Technology and Dissemination
LARC's first thematic focus is on the acquisition of content-rich interdisciplinary topical language materials to support language instruction and linguistic research. Authentic materials provide learners with linguistic data as input, which has been shown to enhance acquisition processes. LARC's Digital Media Archive (DMA) provides widespread national and international access to these resources for language instruction and linguistic research. The archive supports each of LARC's three thematic areas with digital materials, learning modules, and training for teachers using the materials. Profiled projects for this area include:
Digital Media Archive: Language Resources for Teaching and Learning
The goal of the DMA is to provide
fast, easy access to language resources for teaching and learning
foreign languages. Through the use of streaming audio and video, LARC
hopes to help teachers find new ways of teaching foreign languages.
Baja Literature Project: Every Land Is a Borderland
The goal of the Baja Literature Project is to provide authentic Baja
Literature resources for learners to explore the Spanish language and
literature at all registers while focusing particularly on border culture,
economics, history, sociology and intercultural understanding.
Human Rights: Human By Any Language
The goal of the Human Rights in Latin America Project is to provide a website
that integrates language learning with real historical and political
issues that use original authentic advanced and superior target language
materials about the critical and most timely subject of human rights.
Speech/Text Databank: Resources for Translation and Interpretation
The goal of the On-line Speech/Text Databank Project is to provide a databank of collected and categorized speeches and other resource materials that can be used for teaching, learning and research in the field of translation and interpretation.