Erin Doyle (French), “Using Comic
Strips to Teach French Pronunciation.”
Faculty activities
Indiana State University
November 2004
Distinguished Alumnus
During his Homecoming Weekend visit,
Dr. John H. Flores, 2004 ISU
Distinguished Alumnus, urged students
in two Spanish 201 classes to further
their language studies and spoke fondly
of his days as a student in our
Department. A nationally recognized
school administrator, Superintendent of
Schools for the City of East Chicago,
and an ardent supporter of foreign
language education, Dr. Flores is
currently investigating scholarship
funding for East Chicago students to
attend ISU in Spanish and ESL/ENL
teaching.
The place to be
Indianapolis was where it was all
happening last weekend: A number of
our colleagues and students attended and
made presentations at IFLTA (Indiana
Foreign Language Teachers Assoc.),
Nov. 4-6, and INTESOL (Indiana
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other
Languages), Nov. 5. Presenters at
IFLTA included: Prof. Lisa Calvin
(Spanish), “Cultural Lessons from the
Art of Carmen Lomas Garza”; Prof.
Tony Macheak and LLL grad student
Prof. Keri Berg has recently made 2
conference presentations: "Off the Map:
Mobility and the Reading of Paris, 18301848" at City Limits? The European
City 1400-1900, U. of Manitoba, Oct. 2;
and “Family Values: Napoléon III,
Photography and Portraits of Empire” at
Nineteenth-Century French Studies,
Washington U., Oct. 30. Prof. Berg has
also been awarded an IT Innovations
Mini-Grant for “Immigrant Voices:
Integrating Literature, Language,
Culture and Technology.”
Prof. and Chair Ron Dunbar has been
appointed chair of ISU’s search
committee for an Acting Director of the
Honors Program to replace Prof. Don
Jennermann, who will begin his preretirement transitional leave in January.
LLL speakers
Nov.-Dec. speakers at LLL 600 (meets
5:30-7:10 in room B[asement]-03, CE)
are: Nov. 2 Angelo DiSalvo (Spanish);
Nov. 9 (Karina Marcelo, Hispanic
Services Coordinator, Marion Co.
Prosecutor’s Office, Indianapolis:
“Interpreting in the Context of Criminal
Law”; Nov. 16 Lisa Calvin (Spanish);
Nov. 23 Toshihiko Uemura (LLL
Visiting Scholar); Nov. 30 Randy Green
(Dir. of Interlink Language Center,
Assoc. Director for International
Student/Scholar Services); Dec. 7
Dennis Sellers (LLL MA student).
Prof. Angelo DiSalvo will be the guest
speaker in LING 4/513 Linguistic
Diversity in the US on Nov. 9.
During International Education Week
the following LLL students will make
presentations: “My Experiences as a
Fulbright Scholar in the US,” Nov. 15,
2:00, HMSU 307, Farooq Al Tameemy
(Yemen); “Educational Systems around
the World,” Nov. 18, 9:30-10:30, S 297,
Alejandra Alvarado (Costa Rica), Antje
Meyke (Germany), Maria Sizintseva
(Russia), and Shu Chun Tseng (Taiwan);
“International Students’ Perspectives on
Education,” Nov. 18, 4:00-5:00, RO A108, Fouzia Ben Cheikh (Morocco),
Deborah Haberkorn (Australia), ChaoHui Liu (Taiwan), Junya Tamagami
(Japan), and Li-Min Tsai (Taiwan).
30. Both movies in German with
English subtitles, shown from 6:00-8:00
PM in the LLL Lab.
Translation Internships?
’Meruhcan Cultcha
The Department has received an inquiry
from the Wabash Valley Correctional
Facility at Carlisle concerning possible
translation internships for our Spanish
students. More information as it
becomes available.
Lunches
French Table – Thursdays 11:30-12:30,
HMSU, near the Campus Cupboard.
German Stammtisch – Wednesdays
12:00-1:00, HMSU, near the Information
Booth. AND NEW, BEGINNING THIS
MONTH: monthly gatherings at
Gerhardt’s Bierstube! This month: Nov.
11 at 6:00 PM. Contact Ulla Belstra for
details/directions.
Linguistics Lunch – Wed., Nov. 17,
12:00-12:50 in RO A-106 – real tables
this time! Dessert and coffee provided.
All LLL members and friends are
welcome; multilingual discourse
encouraged.
Movies
German movies
Himmel über Berlin (“Wings of Desire”
[sic], based on poems by R. M. Rilke) on
Tue., Nov. 9; and
Nirgendwo in Afrika (“Nowhere in
Africa,” Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award 2002,) on Tue., Nov.
Distance conference
13 students and several LLL faculty
members attended the McGraw-Hill
Teleconference on Testing and
Assessment in the Second Language
Classroom in our Lab on Oct. 27.
Thanks to Profs. Betty Phillips & Leslie
Barratt and our intrepid Lab staffers for
setting up this event.
As everyone surely knows, ISU will
observe an Official Holiday from Wed.
Nov. 24-Fri. Nov. 26, inclusive. Time to
write those papers, make the exam-study
outlines, and try to have a little bite to
eat – on Thurs., perhaps? According to
various sources, Thanksgiving (Day) in
the US is our version of the “harvest
festivals” that are known all over the
world. After various tweaks over the
centuries, Pres. FDR set the day to the
current “fourth Thurs. in Nov.” in 1939.
Watch for further developments.
Meanwhile, everybody have a great
break. When we get back on Mon. the
29th, it will be week #15 of 16 (classes)!
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