Scott Windham

Jonathan Granville and Crystal Sharp, both members of the Class of 2019, were awarded grants to teach English in Austria during the 2019-20 school year.

The panel chaired by Scott Windham, associate professor of German, was part of the national conference of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages held in late November.

Eighteen new members were inducted into Elon's chapter of the Delta Phi Alpha German national honor society ion May 10.

 

The title of the Oct. 10 talk by Scott Windham, associate professor of German in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, was “Why we (still) need grammar instruction but (still) need to do it better: Grammar instruction and literacy in the L2 classroom.”

Elon's chapter of the Delta Phi Alpha German national honor society hosted an induction ceremony on May 4, welcoming 18 new members.

In the most recent issue of Teaching German, the associate professor of German provides evidence that serious, sustained cultural study in beginning and intermediate language courses increases student engagement, enrollment persistence and students’ perceptions of the importance of language proficiency.

Kailyn Schmidt, a 2016 Strategic Communications graduate, has been spending the 2016-17 academic year studying, living, and working in Germany as part of the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals.

Katharine Fredricksen '15 is spending the 2015-16 academic year teaching English in Austria on a program funded by the Austrian federal government. 

 

Two Elon students recently earned high marks on the Prüfung Wirtschaftsdeutsch, an internationally-recognized Business German exam.

Ben Kaiser '16 and Alyssa Romano '16 will conduct science research at German universities this summer.