WELCOME
The Penn Center for Foreign Language Learning and Teaching with Technology (PLC) celebrates the diverse and stimulating challenges facing the Center’s 20th anniversary. Since1989, the PLC strengthens Penn’s language education, curricula and consistently supports the development of language professionals. In particular, PLC focuses on current trends in on-line instruction and teaching from within the National Standards.
PLC remains committed to its structural flexibility enabling its staff to respond quickly to changing demands for language instruction in a variety of languages that are not offered within the typical programs of established departments.
PLC encourages dynamic and diversified language education with an emphasis on translingual and transcultural competence that in turn imbue both the curriculum and the research effort of the academic community.
EVENTS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Tuesdays - Workshop Series on Online Teaching. Please email Ed Dixon for details.
Summer Online Courses - PLC and Penn LPS are offering summer courses in Arabic, Business Chinese, German and Polish.
June 1-5, 2012 - For the second year, STARTALK has awarded PLC with a grant to host the Excellence in Leadership Summer Institute. Applications will be accepted until May 1st.
August 19-23, 2012 - Fulbright FLTA Summer Orientation.
NEW COURSE! - Elementary Indonesian will be offered this fall.
WHAT PLC DOES
- Support the four National Resource Centers: African Studies Center, Center for East Asian Studies, Middle East Center, South Asia Center
- Languages for Special Purposes: Business Chinese, Business Korean, Business Japanese, Medical ASL, Spanish for Health Professionals, MBA Pre-term Program
- Assessment of Language Competence
- Teaching with and through Technology: workshop series
- American Sign Language Program
- Member of the Consortium of Language Teaching and Learning
- Professional development, grant opportunities, lecture series, current trends series
- Pre-semester orientation for incoming lecturers and teaching fellows
- Language Direct Tutoring Services
- Graduate course in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Methods