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Benjamin Rifkin The College of New Jersey

Programs, Purposes, and Policies: Re-Envisioning World Language Instruction in the Context of Budgetary Constraints . Benjamin Rifkin The College of New Jersey. UT-Austin Mission Statement.

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Benjamin Rifkin The College of New Jersey

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  1. Programs, Purposes, and Policies:Re-Envisioning World Language Instruction in the Context of Budgetary Constraints Benjamin Rifkin The College of New Jersey

  2. UT-Austin Mission Statement • excellence in the interrelated areas of undergraduate education, graduate education, research and public service. • advancement of society through research, creative activity, scholarly inquiry and the development of new knowledge • preserve and promote the arts, • benefit the state’s economy • serve citizens

  3. UT-Austin Slogan What starts here changes the world.

  4. UT-Austin College of Liberal Arts Mission Statement • Awareness of global issues • Proficiency in a second language

  5. Why Should UT-A Be International? • People of Texas • Texan Economy • Language and International Studies as a key component in the liberal arts education for all students (AAC&U) • UT-Austin as a leader in world language education in the US and beyond

  6. AAC&U LEAP Essential Learning Outcomes • Knowledge of human cultures through study in the humanities, history, languages • Intellectual and practical skills including inquiry and analysis, critical and creative thinking, written and oral communication, teamwork and problem solving • Personal and social responsibility including intercultural knowledge and competence • Ethical reasoning and action • Foundations for lifelong learning

  7. AAC&U LEAPEssential Learning Outcomes (2) • All these must be anchored through active involvement with diverse communities and real world challenges

  8. UT-A Students without Language and International Studies Training • At a competitive disadvantage • Reducing the potential of the state in international commerce • Reducing the potential of graduates for lifelong learning • Reducing the potential of the graduates for fulfilling lives

  9. AAC&U Employer Survey Data

  10. APA Study on Creativity This research, published by the American Psychological Association, is the first of its kind to look at the link between living abroad and creativity. [Researchers found] there is some sort of psychological transformation that needs to occur when people are living in a foreign country in order to enhance creativity. This may happen when people work to adapt themselves to a new culture …” http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/apa-lot042309.php

  11. NASA FBI Coast Guard USAID Energy Dept. Broadcasting Board of Governors NSA / CIA Commerce Dept. State Dept. Dept. of Defense Nuclear Reg. Commission Dept. of Agriculture Export Import Bank Intl. Trade Com. Sample Federal Employers

  12. Morgan Stanley Microsoft General Motors Otis Elevator Reebok Hewlett Packard Delta Airlines Price Waterhouse Citibank 3M Ford AT&T Honeywell Gillette Avon Exxon / Mobil Sample Private Sector Employers

  13. Peace Corps AA Amnesty International Citizens Watch Nonviolence International Green Cross International Resettlement Agencies IREX ACTR / ACCELS Mother & Child Church Missions Women’s Crisis Center of St. Pbg. Sample NGO Employers

  14. Discussion of 2007 MLA Report • Creation of Texas Language Center • Enhancement of UT-Austin grants for Title VI Centers, Flagship programs • Revision of undergraduate language programs to provide instruction beyond the area of literature • Impact on shape of graduate curricula?

  15. Purposes for Language Study • Students’ purposes and goals • Faculty purposes and goals • Administrative purposes and goals • Goals and objectives of potential employers • Goals and objectives of graduate and professional schools

  16. Language Learning Missions • Heritage • Specialist • Liberal Arts • Applied

  17. Students’ Purposes for Language Study

  18. Assessment Factors • Enumerative • Attitudinal • Quantitative • Qualitative • Benchmark moments • Tasks integrated into the curriculum • Multidimensional assessment

  19. Assessment Feedback Loop UT-Austin Instructional Assessment Resources

  20. Instructor of Record in UT-Austin Language Classes

  21. Federally Funded Centers • Title VI Centers: European Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, South Asia Institute, • National Language Resource Center: Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning • Arabic Flagship Program • South Asian Flagship Program

  22. Reallocation of Enrollments • Incentives for enrollment in under-enrolled language classes • Incentives to continue study beyond the language requirement • Heritage language class options

  23. Reallocation of Instructional Hours 1 1 1 SLA/FL-Ed Expertise 2 2

  24. Not All Technology Is Useful

  25. Expanded Use of Technology

  26. Summary Conclusions • Importance of the Mission Statements • Policies • Purposes • Programs (and Public Relations) • Assessment and Feedback Loop • Enrollment Patterns • Heritage Languages • Deployment of Instructors • Expanded (and Wise) Use of Technology

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