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Professional Development Awards

2023 Professional Development Awards

The Texas Language Center is now accepting applications for Professional Development Awards in 2023!

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.

To submit your application, please fill out the survey at this link.

All submissions are due January 31, 2023.

 

2022 Professional Development Award Recipients

The Texas Language Center is pleased to announce its Professional Development Award recipients for 2022!

This year’s recipients include language instructors from across four departments:

  • Abimbola Adelakun, Assistant Professor in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department - Generating Teaching Tools for Yoruba Language
  • Riyad Alhomsi, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies - Speaking Skill Practice in Arabic
  • Olla Al-Shalchi, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic Program Coordinator - Presenting at ACTFL: Student Efficacy in Arabic Classes
  • Chikako Cooke, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Asian Studies - Expanding the Benefits of Extensive Reading Practice in Japanese
  • Frane Karabatic, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies - Tako lako: New Online OER Textbook for Beginning Level Croatian
  • Mina Kim, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Asian Studies - Community Based Learning through Local Engagement and Global Collaboration in Korean
  • Alice McCoy-Bae, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Asian Studies - Developing Third-Year Korean Curricula with Extensive Reading Materials of Korean Folktales
  • Midori Tanaka, Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Asian Studies - Continuing the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) Prep Club

Congratulations to these instructors!