Andrew R. Corin is Professor Emeritus at the Defense Language Institute's Foreign Language Center, where he also served as associate provost. Betty Lou Leaver is the former provost and dean of the Defense Language Institute and has published twenty-one books. Christine Campbell is president of Campbell Language Consultants and previously served as associate provost of the Defense Language Institute.
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Foreword by Karin C. RydingA Note to the ReaderAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations Part 1. The OACD Framework1. An Introduction to Open Architecture Curricular Design: Concept, Origins, and Range of Applicability. Andrew Corin, Betty Lou Leaver, and Christine Campbell Part 2. OACD in U.S. Government Language Institutes: Programs at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center2. Open Architecture Curricular Design as an Enabler for Transformative Learning in a Korean Course. Jae Sun Lee3. Preparing Novice Learners for Open Architecture Learning: The Gradual Release of Responsibility Model. Irene Krasner4. OACD-based Immersion Events Outside the Classroom in an Intensive Chinese Mandarin Program. Kueilan Chen5. Introducing Open Architecture Curricular Design in an Egyptian Dialect Program. Kassema Jones6. The Use of Project-based OACD Modules in an Intermediate and Advanced Chinese Mandarin Program. Daniel Wang Part 3. OACD in U.S. Military Service Academies: Programs at the United States Military Academy (West Point)7. Emulating Proficiency-Increasing Features of the Semester Abroad Experience through Open Architecture Curricular Design. E. John Gregory8. Optimizing Flexibility in a Distance Learning Immersion Course at West Point: Three Examples of Open Architecture Curricular Design. Sherry A. Maggin, Zachary F. Miller, Joshua Enslen, John Pendergast, and Olga Dobrunoff9. Using OACD and Macrostrategies Frameworks to Enable the Practical Application of Sociocultural Theory in a College Russian Course. Jeff R. Watson Part 4. OACD in Academe10. Inter-Institutional Collaboration in Curriculum Development: The Design of Flexible Modules in the Less Commonly Taught Languages Partnership. Koen Van Gorp, Emily Heidrich Uebel, and Luca Giupponi11. From Reading the News to Performing the News: Using Oral Presentations as a Key of an OACD-enabled Course. Rossina Soyan12. Integrating Open Architecture Curricular Design in a Proficiency-Oriented, Content-Based Instruction Course in Korean. Sang Yee Cheon13. Spiral-like Design for Teaching Inflectional Languages at Novice Level in an OACD-enabled Content-Based Instruction Course. Maria Bondarenko Part 5. Learning Assessment, Program Evaluation, and Program Management in an OACD Context14. Open Architecture Curricular Design as an Enabler of Diagnostic Instruction. Reem Dababneh and Rong Yuan15. An Open Architecture Approach to Program Evaluation in a Language Learning Setting. Wendy Ashby16. Implementing Open Architecture Curricular Design at the Classroom and Department Level: Lessons from a Ten-Year Experience. Yaniv Oded and Ilknur Oded ContributorsIndex