Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTAs) visit Wesleyan for one year to study as visiting graduate students and enhance students’ language learning instruction. They work under the supervision of Wesleyan’s language learning departments and bring valuable cultural exchange to Wesleyan’s language community! This year, we welcomed 9 new FLTAs and 2 returning FLTAs. Hailing from France,…
By Zaynah Almasri ’27 The Art of Lüften In German households, there is a practice called lüften: opening every window and door at the same time to let fresh air move through the house. It does not matter if it is freezing outside, raining sideways, or still dark out at five in the morning. The…
By Roxana Ayala ’27 I’ve been playing a game for the past five months: how many times can one person get sick in a single semester abroad? So far, the answer is four. With a weak immune system and a long history of catching whatever is going around (shout out WesPlague), it felt inevitable that I would…
By Zaynah Almasri ‘27 The Latin and Ballroom Dance Team just had their third annual showcase, and I got to be a part of it woohoo! Dancing on stage alongside people who started as teammates but have become real friends, I felt this mix of excitement, pride, and pure joy. It wasn’t just about performing—it…
Each year, Wesleyan welcomes a group of Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTA) from around the world to facilitate linguistic and cultural exchange! While here, the FLTAs will help teach their native language to Wesleyan students while also taking a few courses themselves. This year, we welcome 11 FLTAs from around the world, teaching Arabic, Chinese,…
by Oleksandra Volakova Every year, Wesleyan welcomes new FLTAs (Foreign Language Teaching Assistants) from all over the world – foreign students interested in teaching others their native language and immersing themselves into foreign culture. 11 people, coming from different backgrounds, help Wesleyan students to understand the culture and language better, becoming an irreplaceable support to…
by Julia Gardner Stepping outside of the bubble of fellow study-abroad students and engaging with your host community is one of the most rewarding– but sometimes one of the most challenging– parts of studying abroad. For Isabel Gill ‘26, the search for deeper immersion in her host community led not only to an internship with…
by Oleksandra Volakova The very first event of International Education Week – a week celebrating cultures and languages all around the globe – was organized by representatives from various cultures worldwide. Wesleyan’s Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTAs) collaborated with Fries Center for Global Studies to organize a FLTA Carnival – a festival featuring specific games,…
While in Ecuador, Ollie has witnessed the environmental destruction a community in the Amazon is fighting while trying to preserve a healthy and sustainable environment for their children. They saw the ways in which cultural and colonial biases allow for companies to illegally extract resources from this region of Ecuador without significant consequences or oversight.
by Ana Pérez Gironés Teaching Spanish K-12: Second Language Pedagogy (SPAN 204/EDST 204/GBST 318) is a service-learning CLAC course in which students learn about basic concepts of language learning and teaching while engaging in supporting Spanish classes at Lawrence School, one of the Middletown public elementary schools. During the first half of the semester, Wesleyan…
