Faculty Projects

The Language Resource Center supports Instructional Innovation Projects that enhance language teaching and learning at Columbia. The grants are meant to allow language lecturers to develop new pedagogical approaches that will have an immediate, practical, and meaningful impact on the language classroom.

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Felice Sera: un podcast italiano
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Languages for a Changing Planet: VR Activities in Japanese
A screenshot of an OER resources hub, depicting 4 resources curated on the Topics in Climate Discourse website.
Intermediate Spanish: Topics in Climate Discourse
A screenshot of a Padlet map of NYC with several different-colored pins on it.
Mapping Spanish NYC
An image of someone taking a photo with their phone. They are taking a photo of a sign and a book. The sign shows a Korean author who has won an award.
Media Korean: An Online Multimedia Open Educational Resource
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Third Year Chinese Learning Hub: Integrated Resources, Real Engagement
Several young people sitting in a circle on benches and having a conversation.
Hindi STARTALK: Authentic, Unscripted Hindi Speech Modules
Two people ordering in a Chinese restaurant. A waiter stands between them by the table.
First Year Chinese Learning Hub
A city canal at night, spanned by a footbridge with three arches. The canal and houses are lit from below.
Naš jezik: Digital Learning Resource for Elementary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian
An image of a rainbow drawn in chalk on concrete.
Addressing Diversity, Intersectionality, and Social Justice in the Polish-Language Classroom
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Spanish Spatial Grammar: Using Virtual Reality to Understand Spanish Prepositions
An Italian town plaza with parked bikes and people walking around. It is surrounded by houses.
Piazza Digitale: Authentic Teaching Materials for Italian
A man in profile wearing an orange head-dress, also draped with pearls. His brown is marked with red and yellow pigment.
Festivals of India: Learning Modules for India's Diverse Celebrations
A canal in Italy with boats anchored alongside. There are colorful houses lining each side of the canal as we look down its length.
The Capitals of Italian Culture: Language Through the Urban Context
A screenshot of a handout in Chinese. Characters are either in black, green, or red.
Supplementing Classroom Input for Intermediate Chinese Learners
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Listen and Learn: Advanced Business Chinese Podcasts
An image of the entrance to a metro station in a city in Spain.
The Columbia Corpus of Spanish Conversations
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Movie Clips for Linguistic and Cultural Awareness in Italian
A screenshot of a handout in Korean.
Multiliteracies Tasks for Heritage Learners of Korean
An image of the golden temple of Amritsar in Punjab, India.
Interactive Web-based Materials for Learning Punjabi
The Hall of Supreme Harmony in Forbidden City complex in Beijing
Advanced Chinese Supplementary Teaching Materials
A photo of Hanoi Train Street in the Old Quarter in Hanoi, Vietnam.
High-quality Audio Material for the 1st Year Vietnamese Language Course
A group of people gathering in a public place. Several are flying rainbow Pride LGBTQIA+ flags, with a large Pride flag also featuring black and brown stripes, light blue, pink, and white stripes, and an Intersex solidary symbol.
Queer Pedagogy: Teaching Practices that Acknowledge Queer Visibility in the Classroom
A screenshot of the project website, which says "Welcome to Business Chinese."
A Social Learning Website for Business Chinese
A man stands in front of a green screen. He is being recorded in a studio by a woman with a camera.
Interactive Digital Resources for Learning and Teaching Grammar in a Medical Spanish Class
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Integrating Authentic Heritage Language Culture in the Teaching of Romanian Mixed Distance Classes