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Louis E. Janus
LCTL Project Coordinator
Louis Janus is the coordinator
of the Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL)
Project. He manages the mailing
lists the LCTL project sponsors, oversees the database
listing where LCTLs are taught in North American schools from elementary
to universities and distance education settings, and promotes good
teaching and learning opportunities for LCTLs. He also develops
material for the Virtual Picture Album
and Virtual Audio Video Archives.
Janus co-teaches the CARLA summer institute on LCTL material development,
and contributed to the CARLA-sponsored book
on the subject, which was published in Spring 2007.
He holds the Ph.D. degree in Germanic Philology from the University
of Minnesota. In addition to his work at CARLA, Janus has been an
active teacher of Norwegian and Scandinavian linguistics, having
taught at both St. Olaf College and the University of Minnesota.
He developed and taught a graduate course in Reading the Scandinavian
Languages. This course was taught in Summer 2003 as an online course.
He is currently the President of NORTANA
-- the Norwegian Researchers and Teachers Association of North America
and was the Norwegian Teachers Newsletter founder and editor for
many years. Janus has authored a grammar book, tapes, software for
learning Norwegian, and was co-author of the lesson-a-day NorWord
mailing list. In Spring 2000, Janus was the program leader at the
Oslo Year Program at the University of Oslo. He is now writing a
learners' dictionary for English speakers learning Norwegian.
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Education
- A.B. 1970. Linguistics, University of Chicago
- M.A. 1972. Scandinavian Linguistics, University of Wisconsin- Madison
- Ph.D. 1994. Germanic Philology, University of Minnesota.
Selected Publications
Johnston, Bill with Louis Janus (2007), Developing
Classroom Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languags, CARLA
Johnston, Bill and Louis Janus (2003), "
Teacher Professional Development for Less Commonly Taught Languages"
CARLA.
Aarsvold, Janus, O'Leary (2003). KlikkNorsk. CDROM, Skandisk, Bloomington,
MN.
Janus, L. (1999) "An Overview of Less Commonly Taught Languages in
North America" National Association of Secondary School Principals
Bulletin, 84 (1) 25-27.
Janus, Louis (1999). Norwegian Verbs and Essentials of Grammar, National
Textbook Company, Lincolnwood, Ill.
Stenson, N.J., Janus, L.E. & Mulkern, A.E. (1998). .Report of the
Less Commonly Taught Languages Summit September 20-21, 1996 Minneapolis,
MN: Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota.
Janus, L. (1981). Arbeidshefte til Norsk, nordmenn og Norge. The
University of Wisconsin Press [Language workbook and twelve audio tapes.]
Cassette package republished, Skandisk, 1997.
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