Spring 2023

Theme: ENGAGING THE SENSES: SIGHT, SOUND, TOUCH, TASTE, & SMELL IN THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM

Welcome to the Share Fair where this semester you will hear a series of 5-minute presentations from graduate students on language teaching topics and the senses, such as:

  • Music and Hearing
  • Food and Taste
  • Visuals and Sight

FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2023
2:30–4:30 PM
GA 0001

Introduction of the event
Keynote Speech

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Martha Nyikos

(School of Education at Indiana University, Department of Curriculum and Instruction)

Dr. Martha Nyikos is associate professor of Literacy, Culture and Language Education and Director of world languages and ESL education in the School of Education. She teaches methods courses leading to teacher certification for kindergarten through high school teaching for eight languages (English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Spanish). Here at IU, she also serves as Pedagogical Director for Bridges: Children, Languages, World. Prof. Nyikos’s teaching excellence has been recognized with several awards. To name one: in 2021 the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) named her the National Language Teacher Educator of the Year. She regularly provides professional development workshops in the U.S. and abroad.
She is a heritage language speaker of Hungarian and taught German and ESL for many years. Her research in language learning strategies and pedagogy focuses on oral proficiency, strategies students formulate, and learner self-efficacy—including how students develop their strategic language learning through multisensory approaches.

Presentations

Hicham Bouhlal, FRIT

Melissa Lapalus, FRIT

Arielle Roadman, FRIT

Nyamgerel Purevjav, CEUS

Alvise Stefani and Nicolò Salmaso, FRIT

Jennifer Formwalt, HISP

Aigerim Kazymbek, CEUS

Short Break

 

Hamdiye Hale Özcan, CEUS

Matthew Ajibade, AFRI

Nora McNamara, SLS

Laura Niemeläinen, CEUS

Decker Pope, FRIT

Kai Owens and Nicolas Noe, FRIT

Yeoeun Park, EALC