As a self-proclaimed language enthusiast, MSU senior Paige Korner has known since high school that she wanted to study Chinese in college. Since making the decision to major in Chinese,…
Professor Johanna Schuster-Craig was invited to speak at the Global Education Forum at American University in 2016. You can watch Professor Schuter-Craig's talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLurrWC12ak&t=1832s&ab_channel=AUcollege https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLurrWC12ak&t=1832s&ab_channel=AUcollege Read more about…
Contemporary German Literature: Live! Ulrich Peltzer and Kerstin Hensel In fall 2016, the German Program hosted two contemporary German authors: Ulrich Peltzer and Kerstin Hensel. Several events, linked to undergraduate…
Nine international educators have been selected as Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTA) for the MSU Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages over the 2016-17 academic…
Michigan State University will use a three-year $1.2 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to lead a multi-university research project to improve the teaching of less commonly taught languages, or…
Christopher Murphy is a role model for international and language education and where those experiences can lead you. He speaks five different languages (English, French, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Spanish) and…
Miyuki Kamiya, an Instructor in MSU's Department of Linguistics, Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, recently worked with her former student, Tiara Harris, to compose a song for MSU's Japanese Language program.…
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…
Foreign language teachers play a pivotal role in creating global citizens, but some teachers lack confidence in their ability to speak in their nonnative tongue, which could undermine the quality…
Allison Tumas, a senior majoring in Arabic in the College of Arts & Letters, is one of two Michigan State University students who recently was awarded a Boren Scholarship to study languages…