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Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, will redesign Introductory Spanish, a yearlong, multiple-section course. The redesigned course will address inconsistencies among sections through improved planning, coordination and training of teaching assistants. Class meetings will be reduced from three-to-two per week with increased class time spent in interactive speaking. Using multimedia, PSU will move testing, writing and grammar instruction, and partner/group activities outside the classroom, and shift responsibility for assignment development to the course director. Additionally, it will spend more time training teaching assistants, increase oral practice in study groups, reduce in-class time for students performing above standards, and direct low-achieving students to small group sessions for additional oral practice. The university intends to reinvest the cost savings to serve more students per year.