The LRC is part of the Department of World Languages and Cultures (WLC). The LRC staff, with input from the WLC Department Head and the WLC Language Coordinating Committee, set the general direction of the LRC and provide leadership for Center projects and initiatives.
Administration | Proctors | Student Assistants |
LRC Administration
Douglas W. Canfield is the Coordinator of the Language Resource Center. His background is in French instruction via hybrid courses with significant online modules. His research explores music and videoclips as catalysts for the Chomskyan "Language Acquisition Device", the creation of discourse and gaming communities for language instruction and research, and the leveraging of open-source and low-affect technologies in language resource centers. He is a member of the International Assocation for Language Learning Technology (IALLT), the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Among his other scholarly works, he was awarded a highly competitive Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) where he conducted a discursive investigation of communities of language practice in virtual worlds.
Shaun Washington is the IT Administrator for the LRC and for WLC personnel.
Proctors
Bryan Fribourg is the AM Proctor of the Language Assessment Center.
Ruth Delgado is the PM Proctor of the Language Assessment Center.
Student Assistants
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