JoAnne Van Tuyl wanted to provide more opportunities for first and second year students to speak Russian in and out of class. Her goal was to build students’ comfort and confidence with taking the “risk” of speaking Russian, and to inspire students’ sense of Russian as a real language and not just a structured game of grammar played with Cyrillic letters.
Joan Munné, Lecturer, Romance Studies Joan Munné was one of fourteen faculty and one graduate student who participated in a Spring 2010 CIT Fellowship for language faculty interested in exploring …
Dan Wang, Instructor, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Dan Wang was one of fourteen faculty and one graduate student who participated in a Spring 2010 CIT Fellowship for language faculty …
Mbaye Lo wanted to use VoiceThread as a tool to create oral activities and assess oral language skills. Lo found limited research evidence that integrating technology and web based-assessment tools improve the core topics of psycholinguistics: comprehension, acquisition and production. He hoped that his use and research into the effectiveness of VoiceThread in enhancing language production would provide data that could enrich the literature on this topic.
Joan Clifford, Assistant Director of the Spanish Language Program, teaches Spanish 106CS and wanted to design a final course project requiring students to synthesize the course material with their service experience, while reflecting on the course’s multiple curricular goals.
Graciela Vidal, Lecturing Fellow, Romance Studies Graciela Vidal was one of fourteen faculty and one graduate student who participated in a Spring 2010 CIT Fellowship for language faculty interested in …
Germain Choffart, Lecturing Fellow, French Program, Romance Studies Germain Choffart was one of fourteen faculty and one graduate student who participated in a Spring 2010 CIT Fellowship for language faculty …
Laura Florand, Lecturer, French Program, Romance Studies and Brenna Heitzman, Graduate Student, French Program, Romance Studies and Women’s Studies Program Laura Florand was one of fourteen faculty who, together with …
Deborah Reisinger, Lecturer, French Program, Romance Studies Deb Reisinger was one of fourteen faculty and one graduate student who participated in a Spring 2010 CIT Fellowship for language faculty interested …
Lisa Merschel enhanced a project (Tarea Calificada) she has used in her in course for several semesters. For the project, students research a location where DukeEngage has programs, present information about that destination, and create a letter asking for funding from DukeEngage to embark on their travel to this place.
