Shawn Loewen became enamored with languages at age 13 when his parents hired a private tutor to teach him Spanish. Despite his passion for being multilingual, he knew he couldn’t make…
Episode four of the Liberal Arts Endeavor Podcast is out! Our host, Dean Christopher P. Long, met with Shawn Loewen, Director of the Second Language Studies program, to talk about his work surrounding language acquisition.Loewen, who is…
Episode two of the Liberal Arts Endeavor Podcast is out! Our host, Dean Christopher P. Long, spoke with Associate Professor of Linguistics Paula Winke in her Wells Hall office about foreign and second language…
Professor of German Thomas Lovik, who recently retired from MSU's Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, is the 2019 recipient of the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation Post-Secondary Teacher Award. He…
Aline Godfroid, Associate Professor of Second Language Studies and TESOL, is being recognized for her outstanding research in the area of second language acquisition and recently was elected to the Executive Committee of the European Second Language…
For 70 years, Arabic was an official language of Israel. That changed last year with the passing of the Nation-State Bill, which became law on July 19, 2018, designating Hebrew…
The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has selected Paula Winke, Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics…
Episode seven of season three of the Liberal Arts Endeavor podcast is out! In this episode, Dean Christopher P. Long discusses why language changes over time with Suzanne Wagner, Associate…
Spotlight: Johanna Schuster-Craig My name is very German. My American parents named me “Yo-hanna,” and have always used the European pronunciation. When I was a small child, I remember often…
Spotlight - Christian Klein No one ever asked my friends, who intended to study medicine or engineering, for the reasons of their choices. But I was always asked why I…