The workshop organized by the University of Florida in collaboration with the University of Ibadan’s Yoruba Language Centre (YLC) in preparation towards YLC’s hosting of the Fulbright-Hays Intensive Advanced Yoruba Group Project Abroad (GPA) from June to August 2013 has begun in the University.

The workshop is aimed at equipping the participants with current and recent global practice on Language Teaching. The participants are drawn from the postgraduate students of the Department of Linguistics and African Language, Faculty of Arts, to serve as Instructors, Language Partners and Tour Guides.

The resource person is Professor Antonia Folarin Schleicher, a Professor of Linguistics and Director of National African Language Resource Centre, Indiana University, USA.

The host is Professor Kola Owolabi, the Director, Yoruba Language Centre, University of Ibadan, and the facilitator is Clement Odoje of the Department of Linguistics and African Languages, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan.