NASILP Critical Languages Series News
May 2006
US Department of Education has awarded grant to the Critical Languages Program at the University of Arizona to develop instructional courseware in Kurdish, Turkish and Ukrainian. For details please visit http://w3.coh.arizona.edu/coh/newnotable/clep06/
March 2006
The University of Arizona Critical Languages Program and the UA Computer Assisted Language Instruction Group are pleased to announce the availability of 5 new titles in the Critical Languages Series:
-Beginning Ukrainian
-Intermediate Cantonese
-Intermediate Turkish
-Intermediate Kazakh
-Advanced Kazakh
These 5 new titles are in DVD-ROM format and require a computer running Windows 2000 or XP (not intended for standard home DVD players) and were developed using our MaxAuthor authoring system with funding from:
These extensively tested materials contain many video clips, thousands of native speaker audio recordings, several types of interactive exercises, and are equivalent to a one-year college course. The suggested retail price is $79.95 and are distributed by the University of Arizona Press 1-800-426-3797.
Many thanks to our authors (and their assistants), 10 reviewers, 11 native speakers, 10 production assistants, 43 beta testers, and many others who have made this project happen, we really appreciate your help! For more information about the Critical Languages Series and our beginning level CD-ROMs (Brazilian Portuguese, Cantonese, Chinese, Kazakh, Korean, Turkish) see http://clp.arizona.edu/cls .