompany digital games), the Bridging Project (online high school curriculum), and research support.

“LTS graduate students work on projects related to our Title VI Language Resource Center grant, which enables them to put their LTS program studies into practice,” says CASLS Director Dr. Julie Sykes. “They also become part of our weekly professional development sessions and receive introductions to national leaders in the field.”

“The CASLS and LTS collaboration provides graduate students with a host of opportunities to participate as emerging language professionals,” CASLS Language Technician Christopher Daradics adds. Christopher started working at CASLS as an intern, later as a graduate employee, and eventually as a faculty member.

Christopher isn’t the only LTS alum working at CASLS. Our East Asia Programs Director Li-Hsien Yang graduated from the program in 2011.