The inaugural issue of Second Language Research & Practice, the open-access journal of the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators (AAUSC), is now available! The issue celebrates 30 years of AAUSC publications with six research articles from former editors of Issues in Language Program Direction and includes a special section on postsecondary language education in times of crisis.

Thanks to two Academic Innovation Grants awarded from LATIS, third-year French language students have been making use of Antidote software installed in the Language Center's Multimedia Lab and Walter Library for the past three years. Antidote has improved students' writing samples, giving them a set of tools for self-assessment and independent learning adaptable to their own time, speed, and learning curve. Antidote helps students correct their common mistakes and allows instructors to focus student­ contact time on proven pedagogical strategies for improving writing.

Looking for an opportunity to improve your target language skills this fall? The TandemPlus Face-to-Face program registration for the Fall 2020 semester is now open! To learn more about the program and how to register, we have prepared a brief Kaltura video that is easily shareable with students:

Do you need to chat with the Language Center about CourseShare, TandemPlus, digitization requests, upcoming events or nearly anything else? Visit our Virtual Front Desk at z.umn.edu/LanguageCenter! Note, our hours have changed:

As we move from summer to fall, the opportunities to pick up and drop off equipment outside of Jones Hall are coming to a close. If you still need a headset with a microphone or to drop off physical media for digitization to LC Elevator, October 1, 2020 is the last scheduled event.

Here are the latest posts from Tip of the Day, a Language Center resource with short, easy-to-implement ideas for teaching remotely.

The goal of the Proficiency Assessment for Curricular Enhancement (PACE) project, which collected second language proficiency test data between 2014 and 2017, was to learn more about second language learners at the University of Minnesota and what methods and experiences are effective in helping them improve their proficiency in a second language. In an effort to share some insights from the PACE data, the Language Center is publishing a series of short articles that will highlight some of the findings of PACE researchers. We hope that these articles will provide information useful to instructors today.

Welcome to a new academic year, starting with a semester that will be primarily remote for the Language Center, and for many of you. As a way of providing connection, we are bringing back the Tip of the Day blog. The plan is to continue to describe manageable chunks or tips that support online or remote learning environments. The primary focus will be the teaching and learning of languages, but these tips may be useful for more general audiences as well. We are aiming to publish three posts per week.

This semester, students of Chinese, French, German, and Spanish have the opportunity to complete the Certificate of Advanced Proficiency in their language.