Press & Media

MTSU Honors Areté Magazine (Spring 2024)

• “CALA turns 20: Language center thrives through interactive learning”

MTSU News (Online, June 29, 2023)

• “MTSU’s CALA boasts 20 years of teaching new languages”

MTSU Honors Areté Magazine (Spring 2019)

• “Honors hosts MTSU’s first American Sign Language Course”

MTSU Honors Magazine (Fall 2016)

• “Speaking a New Language:  For the 13th year, the CALA summer institute offers unique way to quickly learn and teach foreign language”
• “Taking Yoga from India to Prison to help workhouse prisoners re-enter the workplace” (read here)

USA Today (Spring 2016)

• “Students Get Immersed in 5-Day MTSU Language Classes” (originally covered by the Daily News Journal)

MTSU Honors Magazine (Fall 2015)

• “CALA Summer Language Institute:  A Brain-Based Approach to Learning Languages”

MTSU College of Liberal Arts Magazine (Fall 2014)

• “CALA:  Leading Language Learning”

MTSU Honors Magazine (Fall 2014)

• “CALA Leads in Language Learning”

MTSU Honors Magazine (Fall 2013)

• “Over 100 Participants Learn New Languages by Telling Stories”

MTSU Honors Magazine (Spring 2013)

• “CALA Benefits Teachers, Fulbright Scholar”

MTSU Focus on Excellence Magazine (Fall 2007)

• “Revolutionizing Teaching”

Rutherford Parent Magazine (Fall 2007)

• “¿Usted habla español?” (Education Page)

Our Classes

• General Introduction and testimonials with footage from prior classes at our Summer Language Institute

Our Methods

• Demonstrations and commentaries of Total Physical Response (TPR) and Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS)