Antonia Folarin Schleicher is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. She is also the Executive Director of IU Joint Language Resource Centers and the Director of the United States National African Language Resource Center. In 2010, she received the UW-Madison Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award and the NCOLCTL Walton Award for a Lifetime Distinguished Career in support of less commonly taught languages. She has authored four textbooks and three multimedia CD-ROMs for the learning of Yoruba and has co-authored numerous textbooks for other African languages such as Swahili, Shona, and Pulaar. She co-authored African Language Pedagogy: An Emerging Field. Professor Schleicher has degrees from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and the University of Kansas in General Linguistics and much of her current work deals with pedagogical issues in Foreign and Second Language Acquisition. She teaches courses on the Theory and Practice of Teaching African Languages and the Structure and Analysis of African Languages. She also serves as the Executive Director of both the National Council of Less-Commonly Taught Languages and the African Language Teachers Association. On August 9, 2012, Schleicher was inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Letters. This is the highest academic award for scholars in the Arts and Humanities in Nigeria. She is also the current President-elect for the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Association."
Program:
6:30 – 7:00 Refreshments & Welcoming Remarks
7:00 – 8:30 “Yorừbá Language and Culture in the 21st Century”
Free and open to the public. Contact CAS at cas@osu.edu or 614 292-8169 for more information. Visitor Parking is available in the Ohio Union garage.
