The Institute of World Language (IWL) aims to promote and support Open Educational Resources for Language Learning (OERLL).

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OBJECTIVES

The Consortium for Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) is an initiative among University of Virginia (UVA), Duke University, and Vanderbil

For many years, faculty in the IWL community have incorporated Contemplative Pedagogy in language teaching and learning and have yielded frui

The Virginia STARTALK Chinese Teacher Academy, developed and directed by Miao-fen Tseng, has received up to 1.5 million sinc

In 2014, colleagues from French and Spanish initiated a project to integrate ePortfolio pedagogy in beginning and intermediate la

Faculty in Chinese, French, Spanish, Swahili, and teaching English as a second language have created a wide spectrum of community

With a Grant for Learning awarded in Spring 2012, Emily Scida (Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese) spearheaded a ser

The Speaker Series creates an interactive platform for nationally and internationally renowned scholars and researchers to share

IWL has currently hosted two fall symposiums, the first on October 31, 2012 and the second on October 30, 2015.

The Faculty Retreat, newly launched in Spring 2015, aims to bring world language and literature faculty to a relaxing and thought

The IWL received a grant from Jefferson Trust to launch the Language Forward Initiative in 2018 fall.

The College of Arts and Sciences encourages faculty and students to link their academic experiences at the university to initiati