Open Architecture Curricular Design in World Language Education

Foreword by Karin C. Ryding
A Note to the Reader
Acknowledgments
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Part 1. The OACD Framework
1. 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 Center
2. Open Architecture Curricular Design as an Enabler for Transformative Learning in a Korean Course. Jae Sun Lee
3. Preparing Novice Learners for Open Architecture Learning: The Gradual Release of Responsibility Model. Irene Krasner
4. OACD-based Immersion Events Outside the Classroom in an Intensive Chinese Mandarin Program. Kueilan Chen
5. Introducing Open Architecture Curricular Design in an Egyptian Dialect Program. Kassema Jones
6. 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 Gregory
8. 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 Dobrunoff
9. 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 Academe
10. 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 Giupponi
11. From Reading the News to Performing the News: Using Oral Presentations as a Key of an OACD-enabled Course. Rossina Soyan
12. Integrating Open Architecture Curricular Design in a Proficiency-Oriented, Content-Based Instruction Course in Korean. Sang Yee Cheon
13. 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 Context
14. Open Architecture Curricular Design as an Enabler of Diagnostic Instruction. Reem Dababneh and Rong Yuan
15. An Open Architecture Approach to Program Evaluation in a Language Learning Setting. Wendy Ashby
16. Implementing Open Architecture Curricular Design at the Classroom and Department Level: Lessons from a Ten-Year Experience. Yaniv Oded and Ilknur Oded

Contributors
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