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2025 Professional Development Awards

These awards are made to instructors of languages at UT who are seeking to develop new materials, courses, or methods for teaching their languages, or who would like to attend a conference or purchase materials in order to improve their teaching. All submissions are due January 31, 2025.  

The TLC offers professional development awards to instructors of languages at UT-Austin to enhance their language classes taught at the University. These mini-grants are specifically for practicing instructors of languages — at any rank. Grant awards will range from $500 to $1500, depending on the scope of the proposed project. Awards are available for use at any time during the period April 1 - August 31, 2025.

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2025 Professional Development Award Recipients

The Texas Language Center is pleased to announce its Professional Development Award recipients for 2025! This year’s recipients, including instructors from across six departments, are:

 

  • Meghan Ackley, Extension Instructor for the English Language Center - Traveling for the development of Standards for Effective Language Teaching Course
  • Elizabeth Adams, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Classics - Attending the Lilly-Austin Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning Conference
  • Diego Alves, Graduate Student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese - Traveling for the Project: Sharing Experiences Through Portuguese: Já Sei Falar!
  • Amanda Bush, Assistant Professor of Instruction in Department of French and Italian - Developing the project Italian in Action: Building an OER A/V library for Giornate Italiane
  • Chikako Cooke, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Asian Studies - Expanding Extensive Reading for Japanese Language Learners: Physical and Digital Resources
  • Daniele Cuneo, Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Asian Studies - Travel for and development of Third-Millennium Sanskrit Pedagogy 
  • Kaori Duffey, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Asian Studies - Developing Japanese Conversational AI Chatpot for Language Instruction
  • Joshua Frank, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese - Travel to the Sixteenth Heritage Language Research Institute
  • Junko Hatanaka, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Asian Studies - Attending and presenting at the 31st Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, 2025
  • Morgane Haesen, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of French and Italian - Conference Presentation at the American Association of Teachers of French
  • Claire Jones, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of French and Italian - Devloping Professionalization through European Dress History 
  • Bernadeta Kaminska, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies - Travel for Professional Development ent at the CARLA Summer Institute 
  • Frane Karabatić, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies - Traveling for and the Development of a New Open Source Online Textbook for Intermediate-Level L2 Croatian   
  • Mina Kim, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Asian Studies - Communicating Through Art in Korean Language Education: The Possibilities of Topic-Based Institutional Collaboration
  • Jocelly Meiners, Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese - Attending the 12th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language
  • Ipek Sahinler, Graduate Student in the Program in Comparative Literature  - Translating Baldwin in Turkey: Queer Exile and Racial Belonging
  • Ellenor Shoemaker, Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of French and Italian - Traveling for the project: Modernization and Overhaul of Français Interactif: an open-source curriculum
  • Prakash Venkatesan, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Asian Studies - Travel for the workshop: Adopting Classical Tamil in Grammatical Technical Terms in Teaching Contemporary Tamil: Methodological Problems and Challenges
  • Piero Visconte, Graduate Student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese - Traveling and purchasing materials for Enhancing Spanish for the Professions: Integrating Heritage Validation, Professional Contexts, and Open Educational Resouces
  • Evgenia Wilkins, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies - Traveling for development of Russian Language in Central Asia Materials for Third Year Class
  • Shohko Yanagisawa, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Asian Studies - Introducing 50-Minute Cultural Lessons into Japanese Language Classes
  • Li Yang, Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Asian Studies - Developing Listening Comprehension Materials for First Semester Chines Classes

Congratulations to these instructors!