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Webzine Covers Language in L.A.

With student-interns as reporters, the UCLA Center for World Languages launches an online magazine devoted to the city's linguistic diversity.

UCLA Receives Grant to Develop Heritage Classes

New UCLA Language Resource Center offers specialized instruction for students with background in a language

UCLA Center Launches National Effort to Understand, Educate 'Heritage' Speakers

With a new National Language Resource Center, the federal government is recognizing that the preservation of U.S. language communities will not be accomplished with approaches aimed at monolingual Americans.

Language Can Bring Us Together, Keep Us Apart

By Bob Sipchen in the July 17, 2006 edition of the Los Angeles Times.

New Intensive Language Program Offered

The program, "Language Intensives in L.A.," will feature classes in seven tongues: Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Amharic, Catalan, Swahili, and Yoruba.

The 3rd UC Language Consortium Conference on SLA Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspectives

The Center for World Languages will be hosting this conference on Second Language Acquisition at UCLA.

Russell N. Campbell, September 5, 1927-March 30, 2003

Russell Campbell, Professor of Applied Linguistics since 1964, was director of the UCLA International Institue's Language Resource Center and Pacific Rim Center. A world authority on immersive language training.

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