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Department of Modern Languages

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Grants

2016

  • Janice McGregor received $10,000 from the Faculty Enhancement Program for the following research project: Authenticity, language, and interaction in a study abroad context.
  • Janice McGregor and Sara Luly received $3,500 from the International Incentive Grant for JLU Gießen & LMU Munich: Site visits and program development.
  • Laura Valentín-Rivera and Li Yang were awarded a USRG grant of $7,824.99 in the Spring for their research on Writing Processes across Two Languages and Working Modes: Understanding Individual and Collaborative Writing Strategies in Spanish and Chinese FL contexts.
  • Laura Valentín-Rivera and Angélique Courbou received $5,000 from the Alternative/Open Textbook Initiative to develop an open access textbook for their Spanish Composition and Grammar course.

2015

  • Melinda A. Cro was awarded a Faculty Development Award in the amount of $1000 to support her travel to the MLA annual convention in Vancouver, BC, Canada to present her research. (2015)
  • ​Janice McGregor received partial FDA support to travel to Toronto, Ontario. She will present the paper "Conflicting competences: Negotiating 'enoughness' in study abroad" at AAAL (American Association for Applied Linguistics) in March 2015.
  • Laura Valentín-Rivera was awarded a USRG grant of $2,836.25 in the Fall, for her research on Understanding the Writing Practices of Spanish Heritage Language Learners.

2014

  • Melinda Cro and Kathleen Antonioliin collaboration with the French section, received a competitive "Tournees" grant from the French government to host a French film festival at K-State this Spring. (2014)
  • Janice McGregor received FDA support to travel to Brisbane, Australia in August, 2014 and presented a paper "Metalinguistic L2 learner talk-in-interaction in a study abroad context" at the AILA (International Association of Applied Linguistics) World Congress. She was also invited to give a talk as a part of the Applied Linguistics Seminar Series at the University of Queensland called "Language learning, desire, and identity in a study abroad".

Awards

2015

  • Douglas Benson was one of four University Distinguished Teaching Scholars invited to participate in a panel on Staying Motivated as a Teacher for the Faculty Excellence in Teaching Exchange (FETE) Teaching Workshop, sponsored by the K-State Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) on January 30-31, 2015.

2014

  • María Teresa DePaoli was one of only four, out of more than 400 nominated, awarded the Verizon Nueva Latina Estrella Award 2014. Dr. DePaoli was the recipient in the category of education.
  • Laura Kanost received the Excellence in Engagement Award for for her project, “Language and Culture with Community: Conversation, Bilingual Leadership, and Translation through Service Learning.”   
  • Li Yang was awarded the Faculty Enhancement Program funding ($10,000) and the Open/Alternative Textbook Initiative ($2,250) for the design and development of an instructional website that teaches students how to appropriately communicate in Chinese, which is available to anyone who is interested in learning about Chinese in the form of an online textbook. 

2013

  • Laura Kanost selected as one of the three distinguished faculty members from Kansas colleges as 2013 engaged faculty fellows.