Languages and Linguistics
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Truman alumnus Brian Jacobs’ visit
November 14, 2022Truman alumnus Brian Jacobs, B.A. Music/German ‘15, MAE Music Education ‘17, dedicated part of his last visit to campus to spend time with MAE and pre-MAE language students talking about the joys and challenges of language instruction. After Truman, Jacobs went on to receive a Graduate Certificate in Teaching German from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln […]
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Truman FLAM Award Winners
October 11, 2022Truman State was well-represented last weekend at the Foreign Language Association of Missouri (FLAM) annual conference held at Washington University in St. Louis, October 7th – 9th. Alumna Kathleen Placke and Claire Viviano each won scholarship funds to attend the conference (both Spanish MAE). Kathleen also gave an engaging PD workshop on the PACE model […]
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Amanda Smith to present at Sigma Delta Pi “Best Practices” Session at the 105th AATSP Annual Conference in Salamanca, Spain, 2023
October 10, 2022Congratulations to Senior Spanish major Amanda Smith – also President of Truman’ State’s Sigma Delta Pi Capítulo Rho Rho – who has been chosen to share about the “Best Practices” of our university’s National Spanish Honor Society Chapter. This is an enormous accomplishment as Smith has been selected out of a handful of college students […]
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Miranda Forbes wins GIASR grant
October 3, 2022Congratulations to Miranda Forbes (BA Spanish; BS Linguistics ’21, Spanish MAE ’23) for winning a $750 grant from the Office of Student Research. Working closely with her mentor Dr. Stacy Davis, her Grant-in-Aid-of-Student-Research (GIASR) project will investigate how the tenets of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can be implemented by professors in language classrooms at Truman […]
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Amy Norgard published a chapter in edited volume “Women in Classical Video Games”
September 13, 2022Amy Norgard, associate professor of classics, published a chapter in edited volume “Women in Classical Video Games” (eds. Draycott and Cook, Bloomsbury), which was released on Sept. 8. Despite the prevalence of video games set in or inspired by classical antiquity, the medium has to date remained markedly understudied in the disciplines of classics and ancient […]
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CML Awards Ceremony 2022
August 1, 2022CML Awards Ceremony 2022 On April 26, 2022, CML celebrated student and faculty successes. Faculty members presented awards to outstanding students from various language disciplines. Each year, the Department of Classical and Modern Languages hosts a reception to honor the accomplishments of students. Awards given to “Outstanding Students” for the various major disciplines, graduating with […]
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Dr. Wen Earns Academic Innovation Award
June 27, 2022Dr. Wen was recognized for incorporating the latest research findings from second language studies and learning sciences. This method promotes the creative use of the target language as the goal of learning. Learning a second language in this way leads to integrated and dynamic knowledge of the language, which is easy to apply to new […]
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Ross Jones selected as ‘22-’23 Fulbright Mentor for Galicia, Spain.
April 28, 2022Congratulations to MAE alumnus Ross Jones (BA Spanish ‘20, MAE-FL Instruction ‘21) for being selected as the ‘22-’23 Fulbright Mentor for Galicia, Spain. In addition to his duties as a mentor for the 40 other Fulbright grantees in the region, Ross will also teach English in a local high school. Ross writes, “I am very […]
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Zyanya Hernández wins prestigious award from the Spanish Government.
Congratulations to recent CML graduate (BA Spanish and French ’20) and MAE-FL Instruction (’21) Zyanya Hernández for being chosen to teach in Spain next year!!! Zyanya writes, “I am honored to be a part of the NALCAP Auxiliaries program for the 2022-2023 Spanish School Year in Andalucía, Spain. I will be serving as an English Teacher […]
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Abby Gunn wins two awards
April 26, 2022Congratulations to MAE graduate student Abby Gunn (BA French ’21, MAE-FL Instruction ’22) for winning TWO HUGE awards: one from Truman’s Education Department and another from the Foreign Language Association of Missouri (FLAM). Abby writes: “I am so honored to receive the Outstanding Graduate Student in Education K-12 award. I couldn’t have done it without […]