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.
Given recent climate and weather-related events in Germany and the COP 26 Climate Summit in Glasgow in November, the German Program selected “Climate Change and Multilateralism” as the special theme for its advanced skill building courses (GRM 420 Advanced German and GRM 311 Business German) in Fall 2021.
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MSU senior Ren McCowan (majoring in Japanese with minors in TESOL and Linguistics) founded The Japanese-English Language Exchange (JELE) in 2020. JELE is recurring casual virtual chat between college students, passionate about practicing Japanese and English, that’s building connections here at MSU and across the globe.
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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…
Diana Cisneros, a junior majoring in Linguistics, won the Most Out-Of-The-Box Award at MSU’s fifth annual Social Justice Art Festival (SJAF) for her painting, titled Mikia Nemi Tunal Tit (The…
Assistant Professor of Linguistics Betsy Sneller was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to develop open-source code to create a self-recording mobile app, which will be critical for researchers who work with spoken data.
MSU Assistant Professor of Russian Shannon Donnally Quinn works with University of Wisconsin-Madison to save Russian language and cultural learning materials, the award-winning Russian Advanced Interactive Listening Series (RAILS) project.
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The College of Arts & Letters is pleased to recognize the faculty members who recently were promoted to full professor, associate professor, or associate professor-fixed term. These faculty were honored during special ceremonies at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center in October and November.
Although specific to African languages, Magdalyne “Maggie” Oguti Akiding’s approach to second language instruction could be adapted to teach most any foreign language and is raising the bar for African…
Ayşen Tuzcu, a Ph.D. student in MSU’s Second Language Studies program, has won the Richard Pemberton Prize awarded by the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL), which recognizes the best research paper…