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Read more about the article Professors Publish Open Educational Resource for Students of Persian
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Professors Publish Open Educational Resource for Students of Persian

April 12, 2023

Nahid Shiran and Rajiv Ranjan have collaborated to publish a new open textbook to increase the accessibility of the study of the Persian language. The book, Basic Persian, is an…

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Publication Round-Up for Fall 2022

February 10, 2023

Here are some of the works published by members of the Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures Department during the Fall 2022 Semester. The department would like to congratulate everyone on their accomplishments!

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Read more about the article College of Arts & Letters Part of National Blueprint for Advancing College Equity and Excellence
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College of Arts & Letters Part of National Blueprint for Advancing College Equity and Excellence

January 13, 2023

As a member of the Boyer 2030 Commission, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University, participated in the development of a national blueprint…

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Read more about the article Professors of African Languages Publish Book
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Professors of African Languages Publish Book

October 17, 2022

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…

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Read more about the article MSU Faculty Member and Alum Win National Foreign Language Education Award
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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…

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Read more about the article SLS Ph.D. Student Receives MwALT Best Paper Award
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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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Faculty Appointed Co-Editors of Die Unterrichtspraxis/ Teaching German

December 19, 2016

Angelika Kraemer, Executive Associate Director of CeLTA Angelika Kraemer and Theresa Schenker have been appointed by the Executive Council to serve as co-editors of Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, starting with Volume 50, Issue…

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Read more about the article Wolff’s book on Sebald’s Hybrid Poetics now in paperback
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Wolff’s book on Sebald’s Hybrid Poetics now in paperback

June 20, 2016

Professor Lynn Wolff's monograph, W.G. Sebald’s Hybrid Poetics: Literature as Historiography, has been released in paperback (2016). Originally published in 2014, Sebald's Hybrid Poetics appeared in the series Interdisciplinary German…

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