Most people can recognize what words are real and which ones aren’t in the languages they know. However, sometimes a nonsense word might sneak through, especially when the word sounds…
A collaborative project focusing on “Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Africa: the History and Current Status of LGBTQ+ in Kenya,” led by College of Arts & Letters faculty Jonathan Choti and Danny Mendez, will…
Dr. Jonathan Choti, Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures, received the 2021-22 Network for Global Civic Engagement (NGCE) Grant to support a collaborative project in Naitolia Village of northern Tanzania.
The MSU Linguistic Student Organization (LSO) had its bi-annual Graduate Linguistics Expo at Michigan State (GLEAMS) on Friday, October 28, and Saturday, October 29, in Wells Hall. GLEAMS is a…
Dr. Jonathan Choti and Dr. Danny Mendez have received the 2022-2023 College of Arts & Letters Engaged Pedagogy and Programming Fund Grant to support their joint project in spring 2023.…
Dr. Galen Sibanda, Dr. Deo Ngonyani, and Dr. Jonathan Choti In September 2022, the Germany-based Language Science Press released a new book co-edited by Drs. Galen Sibanda, Deo Ngonyani, Jonathan…
Most ESL teachers are aware that all four skills of language teaching—reading, writing, listening and speaking—are important for language learning. However, there are often particular challenges to providing good activities…
The world of language teaching has faced enormous challenges in delivering quality education due to the abrupt transition to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the major challenges…
As an applied linguist with interests in language education, Peter De Costa is interested in how policy decisions impact language learning and teaching and is drawn to the identity, ideological, and emotional consequences of these decisions.
The highest national research award for foreign language education recently was awarded to the team of Xiaowan Zhang, MSU Ph.D. alumna in Second Language Studies; Paula Winke, Professor in MSU’s…