{"id":85537,"date":"2018-10-03T11:23:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T21:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=85537"},"modified":"2019-04-10T16:27:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T02:27:39","slug":"uh-manoa-foreign-language-funding-reaches-10m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/03\/uh-manoa-foreign-language-funding-reaches-10m\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa foreign language program funding reaches $10M"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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The National Foreign Language Resource Center team with participants of the 2017 Summer Institute.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The U.S.<\/abbr> Department of Education (US Ed<\/abbr>) has awarded the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> an estimated $624,000 in new funding for its Title VI<\/abbr> Language Resource Center in the Center for Language and Technology<\/a>. This is the eighth four-year grant awarded, bringing the total funding to more than $10 million to UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s National Foreign Language Resource Center<\/a> (NFLRC<\/abbr>), the only language resource center to receive continuous US Ed<\/abbr> funding since its inception in 1990.<\/p>\n

“We are incredibly proud of the outstanding work that the Center for Language and Technology team does each year through the NFLRC<\/abbr> grant,” said Laura Lyons<\/a><\/strong>, interim dean of the College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature<\/a>. “They truly lead the field and nation in providing cutting-edge technological and pedagogical resources for the teaching of world languages.”<\/p>\n

NFLRC<\/abbr> projects for the next four-year cycle include: professional learning activities and materials for world language teachers on blended learning, online language learning pedagogy, and project-based language learning. The center sponsors activities that include hosting professional conferences and events, and supporting three open refereed professional journals.<\/p>\n

All NFLRC<\/abbr> projects and activities have a strong focus on the needs of the less-commonly taught languages, particularly the languages of the Asia-Pacific region. The NFLRC<\/abbr> team includes Director Julio Rodr\u00edguez<\/a> <\/strong>and Associate Director Ruslan Suvorov<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Foreign Language Resource Center at UH<\/abbr> Manoa has been awarded a total of $10 million from the U.S. Department of Education since their inception in 1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[163,214,792,9],"class_list":["post-85537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-languages-linguistics-and-literature","tag-language","tag-national-foreign-language-resource-center","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t