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On April 20th, the students of Spanish 102 had a rare opportunity to converse with Basilio Vargas, miner from Potosí, Bolivia and protagonist of the critically acclaimed documentary The Devil’s Miner (2005), filmed when he was just fourteen years old. The students, … Continue reading
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Promoting Social Agency and Global Fluency Through Technology-Based Projects Adriana Merino, Spanish 101 y 102 course coordinator, and Jovana Zujevic, Spanish lecturer, gave a presentation at the NERALLT (New England Regional Association for Language Learning Technology) Annual Conference at Yale … Continue reading
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SPA 102 Global Citizenship and Social Commitment Project By Adriana Merino (course coordinator) SPA 102 students engaged in a semester-long project called Social Commitment as Social Change Agents. The aim of the project was to explore relevant real-world issues within the Spanish-speaking … Continue reading
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Building a video corpus and developing authentic oral input activities to support language learners This year’s conference for the Northeast Association for Language Learning Technology (NEALLT) was held at UPenn in Philadelphia and Princeton Spanish & Portuguese Lecturers Catalina Méndez … Continue reading
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Developing Intercultural Pragmatic Competence in Elementary-level Spanish learners. Lecturers Adriana Merino and Andie Faber recently presented their work at the 50th NorthEast Modern Language Association Convention in Washington, D.C. Their talk, “Developing Intercultural Pragmatic Competence in Elementary L2 Students through … Continue reading
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Educating global citizens while promoting diversity, inclusion, and social justice By Adriana Merino, Paloma Moscardó-Valles, and Sylvia Zetterstrand Merino, Moscardó and Zetterstrand presented at the 100th Annual American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) conference, in Salamanca, Spain, during the week of June … Continue reading
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Final Video Contest Project in SPA 102 By: Adriana Merino (course coordinator), Jeannie Byrne, Andie Faber, Luis Goncalves, Manuel Malia, Daniela Salcedo, Le Anne Spino-Seijas The SPA 102 students engaged in a semester-long project called Global citizenship and social commitment: Be the … Continue reading
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SPO lecturers and graduate students volunteered as acting voices for the Aprendo online learning platform By Adriana Merino In May, 2018, Spanish lecturers and graduate students brought to life the characters in the dialogues featured in Aprendo, acting as voice … Continue reading
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Collaborative Pedagogies for Advanced L2 Composition By Mariana Bono and Adriana Merino Language learning has traditionally been regarded as a private cognitive activity geared towards the acquisition of a linguistic code. From a sociocultural perspective, however, collaborative dialogue, in which participants … Continue reading
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Integrating Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Through Project-Based Learning By Adriana Merino, Paloma Moscardó-Vallés and Sylvia Zetterstrand Project-Based Instruction has been found to lead to more effective learning, to the furthering of both translingual and transcultural competence. The core objective of … Continue reading
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