Language Learning Center at MSU

Professional Development for language teachers:

The LLC offers seminars on using technology to support language teaching, learning, and research.

• Using your AFS account HANDOUT (PDF format)
• Basic webpage creation in Dreamweaver HANDOUT (PDF format)

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CALICO Document: "Scholarly activities in computer-assisted language learning: development, pedagogical innovations, and research." http://calico.org/CALL_document.html

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Website: Information and Communications Technology for Language Teachers http://www.ict4lt.org
An excellent introduction and reference site. Covers a broad range of aspects of intructional computing as relates to language learning.

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Getting Training:

• Course opportunities on campus http://train.msu.edu
• CLEAR (http://clear.msu.edu) at MSU offers summer workshops for language teachers. A limited number of MSU graduate students are accepted to the workshops, which are free of charge.

Helpful Links:

• Streaming Audio for your Language Class
• Language Links
• Typing accented characters on the Mac (PDF document)

Information for Instructors:

• Professional Development
• Videoconferencing at the LLC
• LLC-TV Schedule
• Interested in reserving the lab for your class?
• Reserved lab times for room 112
• Reserved lab times for room 141
• Purchase tapes for your language class in room 141.

The news from VOA: (RealPlayer required)

Arabic (BBC)	Korean
Chinese	Portuguese
English	Russian
French	Spanish
Hausa	Swahili
Hindi	Vietnamese

Updated Summer 2005