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Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 5:55am

Arts & Sciences Online Learning Commons offers select credit courses to Penn students in a fully online format with real-time web conferencing.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 5:22pm

Beginning in Fall 2012, Penn Language Center will offer Elementary Indonesian I.

Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 2:55pm

Advanced Medical Chinese, CHIN 380 680, will be offered for this first time during the Fall 2012 semester.

Friday, September 28, 2012 - 11:09am

ACTFL is looking for non-native speakers of Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Italian and Spanish for 15 to 30-minute oral interviews on November 14th and 15th.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - 4:17pm

Selected papers from the NEALLT 2011 conference that took place at Penn are now published in the IJVPLE. Preface is available for download, and Penn affiliates may access the University's subscription to the journal.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - 2:23pm

The 2013 cycle for SAS Language Teaching Innovation Grants has been announced. Proposal deadline is on December 10, 2012.

Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 4:58pm

PLC and LPS announce their Summer 2013 online course offerings!

Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - 2:18pm

PLC's Language Direct Peer Tutoring Program is back up and running for the 2013-2014 academic year. Visit the Language Direct site for more information.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - 3:59pm

PLC is offering a new certificate program. Click here to learn more.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 11:18am

PLC adds Tibetan as a new language to its course offerings.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 2:12pm

Applications for 2014 SAS Language Teaching Innovation Grants will be accepted until December 20, 2013. Click here for more information.

Thursday, March 13, 2014 - 4:10pm

for the 2015 Volume in CALICO's Monograph Book Series titled Researching Language Learner Interaction Online: From Social Media to MOOCs

Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - 3:01pm

Williams 440 has recently been modified to serve as a communicative and collaborative space.

Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 2:42pm

Formerly known as the Business Languages Group, PLGGPC just launched a new website.

Friday, October 23, 2015 - 4:16pm

Researching Language Learner Interactions Online: From Social Media to MOOCs. Also featured is a review by Elena Martín-Monje.

Thursday, October 27, 2016 - 12:06pm

Quechua instructor Américo Mendoaza-Mori was recently featured at the UN and in the DP.

Thursday, October 27, 2016 - 12:29pm

Meet the language educators who will represent the University of Pennsylvania at this year's ACTFL Convention in Boston, MA.

Thursday, October 27, 2016 - 3:29pm

This year's Penn Humanities Forum focuses on the topic of Translation.

Tuesday, February 7, 2017 - 4:19pm

The Penn Current recently featured Penn Language Center's new initiative to increase the diversity of language education and preserve endangered languages in Native American communities.

Wednesday, March 1, 2017 - 2:50pm

Final report of the Commission of Language Learning offers recommendations for building the nation’s language capacity.

Friday, December 8, 2017 - 4:47pm

Call for submissions. Deadline is May 1, 2019 for "Music, Song, and Dance" theme.

Friday, March 20, 2020 - 2:28pm

SAS Computing has compiled a helpful guide for using Zoom for remote teaching.

Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - 10:46am

Language Direct Peer Tutoring sessions will continue with online meeting sessions. Interested students should click here to request a tutor.

Monday, October 26, 2020 - 10:16am

Penn Language Center is pleased to announce a new cycle of SAS Language Teaching Innovation Grants.

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 - 12:05pm

Language courses offered during Summer Sessions I and II will be delivered online.

Wednesday, May 12, 2021 - 11:04am

Spanish for Medical Professionals will be offered as an online 11-week course during Summer Sessions I and II.

Friday, August 19, 2022 - 4:18pm

Read this Penn Today article about our new instructor Kimeze “Dickson” Teketwe who teaches Luganda.