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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]“The Japanese Program regularly uses undergraduate Teaching Assistants for our first-year and second-year language classes.”
https://www.wm.edu/as/modernlanguages/japanese/student-resources/teaching/[/b]

TAs normally do not receive pay, but rather academic credit for their intellectual labor (readings, discussion & planning with faculty, [b]delivery of lessons[/b]).”
https://www.wm.edu/as/modernlanguages/hispanic/resources-for-students/studentteaching/

Whoever is peddling this fiction that TAs do not teach classes at W&M should be ashamed.  Of course they do.   :roll: [/quote]

My sophomore is actually double majoring in Japanese Studies and has not had one TA yet so far at all.  Not in the Japanese culture classes, nor in the language classes.  Don't know what to tell you.[/quote]

I have a WM Global Policy Major, which is a critical language plus policy major.  DC lives in a modern language house.  There is a fellow, who is a younger, MA level teacher from a country where the language is spoken. The fellow is not getting a degree at WM and the same fellow has been there for at least 3 years. It’s a not exactly permanent, but also not an annual turnover position.  Not exactly a professor, because the fellow has no terminal degree. But not a TA, because not pursuing one. The best description would be a post-grad Fulbright type job or an adjunct from a foreign country.  The fellow lives in an apartment in the modern language house, gets room and board and a stipend, encourages use of the target language within the house, is available for students who want to hang out and work on language skills or get help in the language.  The biggest part of her job is house programming, which is extensive.  If you take a class in the language you have to participate in 8 (??) events a semester. She arranges language teas, language Olympics, celebrating native holidays with the students which includes the food they prepare because she teaches extensive cooking lessons in the language (I think cooking is a big hobby for her, because they do a lot of cooking classes in the language).  She does teach 1 class a semester— the intermediate level of the language, which has about 20 students. DC lives in the language house and says she was a great teacher. DC’s OPI scores are very high, so something working.  I’m impressed with the amount of time she’s dedicating outside of class to real world language use— and having a blast doing it.

So that’s an example of a “teaching fellow” at WM. Having seen it on action, I’m a huge fan of this model in the foreign language area.  But, you do you.

My kid has never has a TA in the traditional sense. 
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