Our faculty regularly present at ACTFL, AAAL, NCOLCTL, CALICO, MIWLA, Central States, SCOLT, and other state, regional and national conferences. Students and alumni have presented with faculty and on their own at these and other conferences. 

Click on the presentations below to access descriptions and resources from our presentations, including videos, slides, useful links, and other resources. 

 

 

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Student-Faculty Presentations

SCOLT 2023

Betty Brown & Bruna Sommer-Farias

MIWLA 2022

Make virtual community a reality: Strategies for teacher networking

Lanier, A., Brown, B., Henderson, T., & Schmidt, T.

Central States 2022

Department of one: How isolated language teachers cope and collaborate

Jaime Danks & Amanda Lanier

ACTFL 2021

Ecology and Vitality of Language Programs:
Advocating for Japanese language teaching

Brown, B., Himata Paris, Y., Whiting-Kipper, T., and Lanier, A.

sites.google.com/msu.edu/ecology-vitality-actfl2021/home

ACTFL 2019

Making Authentic Texts Comprehensible with Corpus Analysis Tools

Presenters: Amanda Lanier, Agnieszka Makles, Courtney Mayes, & Maggie Rutkowski

Access slides and resources here: Google Site

ACTFL 2019

Reaching Intercultural Competence with Story-Based Methods

Presenters: Rachel Emery, Bill Langley, & Amanda Lanier

Access slides and resources here: Google Site

NCOLCTL 2018

Cultivating Intercultural Competence Before, During, and After Immersion

Presenters: Young Oak Morgan and Amanda Lanier

Access slides and videos here: Google Site

Presentations with Dr. Lanier – Reference List

Lanier, A., Brown, B., Henderson, T., & Schmidt, T. (October, 2022). Make virtual community a reality: Strategies for teacher networking. Michigan World Language Association (MIWLA).

Danks, J. & Lanier, A. (March, 2022). Department of one: How isolated language teachers cope and collaborate. Central States Conference on Teaching Foreign Languages (CSCTFL).

Brown, B., Himata Paris, Y., Whiting-Kipper, T., and Lanier, A. (November, 2021). Ecology and vitality of language programs: Advocating for Japanese language teaching. Paper at American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Virtual Convention & Expo. Access materials at: sites.google.com/msu.edu/ecology-vitality-actfl2021/home

Lanier, A., Makles, A., Mayes, C., & Rutkowski, M. (November, 2019). Learner autonomy and authentic texts. Paper at American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in Washington, D.C.

Emery, R., Langley, B., & Lanier, A. (November, 2019). Reaching intercultural competence with story-based methods. Paper at American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in Washington, D.C.

Lanier, A. &
Andrews, A. (March, 2019). Comprehensible input vs standardized testing: what
can learners achieve? Paper at the Southeast Conference on Language Teaching
(SCOLT) in Myrtle Beach, SC.

Morgan, Y., &
Lanier, A. (April, 2018). Promoting intercultural competence before, during,
and after language immersion. Paper accepted for presentation at the National
Council for Less-Commonly-Taught Languages in Herndon, VA.

Other Student Presentations (to be updated)

Kari Seymour and Andrew Burke – Extempore Extravaganza 2023

Joe Leibson (Class of 2016) presented his work on the use of NearPod in the classroom at the 2015 ACTFL convention in San Diego. For more details, watch his video presentation here.

Tammy Schmidt

Francesca Regalado