Thank you to those who came to Mother Language Day and told stories about the languages that touch your lives! We learned about the rise of Lingala as an official language in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, how the name “Mandarin” was imposed by colonizers, and how “fünf” is a delightful word even though it just means “five.” One student talked about how her parents enrolled her in a school distant from her house so she could take bilingual Spanish and English classes, and another student mentioned that they learned Elvish because language can be the basis of a chosen community. Tell us about your own chosen community languages! Contribute to LCLC’s UIC Speaks projects: share your favorite word(s) in any language, tell your language story, and add yourself to the UIC Language Map. Recommend your students and colleagues to do so as well!
Upcoming events this week include Tagalog Conversation (Tuesdays from 2-3 in GH 308) and Italian Karaoke (this Friday, 6 March in GH 207): all of our events in 308 (or 207) Grant Hall are free and open to all UIC Community members. Get in touch with us at lclc@uic.edu if you have an idea for your own event!
LCLC was proud to have many of our undergraduate and graduate students present at In/Between (see photos below). We will soon be recruiting undergrads from all of UIC’s colleges to become Language Learning Assistants next fall, so please publicize our program to all your upper-level students! We will also be in SCE to promote all LCSL programs once registration begins after Spring Break, so keep an eye out for news about that.
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Dolly and the LCLC Team: Brian, Cheyenne, Ekaterina (Kate), Nate, Patrick, Sam
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Above (top to bottom) Language & culture events in GH 308 (Tagalog and Japanese Conversation, Korean New Year); LCLC LLAs Craig (Chinese), and Maria (Spanish) work with students in Grant Hall; LCLC LLAs Caleb (French), Alma (Arabic), and Jay (Chinese) in Grant Hall.
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Brett (Spanish tutor/LLA) presents his LCLC internship work; "From Campus Job to Career Preparation: A Longitudinal Assessment of the LLA Program"
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Kanimoli (French tutor/LLA) presents her LCLC internship work: "Retaining Student Engagement in a College-Level Beginner Language Class"
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Celeste (German tutor/LLA) reads a poem by Bertolt Brecht in German.
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Gustas (former German tutor/LLA) reads a poem by Bronius Krivickas in Lithuanian.
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Kate (LCLC Staff), "Mediating AIDS Crisis: Non-Verbal Visual Language in AIDS Films in 1987-1992"
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Patrick (LCLC Staff), "The Economic Functions of the Literary Gypsy" (3-minute dissertation presentation)
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