Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Hope College, Holland MI 49423
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EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Germanic Linguistics, University of California Berkeley, 1992
• University of Vienna, Austria, 1990-92
• M.A. Germanic Linguistics, University of California Berkeley, 1986
• B.A. German, University of California Berkeley, 1984 University of Göttingen, Germany, 1982-83

TEACHING

• Hope College, all levels of German, Russian, Interdisciplinary Studies. 1992-present.
• Johnson Controls, Inc. Beginning and advanced German, 1999-2004
• UC Berkeley, Graduate Student Instructor, 1st, 2nd and 3rd year German Language courses, 1984-90

HONORS & GRANTS

• DAAD GAIST grant (€18,000) 2003-2006
• FIPSE General Program Grant for Auf geht's! ($495,870) 2001-2004
• Ameritech Distance Collaboration Grant ($50,000) 1998-1999
• Fulbright Research Fellowship, Vienna 1990-1992
• FLAS Fellowships, Serbo-Croatian 1988-89, Russian 1986-87
• IREX Slavonic Studies Fellowship, Bulgaria 1986

PUBLICATIONS

• Weiter gehts! Intermediate German Language and Culture (Live Oak Multimedia, 2007)
• Web-based Instruction and Assessment in a German Culture Course. In: Mezeske und Mezeske, eds. 2007. Beyond Quizzes: Creative Assessments in the College Classroom. JB - Anker Series.
• Auf geht's! Beginning German Language and Culture (Live Oak Multimedia, 2005). Project Director and co-author/contributor
• Implications of Research on Human Memory for CALL Design. (CALICO Journal 20.1, 2002) p.99-126
• Umlaut Phenomena in Early New High German Discourse: A Pragmatic Approach (Peter Lang, 1999)
• On the Semiotics of Germanic Alliterative Verse (Interdigitations: Essays for Irmengard Rauch, Peter Lang 1999)
• On the Pragmatics of Umlaut in Early New High German (New Insights in Germanic Linguistics, 1996)
• co-translator, Trauth, Gregory, ed. 1996. A Lexicon of Language and Linguistics, Routledge

PRESENTATIONS

• "Less is More: Revising Beginning and Intermediate Undergraduate German," ACTFL Annual Conference, San Antonio Nov. 17, 2007.
• "Teaching Beginning German with Auf geht's! Results from the Field." ACTFL annual meeting, Nov. 18, 2005
• "Integrated Courseware for Beginning Language Instruction" CALICO annual meeting, May 20, 2005
• "Evaluating Multimedia Courseware for Language Learning." Language Symposium 2005: Bridging Receptive and Productive Skills, Univ. of Chicago, May 143, 2005
• "A multimedia course for beginning German." Michigan Academy Annual Meeting, March 4, 2005.
• "Auf geht's! A new FIPSE-funded model for foreign language education." ACTFL annual meeting Nov. 20, 2004
• "Integrating culture into 1st year curricula." MFLA annual meeting. October 28, 2004
• "Auf geht's! A Multimedia Course for First-Year College German." CALICO annual meeting, June 12, 2004.
• "Auf geht's! A new paradigm in language learning." Michigan Foreign Language Association annual meeting, October 23, 2003
• "Using Multimedia in 1st Year German: The Auf geht's! project." IALLT bi-annual meeting, June 21, 2003.
• "Auf geht's! A multimedia course for first year German. NECTFL annual meeting, April 10-12, 2003.
• "Auf geht's! Language courseware at the crossroads." Michigan Academy annual meeting, March 22, 2003.
• "Rethinking learning environments: Maximizing use of time, space and language learning media." Central States Conference annual meeting March 8, 2003.
• "Auf geht's! A multimedia first year German course." ACTFL annual meeting, November 23, 2002.
• "A Door to German Culture and Language: The AATG Supersite." Michigan Foreign Language Association, October 17, 2002.
• "Psycholinguistics and CALL: Suggestions for Improved CALL Interactions." CALICO annual meeting, March 29, 2002
• "Computers and Language Teaching: What Every Practicioner Needs to Know." Invited Presentation, Johns Hopkins University, March 29, 2001.
• "Cognitive Strategies in CALL: Matching Interactivity with Learning Goal." CALICO annual meeting, March 16, 2001.
• "Implications of Memory and Perception Research for CALL design." CALICO annual meeting, June 1, 2000.
• "Germany: Live! Harnessing a new paradigm for language learning." ACTFL annual meeting Nov. 18, 1999.
• "Language Learning in the Digital Age." Invited panal presentation, PAMLA annual meeting. Nov. 6, 1999.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

• CALICO Executive Board, 2003-2006
• AATG tech committee, 1998-2003
• Goethe Institut Netzwerk Trainer
• AATG, AATG-MI, ACTFL, LSA, MLA
• Great Lakes College Association (GLCA) Board 1998-2001
• Reviewer for CALICO journal, FIPSE, LLTI, FLA

TEACHING LANGUAGES
German, Russian, Dutch

REFERENCES

• Professor Irmengard Rauch, German Department, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 (510) 642-2003
• Professor Sander de Haan, Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages, Hope College, Holland MI 49423 (616) 395-7560
• Professor Ion Agheana, Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages, Hope College, Holland MI 49423 (616) 395-7557