Visit the Language Space

• Group work and pod setup: 32 seats (8 mobile tables with 4 chairs each).
• Extended capacity: 50+ with tables removed for lecture or film viewing seating.
• Bring your own device: We encourage students to bring their own device to class and ask for in-class tech support from our assistants. They may also choose to check out a laptop for use during class time. Up to 53 PCs and 40 Macs can be checked out in total for both rooms, depending on availability. 
• Headsets available for checkout.
• Projector for lectures and presentations, SmartBoard, document camera, and available webcams to record your class using Zoom or Camtasia (upon request).
• DiaConnect
• Technology and room setup support.
• Available for self-study. 

• Group work and pod setup: 32 seats set up in 8 pods. Each pod is composed of 2 tables, 4 chairs, a 64” LED-LCD monitor for group/collaborative work, and HDMI and USB hook-ups for students who bring their own device. Laptops can be requested for use with each pod.
• Extended capacity: 50 with tables removed for lecture or 50+ for film viewing seating.
• Bring your own device model: Students can bring their own device to class for use at each pod, or may choose to check out a laptop for use with the pods or for individual work. Up to 53 PCs and 40 Macs can be checked out in total for both rooms, depending on availability.
• Headsets available for checkout.
• Projector for lectures and presentations, document camera, and available webcams to record your class using Zoom or Camtasia (upon request).
• Solstice Mersive
• DiaConnect
• Technology and room setup support.
• Available for self-study. 

• SDSU language and linguistics faculty, instructors, and graduate teaching assistants.
• CAL and language program academic coordinators, on behalf of their program or department.
• Faculty, instructors, lecturers and teaching assistants in the College of Arts & Letters and the Digital Humanities.
• SDSU graduate and undergraduate students are also welcome to book the Language Space for special activities related to language learning, or for club and organization meetings and events.

Each semester, the Language Space accepts reservations in two stages:

(1) Language department chairs and coordinators will schedule courses in the Language Space one year in advance (in March for Spring of the following year, and in October for Fall of the following year). 
(2) Once courses have been scheduled by language department chairs and coordinators, faculty, staff, and student groups are welcome to make their reservation requests for the upcoming semester.

If you would like to teach in the Language Space for the entire duration of the semester (up to half of your class sessions each week), or have done this in the past and would like to continue, please contact your language department chair or coordinator. 

If your department or program has placed your course in the Language Space, please contact our Learning Technologies Coordinator, Mari Ocando Finol at [email protected]. 

For all other requests including reservations for selected class sessions and events, reservation requests will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis, in accordance with the following priorities:

1. Selected class sessions that prioritize technology mediated language teaching during their time in the Language Space.
2. Workshops or training sessions that advanced the use of technology mediated language teaching. Selected class sessions that prioritize collaborative work, student-led and student-centered language teaching practices.
3. Selected class sessions in which a new instructor will explore the resources and technologies available in the Language Space.
4. Selected class sessions that will use technology for assessment/testing.
5. Courses whose current/prospective enrollment will maximize the seating capacity of the requested room.

*If conflicts in priority arise, groups that maximize the Language Space’s seating capacity will be prioritized. 

1. The reservation holder must be present during the entire scheduled time and is responsible for ensuring all participants follow use guidelines.
2. All reservation holders must complete a walk-through of the Language Space before their first use. This includes all new reservation holders, as well as any regular reservation holders when significant hardware/software updates have been made to a room.
3. No food or drinks are allowed in the Language Space (close-lid water bottles are okay and should remain on the floor).
4. Only LARC staff are able to make software/hardware or furniture changes.
5. Electronic doors must remain closed at all times. Please avoid propping doors open.
6. Resources available in the Language Space should remain in the space at all times, including devices and their peripherals.
7. Future approval of reservations is dependent on upholding Language Space policies and guidelines.
8. For technical difficulties or assistance, or help accessing our rooms, contact our Language Space staff located in SH 204, SH 207-C, and SH 204-B, or reach us by phone (619-594-6177) or email [email protected].