Individual responses... |
Development of Materials, I think all of these are important to development of all us in LCTL-I am less centrally involved. Thus have less time to devote to these issues and development, but I'd love to see my “staff ”(full time language lecturers) were involved. |
Chinese Language Teachers Associates active in all of above |
Assessing Aptitude for language study |
Language enhancement for Latvian =travel to Latvia. There are no other university programs in the US, and travel to the country is the only way to keep up on new textbooks, teaching standart. etc |
Workshop a course work on: the target language itself |
I don’t feel I have any professional-development needs that are LCTL-specific. I need time+money to visit the important sites in the ancient world-the most basic need for my teaching-and access to a strong library-essential for research. |
Hard for me to answer for them-Most are now gone for the summer |
We have professional organizations that provide service in the above areas for teachers of Greek and Latin |
grants/funding opportunities |
Journal in Italian, on current events publicized in US of moderate-like France-American for French in order to keep up with language change, culture etc, adult level. |
Most important to me: a list of the best and latest textbooks for Chinese+ Japanese, with names of the schools that use them. |
More time in the day to be able to take advantage of average of the above. |
荷兰的老师(世界各地)反对ference every 3 years with sessions on new methods +materials, methodology, refresher material |
New textbooks and other teaching materials |
I really don’t have any background in linguistic. We teach biblical Hebrew basically for students who want to enter the seminary + Pastoral ministry. I used several grammar trough the year. I have school at some computer material but have not figured out how to use them in our setting. We use a laptop computer. What could be used given that technology? |
Between WAFLT(Wisconsin Assoc of Foreign Lang Teachers),ACL(American Classical League), the National communication for Greek and Latin, ACTFL, etc. I feel I am very well served in pedagogical matters, |
I’m very interested in technology that would allow me to project sentences (exercise and Biblical texts) on to a screen for all to see, and to be able to move words around to show grammatical constructions, and to correct student-written sentences. |
How to make the best of labs, which in our university are the professors’ responsibilities without assistants (if any, they are undergraduate). I am desperately in need of lab assistants but the university does not pay attention to that difficulty. I am the only one doing everything. |
As chair, my top priority at the moment is seeking endowed chair on professorship (for modern Irish) |
The next way to achieve proficiency in the teaching of ancient languages is to know the languages and have enthusiasm + good communicative skills. |
Keeping up with journals and monographs in the field. Conducting research, including publication of newly discovered texts. Participating in meeting of scholarly societies. |
I must say that the Cambridge group which conducts intensive one-week summer workshops and the American Classical League(ACL) which also meets every summer with much of great value and which maintains a TMRC (teaching materials and resource center) provide these things already. The problem is getting time to take advantage of them! By the way, I am very much worried about the situation in German and Russian. I am interested that you consider German not LCTL; it is certainly rapidly becoming a LCTL in Ohio. Russian is almost non-existent. This is outrageous. |
I just need room in the curriculum to teach these languages. I will take care of the rest. |
对重要通知顶尖大学的领导ce of LCTLs |
Clearing House - collection of pedagogical materials and techniques |
Means of convincing administrators that secondary languages & cultures are crucial. |
The main problem is to get administrators to realize the value of LCTL’s without requiring a minimum of 25 students! |
Facilitate awareness & publicity campaigns for African language courses. Gathering of monolingual reading materials from target language countries for adaptation to teaching the languages |
Include Native American languages among LCTLs or build a bridge to Native American Languages |
Availability of a national testing service students could turn to place out of their language requirements at their universities |
The FOLA Program would not be able to fund sending out tutors to conferences & workshops etc. but e-mail information would be appreciated. |
I would love to see greater regular interaction between teachers. |
Design of language programs, and commitment administrative structures, sufficient to achieve competence level of S-3, R-3, and W-3 in a college curriculum, for students who elect language study. |
There are already excellent Latin seminars in the country although I can’t get to most of them. |
Funding for going to these workshops and conferences |
A workshop or course work on using films from related countries to show in language classes. How to use films (both with & without subtitles) as language teaching tools. |