Articles by Olga Kagan

The UC Consortium for Language Learning & Teaching Grants Program

Call for Proposals, 2006
Published on: 1/20/2006
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Theater as Catalyst of Teaching

In Romania in the early 1980s, living under an oppressive Communist dictatorship, with its secret police and methods of state-terror, I was a student of English literature at the University of Bucharest—and I was highly conscious of the disjunction between the ideals at the core of my education and the grind of daily existence under Nicolae Ceausescu...
Published on: 1/27/2005
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NCOLCTL

The Sixth National Conference of the National Counsil of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages will take place on May 2 - 4, 2003 at UCLA.
Published on: 3/31/2003
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NEH Focus Group: Curriculum Guidelines for Heritage Language Classrooms

NEH sponsors Focus Group meetings as a means to bring experts in an area of the humanities together to develop new courses or a new focus for a humanities area. The LRC proposal to NEH was prompted by discussions among UC language instructors revealing significant differences between students who are learning a "foreign" language and students who are interested in studying what is essentially a first language as heritage speakers.
Published on: 2/14/2003
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Summer opportunity for grad students in language and technology

A fantastic opportunity to apply for a 3-week summer training program in the use of technology for language instruction
Published on: 12/16/2002
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