About Us

The Language Resource Center, located in Mebane Hall, Room 434 (see Campus map), opened its doors in 1998 and has become the center for integrating active learning and technology into language instruction at all levels of the University’s language curriculum. It provides instructional technology and technical support as well as pedagogical support to the students and faculty of the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation and the English Language Training Institute in the use of supported multimedia applications and equipment for language instruction.

Center Hours

Monday-Friday: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday: Closed

Center Support

To support face-to-face classes in the Language Resource Center Active Learning classroom, the space was specifically designed as an active learning classroom. Simulcast is also possible using two remote-controlled camera’s and ceiling mounted microphones.

Our main non-face-to-face LMS is Canvas, of which the LRC especially supports the language learning specific features – or what we turn into one, like Canvas Studio for webcam recording assessments.

We also host textbook learning materials for the language programs in Canvas metacourses and support the use of the online components of the textbooks (6) in the language program.

For recording audio we use a variety of technologies like Audacity. To support the translation program, we offer SDL-Trados.

The Language Resource Center maintains a film library and multimedia resources for the following programs of study and independent study languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, and Spanish. The LRC also maintains and supports resources for the UNC Charlotte undergraduate and graduate Certificates in Translating programs and the UNC Charlotte Certificate in Business Language.