Languages and Linguistics

  • Miranda Forbes wins GIASR grant

    October 3, 2022

    Congratulations 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 […]

  • Amy Norgard published a chapter in edited volume “Women in Classical Video Games”

    September 13, 2022

    Amy 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 […]

  • CML Awards Ceremony 2022

    August 1, 2022

    CML 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 […]

  • Dr. Wen Earns Academic Innovation Award

    June 27, 2022

    Dr. 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 […]

  • Ross Jones selected as ‘22-’23 Fulbright Mentor for Galicia, Spain.

    April 28, 2022

    Congratulations 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Abby Gunn wins two awards

    April 26, 2022

    Congratulations 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 […]

  • Dr. David Wen receives Academic Innovation Award

    April 25, 2022

    Dr. Wen was recognized for his “Creativity-Based Language Teaching” method. 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 […]

  • Elana Sanders-Braxton was elected as 2022-2023 Megale Prytanis (President)

    April 21, 2022

    On 9 April 2022 Truman Classics students and their advisors (Norgard and Thomas) attended the 94th Annual Convention of Eta Sigma Phi, the national collegiate honor society for the study of Classics. Truman students competed in Classics trivia games, participated in business meetings, listened to student papers, enjoyed a singer-songwriter’s original rendition of the Iliad, […]

  • Leah Anderson-Little received a Fulbright Scholarship to be an English Teaching Assistant in Galicia, Spain

    April 13, 2022

    Congratulations to Leah Anderson-Little (BA Spanish ‘21, MAE ’22) who has just received a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to be an English Teaching Assistant (ETA) in Galicia, Spain!! Leah will be there from September to June next year, assisting in a Spanish classroom as an English teacher. Currently finishing up her student teaching internship in Spanish/ESOL, […]