Center for Accelerated Language Acquisition
Classes
Upcoming Classes
Registration
When you click the “Sign Up!” link, you’ll be directed to register through MTSU’s secure payment server.
Complete course information and payment details are available prior to check-out.
If you have any questions before, during or after the registration process, please feel free to contact us.
LANGUAGE CLASSES (SELF-GUIDED ONLINE TELECOURSES)
Date(S) And Time(S) | Sign Up! | Instructor | Location |
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Always Available | Telecourse – American Sign Language (ASL) | Haley Jensen | Video Links Online |
Always Available | Telecourse – Chinese Part 1 | Jie (Helen) Zhou | Video Links Online |
Always Available | Telecourse – Chinese Part 2 | Jie (Helen) Zhou | Video Links Online |
Always Available | Telecourse – French Part 1 | Shelley Thomas | Video Links Online |
Always Available | Telecourse – Spanish Part 1 | Brian Roberts | Video Links Online |
Always Available | Telecourse – Tamil (India) | Nanthana (Tanamayi) Vaiyapuri | Video Links Online |
Always Available | Telecourse – “Rain Dance” (Bollywood) | Nanthana (Tanamayi) Vaiyapuri | Video Links Online |
Language and yoga classes are added on an ongoing basis as they become available. Please feel free to contact us at acceleratedacquisition@gmail.com if you would like to receive notifications through our distribution list.
YOGA CLASSES
Date(S) And Time(S) | Sign Up! | Instructor | Location |
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Group Solutions
Are you are interested in corporate language training programs or in-company group language solutions? Do you need language classes delivered on-site at your church, school, homeschool, or elsewhere in your community? Please feel free to contact us to discuss a customized language-learning solution for you!
Stress Management
Did you know we also offer yoga classes to help with stress management, mindfulness, mediation, health, and rejuvenation? We have options for every lifestyle. We can also work with most handicaps or health debilitations. Our yoga classes are intended for ages 14 and up.
Pricing, class options, and schedule are listed below.
Language Classes: What to Expect
Click the video in this section to see footage of past language institutes. The video also includes commentary and reviews from students and teachers. This short clip gives you an idea of what to expect from CALA’s foreign language classes.
- Click here to see the video (~12 minutes)
- Learn more about the competencies developed in each course (Spanish, French, and German).
Yoga Classes
CALA’s yoga classes are offered in partnership with MTSU Health Promotion.
In each class, you will learn a practice that you can do on your own.
- What is yoga? Learn more about what it means in the classical tradition: Click here to see the video (~10 minutes)
Prices: Yoga Classes
Scroll down to “Yoga and Meditation.” Click each course for a full description.
- Beginners Yoga: $60 ($30 for MTSU and high school students)
- Yoga to Improve Attention & Memory: $65 ($35 for MTSU and high school students)
- Fitness Yoga: $60 ($30 for MTSU and high school students)
- Meditation Yoga: $70 ($40 for MTSU and high school students)
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Center for Accelerated Language Acquisition (CALA)
c/o Shelley Thomas
Middle Tennessee State University
Honors Box 267
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Shelley Thomas, Ph.D.
CALA Director
shelley.thomas@mtsu.edu
Brian Roberts, M.A.T.
CALA Associate Director
brian.roberts@mtsu.edu