Language Learning & Multimedia Center

Location: LARTS, Rooms 207 & 208

Hours: Posted during the academic year 

The Language Learning and Multimedia Center (LLMC) is committed to promoting and facilitating the acquisition of language skills ​and explore language and culture by providing services and assistance that foster the development of communicative competency in a foreign language. Services include tutoring, drop-in sessions, and conversational groups.

Services for students

  • Tutoring: free weekly language tutoring, one-on-one
  • Drop-in sessions: informal opportunities to practice the language and ask questions about usage of the target language
  • Conversational groups: a relaxing setting where you freely practice the language use and pronunciation with a group of students at your same level
  • Tutoring for online language courses: available for online students by appointment through the use of a collaborate room
  • Reserved materials and movies: use of books, online sources, movies and text book ancillaries to help clarify concepts of language courses
  • Computing services (current students): use multilingual Internet access, word processing, webcams and language learning software

Services for UMassD language instructors

  • Multimedia classroom 208: instructors can reserve the classroom for language study and cultural activities. Also, to watch videos and use the different web tools to create presentational activities
  • Outreach services: maintain instructors informed of what is happening in the LLMC through monthly newsletters, conversation activities calendar
  • Enrichment visits: at the beginning of the semester, tutors go to language classes to introduce themselves and explain services offered for students at the LLMC
  • Professional workshop: integration of technology use in Foreign Language course is offered every semester for language instructors

Multimedia classrooms

LARTS 207 is a multimedia room equipped for tutoring, class presentations, and workshops. Equipment includes 6 desktop computers available to complete assignments such as recordings, videotapes, and online activities. Webcams, headsets, print resources, zone-free DVD player, and a TV monitor for movie projection are also available. It is a wireless room that also has a work table with laptops and monitor to facilitate the discussion of cultural aspects of language learning.

LARTS 208 is set up for team-based learning, project-based learning and task-based learning instruction, presentations, course-related activities, and classes that integrate technology. The classroom can accommodate up to 25 students, with 5 laptops and monitors at each of 5 tables. Students can create voice recordings using software such as Audacity, MovieMaker, and Adobe Creative Suite. LARTS 208 hosts conversation group activities and group tutoring.