Language House:
Language House Mentor

Language House badge

The badge recognizes the engagement of Language House Mentors and the fundamental knowledge, skills, and abilities they achieve in acting as mentors and role models at the University of Maryland. Through their role as mentors to Language House students, those earning the badge hone their teamwork, communications, and creative problem solving skills, as well as their ability to guide their mentees in developing their own skills in linguistic and cultural immersion.

  • Knowledge of target language and cultures: mentors demonstrate advanced linguistic and cultural competence and the ability to communicate and share this knowledge with others.
  • Effective leadership and mentorship skills: students behave as role models and demonstrate inclusion in helping the students they are mentoring develop their own language skills and think critically beyond their cultural comfort zones.
  • Language and culture immersion: students demonstrate a capacity to use language and exhibit appropriate cultural awareness in diverse real-world contexts
  • Problem-solving: mentors demonstrate a capacity to collaborate with others (faculty, sta , and students) to resolve issues and support their students
To earn this badge students must complete the residency and coursework requirements of the Language House and:
  1. Work as a mentor of the Language House for at least 2 semesters (Note: Semesters working as a mentor at the Language House should be consecutive.)
  2. Language House & Language-Based Campus Service: choose to complete a service activity such as facilitating the Language Chats 2 times per semester, planning an Language House wide event, conducting class visits or other outreach events to promote the LH, or serve as a Language Partner Program partner for at least 1 semester
  3. Professional Development: complete at least 1 workshop focusing on working with students hosted by the Teaching & Learning Transformation Center (TLTC) or by other similar organizations on or on-campus (as approved by the LH Director), OR take 1 SLLC course appropriate to the mentor’s language level to further their learning in the target language, literature, and culture
  4. Final Project: submit a written or a video re ection on the mentor experience


For more information, email Marilyn Matar