Adeola Agoke, Director of the African Languages Program and Assistant Teaching Professor of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has published a Proficiency-Based Dictionary of Yorùbá Language. This open-source, digital resource fills an important gap in language acquisition and learning. During the summer, Dr. Agoke teaches WISLI’s Intensive Multilanguage Seminar (MULTI), which supports …

The Center for South Asia (CSA), which co-administers the South Asia Summer Language Program (SASLI), was awarded a two-year Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) grant from the Department of Education to fund a project titled “Language Pathways Program: International Business and Sustainable Development in India.” This program will support language instruction and provide …

Ryan Goble, SASLI and LCTL Career Coordinator, recently published the research article, “Language Learners’ Transferable Skills and Narrative Competence in U.S. Career Advising Appointments: Multilingual Development Beyond Higher Education,” in the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education. Abstract: In a career climate that casts “foreign” language proficiency as a measurable and technical skill, this study …