Supporting LCTL Educators and Programs Through Resources, Training, and Collaboration
by Dr. Felix Kronenberg and Dr. Emily Heidrich Uebel
This interactive presentation will highlight the initiatives of the National Less Commonly Taught Languages Resource Center (National LCTL Resource Center; NLRC) emphasizing how the center will help support LCTL educators and LCTL programs.
The mission of the NLRC is to support and develop LCTL education by offering high-quality opportunities for professional learning, creating open and innovative instructional resources, and forging strategic collaborations at the inter-institutional level.
In addition to demonstrations of the available (and forthcoming!) resources and engagement opportunities, there will be ample time for questions and discussion with the audience.
About the Presenters
Dr. Felix Kronenberg is the Director of the Center for Language Teaching Advancement (CeLTA) and an Associate Professor of German in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University. He is also the PI and founding Director of the National Less Commonly Taught Languages Resource Center (NLRC). The center is funded by a Title VI Grant by the U.S. Department of Education.
Dr. Kronenberg’s research interests include language education, program administration, learning space design, sociomateriality, innovation in language education, and technology. Currently he is finishing a monograph on language learning spaces under contract with Bloomsbury Academic. Dr. Kronenberg served as past-president of the International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT), as president of the South West Association for Language Learning Technology (SWALLT), as a fellow for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, and as a consultant to more than a dozen language departments and language centers. He is Co-Principal Investigator on the 2.5 million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation LCTL and Indigenous Languages Partnership grant.
https://celta.msu.edu/felix-kronenberg/
Dr. Emily Heidrich Uebel (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin‐Madison) is the Associate Executive Director of the National LCTL Resource Center (nlrc.msu.edu) and is an Academic Specialist at the Center for Language Teaching Advancement at Michigan State University. She manages the inter-institutional LCTL and Indigenous Languages Partnership, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2016-2023). She is the lead coeditor on two forthcoming volumes focusing on language program vitality and sharing LCTLs across institutions. Her work has been published in the journal Unterrichtspraxis, The Language Educator, the Journal of NCOLCTL, and several edited volumes. Her research interests include language proficiency, educational technology and online instruction, curriculum design, LCTL education, and education abroad topics.