Cheryl Brown (Foreign Language) presented a paper on Nov. 4 at the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association conference, which met in Franklin, Tenn. Brown, along with two students, Meg Bilodeau and Hannah Hyde, presented Imaginary Voyages to Real Places: Your Students as Tour Guides. In this paper, students presented the results of their research of the history and touristic sites of interest of a Francophone city. The various steps and assignments of this project were outlined and handouts of assignments were made available. Â Students presented excerpts from the written and oral versions of their tours. Â
Qingjun (Joan) Li (Asian Studies and Chinese Language) presented a workshop at the annual meeting. During the workshop, titled Learning Chinese, Turning Chinese: Incorporating Culture into Contextualized Chinese Teaching, Li demonstrated the use of Hammerly’s behavioral culture protocols into the teaching of Chinese language through conceptual ideas and experiential learning activities.
