{"id":25806,"date":"2014-07-09T10:19:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T20:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=25806"},"modified":"2021-10-29T10:47:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T20:47:27","slug":"uh-addresses-language-learning-for-global-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/07\/09\/uh-addresses-language-learning-for-global-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> addresses language learning for global workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lll.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature<\/a> Dean <strong>Robert Bley-Vroman<\/strong>, and members of his faculty met with top-ranking officials from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsep.gov\/\">National Security Education Program<\/a>, including its director Michael Nugent, to discuss the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s critical role in language learning for global workforce purposes. The college&#8217;s expertise in this area is extensive.<\/p>\n<p>The college has the unique distinction of having two nationally-designated language flagship programs within the <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.edu\/eall\/\">Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures<\/a>&#8212;one in Korean and the other in Chinese. It also provides leadership for the <a href=\"http:\/\/nflrc.hawaii.edu\/languageroadmap\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Language Roadmap Initiative<\/a>, which is an effort to bring together employers and educators to address the growing demand of language skills and cultural expertise in the workforce.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News video<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/09\/17\/uh-leads-initiative-to-build-states-multilingual-workforce\/\">&ldquo;<abbr>UH<\/abbr> leads initiative to build state&#8217;s multilingual workforce&rdquo;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joining Bley-Vroman and Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures chair <strong>Robert Huey<\/strong> were <strong>Ho-min Sohn<\/strong>, <strong>Dong-Kwan Kong<\/strong>, <strong>Sumi Chang<\/strong> and <strong>Lydia Chung<\/strong> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.edu\/eall\/korean\/\">Korean Languages Flagship Center<\/a> and <strong>Song Jiang<\/strong> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.edu\/eall\/chinese\/\">Chinese Language Flagship Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meeting highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chung reported that the Korean Language Flagship Center is experiencing great progress and success in its pre-college language programs at Roosevelt and Moanalua High Schools.<\/li>\n<li>Jiang noted that student recruitment for the new Chinese flagship is exceeding expectations.<\/li>\n<li>Dina Yoshimi, who leads <abbr>UH<\/abbr>&#8217;s involvement in the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Language Roadmap Initiative, shared news of efforts to build teams from members of government, the private sector and community organizations in order to most effectively train language proficient workforces. The team is finding that language needs are prevalent in many obvious and not-so-obvious areas, ranging from the public arena to private enterprise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lll.hawaii.edu\/index.php\/working-to-supply-workforce-demand\/\">Read the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature story for more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty from <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa&#8217;s College of Language, Linguistics &#038; Literature meet with officials to discuss the university&#8217;s critical role in language learning for global workforce purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[163,9],"class_list":["post-25806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-languages-linguistics-and-literature","tag-uh-manoa","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25806"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150841,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25806\/revisions\/150841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}