Lingua Franca a Bi-Annual Newsletter Published by Foreign Languages at Salem State UNIVERSITY Salemstate.Edu/Languages Volume 10 • Issue 2 • Spring 2013
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LINGUA FRANCA A BI-ANNUAL NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED BY FOREIGN LANGUAGES AT SaLEM STATE UNIVERSITY salemstate.edu/languages Volume 10 • Issue 2 • Spring 2013 “WE ARE THE WORLD...”: DEPARTMENT CHANGES NAME! INSIDE THIS ISSUE By: Elizabeth Blood, Chair We are the World page 1 As chair of the foreign languages strongly encouraged for all Departmental News page 2 department at Salem State University, majors and minors. The department Life in Lombardia page 3 I want to share some news about sponsors summer study abroad exciting changes in our department. programs in Canada, Italy, Spain and Next Year’s Teachers page 4 Effective September 1, 2013, we will Costa Rica, and we are in the process Language of Business page 5 officially be renamed the world of creating a summer program in Berlin, languages and cultures department, Germany. Study in other countries is Tale of Two Popes page 5 and we will be expanding our also available through the Center for Student Scholarships page 6 programs and language offerings. International Education. During the 2012-2013 academic year, We also encourage students to apply Translation Services page 6 the department expanded its language for post-baccalaureat fellowships to teach Couch Surfing in Sicily page 7 offerings to include seven languages: English abroad. Fellowships are available Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, in France, Italy and Spain and are funded Exchange Trip page 9 German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish. We by the governments of those offices. Miss Bala page 9 have also recently expanded our minor Next year, we will send three students to programs to include minors in Arabic Italy and one to France on fully funded Student’s “Amazing Race” page 10 Studies, French, Italian, Spanish, or world teaching assistantships! Peace Corps Volunteer page 11 languages (a combination of any two Our transformation is not complete, languages offered in the department). though, as we continue to explore new Poetry page 11 Best of all, beginning in fall 2013, we programs and new languages. Look for Departmental Awards page 12 will launch a new bachelor of arts in more courses in translation studies in world languages and cultures. Students the future, as we continue to grow Spanish Interpreter page 12 can still specialize in Spanish, including our department. List of Graduating Students page 12 our popular teacher licensure tracks for Spanish elementary and secondary education, but the new major also EDITORS: includes concentration options Jon Aske in either French or Italian. We aim to prepare students for Kenneth Reeds careers in the private sector, WEB PUBLICATION: government, education, or ssclinguafranca.wordpress.com nonprofit organizations where language skills, cross-cultural awareness JOIN SALEM STATE’S and critical thinking are valued assets. Our LANGUAGE CLUBS’ MAILING programs include a range LISTS & FACEBOOK GROUPS of courses in language, Visit This Page: culture and literature. All concentrations require an http://tinyurl.com/ssulanguageclubs internship course, as well FOREIGN LANGUAGES as a senior thesis project on a topic of the student’s choosing. TEL: 978.542.6258 Study abroad for a summer, [email protected] semester or an academic year is 1 This year’s Psi Sigma Iota induction ceremony ¿QUÉ PASA? QUOI DE NEUF? NOVITÀ? DEPARTMENT NEWS ABOUNDS DEPARTMENTAL NEWS WORLD LANGUAGES VIDEO: de Literatura Hispánica international Our undergraduate communications conference on Hispanic literatures NEW FACUltY IN GERMAN: Welcome intern, Catilin Provost, is working on a in the Dominican Republic, and the to J. Doug Guy, our newest part-time promotional video for the department to CIEF international conference on German instructor. Prof. Guy holds help encourage more students to study Francophone Studies in Greece. Dr. a BA from Indiana University and an languages at Salem State. If you are a Doll and Dr. Dávila Gonçalves also MA from Middlebury College and is current language student or alum of our presented their own original poetry at the current president of the American major or one of our minor programs and numerous events in the region. Faculty Association of Teachers of German. you are willing to be interviewed for the also published many research articles He will be teaching the Intermediate video, please contact Caitlin to set up an and books this year and a number of German sequence next year. appointment [email protected] them will be honored at the University’s FACUltY RESEARCH: Our dedicated Faculty Publications Celebration on May faculty continue to research, present at 2. To find out more about our areas of conferences and publish in their areas research, check out our faculty pages at of expertise. This year, faculty presented salemstate.edu/languages at the MaFLA regional conference for language teachers in Sturbridge, PHI SIGMA IOTA: Seventeen the ACTFL national conference for undergraduate and graduate students language teachers in Philadelphia, the (Vilma Bibeau, Melissa Carella, Bianca MLA and the NEMLA, national and Carreiro, Matthew Curley, Kelsey regional literary studies conferences in Delaney, Morgan Downs, David Gadbois, Boston, the NECTFL regional language Jeleiny Garcia Rijo, Angela Harling, teachers conference in Maryland, the Michael Hughes, Christopher Johanson, NECLAS national Latin American Studies Molly Pinto Madigan, Melida Sanchez, conference at Yale University, the Italian Patricia Sanchez, Laura Timmons, Studies conference at the University of Amanda Tower, Ai Toyoda), two faculty Pennsylvania, the ASEMA (Association members (Amanda Minervini, Julie for the Study of the Middle East and Whitlow), and four community members Africa) conference in Washington DC, (Giovanni Graziani, Paula Graziani, the JNCL and NCLIS joint meeting for Francis Mayo, Octavia Randolph) were The Department of World Languages and Cultures national committees on language policy inducted into our Phi Sigma Iota honor thanks Ronnette Wongus for her great first year working as the departmental secretary. in Washington DC, and the NEEAN society this spring. Find out more about We look forward to the next! conference on assessment at UMASS- our Honor Society at: salemstate.edu/ Amherst, the Congreso Internacional academics/23486.php 2 FUTURE TEACHERS OF ITALIAN PROGRAM examples of upcoming trends and current fashion in the windows of its luxurious Participants in the Future Teachers of Italian program are placed in shops such as Alexander McQueen, Burberry, Chanel, Fendi, Stella McCartney, English-language classrooms in Italy. Beyond building their résumé, Balenciaga, Prada, Versace, and numerous they also enjoy the opportunity to live abroad for at least one year. other designers whose clothes I will never The following is an article by Joshua Brown who is currently finishing be able to afford. Milan has given me an his year in Italy. After, are the profiles of the three students who will example of a real life of luxury and has inspired not only my fashion sense but be teaching there next year. also my outlook on art, business, food, and life in general. LIFE IN LOMBARDIA While being immersed in the Northern By: Joshua Brown Italian culture I have received a better comprehension of not only the language, Given the opportunity to work in a but of the people who live here. I find that foreign country in which I can practice the people here are very closed in regards a foreign language, while providing a to progression throughout the world in service to the young people who reside subjects such as gay rights, religion, and there, has always been a dream and women’s role in society. I have personally aspiration throughout my life. Thanks been discriminated against and have to the 2010 special agreement between also seen the effects of discrimination in SSU and school systems in Italy that my students, colleagues, and friends. At was facilitated by the Italian Consulate first, while hereI was appalled by these in Boston, this year I was given this discrepancies, however after living within opportunity to teach in one of the best this environment I have learned to take schools in the region of Lombardia, in each experience as an opportunity to Gallarate, at Liceo Scientifico Leonardo learn and, arguably most importantly, Da Vinci. Through the academic year of an opportunity to teach. I created a bond fall 2012- spring 2013 I am teaching as a with my students of being not only their mother-tongue English teacher, preparing teacher in regards to English, but also an lesson plans, living independently in a example of someone who is accepting foreign country, and most importantly I of different ways of life. I teach them am being immersed in a culture which not to tolerate, but to accept differences I have studied throughout my career in culture, gender, sexual orientation, as a college student. Along with an religion, race, and political ideas. This experience, such as the one I am currently Joshua Brown battle has been uphill and along the way undertaking, there are many setbacks and I have ran into many problems, but I difficulties that one can encounter.I t is my students range from the mundane choose to learn from these problems and the duty of a student to learn from these differences between schools in Italy and to teach my students that they too need to experiences and to better understand the United States to utilizing fashion learn from the injustices within the world. the world in which they live. I have taken icons, such as Alexander McQueen, Italy, and particularly northern Italy, is this responsibility to balance the life of to create fictions based on a piece of full of beautiful examples of art, language, being a teacher while learning from the artwork. Working here as a teacher and culture. It harbors many years of situations in which I find myself while has given me the ability to better my history and a traveler residing here can here in Gallarate, Italy.