This edited volume highlights how institutions, programs, and less commonly taught language (LCTL) instructors can collaborate and think across institutional boundaries, bringing together voices representing different approaches to LCTL sharing to highlight affordances and challenges across institutions in this collection of essays.

Emily Heidrich Uebel is the Associate Executive Director of the National Less Commonly Taught Languages Resource Center and an Academic Specialist at Michigan State University, USA.

Angelika Kraemer is the Director of the Language Resource Center at Cornell University, USA, and the Cornell University Director of the Shared Course Initiative.

Luca Giupponi is the Technology Director for the National Less Commonly Taught Languages Resource Center and an Educational Technology Specialist at the Center for Language Teaching Advancement at Michigan State University, USA.

Introduction

Part I: Sharing Structures and Established Consortia

1. Consortial Course Sharing: A Look at the History and Foundations of the Big Ten Academic Alliance CourseShare Program

2. Scaling up Sustainably: Affordances and Challenges of Shared Language Courses

3. The Shared Course Initiative: Less Commonly Taught Language Collaboration at Columbia, Cornell, and Yale

4. Ten Years of Collaboration: The Duke-UVA-Vanderbilt Consortium

Part II: Curriculum Development and Building Program Capacity

5. Language Learning Through Three Iconic Cities: A Shared Approach to Curriculum Development in Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkish

6. Articulating Visions of South Asian Less Commonly Taught Language Instruction for Sustainable Growth

7. Building Less Commonly Taught Language Pipelines: Sharing Russian Language Online with Kansas High School Students

8. Expanding Language Programs via Institutional Partners: Notes from a Small Island

Part III: Case Studies

9. Out of Challenges Come Opportunities: Innovative Collaboration in Teaching East Asian Languages

10. Sharing the Teaching of Kaqchikel Maya Across Universities

11. Sharing African Language Courses: Embracing Initiatives with Caution

12. Inter-Institutional Collaboration in Arabic Language Instruction: Successes and Challenges

13. The Portuguese Language Working Group: A Successful Partnership

Part IV: Sharing Strategies

14. Intercultural Language Learning Communities: Teaching Strategies in the Shared Less Commonly Taught Language Classroom

15. Building a Sustainable Less Commonly Taught Language Community of Practice Through Assessment-Driven Reverse Design

16. Languages Without Borders: Promoting Equitable Access to Language Education

17.Building a Community of Practice: Pathways to Less Commonly Taught Languages Sharing