Languages and Linguistics
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Truman State University Academic Innovation Award: Stacy Davis and Michelle Boyd
November 17, 2020Congratulations to Stacy Davis and Michelle Boyd, Fall 2020 winners of the Truman State University Academic Innovation Award. In “‘Flipping’ the Language Classroom: Using Flipgrid to Increase Student Participation,” Dr. Davis examines the use of Flipgrid, a free social learning platform, that allows for more student communication in the target language outside of the classroom. With […]
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Truman Alumna Michaela Hylen-Parisi makes special guest appearance
October 22, 2020Truman Alumna Michaela Hylen-Parisi (Class of 2018) made a special guest appearance in Dr. Stacy Davis’s CML 608 Methods of Foreign Language Instruction course on Wednesday, October 21, 2020. Ms. Parisi, who now teaches French at Raymore Peculiar HS in Kansas City, shared an interactive workshop and engaging discussion with our future language educators about […]
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Rho Rho Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi named an Honor Chapter
October 2, 2020Truman State University’s Rho Rho Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, was named an Honor Chapter for its outstanding activities in 2019-20, the 27th consecutive year Truman has earned this prestigious distinction, which represents the longest continuous “Honor Chapter”-run in the 100-year-history of Sigma Delta Pi. Each summer, the 627 chapters […]
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Dr. Carlo Annelli publishes “Teachers, Students and Social Margins on the Italian Screen.”
August 21, 2020Dr. Carlo Annelli recently published an article entitled, “Teachers, Students and Social Margins on the Italian Screen,” in the Spring 2020 issue of Italica: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Italian. The article examines the narrative affinities shared by six telefilmic and cinematic works centered on student/educator dynamics in marginalized communities.
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Dr. José Carreño Medina publishes El México ausente en Octavio Paz
August 20, 2020During the fall semester of 2019, Dr. José Carreño Medina completed the manuscript of an academic book entitled El México ausente en Octavio Paz, which has been recently published in Spain by Iberoamericana/Vervuert (August 2020). Using post-colonial and trans-modern literary theories, Dr. Carreño Medina analyzes the historical and political process of how the mestizaje discourse articulated by Octavio […]
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Faculty Scholarship Grant awarded to Dr. Stacy L. Davis
April 14, 2020Dr. Stacy L. Davis has been chosen to receive a $1,400 Faculty Scholarship Grant from the Office of Academic Affairs to begin work on a book manuscript. Working with two Truman students, Kathleen Placke and Claire Benevento, Dr. Davis will begin compiling short stories by Spain’s foremost feminist writer, Emilia Pardo Bazán, that deal with emigration and the […]
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United Speakers – Black History Month
March 2, 2020United Speakers is constantly working to find creative ways to help the Congolese population of Kirksville expand their knowledge of the English language. As this month is Black History month they have been teaching lessons that center around the theme of African American artists. Junior, Taj Butler has been striving to create interactive lessons about […]
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CML/MAE visit ATSU
January 21, 2020Shortly before winter break, MAE student Ian Crane and pre-MAE students Zyanya Hernandez and Adrianna Ovalle worked at ATSU to help in patient simulations in Spanish. Accompanied by their advisor, Dr. Stacy Davis (CML/ED), these future Bulldog language instructors had a great time building cross-campus and community connections. Keep up the good work!!
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Dr. Viguier and senior French student Michael Moore presented at the ACTFL Convention
December 2, 2019From November 22 to November 24, Dr. Audrey Viguier and senior French major Michael Moore traveled to Washington D.C. to participate in the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Conference’s (ACTFL) annual convention and world languages expo. ACTFL is dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages […]
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TSU and ATSU Spanish Patient Simulations
November 8, 2019On Thursday, November 7th, Dr. Stacy Davis (CML/ED) took pre-MAE students Zyanya Hernandez and Adrianna Ovalle and MAE student Ian Crane to ATSU’s Performance Assessment Center. Our future Bulldog language teachers were hosted by ATSU’s Medical Spanish Club to perform patient simulations in Spanish. We loved forming cross-campus connections as Truman helped ATSU medical students […]