About

Since 1989, Penn Language Center (PLC) strengthens Penn’s language education and consistently supports the development of language professionals. In particular, PLC focuses on current trends in online instruction and teaching from within the National Standards.

The center remains committed to its structural flexibility enabling its staff to respond quickly to changing demands for language instruction in a variety of languages that are not offered within the typical programs of established departments.

PLC encourages dynamic and diversified language education with an emphasis on multilingual and transcultural competence that in turn imbue both the curriculum and the research effort of the academic community.

WHAT PLC DOES

For Students:

Assessment of Language Proficiency
Language Direct Tutoring Services
Online Courses
American Sign Language Program
Languages for Specific Purposes: Business Chinese,
Business Korean, Business Japanese, Medical ASL, Spanish for Health Professionals,
MBA Pre-term Program
Graduate course in Second Language Acquisition
and Teaching Methods

For Faculty:

Support the four National Resource Centers:
African Studies Center, Center for East Asian Studies, Middle East Center,
South Asia Center
SAS Innovation in Language Education Grant
Language Educator Symposium
Training with Technology
Certificate in Foreign Language Online Education
and Teaching with Technology
Pre-semester orientation for incoming lecturers
and teaching fellows
Pre-Semester orientation for Fulbright Foreign
Language Teaching Assistants
STARTALK Excellence in Leadership Summer
Institute