Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm (Lecturer in Swedish, Department of German Studies) has been awarded funding to attend the AAAL 2009 Annual Conference (American Association for Applied Linguistics), where she will present a paper on ”Learning attitudinal meaning: empirical lessons from the Swedish language classroom”. Dr. Alm looks forward to exploring the broad range of topics, ideas and information offered at AAAL, from second language studies to language technology, for enhancing the Cornell Swedish program’s language classrooms and research projects.

Dr. Alm has also has been awarded funding to attend the 99th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies where she will present a paper on “The State and Position of Scholarship on Second Language Learning in Scandinavian Studies in North America.”

K.E. Bättig von Wittelsbach (Dept. of Romance Studies) was awarded funding to travel to Croatia and conduct research in the National and University Library. Her goal is to expand and update the course “Advanced Serbo-Croatian: Serbo-Croatian through Literature and Film” (SEBCR 302) which she developed several years ago. The updated version of this course will be taught in the fall of 2009.

Michela Baraldi (Lecturer in Italian, Dept. of Romance Studies) was awarded funding to travel to Rome, Italy to prepare for the DITALS certificate examination. This exam is recognized world-wide by Italian instructors and institutions as the principal credential needed to teach Italian as a second language.

Grit Matthias (Lecturer in German Studies) was awarded funding to research Internet-based language learning, the use of digital material in language instruction, and intercultural communication. She will focus on combining these three subjects and and is planning to attend conferences focusing on current research in this field.  She was also awarded funding to attend the CALICO (The Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) Conference in March 2009.

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Chrissy Hosea (Lecturer in Dutch, Dept. of German) was awarded funding to travel to the March 21-24 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Hosea will also attend the Language Testing Research Colloquim (LTRC) workshop on assessing listening skills comprehension.

Gunhild Liske (Senior Lecturer in German, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Language Program Director, Dept. Of German Studies) was awarded funding to travel to Jena, Germany in August 2009 for the International Conference for Teachers of German.