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Pete Smith, Lecturer


Pete Smith

Office:210 Trimble Hall
Telephone:817.272.5525
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  • B.A. (General Arts and Sciences) Pennsylvania State University
  • B.S. (Russian Technical Translation) Pennsylvania State University
  • M.A. (Slavic Languages) University of Texas at Austin
  • Ph.D. (Foreign Language Education) University of Texas at Austin

Pete Smith is Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington. His background and interests focus on the role of technology in language education, especially as regards critical languages such as Russian and German. He served as Editor-in-Chief of The IALL Journal of Language Learning Technologies and has published and spoken nationally and internationally on technology-assisted language development. Most recently, he is serving as a program officer in the Network for Effective Language Learning, an innovative initiative funded by the Keck Foundation and based at Drake University, designed to assist small and mid-sized private colleges and universities to transform their offerings in language instruction to meet the needs of the 21st century student.