This richly interdisciplinary volume explores the goals and benefits of the Cultures and Languages across the Curriculum (CLAC) programs by drawing together noteworthy insights from educators, administrators, researchers, and students who have been directly involved in the CLAC programs at colleges and universities in the US.
India C. Plough is Associate Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University, United States. She teaches sociolinguistics and is Director of the RCAH Language Proficiency Program. Her research interests include second language teaching, learning, and assessment. Her current work focuses on the role of interactional competence and nonverbal behavior in defining the second language speaking construct.
Weloré Tamboura is Assistant Professor at the Université des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Bamako (ULSHB), Mali. Her main areas of interest are community engagement and the mobilization of information communication techniques and technologies as a tool (key) for social change.
1. Introduction
India C. Plough and Weloré Tamboura
Section I Transformations
India C. Plough and Weloré Tamboura
2. CLAC your campus: Institutionalizing a Program that Encourages Students to Put Language and Culture Skills to Use
Danielle Rocheleau Salaz
3. Developing a CLAC Program: Evolving Perspectives from Students, Faculty, and Administrators
Amanda Brown, Gail A. Bulman, Rania Habib, M. Emma Ticio Quesada, and Stefano Giannini
4. My Journey in Creating a CLAC Program: An Innovative and Inclusive Program in Curriculum Internationalization
Jiangyuan (JY) Zhou
5. Understanding Undegraduate Students' Experiences in a Project-Based Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum Program: A Teaching and Learning Autoethnography
Fredy Rodriguez-Mejia
6 The American in Me: A Spiraling Reflection on My Identities
Erika Beth Kraus
7. "I'm a French Teacher, Not a Data Scientist!": Culture and Language Across My Professions
Spencer P. Greenhalgh
Section II Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity
India C. Plough and Weloré Tamboura
8. Language Matters: Shifting Perspectives
Deborah S. Reisinger
9. CLAC at a SLAC: A Distinctive Model for Teaching Languages Across the Curriculum in the Context of a Small Liberal Arts College
Oscar A. Pérez and Viviana Rangil
10. Project-Based Language and Culture Immersion in Response to Learner Individuality
Xuehong (Stella) He
11. Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum Programs as a Window to Russian-Speaking Communities: An Autoethnography
Dmitrii Pastushenkov
Section III Impact on Society
India C. Plough and Weloré Tamboura
12. Reflecting on Learning and Teaching French as a Second Language: Personal Experiences and Insights from a CLAC Program
Weloré Tamboura
13. Interdisciplinarity and Translanguaging in a CLAC Program: Challenging and Changing Language Ideologies in Higher Education
Doaa Rashed
14. A Path Towards a Transformational Language Teaching and a Polydisciplinamorous Pedagogy: An Autoethnography
Romina S. Peña-Pincheira
15. Powers and Exponents: Countering the Culture of Control in Mathematics Teacher Education
José Martínez Hinestroza
16. Unifying Themes and Future Directions
India C. Plough and Weloré Tamboura