Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies Samuele Pardini gave a presentation March 13, 2012 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Kurt Waldthausen, Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany to the State of North Carolina, will visit Elon University March 30 to speak with students about the state of German-American business relationships.
Olivia Feldman ’12 has been selected as one of only two Americans to participate in the Bundestag Youth Encounter Program as a guest of the German government. The program will be held in Berlin Jan. 22 – 27.
David Neville, assistant professor of German and director of language-learning technologies, has published the article "The Future of Language Education: Facilitating Collaboration Through Technology” in the most recent issue of The Language Educator.
President Leo M. Lambert has called for Elon to “articulate the role of fluency in a second language to being a global citizen” and to “ensure that students have access to a vibrant, innovative foreign language curriculum that connects to their career aspirations.” To support President Lambert’s goal, the Department of Foreign Languages is developing and enhancing programs to promote second-language proficiency to prepare Elon students to be exceptional ambassadors in a global society.
Sophie Adamson, associate professor of French, attended the annual convention for the American Association of Teachers of French in Montreal July 7-9, 2011.
Foreign language faculty members Nina Namaste and April Post conducted a July 12 session on Venezuela with children from local public schools who are in Spanish language immersion classes.
It wasn’t enough for Victoria “Tory” Hill to simply show up for student teaching, give her lessons, and then go home. For the Spanish major who graduates Saturday from Elon University, time spent this spring at Eastern Guilford High School will benefit students for years because of her initiative to support Spanish speakers in a school with few resources to help them better learn their native language.
Jack Garratt '09, who graduated from Elon with a major in History and a minor in German Studies, has received a grant to conduct archival research at the Bundesarchiv-Lichterfelde in Berlin.
Three Elon University seniors – Chris Jarrett, Gabrielle Dean and Brittany Carroll – have each been awarded Fulbright Program grants for overseas research and teaching, and their selections represent the largest number of students in university history to receive the prestigious national honor in the same academic year.
Caitlin Clarke, a sophomore International Studies and Political Science major with a minor in German Studies, has been accepted to the Fund for American Studies at Georgetown University this summer.
Kristen Klug '10, a History major and German Studies minor, has been accepted to the master's program in European Studies at the Hochschule Bremen in Germany.
With their growing number of students who speak little or no English, American school systems have turned largely to one of two approaches for teaching such children. Elon University senior Lindsay Mann compared the models – “English as a Second Language” and “Spanish Dual Language” – and her work is the first to be featured in a series of E-net profiles on undergraduate research to be presented during CELEBRATE! 2011.
Iris Versmissen '10 was recently awarded the North Carolina Science Teachers Association Outstanding Elementary School Student Teacher of the Year Award. Versmissen was an elementary education Teaching Fellow with a Spanish minor.
With the growing number of Spanish-speaking patients who visit emergency rooms and doctors’ offices across the country, medical professionals often confront language barriers that can hinder treatment. Public health researchers have taken note, and a new introductory Spanish textbook authored by Elon University professor Ernest Lunsford takes aim at the problem.
Elon University students started a fundraising drive this week to aid victims of the March earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan. The same students are gathering messages of support from the community that will be translated into Japanese and delivered abroad to survivors whose lives have been upended by the natural disasters.
Jacy Lance, an Elon College Social Sciences Fellow, presented her research at the annual conference of the Southeast Council for Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), which took place March 16-19 at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Spanish faculty Donna Van Bodegraven, Mayte de Lama, and Nina Namaste presented on literature and film at the X Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from March 2-5, 2011.
Yumika Araki, an assistant professor of Japanese, and Dr. Ketevan Kupatadze, a lecturer of Spanish, presented March 7 at the International Conference on Technology, Education and Development held in Valencia, Spain.
Meaghan Britain, a senior strategic communications major and student of German, has been accepted to the Congress-Bundestag Exchange program. The highly competitive, fully funded program is "a full-year work-study scholarship program with a strong focus on cultural exchange between the U.S. and Germany," according to the program's website.
Donna Van Bodegraven, a Spanish professor in the Department of Foreign Languages, presented a paper titled "'Chac Mool' de Carlos Fuentes: ?sincretismo deliberado?" ["'Chac Mool' by Carlos Fuentes: Deliberate Syncretism?"] at the X Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispa'nica [10th International Congress of Hispanic Literature] in San Juan, Puerto Rico on March 3, 2011.
Since the arrival of the Spanish to Ecuador, indigenous peoples have struggled against political and economic elites trying to introduce Western norms that undermine cultural identities. Elon senior Chris Jarrett is examining how groups interact with Ecuadorian society through political activity and development projects, and his research on the Amazonian Kichwa people is the latest work to be featured in a series of E-net profiles on Lumen Scholars in the Class of 2011.
April Post, a lecturer in Spanish, and David Neville, an assistant professor of German, led a round table discussion on the use of webcams and video conferencing in second language acquisition at the recent American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages convention held Nov. 19-21 in Boston.
Mina Garcia Soormally, an assistant professor of Spanish, presented at an Oct. 21-22 conference held at Wake Forest University on “Dominant Discourses, Guarded Voices: Religion and Society in Spain and its Empire, 14th-16th Centuries."
The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning has named Elon University faculty members Michelle Trim, David Neville and Ketevan Kupatadze as CATL Scholars for 2011-2013. The selection process was highly competitive, with 10 faculty applying for the three positions.
David Neville, assistant professor of German and director of language learning technologies, led a discussion session on 3D digital game-based learning for humanities topics at the regional THATCamp RTP held on Oct. 16 at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.
Donna Van Bodegraven, associate professor of Spanish, attended the fourth-annual Maya studies conference (known as "Maya at the Playa") in Bunnell, Fla. in early October.
Donna Van Bodegraven’s paper, “The Border-Crossing Experience in Recent Mexican and Chicano Theater,” was published in the 2010 monograph series Beauty is in the Details: A Global View of Persons of Color, published by NAAAS and Affiliates.
Professor Glenda Crawford in the School of Education and April Post, a lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages, presented their work, titled “Applying Ethnographic Strategies to Enhance Transformation in University Students through Cross-Disciplinary Academic Service-Learning,” at the 2nd International Conference on Education, Economy and Society in Paris, France on July 22.
David Neville, assistant professor of German and director of language learning technologies, published the article "Structuring Narrative in 3D Digital Game-Based Learning Environments to Support Second Language Acquisition” in the most recent issue of the Foreign Language Annals (Volume 43, Issue 3).
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