Written by Lucía Guerrero, Spanish FLTA (2020-2021) This week during one of my tertulias, one student Zoomed in from a very sunny field on campus, raving over how great the weather had been. The next day, another student told me that it’d snowed. Sitting just above the equator, my home city of Bogotá doesn’t have…
By Ana Pérez-Gironés, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Sometimes one does not have to travel far to step out of Wesleyan and into the world. In fact, sometimes one does not have to move at all. If the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it is to utilize technological resources to “be” with other…
The Kennesaw Tower Undergraduate Foreign Language Research Journal, hosted in the Department of Foreign Languages at Kennesaw State University, invites submissions from advanced undergraduate students. Who can submit: Any undergraduate university student who has taken at least 1 senior-level course in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, or FLED (Foreign Language Education Department) may submit…
With study abroad suspended for the spring 2021 semester, the Office of Study Abroad looked for opportunities to continue to foster global and intercultural learning. For the first time, OSA is able to focus on the 60% of Wesleyan students who do not study abroad and ways for them to develop intercultural knowledge, skills, and…
Written by Camilla Zamboni, Assistant Professor of the Practice in Italian, and Natalia Román Alicea, Assistant Director, Intercultural and Language Learning In a trying time of social distancing and reduced interaction, language units at Wesleyan are acutely aware of how important it is to preserve connections across languages and cultures. Language learning relies and thrives…
Written by Natalia Román Alicea, Assistant Director, Intercultural and Language Learning, and Camilla Zamboni, Assistant Professor of the Practice in Italian As the covid-19 pandemic continues to affect Wesleyan’s study abroad programs and the ability of our students to travel abroad, language faculty, Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTAs), and the Assistant Director of Intercultural and…
Written by Amad Amedy ’19 I woke up in my apartment on the morning of March 12 to a phone flooded with messages from friends in the US. President Trump had announced a travel ban on people living in the European Union. Suddenly a wave of panic and uncertainty overwhelmed me. I was in Barcelona,…
Written by Inayah Bashir ’20 Amad Amedy ‘19, a neuroscience and behavior major from Nashville, Tennessee, won the Fulbright Open Study/Research Award to Spain for 2019-2020 and is conducting schizophrenia research in Barcelona. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is a federally funded program established by Senator J. William Fulbright after World War II to promote…
Looking for a rewarding experience tutoring children? Come join the Wesleyan ELL tutoring program! We are partnered with Woodrow Wilson Middle School to provide tutoring services for English Language Learners. Wesleyan tutors work closely with students who speak a variety of languages; this semester’s ELLs speak French, Lao, Patois, Spanish, Turkish, Urdu, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.…
