UNC Charlotte Language Resource Center

UNCC LRC Instructional Technology Showcase: Crea...

The Language Resource Center at UNC Charlotte hosted this Instructional Technology Showcase on Sept. 29, 2009.Dr. Dale Grote, Associate Professor of Classics, discussed how he

UNCC LRC Online Language Tutoring

This short video explains how online tutoring works at the UNCC LRC. Online tutoring is made possible through a collaboration by the UNCC LRC, the the UNCC Center for Academic Excellence, and the UNCC Center for Teaching and Learning.

Multimedia PowerPoint Postcards from Costa Rica

The Language Resource Center at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte hosted this Instructional Technology Showcase on February 20, 2007. PowerPoint is a simple tool that allows instructors and students to combine pictures, text, and audio files. Mary Frances Castro has developed an impressive PowerPoint presentation combining recorded interviews with students and pictures she and her students took in Costa Rica. She is using the multimedia project to promote and evaluate the exchange ...

Oct. 13, 2007

Wimba: Adding Speaking Activities to Blackboard

The Language Resource Center at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte hosted this Instructional Technology Showcase on March 29, 2007. Wimba is a new voice-based tool for Blackboard. It supports communicative language learning, giving students multiple methods of speaking and listening to the target language. It provides an easy means to focus on pronunciation, rhythm, stress, and emphasis while speaking and allows students to practice communicating with the target language outside of ...

Getting Started in Blackboard for Elementary Cou...

The Language Resource Center at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte hosted this Instructional Technology Showcase on April 3, 2007. Blackboard provides a variety of tools for organizing course materials and for communicating with students. However, sometimes it is difficult to know where to start, especially because Bb is a new tool on campus. This showcase highlights how two faculty members have begun to adopt Bb into their teaching. Liz Krzywosz used WebCT last semester and has beg...

Blackboard for Organizing & Sharing Course Mater...

Tuesday, Mar. 13, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, in the Language Resource Center (COED 433)

Social Software for Language and Culture Instruc...

The Language Resource Center at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte hosted this Instructional Technology Showcase on February 15, 2007. Social software refers to a range of tools that allow people to communicate, collaborate, and share information. These tools all share the characteristic of enabling learners to work creatively and constructively with information. Language learning activities can be created to give students practice speaking and writing. Culture lessons using social ...

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Apirl 02, 2008

Technology for Vocabulary and Syntax Processing ...

Tuesday, Oct. 16, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, in the Language Resource Center (COED 434)Concepcion Godev, Associate Professor of Spanish, will lead a discussion on the definition of the role of vocabulary and syntax acquisition in language learning and discuss how technology can assist the learner to process lexical items and syntactical features in reading tasks.