Dr. Dave McAlpine, UALR professor of Spanish and second language education, has been asked by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education to present a workshop this month to foreign language educators from Afghanistan on how foreign language teachers are trained in the United States.

The workshop will be presented to educators from Nagahar University in Afghanistan in the coming weeks and will be held at San Diego State University.

In addition to advising students in the Master of Arts in Second Languages (MASL) program and directing Master’s theses at UALR, McAlpine teaches the methods of teaching second languages course and the research methods course, and supervises students during their student teaching semester.

He was recently appointed as one of three inaugural directors of the UALR Teaching Academy.