Sharing Less Commonly Taught Languages in Higher Education

Emily Heidrich Uebel is the Associate Executive Director of the National Less Commonly Taught Languages Resource Center and an Academic Specialist at Michigan State University, USA.Angelika Kraemer is the Director of the Language Resource Center at Cornell University, USA, and the Cornell University Director of the Shared Course Initiative.Luca Giupponi is the Technology Director for the National Less Commonly Taught Languages Resource Center and an Educational Technology Specialist at the Center for Language Teaching Advancement at Michigan State University, USA.

• IntroductionPart I: Sharing Structures and Established Consortia 1. Consortial Course Sharing: A Look at the History and Foundations of the Big Ten Academic Alliance CourseShare Program 2. Scaling up Sustainably: Affordances and Challenges of Shared Language Courses3. The Shared Course Initiative: Less Commonly Taught Language Collaboration at Columbia, Cornell, and Yale4. Ten Years of Collaboration: The Duke-UVA-Vanderbilt Consortium Part II: Curriculum Development and Building Program Capacity 5. Language Learning Through Three Iconic Cities: A Shared Approach to Curriculum Development in Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkish6. Articulating Visions of South Asian Less Commonly Taught Language Instruction for Sustainable Growth7. Building Less Commonly Taught Language Pipelines: Sharing Russian Language Online with Kansas High School Students8. Expanding Language Programs via Institutional Partners: Notes from a Small IslandPart III: Case Studies 9. Out of Challenges Come Opportunities: Innovative Collaboration in Teaching East Asian Languages10. Sharing the Teaching of Kaqchikel Maya Across Universities11. Sharing African Language Courses: Embracing Initiatives with Caution12. Inter-Institutional Collaboration in Arabic Language Instruction: Successes and Challenges13. The Portuguese Language Working Group: A Successful PartnershipPart IV: Sharing Strategies 14. Intercultural Language Learning Communities: Teaching Strategies in the Shared Less Commonly Taught Language Classroom15. Building a Sustainable Less Commonly Taught Language Community of Practice Through Assessment-Driven Reverse Design16. Languages Without Borders: Promoting Equitable Access to Language Education17.Building a Community of Practice: Pathways to Less Commonly Taught Languages Sharing