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Japanese-English Language Exchange Takes Learning Beyond the Classroom

February 22, 2022

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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MSU Faculty Member and Alum Win National Foreign Language Education Award

February 21, 2022

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…

Award / Diversity, Equity and Inclusion / News / Student

Linguistics Student Wins at Social Justice Art Festival

February 16, 2022

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…

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NEH Grant to Develop Open-Source Code for Self-Recording Mobile App

February 14, 2022

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.

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Advanced Lessons for Students of Russian Revived by MSU Professor

February 11, 2022

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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College Honors Faculty Promoted in 2021

December 15, 2021

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.

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Doctoral Graduate Raises the Bar for African Language Instruction

December 10, 2021

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…

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Ph.D. Student Wins Richard Pemberton Prize for Best Research Paper

December 9, 2021

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…

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SLS Ph.D. Student Receives MwALT Best Paper Award

December 8, 2021

Dylan Burton, a third year Ph.D. student in MSU’s Second Language Studies Program, received the 2021 Best Student Paper Award by the Midwest Association of Language Testers (MwALT) for his…

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German Studies Alumna Earns Women in German Dissertation Prize

December 7, 2021

Melissa Elliot, who earned a Ph.D. in German Studies from Michigan State University, recently was awarded the Women in German Dissertation Prize for her dissertation, Forgotten Notes: Narrative Film Music…