1st FLRT Symposium

Faculty and students are invited to the 1st Graduate Student Symposium for Language Research and Teaching on January 26, 11 am – 4:30 pm at the Ohio Union, Barbie Tootle Room. No registration required. Coffee & refreshments will be provided. The symposium is hosted by the Graduate Student Working Group for Foreign Language Research and Teaching. For more information, please contact Gina Wrobel: wrobel.31@osu.edu

Jackie Ridley awarded Ray Travel Award

My advisee Jackie Ridley is a recipient of a 2018 Ray Travel Award for Service and Scholarship, a highly competitive grant awarded by the Council of Graduate Students. At Ohio State, the Ray Award is given to applicants who are actively engaged in academic service within the university as well as the community. The Ray Award will support Jackie as she presents a co-authored paper on ESL Teacher Advocacy for Multilingual Students at the 2018 TESOL International conference in Chicago this spring.

AAA 2017

At AAA 2017 in Washington, DC I presented a paper ‘Investigating language practices and ideologies with and within museums and preschools’ as part of a double panel on The Anthropology of Education Matters’ in Informal Learning Contexts. As always, the AAAs were an opportunity to reconnect with far-flung friends. This photo shows me with Dr. Marilyn Merritt, a linguistic anthropologist at George Washington University whose work has inspired me since my graduate student days.