Language Learning CenterService Learning & Outreach
The Visiting Alumni Lecture Series
The Visiting Alumni Lecture Series (VALS) fosters partnerships with successful Old Dominion University Alumni and currently enrolled students studying any of the twelve languages, including: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portugese, Russian, and Spanish. The VALS for foreing languages will highlight the real-life work experiences of Old Dominion University Alumni by providing a platform to discuss their expertise.
These Alumni visits will:
- generate interest in diverse career fields requiring foreign language skills, such as: teaching, translation, and business
- provide networking possibilities and potential internships
- provide and opportunity to meet native speakers from around the world visiting the Hampton Roads community
- give current students a chance to practice their language skills with native speakers
Language in Motion
The Visiting Alumni Lecture Series (VALS) 2015 is expanding its scope by creating the innovative "Language in Motion - ODU" outreach program that promotes both current ODU study-abroad student "returnees" and ODU Alumni professionals teaching world languages in the Hampton Roads area. Language in Motion (LiM) is a cooperative effort to join experienced Alumni teachers with current ODU students in the elementary, middle school, high school and community college classrooms in order to promote world languages and cultures.
