Lingua Franca A Bi-AnnuAl newsletter PuBlished By the Foreign lAnguAges dePARTMENT At SaleM stAte university salemstate.edu/languages volume 8 • issue 1 • Fall 2010 cHinESE courSES anD EVEnTS aT SSu inSiDE THiS iSSuE starting in Fall 2010, foreign states. Proficiency in Chinese will be languages is offering courses in a great advantage in the job market Chinese language and culture that were and for career advancement due to the department news page 2 approved last year by the university. growing global importance of Chinese Currently Chinese 101 is being offered products and services. Many students Faculty news page 2 in Fall 2010 and the continuation to this and professionals around the world are Photo Contest page 2 course, Chinese 102, will be offered in studying Chinese, which also means spring 2011. intermediate courses were learning about Chinese culture and student news page 3 also approved and we hope that this world view. learning the language is an is just the beginning of a successful essential tool in preparing oneself for Puerto rican Americans page 4 program about one of the major careers in political science, international dining out page 5 world languages. affairs, international business, Chinese courses are being taught economy, business, international law Alumni news page 6 by Professor Jie li, a native of Jilin and others. province in north-east calligraphy event at Salem State lateral thinking page 7 China. Before coming to university the u.s. in 1995, Ms. li Communications Majors page 8 on Monday, november 15, 2010, taught at guang Zhou expert calligraphist Jiang tian yuan university, a school the ride of your life page 9 performed a demonstration of the art that trains secondary of Chinese calligraphy. Mr. Jiang was study Abroad page 10 school teachers. in accompanied and assisted by Professor addition to teaching greek influence page 11 Jie li and her Chinese 101 class. the Chinese at salem state, she currently event took place in the Commons also teaches Chinese at Quincy College dining hall, lower level, north Campus. and is a court interpreter for the state EDiTorS: Mr. Jiang tian yuan was born in of Massachusetts. Ms. li has been 1938 in Canton, China. As a native of Dr. Jon AskE teaching Chinese and esl for the last taishan City, he loves the art of Chinese 20 years. Dr. kEnnETH rEEDS calligraphy and paintings. he was Why Study chinese? quite fortunate to receive the guidance China has one of the oldest and WEb PubLicaTion: of famous painting artist Professor li richest cultures in the world. Mandarin Xiong Chai, and calligrapher huang ssclinguafranca.wordpress.com Chinese is the language with the greatest number of native speakers continued on next page in the world. in the People’s republic Join SSc’S LANGUAGE of China alone Mandarin Chinese is cLubS’ MaiLing LiSTS & the mother tongue of over 873 million FACEbook GROUPS people, and approximately another 400 million people speak Chinese outside Visit This Page: of China. Chinese is also one of the http://tr.im/languageclubs six official languages of the united nations. China is the world’s most rapidly ForEign LanguagES developing country and the second TEL: 978.542.6258 largest economy of the world, which [email protected] means it will play a major role in world affairs in the future. it is also one of the largest trading partners of the united 1 nEWS Zi hao. Mr. Jiang Departmental news workshops available through the Aula has been in the our Chinese language program is off Cervantes and their online services. field of painting and to a great start this year! our professor, Foreign languages and the Cie calligraphy for over Jie li, has coordinated several events hosted a presentation by Francisco 30 years. he holds on campus which were well-attended. garcía díez, education advisor of membership to the look for intermediate Mandarin the spanish embassy. Mr. garcía Canton Contemporary Chinese in the Fall 2011 schedule! díez guided students through the Painting and see the leading article in this issue of application process to become cultural Calligraphy society lingua Franca. Ambassadors in spain for one year, and the Canton the Arabic program keeps growing, an opportunity that is paid for by the Fragrant snow with two new post-intermediate spanish Ministry of education. Painting and courses: ArA 301 and ArA 302, which Foreign languages has strengthened Calligraphy society. will also make it easier for students to its relationships with local institutions he is an honorable minor in Arabic. A second instructor including the Clarke elementary Advisor to the Canton of Arabic has joined the faculty: dr. school in swampscott where four yuet hoi Poets Joseph hitti. dr. hitti is a native of ssu students are participating in society. in 1992, he lebanon and he will be joining dr. the spanish enrichment Program by immigrated to Boston, dr. Mohamed Abdelfattah as Arabic teaching spanish to k-4 students. real- Massachusetts. he instructor in the department. see the world opportunities are also being is an advisor to the interview with dr. hitti in this issue of expanded through the expansion of Boston Chinese lingua Franca. our Community Placement Program Painting Academy and Prof. Blood will be on sabbatical which has added several new a member of the new in spring 2011. Questions for the affiliations including: salem high england Arts society chairperson should be directed school, the saltonstall school, and the and China Calligraphy to Acting Chair, dr. Fátima serra. Massachusetts Probate Court. society. Questions about French should be the international languages Fair, during his directed to dr. Anna rocca, who will held by the international student workshop- serve as interim coordinator of the Association and foreign languages in presentation, Mr. Jiang tian wrote French language programs. november, was a great success. the isA numerous signs for the audience and Foreign languages hosted a and French Club are planning a similar members of foreign languages. Among presentation by Mario ruiz lejido, special event in spring to celebrate them is the sign at the right, which representative from the instituto “la semaine de la Francophonie” hangs in the department’s chairperson’s Cervantes in Boston. Mr. lejido gave combining native French speakers from office and which reads “good teachers undergraduate and graduate students Africa and haiti along with students educate students to become highly valuable information on cultural events of French at salem state! look for qualified professionals. and language teaching resources and announcements in March. Faculty news this semester has been a busy one inTErnaTionaL PHoTo contest 2010 for foreign language’s faculty. For the thank you to all who participated they make great presents for the first time in 10 years, the American in the sixth edition of international holidays. the cost per calendar is Council on teaching Foreign languages Photo Contest by foreign languages. $10. Proceeds will support student (ACtFl) brought its annual conference to Boston. taking advantage of this 47 photos were officially entered scholarships. proximity, professors Anna rocca, in the contest this year by people to view all of this year’s entries and elizabeth Blood, Michele dávila, associated with salem state the winners, go to this page: nicole sherf, and Kenneth reeds university. 12 pictures were selected Entries for the 2010 contest, presented on a variety of subjects: to appear in the 2010-2011 calendar. winners: “les Francophones d’ici: Franco- if you would like to order a copy lrc.salemstate.edu/pictures/ipc2010 Americans in Massachusetts” (dr. (or more) of the paper calendar, international Photo contest Blood with dr. Carole salmon from call 978.542.6258 or email Web Page: umass-lowell); “enseñando literatura [email protected]. lrc.salemstate.edu/ipc puertorriqueña desde ‘Arroz con leche’ a ‘encancaranublado’” (dr. dávila); in addition to the 2010-2011 academic there you can also view the “Advocating for an elementary Foreign calendar, this year we will also be previous years’ entries and language Program in your district” (dr. making a second batch of calendars download free screensavers. for 2010 with the same photographs. 2 sherf); and “how to read and Approach Cultural differences and stereotypes” (drs. rocca and reeds). the 2011 north east Modern language Association (neMlA) conference will be held in new Jersey where dr. rocca will chair a panel titled “exploration of senses in Contemporary Francophone women’s Autobiography” and a paper on the author nina Bouraoui entitled: “senses, sensibility, and sensuality: the world of nina Bouraoui.” dr. rocca will also soon chair a panel at the Conseil international d’etudes Francophones Caption: Michael and Rebecca Martiniello with MAT-Spanish coordinator, Dr. Kristine Doll. Rebecca is (CieF) conference in Aix-en-Provence, one of our MAT in Spanish students recognized for her high GPA France. Continuing with experiences outside of the Massachusetts area, Student news Benjamin gerson various members of the department on november 10, the university Mary giordano participated in events: dr. dávila honored graduate students who had Katherine hanchett published the article “‘elemental achieved a gPA of 3.85 or higher. the rebecca hoffman mi querido watson’: variaciones event was held in veteran’s hall at the stacey hopkins y transgresiones de la novela ellison Campus Center. Please join us in Katie lyons detectivesca en el Caribe hispano” recognizing the academic excellence of laura nichols which she had originally presented in the following MAt in spanish students: Kathryn schulte rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 2010; dr. reeds presented “el civilizado sobre el bárbaro: el empleo de william henry hudson en la obra de Jorge luis Borges” at the Coloquio literario WHErE in THE WorLD Do THEy SPEak... arabic? de la Feria internacional del libro de in LEbanon! Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico; and An interview with dr.