Kuan Yi Rose Chang, director of the Anderson Language Technology Center (ALTEC) at CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø and an adjunct faculty member in East Asian languages and civilizations, will receive the Friend of Foreign Languages Award Feb. 25 from the Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers.
The award is one of six that will be presented to foreign language faculty and schoolteachers by CCFLT at its annual awards luncheon at the Adam's Mark Hotel, 1550 Court Place, in Denver.
ALTEC provides technical support for enhancing foreign language instruction at CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø through audio, video and computer technology.
The Friend of Foreign Languages Award is given to people who support foreign language instruction through their work. Last year's award went to William "Gully" Stanford of the Colorado Department of Education.
According to the nominating letter, Chang facilitated a wide range of activities in support of foreign language instruction including bringing speakers and workshops to CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø to keep language faculty abreast of new developments; encouraging language faculty to present papers on teaching and technology to CCFLT and providing computers for their presentations; encouraging graduate students to present papers for the conference and paying their registration fees and expenses; helping Colorado State University with flood damage and providing native speakers to support a technology project at the Air Force Academy; and creating a consortium of language teachers at colleges and universities throughout Colorado called COLTEC, Colorado Language Technology Consortium.
Chang is an adjunct professor in the department of East Asian languages and civilizations at CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø, in addition to serving as director of ALTEC. She teaches Chinese to faculty and staff and a graduate course on multimedia applications in foreign language education.
Chang, a native of Taiwan, has been director of ALTEC at CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø since fall 1996. Prior to coming to CU, Chang was assistant professor of foreign language education and director of the Computer Assisted Language Learning Laboratory at West Virginia University.
Chang earned her bachelor's degree in Spanish from Wesleyan College, her master's in teaching English as a second language and Spanish from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, and her doctorate in foreign language education from Purdue University.