An online brown bag for LCTL and other language educators
Friday, February 14, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm CST, on Zoom
Description: Authors of innovative instructional materials in three languages—Indonesian, Russian, and Yorùbá—will showcase their work and discuss how these projects can serve as models for other less commonly taught languages (LCTLs). These free resources are available as open-access or open educational resources (OERs) Learn more.
About the panelists:
Sapta Abimanyu, co-author of Intermediate Indonesian, is a former Indonesian language instructor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has also taught Indonesian for the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, and at Ohio University and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He holds an MA in Asian Studies from Ohio University. He is currently working as an Indonesian instructor at Global LT.
Adeola Agoke, author of the Proficiency-Based Dictionary of Yorùbá Language, is Teaching Assistant Professor and Director of the African Languages Program in the Department of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research interests are language use and practices, language pedagogy, and educational linguistics. She holds a PhD in African Cultural Studies from UW–Madison.
Hany Noviya, co-author of Intermediate Indonesian, is an Indonesian language lecturer in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has also taught Indonesian for the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute at UW–Madison and at the Universitas Negeri Malang. She holds an MA in English Language Education from the Universitas Negeri Malang.
Shannon Donnally Quinn, co-author of Diverse Russian: A Multicultural Exploration, is Associate Professor of Russian at Michigan State University. She has a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Slavic languages and literature and a master’s degree in instructional design from the University of Massachusetts.
Anna Tumarkin, co-author of Diverse Russian: A Multicultural Exploration, is Teaching Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directs the Russian Language Program and serves as Associate Director of the Russian Flagship Program. She holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literature from UW–Madison.
Sponsors: University of Wisconsin–Madison Language Institute, with the Department of African Cultural Studies and African Studies Program; Michigan State University Asian Studies Center, Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages Partnership, and the National LCTL Resource Center.
Contact: Dianna Murphy
The UW-Madison Language Institute is committed to inclusive and accessible programming. To request an accommodation for this event, please contact Language Institute associate director Jana Martin at least three business days in advance.