The Stanford Non-Native Rapper Contest is an annual event organized bythe Digital Language Lab at Stanford University. Every year, languageinstructors encourage undergraduate learners to engage in a creativeproject: learners receive the opportunity to compose rap music, writelyrics in the target language, produce videos, and share their clips via aYouTube channel. The response from undergraduate students has beenpositive: since the contest’s inception in 2008, almost 50 learners of worldlanguages and of less-commonly taught languages have participated, andtheir clips have been viewed by more than 30,000 internet users in lessthan three years. The first part of this article describes the evolution of theproject and outlines the roles of the language lab facilities and its staffmembers in organizing this collaborative learning environment. Thesecond part of the article will contextualize Stanford’s Non-Native RapperContest within current theoretical debates that relate to the acquisition oftranscultural competences and to alternative assessment in collegiatelanguage learning environments.
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