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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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…
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…
Yingzhao Chen, a Ph.D. candidate in MSU’s Second Language Studies (SLS) and Cognitive Science programs, is one of only six doctoral students from across the country to receive a $5,000 Duolingo Research Grant.
Started in 2017 by Assistant Professor of Linguistics Karthik Durvasula and then-MSU undergraduate student Bethany Dickerson, the Bias in Linguistics project has grown into a multi-university research effort intent on raising awareness of the various forms of bias that affect professional advancement at academic institutions.
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Three College of Arts & Letters students and one alumna are studying critical foreign languages this summer thanks to the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) they received from the U.S. Department of State. …
MSU College of Arts & Letters student Darby Grachek graduated this spring with a Master’s of Arts in Linguistics and says it was her MSU education and experiences here that…
The MI Diaries project, run by MSU’s Sociolinguistics Lab, is providing MSU students with valuable research experience, and many of those students have been with the project from its beginning…