Unique Opportunities

The Language Laboratory's fundamental premise is to assist students in their exploration and learning of other languages, other world cultures, and to inevitably broaden and strengthen their minds. The Language Laboratory does this by providing multiple teaching and learning approaches (embodied in its wide scope of materials, equipment, and support), in the pursuit of being a truly well-rounded educational resources center.

Often, due to the facility- and technology-based nature of many of its needs, grants and other extramural sources of funding for our unit can be challenging to come by. We treasure every opportunity to allow a donor to see their own personal vision come to fruition. The possibilities with a facility like the Language Learning Laboratory are indeed limitless.

Please contact the Language Learning Laboratory & Resource Center, or the College of Arts & Sciences Development Office at 806.742.3833, or feel free to e-mail Wendell Jeffreys (w.jeffreys@ttu.edu) or Emily Phillips (emily.phillips@ttu.edu), Development Officers for the College, at any time to discuss ways to make a gift. Our common vision of propelling each student to his or her best successes will be an incredibly strong foundation from which we can work together.

Current Goals

• The LLL&RC is currently working to establish an American Sign Language (ASL) Lab, to serve our ASL program, and continue contributing to the knitting of an environment which will further a sense of Deaf culture here at the University.
• The LLL&RC would like to establish a scholarship for Applied Linguistics/Second Language Studies graduate students, or other students interested specifically in language pedagogy, to further study the application of language laboratory technologies and approaches in the modern day language curriculum. The scholarship would assist graduate students in conducting research in our facility, and for travelling to other institutions with peer or aspirational facilities.

Our Benefactors

We cannot express enough how grateful we are for the support we have received through gifts. We specially recognize our donors (in concert with their own wishes) in announcements, facility placards and other appropriate venues.

Our benefactors have recently provided:

• The generous gift of equipping several classrooms in our building with modern teaching and learning technology, not the least of which was our premier classroom, Room 105.
• The donation of hundreds of slides from around the globe, depicting details about a number of historical international locations. These will be of huge benefit as our faculty and instructors build materials for their courses.

Please click here to read our Donor Bill of Rights, and please also visit the College of Arts & Sciences Development Office site, and the TTU Annual Fund site.