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CLEAR Receives Third Grant Supporting Foreign Language Education

Teaching and learning foreign languages will get a boost from a new four-year grant to MSU from the U.S. Department of Education (http://www.ed.gov/index.jsp) in the latest round of the Title VI Language Resource Center grant competition (http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/HEP/iegps/lrc.html). The grant, to begin in August 2002, was awarded to the MSU Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) (http://clear.msu.edu/), the Title VI National Foreign Language Center housed in the College of Arts and Letters. Funds will support CLEAR's continuing activities to strengthen the teaching and learning of foreign languages in the United States.

CLEAR has been funded to date under Title VI for two three-year grant cycles, beginning in 1996, with each grant cycle bringing in approximately $1 million. Professors Susan Gass and Patricia Paulsell of the Department of Linguistics, Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages are co-authors of these successful grant proposals and codirectors of CLEAR.

For more information about CLEAR's projects, see articles elsewhere in this issue.