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Read more about the article Instructor’s Song Performed by Japanese Students
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Instructor’s Song Performed by Japanese Students

June 30, 2016

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.…

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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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Read more about the article Language Teachers Facing a Confidence Conundrum
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Language Teachers Facing a Confidence Conundrum

May 18, 2016

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…

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Read more about the article Student Awarded Boren Scholarship to Study Arabic Abroad
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Student Awarded Boren Scholarship to Study Arabic Abroad

April 28, 2016

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…

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Read more about the article De Costa Presented with Emerging Scholar Award
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De Costa Presented with Emerging Scholar Award

April 15, 2016

Peter De Costa, assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics, Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, has earned the 2016 Emerging Scholar Award of the Language and Social Processes Special Interest Group…

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Read more about the article Russian Professor Receives AT&T Instructional Technology Award of Excellence
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Russian Professor Receives AT&T Instructional Technology Award of Excellence

April 1, 2016

Two courses taught by Shannon Spasova, assistant professor of Russian Studies, are being recognized among the best at Michigan State University when it comes to incorporating technology in ways that enhance teaching…

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Read more about the article Learning Mandarin from Birds
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Learning Mandarin from Birds

March 16, 2016

Catherine Ryu, associate professor of Japanese literature and culture, has received a patent for the technology behind her languagelearning game, Picky Birds. Scholars of the Mandarin Chinese language can learn a…

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Learning Mandarin from Birds

March 16, 2016

Catherine Ryu, associate professor of Japanese literature and culture, has received a patent for the technology behind her languagelearning game, Picky Birds. Scholars of the Mandarin Chinese language can learn a…

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A Passion For Bridging Cultures

March 3, 2016

Tyler Karty, BA ’16 Arabic, Crop and Soil Sciences Tyler Karty is used to the puzzled look he receives when he tells people he’s studying Arabic and Crop and Soil…

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Read more about the article 2016 Linguistics and Languages Department Alumni Reunion
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2016 Linguistics and Languages Department Alumni Reunion

February 4, 2016

The MSU Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages in the College of Arts & Letters will host its 2016 Alumni Reunion, Saturday April 9. MSU Linguistics…

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